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sobchak

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  • Look at this. Or don't.

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  • I like superdeterminism. Or Three Body Problem's sophons :)

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • It pretty much is the same thing. In theory, shorting the ETF will drive the price of gold down (until the short needs to be covered; like all shorts), because all accounts must eventually be settled. The price of gold is literally set by the futures market, which people with the appropriate approval can also short. Gold dealers literally look up the price on the futures market and add/subtract a few percentage points to determine how much to buy/sell physical gold for.

  • Beans n Corn

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  • I don't think it's been proven that the nitrogen the beans/bacteria fix is available to the corn (before the bean plants die and decompose). Though, I have done this (along with squash), and it does seem to work pretty well. I think it gives you more vegetables per sq ft, than if you were to grow them all separately.

  • Create and upload your own with maximum privacy?

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  • For browser option, should I chose Kagi or Swisscows?

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  • Kagi is great, probably the best I've tried, but expensive. I just use DDG for now, until my financial situation improves.

  • TIL: There's a website called Mapcarta that utilizes information and data from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects, and presents it in an interactive world map

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  • Librewolf disables some canvas features because they're a good way to fingerprint your browser. A lot of map and image manipulation stuff won't work correctly on LibreWolf. I usually just open a Chromium private window when that happens. There's probably a better solution, but I also have to use some sites for work that only work on chromium-based browsers as well.

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • Humans lived in what could be described as a sort of primitive communism for most of the species history.

    Basically, the society needs to be decentralized. If you can keep it sufficiently non hierarchal, there isn't a lot of power people can get over many others. A problem I see with this is defending against large, centralized, outside organizations. So, I guess you'd need some federation-like structures. Some communes are pretty democratic and decentralized. The Zapitista territories are the best example I know of, of a large non-hierarchal federation of communities.

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • Small local businesses fuck over their employees too. Capitalism incentives it. It also incentives monopolies. And it seems when the wealth disparity gets large enough, it captures government and starts transforming into fascism.

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • You can short gold ETFs. Gold is highly speculative and has crashed taking decades to recover (~1980-2005). It's basically boomer-bitcoin.

  • King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

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  • I think Jay-Z funded part of it; not sure if he's still involved or not... Looks like Block owns the vast majority of it now, and they're a particularly shady and shitty enterprise as well.

  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • The Fediverse is social media. Wouldn't instances be required to do age verification? I mean, I guess that'd only be enforceable on Australian instances, but it seems like the whole world is going in that direction.

  • Is it possible to host a lemmy instance over I2P?

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  • Already exists (Ramble). It's just pretty dead.

  • Is it possible to host a lemmy instance over I2P?

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  • It may be possible to federate with other i2p instances, if not, I'm guessing it would require fairly simple code changes to lemmy to be able to point to other .i2p addresses.

    To federate with clearnet, I think an instance would need to kind of act like a bridge that uses both clearnet and i2p; so it wouldn't be "hidden." I see there is also an exit node network (ran by StormyCloud) on i2p now, but that may be too slow for federation.

    Edit: I imagine most clearnet instances would not want to federate with a darknet instance due to the higher probability of illegal content being posted.

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  • Are you sure? I remember seeing other legitimate roofing companies selling solar roof tiles too. I think I even remember watching an installation video. They weren't rigid tiles, they were flexible and nailed down similarly to shingles.

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  • I think Paramount is in the process of a hostile takeover of WB Discovery, and Kushner is involved, so they'll probably get it, IMO. I think the fascists really want CNN at least.

  • In the wealthiest country on Earth.

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  • They usually just release homeless people charged with petty crimes after the first hearing (24-48 hours) without bail. They can't pay fines, for commissary, phone calls, and all that; or work, so they're not profitable.

  • Ripping Blu Rays is way deeper than I expected

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  • I think there are probably enough collectors, AV nerds, and people without consistent high bandwidth unlimited internet to keep physical going for a while. It'll just be niche, like vinyl, I suppose.

    It is kinda weird that optical stopped advancing. You can fit more data on a MicroSD card than BluRay. You can fit something like 240 blurays on a consumer HDD (and much more if you further compress).

  • The era of jobs is ending

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  • I think the situation in Appalachia is more about poverty and hopelessness than structure and identity. I.e. "shit-life syndrome." Community is a big one too, but that's already severely lacking in most of the modern world.

    What I personally think will happen is that wages will get driven so far down where it doesn't make sense for the capitalists to automate. I.e. global south-like living conditions and slavery. The capital owners will not let go of their power or support anything like decent UBI/USI. They'll opt for company-towns and "charity" that serves their purposes.

  • The era of jobs is ending

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  • It's fair to think that automation will continue to improve. I imagine it will improve quite a bit in the next 20 years. There may even be breakthroughs in that time that result in AGI or ASI.