Oh, I have two good ones:

1. Nuclear power causes less deaths per energy unit produced than wind. (source

2. You have slightly less radiation when living near a nuclear power plant, than living on an average place.

To explain the second: A major misconception is, that nuclear power plants are dangerous due to their radiation. No they aren't. The effect of radiation from the rocks in the ground and the surroundings is on average 50x more than what you get from the nuclear power plant and it's fuel cells. (source). Our body is very well capable of dealing with the constant background radiation all the time (e.g. DNA repairs). Near a power plant, the massive amounts of isolation and concrete will inhibit any background radiation coming from rocks from that direction to you. This means, that you'll actually get slightly less radiation, because the nuclear plant is there.

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I've yet to see any single new law proposal, that actually tackles this problem rather than misusing it's emotional trigger to get acceptance for surveillance and control

Living near a nuclear plant.

Little do they know, that they get more than 50x more radiation effect from the natural surroundings and the rocks in earth than from the nuclear plant 🤭 And our body is really capable of dealing with that since the beginning of our evolution (DNA repairs and co).

https://pages.vassar.edu/ltt/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-21-at-1.18.09-AM1.png

here is a chart showing radiation intensities for various sources of radiation

it's it though?

in our Fediverse bubble yes.

but so many average people just don't care.

Well, yes and no.

The issue is, that rich people take on lots of debt with their assets as collatoral (e.g. Musk taking a loan from the Saudis for buying twitter). If Musks collatoral suddenly vanishes (s.g. Tesla breaks down within a month), then the massive 10 billion USD debt will still be there. And then he'll be very very much in negative wealth.

The possibility (reality?) of CPU backdoors which make it possible for them to bypass cryptography and hence encryption completely is a full game changer. This is a thing that I was only suspecting but now we have more concrete evidence that this actually happens.

And I was called paranoid for this ^^

And what do you do after three years? Then the cash will be used up.

Mozilla isn't just developing the Firefox browser. Technology is inherently political - and educating people and influencing actors politically on the free and open web is very important. Firefox is much less likely to mis-align away from their browser users than chrome simply because they don't have the misaligned incentives like the chrome Browser which is equally made by the largest internet advertising firm of the world.

They even has created FirefoxOS for phone at some point in the past 10 years. But I don't remember what happened with that.

lol, this is such an capitalistic free market response 😅

but I'm having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen.

One aspect might be, that the scam stories are much more popular and easier to circulate on social media than are actual usages. It's a strong online virality bias. Scams and phishing also happen a lot in fiat and cash (albeit relatively lower), but since most of it is so secret and banks really don't want to get bad media, then try to keep such things hidden.

Look at Monero (privacy coin) for example. There is no news on whales, scams etc. there, because it's private so there is no attention given to that. That makes is easier to simply use it and not get an overly negative news bias.

At the same time, cryptos were successfully used during Ukraine for quick money Donations. This was also reported in news, but it doesn't stick so long into the minds of the people as the controversial scams/ftx etc.

Finally, at least with Ethereum there is still around 10 years of development in front of it with exciting new capabilities. Until a few years from now, we'll finally have a system with scalability ans high security as well.

However, until then ethereum will grow slowly.

Also, unfortunately I think the focus of many people has shifted from p2p currency and adoption to money making and investment - which isn't too bad, but adoption still sucks and makes it less useful for now.

Wow. I had never seen the full image. thanks!

Classic exploitation strategies!

I'm simultaneously amazed by being able to vomit while diving and just breathing normally - and disgusted when trying to imagine how that' would look and feel like...

But thanks for the info. Never thought they're so Great

While my initial reaction was "Yes", I think that it's rather "No".

There are massive amounts of things to build and stuff to discover. And almost all of it, especially the physics, chemistry etc. stuff needs experimentation. Plenty of people had died or chronically made it difficult to do anything because of scientific experiments (think of Marie Curie or imagine what happens when you try to rediscover nuclear energy).

In our scenario, we say, that the person is immortal, but it could always happen, that they get stuck with certain illnesses or co. which significantly reduces their possible auctions. at some point they may be so limited, that they cannot do certain experiments at all and get stuck there forever.

The example with gravity is interesting indeed. We have only acceleration sensors behind our ears, but our body notices the pressure of the body tissue pressing down towards the gravity. And obviously, we also feel gravity when moving.

However, the difference to magnetism is, that we frankly don't have any contact with magnets during our evolution - except for the earth's magnetic field.

Even if we are able to sense it, it's definitely far from being able to reliably feel it like we do for gravity.

Thinking like a scientist. Critical and evidence -based thinking and action can be unintuitive at times - but it's the most realistic way to perceive reality. It needs practice, but is tremendously helpful. And the world also really needs it.

Here's some background information on that: https://8billiontrees.com/carbon-offsets-credits/bp-carbon-footprint-calculator/

Also, it's not like people can just stop using cars, planes and energy and co. We also need the corresponding societal transformation to become less and less co2-intensive (plus all the other hazards like pollution etc.). This isn't at all fixable by consumer market choices. this needs political planning, regulations, etc. But to avoid that, auch fossile fuel companies have been actively and massively putting misinformation and propaganda into the public to distract from such effective (and profit reducing) actions.

This is some high quality stuff here - being able to recognise many of them

I have to disagree there regardless of how one interprets "know".

If you mean "know intuitively", then we don't, precisely because we have no sensors for it and hence no experience with it. We intuitively know light, because we sense it and know what to expect in a closed room with no light source.

If you mean it scientifically, then light and magnets are extensively studied and far from "know nothing about it". Our knowledge of light, magnetism and sound is very good on all levels.

I mean... it's also a step back - which kinda fits the entire fiasco well

Finally mens nipples get something to be useful at.

I vote for mens liberation and rights for magnetic nipples!

Same, but there is definitely much room for improvement in terms of UX and polish and co.

never used computer

Cybersecurity minister

$250m is so little it's easily just budgeted as "business expense if we get caught legally"

Well, I didn't knew aviation had so many tax exemptions in the first place... I think they had been introduced in the past century to increase travel and business connections - but these days the logic is different and the tax exemptiona should rather apply to video conferencing software and rail infrastructure instead.

Yeah. Discord ist just slack with somewhat better UX and more tracking. But chat history is among the worst ways to access past knowledge. It's just so lost.

People rarely think about that...

For sharing memes, this is fine. But for many other things, this isn't.

Sounds like a black mirror episode - if it weren't actually possible reality...

Thanks!! It's wonderful as I have now a word I can use to describe something I was struggling to succinctly name!

Good point! 😄

We also don't have any feeling of how that's like!

Well, that's an unexpected but correct answer

Fair point, I didn't know about that. But even then, most of us don't feel like we can feel it - and in the modern city living spaces it gets even less important to train such a sense.

If you have the community people will come, and they will get over the fact that you don't have a mobile app. If you don't have the community, no amount of cool features will get people to come over and stay.

Well summarised

YOLO

Now, THAT'S malicious compliance 😂

thanks, I've actually known the video - but not the larger picture.

nevertheless, one of the most impressive and extraordinary and important clips in humanity

A decentralised platform like the Fediverses won't easily work with nation states and their taxes. Even with Wikipedia today, it's not funded directly via any government - but rather by certain universities giving some money to it + all the private doners.

And even if we get that working, power politics will mess this up like so often when things actually get troublesome.

It might be interesting to explore cryptocurrencies as for donations here though. They do have international liquidity and they can't be misused foe power politics.

but do we really need to try and punish companies that just do business with them?

Reddit Higher up decisions have massively hurt the community. Mods have been doing massive unpaid work while Reddit was using the data harvesting and ads to monetize. and mods were never allowed to monetize due to ToS.

Reddit has shown, that they really don't value the community at all. This is ugly. It's appropriate to make such devastating actions, as that's exactly what Reddit has done to 3rd App Devs, people needing accessibility features (r/blind), people wanting a clean and compact Reddit experience and focus on content, people looking for one of the few places on the internet for highly quality discussions, mods who have been thanklessly raising a great moderated helpful and enjoying community only to then get shadowbanned by Reddit without possibility to appeal.

I don't know what else to add here.

Reddit doesn't seem to care about their image among the community anymore. But like every company they will listen to where their money comes from.

Well that's a nice side effect actually

You're on the Fediverse where the more "extreme" people moving away from Reddit are. Hence, there is a strong bias toward experiencing the Reddit fiasco in a way that makes one think, that it's already a sinking ship. For many, Lemmy isn't as easily useable and mature as Reddit is.

Fair point, but then, most people don't have this.

And even if you do it, you need to get some experience for your brain to develop a model of what to expect in certain situations. For instance, your brain will need some time to get used to the fact, that putting our hand on a fridge will give the brain new sensory stimuli because of the magnets on the fridge.

This intuitive understanding of light and sound is just that - brain neurons being used to what to expect. And even with an implant you would need to train that.

Though I'm definitely curious to experience once how that would feel like 😄

IIRC the great UI and UX that GitHub offered on top of git was actually essential to the popularity and adoption of git. Without the UI and web interface, I think hit is too complex for people to borther with - except for hard experts.