gorgori

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My grandma passed away from dementia a couple of years back. My mom has symptoms of ADHD. I am diagnosed with ADHD. The only person in the family to get diagnosed and actively treating with meds and stuff.

I wonder if knowledge and meds can stave of dementia.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

That would have been a mature thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well you can only do so much, and a denier will come and fuck everything up. Oil and coal companies will pay billions to keep the propaganda going - that the earth is just fine.

So tired of all that. Remember the CFC issue. World got together to fight it and it worked. I don't know if we will ever see such cooperation again. If we do, maybe we have a chance.

Other than a uniform collective action as a species we have no hope to turn this around. And since I don't see that happening anytime soon I would rather stick to my "Doomerism".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

To be honest, we are fucking up the planet at an exponentially faster rate, so it is natural that mitigation solutions seems exponentially crazier.

There are people that believe that doing these crazy things will actually reverse the damage.

Then there are people like me who not only believe we are fucked but also believe that anything we do now is completely pointless as we are fucked either way so why bother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You missed the entire point. Typical Apple fanboy.

The iphone isn't at all important to humanity and that's why it should be regulated. Especially when something so unimportant gets such a large market dominance.

Anyone should be able to buy anything and expect things to be interoperable.

I like the airpods. They don't work properly on android. Why?

They could easily license out the tech and other companies will pay billions for it. and Apple will get their ROI.

Intel was forced to license x86.

Face it. Apple's behavior is visibly monopolistic. It wouldn't have landed on DOJ's desk if there were no good reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

All fine and dandy. Kudos to Apple for the innovation! But then they decided to keep it strictly inside Apple.

That's not how communication works. Imagine if Bell kept the telephone to themselves... Oh wait... They tried... Got sued for it... Company broke up and the whole world got interoperable telephone system that is alive to this day.

Innovation is great, capitalizing on innovation is also great. But eventually it needs to reach everyone and the answer cannot be "then everyone should buy Apple".

Imagine if DARPA kept the Internet as "Americans only"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

That's why we need to hit peak oil fast. It will be a definitive fuck you to oil.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Israel cannot let Palestinians live as human beings because they out-number the Israelis. Giving then rights would give the Palestinians a majority in voting etc. So the Israeli's opted to treat the Palestinians like sub humans. Treating an entire country as subhumans... For decades... has consequences.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this sarcasm? I don't understand why they don't need to get paid. I mean sure the hobbyist creator isn't thinking about getting paid. But the people with the best content aren't hobbyist, they are good because that's all they do.