bric

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[–] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Youtube ads don't just pay creators though, they also pay for video hosting, discovery, and streaming, which aren't cheap. A lemmy for video streaming would be great, but there's a reason it hasn't really happened yet, you'd need a much larger portion of viewers to pay than what it takes lemmy to run, and you'd need a bigger community of developers to build it, which is why most youtube alternatives are strictly paid products. None of that is criticism of the idea, I think it would be great if we could wrench away some of youtube's monopoly, but at the same time we need to understand why it's a challenging concept

[–] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

In the legal sense, "personhood" just means an entity can appear in court and defend themselves, not that it's made of people. It doesn't even give the corporation any human rights, it mostly just means that you can sue them

I don't know why anyone would be mad about than

[–] bric@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, you're assuming that this would have taken time and money to develop. Usb3 is ubiquitous at this point, it probably doesn't even cost any more to include, or if it does, it's a trivial amount. This isn't apple "not adding a feature" this is apple purposely removing features to push people to the more expensive versions

[–] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The base iPhone 15 is still a "premium" phone, it costs 2x as much as Google's A series phones, and google never had a problem putting USB 3 on those. Maybe most people won't do this, but it's obviously important enough that they didn't do the same on the pro version. It's so weird to see people defending a company purposely gimping their phones just to give them upsells.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok, but how did the perimeter go from 4 to 24??

r/unexpectedfactorial

[–] bric@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Not yet, but lemmy should have user controls to block instances soon

[–] bric@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

we have better batteries before the decade it will take to build a single nuclear plant.

That is quite the gamble though. You're so sure that we'll be able to develop a new technology and deploy it on a global scale within the next 20 years, that we shouldn't even bother with the one clean solution that we know works? Not only that, you're assuming a technology we don't have yet will be better for the environment, despite all of our current battery tech being awful for the environment.

That's not like putting up a tent, that's like saying we shouldn't plant a tree because someone is probably going to invent an instant tree service, so we should just wait. Like, maybe someone does invent instant trees, but if it doesn't happen in 20 years we're gonna feel really dumb

[–] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Solar not working during the night is going to keep being a relevant point until we have the capability to manage it, your sarcasm doesn't do anything to refute that point. There are plenty of cool ways that scientists and engineers are working on solving those problems with better energy storage, but it's all still in the experimental stages, and until I see build out timelines for energy storage on national scales, all of the variable output power solutions will be nonstarters for fossil fuel replacement. You say that we can't wait 20 years for nuclear reactors, but we also can't wait 20 years to figure out how to build a big battery. We don't even know what the carbon emissions or time costs of whatever we decide on will be, but we do know that working nuclear reactors are a thing today.

I'm not against solar or wind, I have solar panels on my house right now, but it has only reduced my reliance on the grid, it's nowhere close to replacing it

Plus many are even scheduled to be closed.

Then don't! I kind of see your point about not building new reactors, even if I disagree, but what purpose could closing existing plants possibly have? How is that going to save carbon and reduce fossil fuels??

[–] bric@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today. We can't let what we should have done stop us from doing what should be done.

And for other sources, wind and solar are great sources of energy that should be a supplement, but sometimes the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, and we don't currently have the battery technology to store energy on the scale to handle those fluctuations. We need a stable backup, and nuclear is by far the best clean and stable energy source.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Separation of church and state is always a good thing, I'm not arguing against that, but this feels like a whole different level. If anything, this is the state taking an active role in changing the rules of the church. That's not separation, that's state sponsored atheism

[–] bric@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And that's bad. Can we agree that making a dress compulsory and making a dress banned are both bad, because they both restrict choice?

[–] bric@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it so insane to think there could be a school with both religious and areligious people at the same time? A secular school that doesn't support a religion, but allows students to express themselves how they choose? When did that become a radical idea?

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