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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @01:00AM (#43828810)
I work in Barcelona and live in a town 20Km outside it. I drove back home just fine at around 16PM. Some traffic in the city, but manegable. My town has had electricity in homes since 15PM, some neighbourghs told me. At night I drove to my parent's (different town, 10km away) since I couldn't communicate with them and was worried. Their town was pitch black. People were driving mostly safe and slowly. Of course you get the random POS that doesn't care, but I didn't feel in danger at any moment. My parents were fine. I drove back home later and same story. I just woke up (it's 7AM here) and the Internet is back and I have a message from my parents, their electricity is back too. Overall, I didn't see any crazy behaviour.
What you call "Islamic Arabs" makes no sense. They are as native as the Jewish people. Mostly because they're nor more or less "Arab" than the Jewish people. Religion is what separates them, not race. Also, your argument ignores time. Even it it were true, for how many centuries have these "Islamic Arabs" been there? Why are they any less "from there" than Jewish people?
Re:Htmx 2.0.4 Released on Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:21PM (#42467988)
Tell me I'm rude and that I don't understand what autism is without...
Re:Htmx 2.0.4 Released on Saturday December 14, 2024 @04:14AM (#42415717)
Is this supposed to be a joke? If it is... it isn't funny. If it isn't... Maybe it's time to face the fact that you're very wrong about this...
Re:Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? on Monday September 16, 2024 @01:07PM (#41558169)
Not OP of your answer, but I'm happy with my life. Still, I can't value humanity much when we're living the fastest extinction even ever because of, well, humanity. And we won't fix it. I'm happy because none of these silly "issues" like AI will matter one iota in a couple of decades.
Re:Online Dating on Sunday August 11, 2024 @04:03AM (#41214670)
I'm average looking, and I've dated and "been" with many women. I'm not even tall (I'm relatively short, in fact, shorter than some women I've been with), nor rich. I should have terrible self esteem, but I don't. That, plus being social and kind to others (and maybe a bit funny) really helps. A lot more than looks alone or money.

Posts like the OP are just incels pushing an agenda.

Re:Online Dating on Sunday August 11, 2024 @03:56AM (#41214640)
Weird, incel vibes from this post. "Body count" is incredibly disrespectful, amongst other things because it seems to only be used with women. Also, browsing the website I found that this person believes an Elon Musk monarchy would be great.

On a different note. I'm average looking, of average to short stature and have a decent job but I'm far from rich (but I'm frugal so I look poorer than I am). I haven't for a while but I used Tinder extensively for about two years. I met over ten women and dated for a while two in that period. Without being obsessed with the app.

What I mean is, while the dating app landscape is generally unfair to men (mostly our own fault, most men will "like" everything without even looking) it's not as bad as some incels online would let you believe. And hey, if apps don't work, try the old school method of going out. It really works.

I'm not sure calling the collapse of the AMOC a "questionable idea regarding a hypothetical event that's not even remotely shown itself in actual measurement" maps with reality. Scientists have been dumping data to models and for a few years this possiblity has gone from unlikely to "it could happen within the next 5 to 10 years".
Re:No Salt on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @01:24AM (#41168029)
That last sentence feels like a personal attack. I'm not sure why this is so important to you. You write about recorded history, but there is a vast majority of humans who has never written or at least not about food, so I don't know, maybe food hasn't always been important for everyone, we don't really know.

Nowadays, we also have the stress of a capitalist system to deal with, plus processed food we eat since our childhood, which for a lot of people "break" food for them, since they get used to the sugar rush, and normal food tasted "boring" or "bland".

What I mean is, I know plenty of well adjusted people who don't enjoy "good food", and that's OK.

Re:Bananas Don't Taste Like They Used To. Here's Why on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:07AM (#41004408)
"I don't fit in a generalisation therefore that generalisation is not true". At the same time, not sure we have the data to back up the original argument. Personal anecdata? People around do expect to find everything all year round, and they get mad if they don't.
Re:Index of Aesthetics on Sunday September 03, 2023 @01:18PM (#37372119)
This website has existed for a while. I know some of the examples to be real. When it comes to names, I think they've explained the origin in some cases. There's a log of the changes they've made over time.
Re:Working on the “Web” Browser for the MEGA65 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:11PM (#33084396)
I wonder if MEGA65 could allow for a Gopher and/or Gemini browser, since these are much simpler than web browsers. I always wonder why certain platforms, specially young alternative operating systems, don't focus first on a browser for these alternative protocols and then focus on creating a web browser than at least can render well things like Wikipedia and some basic news sites.
Re:Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:13AM (#25914523)
I don't fully get the reason for this project. Does it consider that you (or your community) will build a computer from scratch? In that case OK, I don't know enough but I guess an 8 bit simple computer makes sense, as long as it's something you can build using cables, LEDs and a breadboard.

If the idea is that you gather already manufactured parts, wouldn't it be better to just use some cheap SOC computers like the Raspberry Pi? They're low on power consumption, so powering them wouldn't be much of an issue, and it has greater, easier to use, software. It would also allow you to have things like a copy of useful Wikipedia articles, videos, photos, etc.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the project goal though.