OfCourseNot

I recognise their username. It’s half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.

First, punk is where it’s always been: in the streets, the boroughs, in the young people that are discovering how trashy this world and society are… I’ve been out of the scene for quite a while, but from time to time I do still go to some concert or other events.

Second, Edelweiss is not anti authoritarian, or anti right wing at all, even if it’s meant as a ‘fuck you’ to the nazis. It’s a nationalist song sung by a member of the Austrian military. For context, the Austrian right was divided on this matter, with the Austrian fascist party being staunchly against the Anschluss. Julie Andrews rocks, though.

Thought the same thing. Instant ramen and mac&cheese gotta have more or less the same shelf-life and nutritional value than candies, probably less than a candied apple, even.

It has many variations: ‘hijoputa’, ‘hijo de puta’, ‘hijo de la gran puta’, ‘hijo de la gran putísima’, ‘hijo de mil putas’…

It does. I’m posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.

It might be that we are not more resistant in general, but that ads and propaganda are tailored for normative minds not for ours. If they made them specially for autistic people it could be the other way around.

So, is abolishing slavery and child labor an attack on freedom? Would it be more free a country where these are legal?

It’s easy. You protect children from religion the same way we already do with alcohol, tobacco, porn, explicit violence… and all the other adult things. Developing problematic behaviours around these things is much more likely the younger you start. Religions know this well, that’s why they start as soon as the child is born. It would be very difficult to convince an adult person to do crazy things for the magic man in the sky if it wasn’t drilled since they were a baby.

[Not a doctor, take with a grain of salt] This is the only reaction I would consider appropriate in that situation. Bees kill lots of people, you don’t know if you’re allergic until one has stung you, and anaphylaxis acts extremely fast, specially in the neck so close to the airways.

I’d say you’re doing alright. When in doubt go to emergencies and let the doctors and medical professionals decide if they send you home, unless you’re in America and this would bankrupt you that is. Better to be safe than sorry, specially with your kids.

And the widespread use of stimulants like coffee, tea, and cocaine.

Small correction, the article doesn’t say he was going to therapy. It says that his mother was a therapist, I had to reread that sentence twice:

Neither his mother, a social worker and therapist, nor his friends

The mother, social worker, and therapist aren’t three different persons.

Not quite… I mean depending on what you’re comparing it to. Like if you compare it to a person doing it—breathing, eating, space(home, office…), electricity…—the Ilm is much more efficient. Now a random person that wouldn’t have produced any image, text, song… whatever, that is now generating a hundred of them a day is, indeed, very wasteful and bad for the environment.

For comparison, the co2 emissions from training gpt3 were equivalent to 1250 people’s breathing for a year.

Now about the stealing part, I’m not very fond of ‘intellectual property’ very much myself, nor am I very respectful of it, so I will not discuss it.

Privacy is one of those things that has to be collective to be effective. It doesn’t matter if you put on a hat, a cloak, shades, and a fake beard when you go out of your home if you are the only one doing it, they’ll just identify you as the person in a cloak, hat, shades, and a fake beard.

… but gayer.

I’ve been pirating since Napster, never have hidden shit. It’s usually not a crime, except in America it seems, to download content, or even share it freely. What is a crime is to make a business distributing pirated content.

Thank you!

Do you have a bit of info on these Linux mobile OSs? The FP5 didn’t convince me as a main phone when I needed a new one last year, but if it can take a real Linux distro it could be a cool toy.

It is not a matter of more or less aggressive, some materials dissolve more easily in one type of solvent than in others. You can try, dissolving a teaspoon of salt in water is much easier than in oil. Have you ever eaten chocolate or drunk water while chewing bubblegum? Here the opposite happens, the fats in the chocolate dissolve the bubblegum rubber and make it softer while water doesn’t, it just chills it which makes it firmer.

Now plastic, rubber, or paints, finishings… can be many different things. IPA is safe to use on natural rubber while oils will make it swell and degrade, or even melt it. But most rubbers are synthetic, basically rubbery plastic. These plastics and other engineered materials can have all kind of different properties, while looking exactly the same. So the only thing you can do, other than research on that particular material and solvent, is trying it on a safer or hidden part of the thing.

In my experience: oil isn’t good on most rubbers, IPA is ok. For metals (iron, steel, mechanical parts…), contrary to you I usually advise to clean them with oil/grease, alcohol is appropriate if you don’t want it to be oily, only in rust resistant metals. Consumer/industrial products paints and finishings are usually fine with both ipa and oil if applied swiftly and dried quickly– acetone, kerosene, toluene… will strip them away probably. For wood, almost everything will fuck it up.

money, the copyright and the politics

Of course, the things that haven’t affected the internet or haven’t been affected by it at all.