Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the [email protected] thread on it, for the same reason.

Rad[iating heat]

Not sure if you’re trolling or if you genuinely don’t know that heating up is what makes it work.

If only we still had bugs.

But we don’t, and that should fucking terrify everybody.

It’s almost impossible to be a Federal politician and not be wealthy.

Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

Profilie -> comments tab -> sort by controversial

It would also be interesting to see which comment is most disliked (which one has the most net negative score), but I don’t think there’s a sort that does that.

that also includes Tim Berners-Lee

You mean that traitorous piece of shit who sold us out to DRM on the Web?

Welp, I played myself. I was really intending to talk about the AMOC shutting down, but wrote “Gulf Stream” as shorthand instead because I didn’t want to spell out the whole acronym and it’s more famous/less necessary to explain (I was tapping the comment on a phone at the time).

Then, just my luck, you come in citing a source talking (among other things) about how the Gulf Stream specifically won’t shut down totally, because of the component of it that isn’t AMOC. 🤦

FAQ 9.3 | Will the Gulf Stream Shut Down?

…Based on models and theory, scientific studies indicate that, while the AMOC is expected to slow in a warming climate, the Gulf Stream will not change much and would not shut down totally, even if the AMOC did…

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…The Gulf Stream is part of two major circulation patterns, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre…

Anyway, that gaffe aside:

I didn’t read through that report to see what it says about the timeline for the AMOC collapse in particular, but I’ve been paying a little bit of attention to the topic for a while now and it seems to me that, as new studies come out, they tend to revise the bounds of the estimate sooner and sooner. I feel like it’s gone from “maybe by the end of the century” in the older studies to “maybe a decade or so from now” in some of the most recent ones. Personally, I think it’s alarmingly possibly imminent. That’s just my impression, though; it’s not as if I did a legitimate literature review.

That’s just a fucking cartel with extra steps.

All this shit is the main reason I’ve never bought a drone. One of these days I’m going to figure out what parts to buy to build my own open source one, but I haven’t had the time yet.

Multiply that by every other category of electronic product, and avoiding spyware and other enshittification is a fucking full-time job.

It’s putting so much fresh water into the ocean that it’s destabilizing the Gulf Stream, which will plunge northwestern Europe into an ice age in a few years.

I almost feel like it should be called “planet sloshing” as an analogy to what happens when you add (mechanical) energy to a cup of water: the surface goes from calm to wavy, with higher highs and lower lows.

What about the sound though?

This cat is thoroughly out of the bag. People have been building computer vision powered automatic sentry guns that shoot paint balls or nerf darts or spray water for a while now.

See, for example, this video from 2012, which was probably about one of the first ones.

In comparison, here’s a new video from a few weeks ago as part of “YouTube Maker Secret Santa” where the guy built a very good working Nerf replica of a TF2 level 2 sentry gun. He didn’t even bother talking much about the motion tracking part because it was already a solved problem (see timestamp 17:50), so instead he spent the video talking about the ammo chain design and the aesthetics (and playing with the Secret Santa gift he had received from another maker).

That’s the state of automatic AI turrets in 2025: trivial enough to omit discussion of the tracking tech and cheap enough to build to fit in a Secret Santa gift budget.

Atlanta, Georgia, recorded 2.1 inches (5.3 cm), the most in seven years.

My house in Atlanta got closer to 3-4". To my recollection, at least, it’s the most snow since the “blizzard of 1993.”

The high today is supposed to be 40 °F, but there’s still enough ice left that I think there’s a decent chance schools will be closed again tomorrow.

Good to know!

I wonder if the person who wrote the Lemmy comment I saw claiming it was simply not up-to-date on their information, or if they were making a point about expungement being less than automatic, or talking about a particular jurisdiction with different rules, or what.

“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”

― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

I heard that they can’t be hired as firefighters.

“Radicalized libs” is an oxymoron. “Radicalized leftists,” sure, but “libs” are centrist (if not center-right) by definition.

Edit: I should’ve said “moderate” rather than “centrist,” as my point was more about this sort of thing than pinning down exactly where libs fit on the political spectrum.