IHave69XiBucks

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Cake day: January 19th, 2022

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  • What if instead of trying to be cutting edge and shit you look backwards. Do something with mechanical computing. Maybe think up a way it could still be useful in the modern era. Like in high radiation environments where electronic computers break down too quickly for example. I wonder if you could design a mechanical computer that could operate indefinitely in an environment like chernobyl, and power itself via the ambient radiation in the area? That could be cool.

    Disclaimer: i am not a computer engineer in the slightest, and didn’t even have a classical education so im not 100% sure what a dissertation is.






  • IHave69XiBuckstoComradeship // FreechatMy thoughts on veganism
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    Did i say that it wasnt cheaper? Not getting into how prices vary by region, and westerners have no concept of price since all their shit is subsidized. Price is irrelevant. If you are living in poverty you eat what is available. Sometimes that may be vegan food sometimes it will not be. You dont pick and choose the food you eat. Your just grateful to HAVE food in the first place. Have you ever had to feed yourself without access to a store at all? Thats the reality for many people.

    Many people in the world still hunt, and forage, or farm their own foods. Many others are entirely reliant on the donations of others and do not control what they get. More still rely on quick, cheap, highly processed foods that usually have animal byproducts in them.

    Like i said in my post. Wanna be vegan? Great do it. But if you actually think that its possible to change the way our societies produce food by individuals being picky about what they eat then you dont understand the issue at all. Food production is a complex global machine, and the average person has no control over it. Even if tons of people suddenly went vegan all it would accomplish is soaring prices for anything vegan forcing people to go back to animal products.

    Also food isnt the only place animal products are used. Lots of non-food items use animal products too. Avoiding all these things is a monumentally time consuming and sometimes impossible task. If the only soap you have has animal products do you just not clean yourself?

    This doesnt even get into how many people have health based dietary issues that further restrict their diets.

    This is exactly the problem with individualism. Problems like this will never be fixed by it. Just like climate change isnt going to be fixed by the actions of individuals trying to watch their carbon footprint.

    So yeah for some people in some places being vegan would be cheaper. For some it wouldnt be. For some it wouldnt even be possible. But none of that matters as its all individualistic. This is a systemic issue that requires systemic change to fix.


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    To add on to what you are saying. While i think its great if people want to be vegan vegetarian or anything in their own personal lives. I do not think its possible to really separate that issue from elitism. I mean its an individual making an active choice to NOT eat things that are perfectly edible. Just having to financial ability to do that is pretty rare in the wider world. So many people simply don’t have the luxury to be picky about what they eat. They just eat what they can get and it usually still isn’t enough.

    So a community like this doesn’t make sense to me. What would make more sense tho in my opinion is a general recipe sharing community where people can share recipes. Vegan users can share affordable easy to make vegan recipes to help expose others to things they might otherwise not be aware are an option. Without trying to push a specific strict diet on them they may not be able to maintain logistically.







  • I agree with everyone saying just to get a new dongle. It’s not worth the headache spending hours trying to get one to work when you can get one that’ll work much better for pretty cheap. When i got my current laptop i specifically got a model that has ubuntu support from the manufacturer even tho i don’t run ubuntu. Because all the hardware in it will atleast be decently linux compatible if they want to ship it with ubuntu sometimes.

    Also Mint is typically pretty good about drivers so if its not working on Mint then yeah its gonna be a pain to fix is my guess.


  • IHave69XiBuckstomemes@hexbear.netWestern Socialists
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    As someone who lives in the west while yes this is a very annoying thing its also very useful. I can simply say good things about China when i meet someone, and watch their reaction to find out if they are someone i should bother befriending or not. Saves a lot of time. Like if i mention the hundreds of millions of people China has raised out of extreme poverty, or how nice their high speed rail network is, and the person is immediately like “Actually the see see pee is evil, and bla bla bla” i can just mark them down as someone i wont bother speaking to again.