khaliso

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

Enjoy it! I'm happy for you!

This decision takes some courage, so well done :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

'Just pull yerself up by yer own bootstraps, lad!

While I do agree (or at least hope) that we all have the agency to positively influence our own lives and those around us, the main point there in my opinion is that different people have different resources in life. Someone that's experienced systemic racism, or someone who's brain is a wee bit non-standard just has it harder than someone not experiencing these issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ouija by Harley Poe playing in the background

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (11 children)

The YouTube Channel Kurzgesagt has proposed a calendar based on the 'Human Era' (HE) instead of before/after christ format.

It's based on the first monument of large-scale human cooperation (building a temple in modern-day turkey) and is quite elegant in my opinion. It 'simply' adds 10.000 years to the calendar we're all already used to. :)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yea. Turns out the biggest creature you can freeze and thaw again (in strict lab conditions) is a hamster, anything bigger just dies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yea, I really liked these as a kid. Shame their chocolate is collected by slaves :|

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Behave by Robert Sapolsky. It's an excellent book if you're trying to understand why the people around you are like.. well, that way. But if you didn't study neuroscience, you'll likely have to re-read it to get at least the most important points to stick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm curious if this wil have any impact on chocolate slavery

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The implication is that they (well.. we) can't do what's necessary in a low-effort scenario I'd say.

Kind of similar to calling someone a mouthbreather

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