Artificial Stupidity @AncientGood@qoto.org

После поездки в #Питер у меня возникло ощущение, что #Москва страдает комплексом неполноценности.

В Москве как? Асфальт из прошлогодней коллекции?! Снимите его немедленно! Мне кажется, или по этой плитке уже кто-то ходил?
Давайте новую!

Вам не кажется, что башня федерация несколько запылилась? Давайте снесем и построим новую! Свежую!
А еще фестиваль зафигачим! И парад! И самую большое в мире что-нибудь сделаем срочно!

А вот в Питере все наоборот. Заглядываешь в какой-нибудь двор и спрашиваешь:
– А это у вас тут что такое?
– Это у нас тут насрато.
– Так может убрать как-то?
– Вы с ума сошли, это еще при Пушкине насрато! Это насрато – любимое насрато Достоевского! И вообще оно становилось героем литературных произведений примерно десять раз. А еще про него кино сняли. Насрато играл Безруков. Отойдите от памятника культуры!

Day 579 of my 3 day war. In response to Ukraine getting ATACMS I will “escalate” by withdrawing heavy equipment out of their range.

I remain a master strategist.

hi kids it’s #FediTips time! :ablobcatbounce:

did you know ICANN eventually approved fedi-dedicated TLDs for every big piece of fedi software?

.md is used for Mastodon instances, .pl stands for Pleroma, .mk is dedicated to Misskey and .fr means Friendica

we hope ICANN will come to the conclusion of approving .ak and .ff TLDs for Akkoma and Firefish respectively very soon!

you can only use these TLDs for Fedi instances or else the domain name could be taken away and donated to poor people who want to set up their instance been t can’t afford a domain name

also, markdown is abbreviated as .md in hope Gargron would feel the need to implement markdown in Mastodon during to this peer pressure!

#boost this so everyone knows!

i use VLC

**An apology to the whole fediverse**

I wanted to apologize to everyone as I've been rude and harsh with many of you as of late. Regardless of if it was in response to disrespect or not, that is not in line with my own moral views, it was wrong of me.

My philosophy moving forward is no matter how bad a person I may think you are, no matter how cruel or deserving it may seem you are of an attack, my options will be to respond with compassion or not at all. That said I will continue to call out bad actors in a blunt but constructive way. I will try my best that should I provide a personal criticism I do so with a tone of respect and kindness.

While I can say the recent change have been due to some pretty monumental stress and life changes I've been dealing with (a physical assault and death threat from the Israeli Mob), that does not make me any less accountable. But I do want people to know why.

My deepest apologies to anyone effected, both on #QOTO and off. I will try better to be more compassionate in my words and actions moving forward and should anyone feel I fail to do that I welcome you to point me back to this post.

Чот в голос с этой хуйни

@KillerMule @PNS

Why so much hate for #Poland 🇵🇱 among the #Russian 🇷🇺 propagandists, and their
USA 🇺🇸 proxies?

GK Chesterton had the answer more than 100 years ago:

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We would never target Ukrainian hospitals like we did so much in Syria that MSF stopped telling us where their hospitals are.

Rusty-browed Warbling Finch

Small tanager of semi-humid upper montane forest in NW Argentina and the southern half of the Bolivian Andes. The only Warbling-finch in range with a rufous supercilium. From Cochabamba Mountain-Finch by rufous underparts, smaller size, shorter tail. Bold white slash down wing panel distinctive.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/rbwfin2
Photo Location: Argentina

Unpopular opinion: #KDE 2 was peak of KDE UX and aesthetics.

Reuters quotes an EU document warning about increasing dependence of EU #renewables market on #China. Dependence very similar in its character to EU’s previous dependence on #Russia gas and oil:

By 2030, the European Union could become as dependent on lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells from China as it was on Russian energy supplies before the war against Ukraine, Reuters reported on Sept. 18, citing an obtained EU document.

In both cases the dependence was entirely self-inflicted by political decisions:

Due to the irregular nature of renewable energy sources like solar or wind, Europe will need instruments to store energy to achieve its goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050, said the document prepared for EU leaders’ meeting on economic security.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with renewables - it’s just a technology. But the technology comes bundled with specific physical constraints which you cannot just ignore:

“This will skyrocket our demand for lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells and electrolysers, which is expected to multiply between 10 and 30 times in the coming years,” the paper explained, as cited by Reuters.

Source: https://kyivindependent.com/reuters-eu-risks-depending-on-china-for-batteries-after-dropping-russian-energy/

And this is fine - if EU citizens really want to bet on renewables, it’s their choice. But this comes bundled with a chain of consequences: logically you also need to ensure sufficient battery storage because otherwise you won’t have 24/7 electricity supply. But if you wants to bet on battery storage, you also need to ensure supply of millions of tons of rare earth metals used to manufacture them (and also PV and wind turbines). And you have to manufacture them and then install in the ground.

It’s not an optional step, you can’t just skip it on good will, just you like you can’t make a pork sausage without first obtaining tissue from an animal farmed for that purpose.

But here’s the tragicomic paradox: in EU nobody wants any mining or industry, because it’s “dirty” and when done clean, it’s expensive! And this is not some silly ideas from proverbial “Brusells”, it’s what most of the EU citizens rather childishly belive: in general they like PV, wind and battery storage… except when someone actually wants to build them within their horizon, because yes, all of these are huge steel and concrete installations that essentially turn hills and meadows into an industrial landscape.

Here come environmentalists and blame “NIMBYism”, but the opposition of residents of France, Bavaria, Sweden or Norway is entirely justified: protection of environment and landscape has been the whole point of environmentalism for the whole last century!

I do blame the modern “environmentalists”: did you ever hear a Greenpeace or WWF representative honestly explaining to people “and yes, we want to replace this 1 MW #nuclear power plant but this will require 300 or 3000 wind turbines and yes, they occupy plenty of space”? Of course not: in the “100% renewable” fables all these huge industrial devices appear out of thin air and are apparently made of pranic energy rather than from steel and concrete.

So what do professional politicians do when they face angry voters with contradictory postulates? They deliver. They deliver a solution that is usually the dumbest and environmentally most harmful of all, but at least it’s not divisive.

You want PV and wind, but don’t want any mines in EU? It’s OK, we’ll buy 90% of the resources from China, where they will of course result in huge CO2 emissions and other pollution, but at least our voters aren’t bothered.

So, if you are an EU voter, just remember that all of your choices do have consequences. In physics you can’t have a cookie and eat a cookie. In politics it’s possible for only a while, and then physics hits you right back.