Yeah, let's use a computationally heavy task that contributes to burning coal and gas releasing CO2 into the atmosphere to reduce a slight fraction in emission so we could pat ourselves on the back.

It is not a “slight” reduction in emissions, it’s absolutely huge! About half of the aviation industry’s total impact on global warming is due to contrails! This is 1-2% of all human caused warming across all industries.

(Though slight caveat for any nit-pickers. The warming isn’t related to emissions. The contrails essentially create a blanket that traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere - the BBC article linked mentions this)

Source: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08

(Or check the sources in the linked video)

And now everybody screams that Putin is bad.

False equivalence is what enabled the Trump presidency. "All politicians are corrupt liars, therefore we'll elect the one who tells us the lies we like".

Corruption and evil are not binary, they're shades of grey. Trump might be bad, but he's not poisoning his opponents or throwing them out windows.

If all politicians are evil, the goal should be to elect the least-evil one.

Then blame shifts to the little guy being the scape goat. I mean it already happens in corrupt countries.

Revoke their right to privacy. Normal citizens get to have privacy protections. Not them. They are in power to serve us. We should be entitled to know everything they are doing at all times. Let's see them try to scapegoat anyone then. If they don't like it just resign.

If a solution isn't working, it's probably because it's not extreme enough. Always go further. If they try to weasel out, preempt them. We aren't dealing with innocent lambs here. These are rich elites who graduated from top universities, high functioning sociopaths who absolutely have enough education and mental acuity to know right from wrong. They take an almost sadistic pleasure in not only subverting morality but in getting away with it. They don't just do things, they rub it in our faces that they did it and got away with it, and think us fools for not stopping them.

Corruption is power without responsibility. The more power you have, the more scrutiny you should be subjected to and the more consequences you should suffer.

Well, then sin(x) = x if x is infinitely small

> Assuming[x == 0, Simplify[Sin[x] == x]]

Mathematica returns True. And any middle schooler will also tell you it's true.

The only reasonable interpretation of "infinitely small" is that it's zero.

What? So putting your willy in a pig on camera is totally fine while you do it ironically? Why and how would any reasonable human being decide what the purpouse of a photograph of sex with animals is? Have furries been overstepping the law the whole time?

And more US police officers die on duty due to more citizens willing to kill law enforcement officers.

As a defensive measure due to cops being so trigger happy. Until the US relaxes it's cultist obsession about the 2A, that won't change.

Backing up entire VMs with all the configuration in case an update breaks something or just bricks your server is a smart idea aswell as running stuff in containers. Also, 4GB per VM? Besides sometimes you need to run software that is not avaliable on linux.

If you backup the entire VM you are just backing up the Linux kernel itself and all the (GNU) tools with it.

Seems like a waste to me.

Backup your docker config and your data, that's what you actually need. The rest is just available online if you ever need it.

>Besides sometimes you need to run software that is not available on linux.

Really, like what?

Good backup software deduplicates on storage. Proxmox backup server for example.

Not all server executables for video games are avaliable on linux for example. There is a lot of use cases and just saying "you just need X" is somewhat of an ignorant statement. No, I don't.

It's baffling for me living in Russia that modern western societies see everything wrong with dictatorship from a goverment but nothing or almost nothing wrong with dictatorship from big capital. E.g. you can't change your break pads unless you go to authorized repair (literal control over your private property and how you use it) and big platforms banning you from multiple public forums because you said a big no-no word (deplatforming and cross-platform restrictions are a thing)

You don’t have to look very hard to see an enormous number of people expressing discontent at the latter.

To speak to your examples, the right to repair, farmers vs John Deere, the exodus from X to Bluesky, the rise of alternative messaging platforms, the outright murder of CEOs on the street and the beatification of the primary suspect on social media…just to scratch the surface

These are all headlines straight from HN and the fact that you even know about them is the difference.

The fundamental difference is while we both lack any real power to change this, under an actual dictatorship people get jailed or worse for that expression.

Let’s touch base on this again when Dictatorship from big capital means Disney puts me in prison for dissent against the mouse and then offers me clemency if I go to the front lines in their next special military operation.

"big capital" does not have the monopoly on violence (except in a dictatorship, through connections to the "big man").

Sure. But the lubricant they use usually contains antibiotics. Go figure.