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I love Benfey's table. I find it the most intuitive to interpret at a glance at what's actually going on with the electrons and the filing of the orbitals (in the version where they're marked) around the nucleus. Might be just taste, but it's my fave.

I was honestly confused for a second why would you think the name had anything to do with a fetish (minus some mastodon content) until I realized you saw it as fe-diverse and not fedi-verse. I never saw it that way because I pronounce the "i" in it as "ee", not as "ay". I wonder what's more common now. Is this another gif/jif situation?

The people in charge quite possibly have crypto farms themselves, so... don't expect a solution until there are literal electricity blackouts due to shortages or the electorate gets really angry.

But if it were to be implemented, it would work. It wouldn't make the electorate happy either short-term, it would be like flushing out an infection with a fever.

Plus, with the delicate nature of the political situation, I wouldn't recommend Kosovo's institutions imposing brownouts on Northern Kosovo, or at least not just on Northern Kosovo.

A much better example for this topic are IMO elephants, they behave with certain gentle quiet reverence around elephant bones they stumble upon.

They also exhibit some even more ritualistic behaviors[1][2][3][4] around other dead elephants, such as throwing leaves and branches over their bodies.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition#Death_ritua... [2]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/elephants... [3]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/ [4]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120919-respect-the-dead

The US's green house emissions per capita are twice as big as China's[1]. Considering China's population is about 4 times bigger it puts the absolute pollution at about 1:2. Chinese percent of renewables is 25% compared to the US's 15%[2]. What exactly do you want from China? I'm not even gonna address the war idea...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenho... [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewab...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned yet a key (admittedly not only) part in making the US so polarized: first past the post voting system which inevitably leads to a two party system. Good luck having nuance in that system. It literally pits people against each other in two umbrella teams. The internet's echo chamber mechanic has only amplified this.

People need to challenge their own beliefs more often. You vote Democrat? Whatever. Who do you vote for in the primaries? Nobody cares... they should.

It might open the eyes to the foundations of disagreement not being dehumanizing.

Nobody is actually expected (emphasis on expected) to really know the third taught language beyond a couple phrases later in life. Many do, but it's not a universal fact.

It's more common for people to know two "local" languages (living near a border) and English, than the third language taught in school.

https://tildes.net (source: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes, github mirror: https://github.com/spectria/tildes, Python back-end, made by dude who worked on old reddit)

https://lobste.rs (source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters, Ruby back-end)

https://lemmy.ml (source: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy , Rust back-end, federated, in-development but usable)

https://postmill.xyz (source: https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill, PHP back-end)

There's also https://github.com/notabugio/notabug a P2P fork of old reddit UI (that used to be open source itself, old version: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit), and there's https://notabug.org/zPlus/freepost, I just found it searching for this stuff, those are the ones I know of.

Something weird happened over the past decade.

I blame it on social media monopolies, or at least effective monopolies, oligopolies, and the network effect. Once everyone was sucked into these silos and unable to leave they could do whatever they wanted with the user experience without repercussions. And once everyone was used to it and took it as a given it was only a matter of time before it leaked even into desktop apps or even Windows, and people just accepted it. What I think could reverse the user hostility trend would be competition which would require breaking the oligopolies/network effect which means the rise of Linux desktop or Fediverse platforms, and that's gonna be a while, but not impossible. And of course there are limits to how far they can degrade the user experience without starting to lose users so I don't think it can be a lot worse than now, but still we're stuck with the status quo.

If you're using Firefox, there are extensions that let you view an archived version of a webpage with a click. Almost every interesting article with a soft paywall I bump into has already been archived by someone. I use "web archives" and "save to the wayback machine" but there are others, and I'm sure there's something for Chromium browsers too.

Yup. Android dominates globally, and IMO Briar's strong suit compared to other similar messenger apps is avoiding both capital surveillance AND state surveillance, or in other words it's good for fighting autocratic regimes. The US isn't really in the tier 1 target group. Yet.

A bit off topic, but instead of FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) I much more prefer the MAAAF or FAAAM acronym (Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft) because their monopolies basically make them a mafia family, and I don't really see Netflix belonging in the group.

Undoubtedly for some cases, but I'm talking from my perspective of "commie-blocks” with large open green spaces between the towers. Sure you could in theory put the panels in those open green public spaces but that's neither legal nor would it jibe well with their whole raison d'etre.

You're forgetting many people live in apartments in dense urban areas, and basically the only place they CAN put solar panels IS on the top of their car. Of course, they could just buy/use electricity produced elsewhere in dedicated solar farms, but that doesn't make you self-reliant, and could in theory cost the end user more money, depending on maintenance and cost of the vehicle.

That's what projects like the https://briarproject.org/ are for.

It's peer2peer in the truest sense, it can connect to other peers via Bluetooth or WiFi. It also uses Tor when it goes over the internet.

The fact the info spreads like corona when in person, means it takes a while for the info to spread, but once it explodes it goes big, and is hard to stop.

My favorite anti-censorship app.