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  • Gronk@aussie.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonepraxis rule
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    12 hours ago

    I’d disagree, that’s a talking point promoted by big oil/corpoghouls to encourage divide and conquer tactics and move perception away from the issues at hand.

    There’s been a concerted effort by petrochemical ghouls to hinder any progressive innovation that doesn’t require oil for the last 100 years.

    This paired with western societies exceptionalism and belief that it can live outside of nature and limited resources is the biggest driving factor behind the mass extinction event.

    We need to radically rethink our society to cause effective change, it’s hard to orchestrate that on the individual level but innovation that can offer convienent alternatives would cause the majority of people to reduce their carbon footprint without sacrificing quality of life.

    At this point in time it is too late for us to continue living as we know it. Billions of people will now have to die, borders will be reshaped and our entire societies will become unrecognisable from what they are today, most likely for the worse.

    I paint it out to sound like we should give up, but we absolutely should not. We have a choice to drag our heels kicking and screaming into the future at the detriment for all or we can continue fighting for a better world.



  • desire to learn more DSP maths increases

    But seriously that’s really cool! You also sound really cool, do you mind me asking where your studies have taken you? I’m looking at going back to study soon, potentially for compsci and mechanical engineering but I’m torn between a lot of different degree at this moment


  • My common solution to boot issues that lock me out is,

    1. Get a USB Live distro (always good to have a backup lying around)

    2. Boot into live distro

    3. Chroot into the broken distro (Arch wiki has an article on this)

    4. Fix any bugs that I can find and/or reinstall the bootloader

    5. Test, repeat until the problem has been found and fixed

    Hope it helps any newcomers!



  • Eh the tax on cigarettes increases every year I think it’s literally $2 a smoke now, it was 1.67 when I quit.

    I’m conflicted on this tax though, the money doesn’t go anywhere it should. Our healthcare services should be propped up with this money because smokers are actively damaging themselves causing increased stress on the medical system, it could also be put towards harm minimisation in general not just for smoking but all sorts of addictions

    But the government doesn’t actually care about this issue, if you look at the stance towards vaping it’s apparent that they tried this ban to prop up big tobacco considering the only ‘legal’ vapes on the market are manufactured by the big tobacco corporations

    The other issue is this tax is severely damaging for low socioeconomic areas in Australia, who already have a high amount of smokers. Lots of places just sell cheap imported cigarettes for 20 bucks now, so that money is going to some kind of organised crime.

    I just think it’s a form of prohibition that’s gotten out of hand, rather it should’ve been used to bootstrap and fund better infrastructure and policy around the issue.