“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
A post-apocalyptic scifi short story (and a game based on it about 20 year later) by Harlan Ellison, about five humans tortured by a sentient butthole.
But Data’s an android and not, you know, a man.
Technically speaking your man don’t even man
Yeah, same, I found it a bit surprising they have fewer than Germany
Yeah, some real “DEBATE ME” energy here
Yeah I personally took it as a weird meme and not a real ad
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Pretty much everything that’s not totally inert produces heat, but the point (they claim!) is that these newfangled doodads don’t generate power using that heat.
So far we’ve mainly been generating power with more and more ingenious ways of heating up water.
Ah, it happens.
One time when I was still with my ex partner I meant to text them “hey remember to buy some salt from the store” and I accidentally typed “you motherfucker you’ve ruined my life” instead
On a semi-related note, I was actually radioactive for a few days once, after I got my thyroid nuked.
What was cool was that it turned out that regular 'ol camera CCDs (like the one in your cell phone) can detect alpha particles, so I naturally pressed my phone to my neck in a dark room and got this video. Those tiny white “flashes” you see are actually all alpha particles (video in a spoiler block so it doesn’t take up half the screen at least on lemmy-ui):
I verified it by taking more video with the phone away from my body – no flashes!
Huh, surprising to hear that at least “officially” SD’s gotten slightly less… well, nazi.
Also, love the Stafford Beer quote 😀 Honestly “the purpose of the system is what it does” is an excellent heuristic.
Yeah but that’s exactly it though: they’re not very moderate if they really have no qualms about collaborating with the likes of SD.
It’s the same here in Finland too, the “moderate” and “fiscally conservative” National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) is suddenly pretty much indistinguishable from the far right Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) now that they’re in a 100% right wing government. They’re eg. loosening the punishment for denying the Holocaust, blocking the progress of a law that would ban “conversion therapy” (ie. psychological violence to turn people straight), their MPs are now openly racist, and so on.
Feels like “moderate” conservatives are just waiting for an excuse to drop their masks. One of my former acquaintances who is supposedly a moderate KOK voter told me straight up that the world would be a better place if gender minorities (like me…) didn’t exist.
I’ve always found it a bit funny that one of the Swedish conservative parties is called the Moderates. They pretend they’re “centre right” like every fucking conservative seems to, because for whatever baffling reason they lack the spine to call themselves right wing. “Nooo you can’t call me right wing, that hurts my feelings – I’m centre right and a moderate! But anyhow, Hitler was right and trans people and leftists should be put in death camps, and here’s some Russian propaganda for you that proves all this”
Oh I wish it was. Eg. here in Finland sharing movies etc. among friends or downloading them off the internet used to be legal as long as you weren’t doing it for profit or distributing stuff to a huge audience, but that changed in 2006 because the new EU Copyright Directive required it, and that directive was hugely influenced by the likes of WIPO.
Shipping metric assloads of weapons to Israel is a really fucking funny way of trying to bring peace