Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Of course there are solutions, I’m not saying climat change will end the world.

But climate change is real, the situation is critical, and the last thing to do is to minimize the problem.

Kind of getting into a very niche topic here, but I just want to say that unless you've researched the specific means by which climate is measured, there aren’t a lot of good ways to know that for sure. What I mean is that just because everyone says it on TV, doesn't make it true.

Heck, even having your grade school teachers say it's true doesn't make it true. It doesn't mean it's false either - it just means it requires a bit of your own research. And in the end, we are all kind of guessing unless we study it ourselves.

 

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[Thoelt53]

Now even climat change is a conspiracy? Sure, the fact that we build with no limits, waste everything and use resources like we live in paradise has no consequences at all.
And I’m curious, what’s the point of climat change conspiracy?

Why did we change from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’?

Look around and educate yourself. Neither of these were ever threats to the planet. They are a threat to your bank account and potential generational wealth.

Don’t be a sucker. Human caused warming of the planet is demonstrably false. Look and you shall see.

To be so arrogant as to think we pathetic humans have more effect on Earth than Earth does herself is asinine.

Don’t even get me started on the Sun.

Unless of course you think we humans are more powerful than the Sun. Hah.

 

[socaldude]

And I’m curious, what’s the point of climat change conspiracy?

I think a lot of it is economically driven as there is a lot of money to be made off it. There is climate change but the direction is unclear. There a lot of models but the causation is ambiguous. It’s definitely a conflation of factors.

Remember the entities that run this planet are pretty much professional liars. They tend to mix up their intentions and agendas with hard to disprove theories. And theories that are partially true.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Why did we change from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’?

Look around and educate yourself. Neither of these were ever threats to the planet. They are a threat to your bank account and potential generational wealth.

Don’t be a sucker. Human caused warming of the planet is demonstrably false. Look and you shall see.

To be so arrogant as to think we pathetic humans have more effect on Earth than Earth does herself is asinine.

Don’t even get me started on the Sun.

Unless of course you think we humans are more powerful than the Sun. Hah.

I’m always like...

Earth once formed one giant continent called Pangea that is now totally unrecognizable, right?

The earth is millions of years old, right?

We’ve existed for a tiny fraction of the planet’s history...

We started measuring temperature change recently, and hadn’t even explored either poles until even more recently...

Yet we are to believe a minuscule average temperature difference over the last few decades is potentially cause for the world ending...?

We are barely a sneeze or a sniffle to this planet. A blip on the radar, so far.

(Not to mention mistaking erosion for sea level changes)

I don’t think almost anyone knows how the ice sheet samples are taken or measured to determine historical climates. Yet EVERYONE has an opinion on climate change.

It just doesn’t make sense, any of it.

Way too much media and politics.

I am not convinced that the world is going to end any time soon.

 

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[Thoelt53]

I’m always like...

Earth once formed one giant continent called Pangea that is now totally unrecognizable, right?

The earth is millions of years old, right?

We’ve existed for a tiny fraction of the planet’s history...

We started measuring temperature change recently, and hadn’t even explored either poles until even more recently...

Yet we are to believe a minuscule average temperature difference over the last few decades is potentially cause for the world ending...?

We are barely a sneeze or a sniffle to this planet. A blip on the radar, so far.

(Not to mention mistaking erosion for sea level changes)

I don’t think almost anyone knows how the ice sheet samples are taken or measured to determine historical climates. Yet EVERYONE has an opinion on climate change.

It just doesn’t make sense, any of it.

Way too much media and politics.

I am not convinced that the world is going to end any time soon.

Arrogance.

That is all it is.

We dipshits supposedly know what the norm is for a planet that is supposedly 4,000,000,000 years old.

We are the anomaly, not the climate.

 

[Kak]

Now even climat change is a conspiracy? Sure, the fact that we build with no limits, waste everything and use resources like we live in paradise has no consequences at all.
And I’m curious, what’s the point of climat change conspiracy?

Straw. Loathing “climate change” propaganda ≠ wasteful, polluting, heathen.

The reality: I love the market developing new, cool, renewable and cheaper solutions to our, actually real, energy crisis. I appreciate clean air, clean water, and living in a healthy environment. I’m just not a communist moron.

Of course there are solutions, I’m not saying climat change will end the world.

But climate change is real, the situation is critical, and the last thing to do is to minimize the problem.

Yes. It is “real” in the sense that it is a real tool for manipulating lemmings off of a cliff.

It, like COVID policy, is a fake science of communist convenience, perpetuated by corrupt politicians, parroted by bootlicking media, and believed by idiots that like to call people who don’t toe the line “conspiracy theorists,” designed to literally advance the state’s power and control over the individual.

 

[Madame Peccato]

And I’m curious, what’s the point of climat change conspiracy?

More power concentrated in the hands of the government .

People think the government is the only thing that can salvage the environment.

So the government does what it does best. Toss money into the bottomless pit called "government programs". Money it stole from its citizens through its monopolistic power.

The results? Higher taxes. More control on the population. Less freedom to do anything. Somehow we went from "the Ice Age is coming" 50 years ago to "we are all going to die in 20 years because the planet is heating up".

Check out this article, and the image I attached for more information.

 

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[Raoul Duke]

Yes. It is “real” in the sense that it is a real tool for manipulating lemmings off of a cliff.

It, like COVID policy, is a fake science of communist convenience, perpetuated by corrupt politicians, parroted by bootlicking media, and believed by idiots that like to call people who don’t toe the line “conspiracy theorists,” to literally advance the state’s power and control over the individual.

 

[Kak]

The existence of conspiracy theories is now a conspiracy theory.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

If you're trying to find a specific part of a YouTube video that you watched previously, you can click the 3 dots, click "Open Transcript", then you can search the full subtitles list for what you're looking for and match it up with the time stamp.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

It's a cliche joke to make fun of an American who orders the following at a fast food restaurant:
"Cheeseburger, fries, and a diet coke"
with the joke being that the diet coke isn't worth it.

But honestly, diet coke saves you 150-200 calories over regular coke. Water is better, but I mean, 0 cals vs 150...

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but take what you want out of life, not just what you think you can have.

Not every life is worth living.

 

[Kak]

 

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[ZF Lee]

Anyone has effective ways to free up iPhone storage?

I've done the following:
1. Deleted a SHIT-TON of photos and videos (even from the Deleted section)
2. Deleted a couple of old apps
3. Checked the iPhone storage analytics under General and saw most of the storage was taken up by WhatsApp

Deleted some old chats, cleared a group chat, but don't want to do any more deleting...
Besides, they only dropped a few GB.

From a Reddit post, some folks claim you could delete the app (eg Facebook) and then redownload it to find it at a much smaller size on the phone.

Is that legit? How should I go about it?
It's getting F*cking irritating to happily do some work on my phone, only to get rudely interrupted by a 'low space' notification.

Thanks.

EDIT: Makes me want a John Galt phone with unlimited data storage. All this limitation just makes me feel at the mercy of the tech giants...

 

[Kak]

Anyone has effective ways to free up iPhone storage?

I've done the following:
1. Deleted a SHIT-TON of photos and videos (even from the Deleted section)
2. Deleted a couple of old apps
3. Checked the iPhone storage analytics under General and saw most of the storage was taken up by WhatsApp

Deleted some old chats, cleared a group chat, but don't want to do any more deleting...
Besides, they only dropped a few GB.

From a Reddit post, some folks claim you could delete the app (eg Facebook) and then redownload it to find it at a much smaller size on the phone.

Is that legit? How should I go about it?
It's getting f*cking irritating to happily do some work on my phone, only to get rudely interrupted by a 'low space' notification.

Thanks.

EDIT: Makes me want a John Galt phone with unlimited data storage. All this limitation just makes me feel at the mercy of the tech giants...

I know it’s big brother, but I use Google photos to store all my pictures and videos. That helped a lot.

Also set messages to self delete after 30 days.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

Any webscrapers here that can share resources with dealing with the bottlenecks imposed by captchas?

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Anyone has effective ways to free up iPhone storage?

I've done the following:
1. Deleted a SHIT-TON of photos and videos (even from the Deleted section)
2. Deleted a couple of old apps
3. Checked the iPhone storage analytics under General and saw most of the storage was taken up by WhatsApp

Deleted some old chats, cleared a group chat, but don't want to do any more deleting...
Besides, they only dropped a few GB.

From a Reddit post, some folks claim you could delete the app (eg Facebook) and then redownload it to find it at a much smaller size on the phone.

Is that legit? How should I go about it?
It's getting f*cking irritating to happily do some work on my phone, only to get rudely interrupted by a 'low space' notification.

Thanks.

EDIT: Makes me want a John Galt phone with unlimited data storage. All this limitation just makes me feel at the mercy of the tech giants...

I'm pretty sure these pop-ups are bullshit marketing attempts to get you on their Cloud Subscription service.

Apple is one of my least favorite companies, but I still use their products.

@Kak pointed out on his podcast that when that happens, it means the product must be REALLY good.

He's right.

 

[Mario_fastlaner]

I understand your points, yes maybe a climate change emergency would limit our freedom.

Nonetheless I think that in the last 2 centuries we have lived in a sort of bubble, we consumed and lived as if there was unlimited resources.

@Thoelt53 @thechosen1 do you think we have small influence on earth? In Italy (I don’t know elsewhere) we have built over 7% of the territory. How’s such a percentage a small influence? The world won’t end, but we will.

I’m afraid that you guys (from the moment that you are entrepreneurs) don’t want to face the reality because this crisis would damage especially entrepreneurs. I’m talking about transport/travel industries (and as a consequence for example lots of drop shipping businesses) or meat consumption industry just to make 2 examples.

Don’t know, maybe I’m wrong. I hope I’m wrong but this unlimited capitalistic model just seems to me unsustainable.

 

[S.Y.]

I stumbled upon the Personal CRM software niche earlier today.

Does anyone use a personal CRM? Either DIY with tools like AirTable and Notion, or an app to manage relationships?

 

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[Antifragile]

I stumbled upon the Personal CRM software niche earlier today.

Does anyone use a personal CRM? Either DIY with tools like AirTable and Notion, or an app to manage relationships?

tried Notion but it was too much time requirement to master it and design it for my needs. Some people swear by it.

 

[Matt Sun]

Now even climat change is a conspiracy?

We need that tax money to “fight climate change”. Sea levels rising !

 

[Mario_fastlaner]

We need that tax money to “fight climate change”. Sea levels rising !

wow, you made the joke! How funny! Ahah can’t stop laughing

 

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[SDE]

Some users here are just Socialists.

They are not aware of it, though.

 

[ZF Lee]

I'm pretty sure these pop-ups are bullshit marketing attempts to get you on their Cloud Subscription service.

Apple is one of my least favorite companies, but I still use their products.

@Kak pointed out on his podcast that when that happens, it means the product must be REALLY good.

He's right.

For my part, it specifically mentions 'low disk space'. I do have 'your iCloud storage is low' reminders now and then, but they only matter if you want to keep backing up.

I currently use iExplorer as a third-party data backup, but I don't plug in often.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Just wanna point out a big disconnect between people who think big and those who think small:

Small minded people see a billionaire or a pro athlete or elite musician and think they were lucky or talented.

Big thinkers think of the effort and dedication... and imagine the incredible heights they could achieve if they committed their whole lives to something.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

For instance,

when I watch the Olympic finals, I don’t see a race.

I see a gallery displaying years of consistency, attention to detail, and dogged commitment to excellence.

The winner didn’t win the race. They won the years.

They beat the competition every day for a very, very long time and then they all showed up in a condition and at a skill level nobody else at that moment was close to.

No. The man on top of the mountain did not fall there.

 

[Timmy C]

I now call bullshit on all of this vaccine and covid crap.

The inventor of the MRNA vaccine has come out and said they are not safe and guess what they are doing now?
Censorship isn't enough now. No No NO!
They are literally rewriting history itself. He was listed as the MRNA inventor on Wikipedia only to be taken off.
His Linkedin has been shut down etc.

Toe the line or else.

This is his Twitter

https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD

 

[MTF]

130 nations agree to support U.S. proposal for global minimum tax on corporations

A group of 130 nations has agreed to a global minimum tax on corporations, part of a broader effort to overhaul international tax rules.

www.cnbc.com

The insanity has gone worldwide...

The only sane countries left (the ones that didn't sign):

Ireland, Estonia, Hungary, Peru, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Kenya.

 

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[Andy Black]

This looks cool:

FastKeys Automation Software

FastKeys Automation Software

www.fastkeysautomation.com

 

[Kak]

130 nations agree to support U.S. proposal for global minimum tax on corporations

A group of 130 nations has agreed to a global minimum tax on corporations, part of a broader effort to overhaul international tax rules.

www.cnbc.com

The insanity has gone worldwide...

The only sane countries left (the ones that didn't sign):

Ireland, Estonia, Hungary, Peru, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Kenya.

The USA hiked the world’s taxes now.

With 4th of July, “Independence Day,” basically here, this is just ironic.