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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

read through some HN comments the other day and felt so intelligent by comparison. I'm kind of a dipshit so I don't get this feeling many places. pretty much just there and /r/adviceanimals

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently a well-known event where authors gave away a ton of free ebooks led to people getting their Kindles locked down and reset due to a fraud detector falsely flagging it as suspicious activity.

I found one single article about it

But this is a representative Reddit thread

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I have some positive news, someone did the math: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

Drawing on recent empirical evidence, we show that ending poverty and ensuring decent living standards (DLS) for all, with a full range of necessary goods and services (a standard that approximately 80% of the world population presently does not achieve) can be provisioned for a projected population of 8.5 billion people in 2050 with around 30% of existing productive capacity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Glad i did not go with these guys when i was e-reader shopping, the lack of gpl sources was enough for me.

Went with a pinenote because the timing was good, and while it has some corners I dont except the debian install to become a ccp mouthpiece 🙃

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Man I’ve never heard of the pinenote. Does it have anything like send to kindle?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Its a full linux os, so you can do literally anything that can be done with existing tooling. For example, I have syncthing installed on mine so i just have to drop files into a folder on another computer of mine and they show up.

The software folks have put together a decent experience in the last few years and its rather nice out of the box.

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