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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for that link, it was really helpful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Just as we are creatures of habit, we are creatures of belief. Ritual is belief + habit + (ideally) intent.

To be clear:
I don't argue for abandoning objective reality, but rather that the path to there, from within our own minds, will need to incorporate rituals on some level. The scientific method is really just a very specific kind of ritual. Let's lean into all of our strengths as human beings, not just our capacity for reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think the reasoning expressed here is taking the wrong approach. The type of person in most need of convincing that we should consider ritual as an important (if not outright necessary) tool for changing society (especially if it's to "save" the environment) is the type of person for whom:

  1. ritual is responsible for everything wrong with the current state of the world
  2. the ends don't justify the means
  3. indigenous practices are something to be "sifted through" with modern science to keep the "actual" and discard the "frivolous"

To convince such a person (for whom I expect Carl Sagan's words on science being a "candle in the dark" deeply resonate), I think it would be much more productive to talk about how we came to care so much about democracy and human rights given neither are, to my knowledge, falsifiable.
The acts of voting and holding an election are deeply secular rituals; we imbue them with power by performing them, and we perform them because we view them as imbued with power (specifically, the power to confer legitimacy on the decision made by their own outcome). Similarly, writing down on a piece of paper that human beings should be treated on equal footing has been effectively ritualized[0] to help convince others - including those born long after the paper was written on - that we should act as if it were true, despite any evidence our senses may provide us for the contrary.
A third, even more mundane example of a secular ritual is when two parties sign a contract.
A fourth, much more fun example of a secular ritual is gift-giving on certain significant moments in time - birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas.

I would wager this hypothetical reader-in-need-of-convincing thinks all four of these rituals are good - for them, for everyone, and also just plain Good. They don't need to be scientifically proven to "work" so much as they need to be scientifically "cleared of harm" - we don't give up on contracts just because they can be used for harm, we pass laws so that we can ignore and/or annul any harmful contracts that might otherwise take effect. Similarly, maybe we can make "coexisting with the environment" sacred without involving notions of heaven, hell, or any sort of higher power. We certainly seem to want to treat human rights as sacred, even though that isn't a perfect approach either.

In any case, I would have been much more receptive to this line of reasoning back when I would have dismissed the article itself as not-that-deep and somewhat fetishistic.

[0]: both by repetition and by continued transmission of reverence. Not only have there been multiple signings of declarations of human rights over the years, many of them were directly inspired by previous one(s). From the USA's "bill of rights" to the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" to the UN's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", most continue to be taught about in Western education as being important milestones for society as well having a net good impact on us.

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

I feel you w.r.t. debugging :-)

Thankfully there's always the "brute-force" approach to the rescue; scale up and/or ship in whatever you need from a planet where it's cheap(er).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If I'm not mistaken, inserters will always take from either the first or last occupied slot in a container that matches their filters. I'm not in front of my PC so I can't check, but I'm fairly certain it's not random at all. From your description of your setup (miners -> recyclers -> train) I suspect the "randomness" you're seeing is due to how the train wagon gets filled up by the recycler output - which is itself definitely random.

As another comment says, you'll need to use filters to have the inserters do a "balanced pull". If you want maximum throughput then you'll need to wire up some combinators to dynamically adjust the filters over time. If you don't care about achieving max throughput and just want to be sure you don't clog up the unloading, you only need to spread out the ten-ish scrap recycling outputs across the filters for the 6/12 inserters that interact with a given train wagon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Mass Effect : Legendary Edition est à 6 euros. J'ai l'impression qu'il s'agit des 3 premiers jeux ainsi que la totalité des dlc sortis pour eux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Aw, geee, thanks! It's been a while since I figured in a meme

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well, now that I made this post lemmy is finding cross-posts of it..... at least none of them seem to be in this community.

 

This blogpost is close to 3 weeks old and I haven't seen it anywhere on lemmy yet. Pretty decent writeup of not just why but also how to unionize effectively, catered to tech workers in the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

On a au moins la base du monde diplomatique qui leur sert à faire leur fameuse carte des médias & leurs propriétaires !

Les données sont organisées en sept tableaux :

  • personnes.tsv, medias.tsv et organisations.tsv contiennent les médias, personnes physiques ou morales actionnaires
  • personne-media.tsv, personne-organisation.tsv, organisation-organisation.tsv et organisation-media.tsv détaillent les liens capitalistiques entre ces actionnaires et médias qu'ils possèdent

Mise à jour en décembre 2024

Dans la partie "sources" du poste originel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

S'il arrive a ramener des gens voter à gauche, qui sinon sont trop perturbés par Mélenchon ou trop cyniques envers le PS ou EELV, alors tant mieux!

J'espère qu'il ne se fera pas trop entraîné dans le jeu des médias à se faire tirer dans les pattes les gauches entre elles alors qu'on a Macron encore et son gouvernement qui continue de dériver vers l'extrême droite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!

 

"Strophes à la gloire du Quart-Monde de tous les temps" de Joseph Wresinski
Traduit en créole haïtien, mis en musique et interprété par Jean-François Gay


Si le terme de "Quart-Monde" ne vous parle pas, c'est Joseph Wresinski qui l'a choisi en vers la fin des années 60 pour désigner les personnes en situation de grande pauvreté, a travers le monde (notamment peu importe qu'elles se trouvent dans un des blocs USA/OTAN ou USSR, ou encore le Tiers-Monde, d’où le nom).

En 1966, avec ces premiers volontaires, sont rédigées les options de base de l'association : « Tout homme porte en lui une valeur inaliénable qui fait sa dignité d'homme ». Pour en finir avec les termes de « cas sociaux », « familles inadaptées », « familles problèmes », Joseph Wresinski propose un nom porteur d'espoir et de dignité, le « quart-monde », se calquant sur celui de « tiers-monde ». L'expression « quart monde » exprime désormais le rassemblement des pauvres et des non-pauvres engagés dans un même refus de la misère.

Son mouvement Aide à Toute Détresse est devenu ATD Quart Monde, et continue encore aujourd'hui le combat sous ce nom (sidenote: en 2009 iels ont decide de changer le sens de l'acronyme ATD, qui signifie désormais Agir Tous pour la Dignité).

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quart-monde
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATD_Quart_monde

La page anglophone de wikipedia sur le "Quart-Monde" renseigne d'autres utilisations du terme : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World

 

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

When I was just a boy,
and livin' by the track,
Us kids would gather up the coal, in big ol' gunny sacks
Then we heard the mornin' sound as the train pulled into view,
The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through

She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
And we counted cars just as high as we could go
I can almost hear the steam, those big old drivers scream -
Sounds my little kids will never know.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

I guess the times have changed, kids are different now -
Cause some don't even seem to know that milk come from a cow!
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars,
I remember how I memorized the names on railroad cars...

The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC,
The Nickel Plate and the good ol' Santa Fe.
Just names out of the past, I guess they're fading fast,
Every time I hear my little boy say -

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

We climbed into the car, drove down into town,
Right up to the depot house, but no one was around.
We searched the yard together, for something I could show,
But I knew there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so.

All the things I did, when I was just a kid,
How far away those memories appear!
I guess it's plain to see they still mean a lot to me -
Because my ambition was to be an engineer.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?


Une de mes préférées de son album "all abord!", le dernier qu'il a fait avant de perdre la vie. Tout l'album est dédié a son amour des trains, souvent coloré par une tristesse sur leur disparition du paysage états-unien.

 

Article paru dans La Dépêche du 5 Mai 2025.

Surtout une confirmation du chad Jean Moulin vs le virgin Klaus Barbie, je trouve. C'est quand même époustouflant, si vrai, que Moulin a réussi a se donner la mort en s'ouvrant lui-même son crâne contre les murs de sa cellule.

~~J'éditerai dès que je suis devant un pc avec clavier l'alt-texte de l'image ainsi que je retranscriverai l'article en commentaire sous ce poste.~~ edits faits !

 

Je découvre ce titre aujourd'hui 😇

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