cloudflare captchas really are a grade a pest at the moment, i already switched my DNS once because i always got stuck, now it happens again
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Just frightening to think about the never ending increase in detail and variation when it comes to the data to be collected.
but look, 300 bucks for the privilege of inviting a self-propelled LiDAR scanner, complete with internet connection and non-optional user registration, into your domicile! It can vacuum too? Sound like a deal to me!
It makes me genuinely sad that myself and pretty much everyone i know has to make use of scihub and library genesis to access the majority of our greatest achievement and culmination of unthinkable multiples of a human lifespan that went into systematically poking our enviroment and writing down its reaction.
And for what exactly? Do our contributions actually reach the ones furthering our (previously) collective knowledge, a way of financing the needed work without compromising its method? Nah. The exact opposite.
The money exclusively pays middlemen, rich enough to buy their way into a market chokehold in the first place, that contribute nothing beyond their self-made reputation mill called "prestigious journals". They gleefully allocate themselves 100% of the cake without any care in the world, consequences be damned.
Do you know what the final layer of insult looks like? After creating the very perverted system, purpose built to extract every last point of profit, after reaping the benefits available to the ones ruthless enough to be okay with making H1B slave labor their modus operandi, they come back crying to us that china stole their intellectual property.
How dare the chinese researcher, the one you forced to work themselves into burnout for half pay, treated like an indentured servant with their Visa held over their head by their mast- i mean sponsor, how dare he to head back to their home country without any feeling of loyalty towards you? Screw them. They would do and did the same and worse to us in a heartbeat.
i fortunately never have to endure this situation, but i grew up to afghan immigrant parents, so the thought of being trapped like this in a foreign country, after your entire family had to work themselves sick for your chance at a better life, all the hope and dreams you embody for your loved ones, the shame that comes with that and being confronted with loosing at all again, just because you refuse to be held as a modern day slave, jeez man.. i have tears in my eyes just thinking about it and i feel like i wanna puke. screw them.
It’s undeniable that the mass adoption of nuclear power would be a huge step forward in terms of emissions. It’s statistically safer than fossile fuels, it’s not cyclical, thus more feasible without storage and infrastructure extravaganza. It’s also not perpetually 10 years away like fusion power. But, it’s political, a threat to powerful and profitable industries, and it threatens neocons on their unipolar powertrip. I could go on to list a whole bunch of other promising ideas, but their reasons for not existing are similar to the point of boring me before even writing them down.
I’m not convinced it’s entirely painless as it’s still the same "crush and drive out via ultrasound" idea. Combine this with the fact that just existing is excruciating with stones, i don’t see a way around opioid analgesia. Additionally, the game hasn’t changed in the regard of the human pelvis being great at keeping out ultrasound, so if your stones are out of reach that way, you’re SOL.