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  • socialmedia@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya
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    7 days ago

    Something eats these insects and then we in turn eat those somethings.

    This is not a way to save us from microplastics. Centuries from now that shit will still be in dirt particles all over the world.

    The best thing to be done is go back in time 100 years and stop people from making millions of tons of plastic bullshit.

    The second best thing is to stop making millions of tons of plastic bullshit.

  • socialmedia@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How the hell do I sign up for facebook?
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    2 months ago

    There are options for additional checks they could explore that are less creepy.

    1. Make someone pay a one time charge. This might not give you the full details but the transaction gives more data, and shows someone is willing to back up their request for access with a paper trail which has fraud protection laws.
    2. Third party verification services. Like your bank, who already have details about you. There just needs to be a way for them to vouch for you. Credit reporting agencies probably already do this, but I kinda think this is almost creepier than giving Facebook a video.
    3. Verifying the email attached to your account is a good first step.

    In the meantime I think knowing the password should at least get you logged in enough for account maintenance. You should be able to set the entire account private and take it offline with limited toggles. Restoring full access would require the additional verification.

  • socialmedia@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•star wars is too woke i like the show about the socialist utopia rule
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    11 months ago

    They don’t have money but they do have the classic authoritarian hierarchy of SciFi.

    Want to travel the galaxy? You need a starship. How do you get a starship? Join the federation.

    Picard retired to a grape farm in France. How did he get that perk? Can anyone have a grape farm in France?

    SciFi has an inherent power imbalance between the fleet and grounders. This comes from the ability to move around and drop bombs on people. As much as they try to stay in a socialist paradise, they still have tons of incidents that end up being solved the starfleet way.

    It’s a quote from starship troopers, but the idea of “Service guarantees citizenship” is what draws fascists to SciFi. It’s a tough problem to fix in fiction and most of the time it’s overlooked because spaceships are cool on paper. They make great entertainment.

    The reality is that serving in the federation usually would mean you’ve never been on a starship bridge. You’re 20 levels down in a maintenance hold with no outside view. Nobody tells you shit and all you know is the ship is being fired at and you’re fucking terrified.

    Even if you can pull up an external view on your tablet (which is a massive security problem), you still don’t have any control over the fight. Now you can watch torpedoes coming straight at you and realize the captain can’t stop it, and you can’t either…

    Morale would be constantly in the toilet, and without a bigger reward than to explore strange new worlds you can’t see from the hold, people would be constantly quitting.

    In conclusion, I’m not saying that star trek is fascist. I’m just saying it hand waves away 90% of the problems with their alleged utopia and people like watching action packed SciFi adventures.

    I have a whole separate rant about weapons like lasers that travel at the speed of light. In the real world most fights would happen across distances, with ships being undetectable against the blackness of space, until a beam comes out of nowhere and instantly destroys your ship. But because it’s fiction you can ignore this.