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Cake day: July 10th, 2023
  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible InvasionEnglish
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    1 month ago

    General strike, demonstrations where they can’t be ignored, organised resistance, organised campaigning, even striking in solidarity with others.

    Oh. You’re all struggling too much to be able to do that?

    That’s you being oppressed, and you could organise against that: you could organise war chests for striking, unionise to regain rights, vote or campaign for actual peoples representation rather than corporate such, build resilient communities, picket biased media, organise or join collective action, prosecute and pressure corrupt politicians, counter lobbies, educating yourself and others, etc.

    Gather neighbours, save funds, support eachother, resist where you can and coordinate with others to have a greater impact.

    But most aren’t going to, cus there’s always someone else to blame, someone else that should save the day. And while you’re passing blame, the fascists consolidate, divide and terrorise, both your domestic neighbours and international friends. Leaving you more vulnerable, more isolated, and with less and less support to resist or survive.

  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.worldtoFuck AI@lemmy.world•AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
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    1 month ago

    That said, Forrester’s research does predict that AI and other automation tech, like physical robots, will see a hefty six percent of jobs replaced by 2030, amounting to some 10.4 million roles.

    It’s unclear from context who Forrester is or what they studied. But I’d be interested to learn if this supports that AI output replaces the 6 %, or if the economy will contract 6 %.

    My cynical guess would be that the study is more based on current employment trends, rather than actual economic viability. Meaning the 6% will be the 2030 size of the bubble of tech bros still trying to find a product-market fit at the expense of VC money.

    If anyone manages to figure out what that study is, I’d welcome a link or doi.

  • Brainsploosh@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night
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    1 month ago

    Although the 12 hours aren’t divided in day/night are they?

    And depending on where/when you’re at, it can easily be light out at seven and seven, even in the same day.

    What the 12 hour clock does well is to track when the sun goes up or down relative to the only convenient time marker: midday. It also does so in a pleasingly symmetrical way: it gets light and dark at about 8, rather than 4 hours before and 8 hours after midday.

    I’d argue if you want to track time, rather than record the ends of daylight, a linear scale for the whole day makes more sense. If it should be reset daily or not, be divisible by 24, 86400, 100, 1000000, a second or whatever is mostly a choice of convention. If you have constant access to a clock, Internet time seems convenient, for humans without clocks we use daylight and units like hours and 5-minute increments.

    For that the 24 hour clock seems simple and convenient, although it would be nice to be able to calibrate without a watch (is it two or three hours before midday? How many more hours until wake-up time?). 24 hour time isn’t perfect, but it’s much better adapted to modern life than the 12 hour clock.