[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago

Agree. She fucked up. She made a promise she did not want to honor and didn't have to maturity to do anything other than getting so drunk she wouldn't care

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 32 points 3 days ago

That's right. We theorized the effects shortly after the first coal power plant, and we have observed the effects for a century now. Yet the response has been minimal, to say the least

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 95 points 5 days ago

We need to, because they are the only ones fighting against Chrome monopoly. It's so sad to read news like this

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 11 points 6 days ago

That's why I'm saying that a single invention that changed the world is not something you can easily find anymore.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

That's why I'm saying that a single invention that changed the world is not something you can easily find.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 67 points 6 days ago

We are in a time where a single invention can rarelt be great. For technological development you need thousands of small inventions, each that use previous technological breakthrough through decades of research. And even great things we have, are just refinement and miniaturization of things we already had.

But if a single thing had to be said, I would say mRNA vaccines. Covid vaccines saved milions of lives, were developed in record times, and their technology could be used for HIV or even antitumoral vaccines.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 52 points 3 months ago

Fritz Haber, the Veritasium video about him is fascinating (The Man who Killed Milioms and Saved Bilions). He developed the chemical process to efficiently synthesize ammonia, one of the key discoveries that allowed mass adoption of fertilizers and the incredibly rapid growth of the human population in the 20th century (you could say that thanks to him, bilions of people could live and be fed by modern agriculture).

Tragically, he also had a fundamental role in developing chemical weapons during WWI, although he belived their use would reduce the number of deaths as army would simply avoid gassed zones, so who knows if he really intended and believed in the milions of deaths he caused. Ironically, he also helped developing Zyklon B during the rise of nazism (while it was still used as a pesticide), but was quickly forced to flee from Germany because of jewish origin. Later, his last invention would be used to kill even more people.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 40 points 4 months ago

Troll or not, this is the most ridicoulous take I've ever heard lol

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 45 points 7 months ago

I feel like the problem with Discovery is the same of the warp 10 episode in Voyager. A bunch of people create the most OP way of travelling and barely use it, and don't tell me that the ship is unique and Stamets is the only person in the universe in the following centuries to be able to use it, because that just doesn't make any sense, it's a cheap trick to justify why such an incredible technology has never been mentioned after, not even by a super villain that gives no crap about genetic augmentation.

At least with Voyager you could just write it off as a badly written episode, but you cannot ingore a whole series. Yes even TNG had some magical guy make the ship travel fantaszilion light years, but at least it was out of their control and they could not exploit it.

Also, Trek shows have not been the most consistent ever, but Discovery really went their way on completely distegarding every Star Trek lore existing in the first season which, personal theory, is a major reason for the writers to "get rid" of the ship at the end of season two. Discovery just did not make sense in the universe created by the othee series, to put it where it does no more damage.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All of the Star Trek show, especially TNG, Voyager and Emterprise, because I've watched them so many times when I was a kid at my grandparent's house.

I was fascinated by the various captains. They were always so smart, capable, full of resources, curious, charismatic and generally great leaders, mostly coherent with their morals. They were basically badass scientist explorers and I identified so much with them without even realizing it.

Now whenever I find myself in any leadership position, I ask myself what they would do. I could choose to be logical and intellectual like Picard, empathetic like Janeway or brave like Archer. This shaped me more than I could ever imagine.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago

What's up with the jacked guy on the back? Is that standard issue uniform?

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Spoilers for Discovery Season 1 below

it is probably because of that episode in which he is compared to Zefram Cochrane or the Wright brothers. Must have been good for his ego.

What I found funny is that Lorca come from the mirror universe, it makes sense that Musk would be idolized there.

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