zout

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[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How I've learned it is, that cognitive dissonance arises when one of your beliefs or behaviours is challenged by new information. This can make you uncomfortable, and to alleviate that, people have coping mechanisms. It's probably these coping mechanisms which cause other people to say you suffer from cognitive dissonance. There's a quite good Wikipedia article on this imo.

[–] zout@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Haarlem is not a suburb but it's own city, it is actually the capital of the North-Holland province.

[–] zout@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That article literally says the other one is what New Zealand is named after.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Companies only do things for their bottom line, not for customer demand. Also, if nobody would buy gas from Shell anymore, their gas stations would just have to be rebranded to something else. Behind the scenes the oil companies are all trading with each other.

[–] zout@fedia.io -4 points 1 week ago

People from south America aren't Americans then?

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

How the fuck is this country even still standing at this point with this chicanery and buffoonery at the reigns?

Because it's basically the same everywhere?

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

What you call a good thing, I call green washing.

[–] zout@fedia.io 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still, open source AI will still help the same companies getting richer because the needed computing power can be found in these data centers. The companies don't even care if it's AI, crypto or whatever the next thing is, as long as it needs lots of power and bandwidth.

[–] zout@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tell me about it. In the Netherlands wind farms are built, and, on paper, these datacenter companies buy up all of the energy from them. Meanwhile, the reason why these wind farms were built is to burn less fossil fuels, but that won't work now because of all the extra energy consumption.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not OP, but this can't be done, this is a system app.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

There's two spring-y extensions on the back which slide inside the electrical box.

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

But those other things is stuff which askes a sacrifice of you personally, while someone else's sexual orientation only needs you pointing at them. In the Netherlands where I live it's a lot less about sexual orientation (but still some), and a lot more about foreigners, be it asylum seekers or people of Moroccan descent who's grandparents were brought over in 1960's because of labour shortages.

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