Not ideologically pure.
It’s an amazing country to visit. Beautiful sights, amazing food, lovely people. Of course there are tourist traps and scams like everywhere else, but also some of the most generous and hospitable people I have ever met. I can’t wait to go back honestly.
I’m super happy with my Fairphone 3 as well (I upgraded the camera to 3+), but the newer models seem to have made major improvements indeed.
Still, for anyone who doesn’t need anything too fancy but who insist on having a headphone jack, a used Fairphone 3 is a good option. Buy a new battery for it and it’ll be good as new. :)
I find it expensive for what it is (given that I still get a limited number of searches) and I’m not comfortable with some of their ways (I don’t want anything to do with AI, and I the idea they have of being nonpolitical seems dangerously naive to me). I also don’t like supporting non-FOSS projects all that much.
Still, it’s the best search I’ve found, and I’m paying every month until I find something better. It’s worth it.
No worries at all! My original comment was playing around with pseudoscience while being willfully ignorant, I totally see how that can trigger a negative reaction. :)
Sorry, didn’t mean to come across as an asshole - just meant to emphasize that the word “theory” could also be used as a figure of speech.
I realize it maybe wasn’t clear enough from my post that I didn’t try to make any actual scientific hypothesis or anything - I merely found it entertaining to figure out why anyone would think climate change could alter the speed of time. It just seemed like such an absurd starting point that I found it enjoyable to try to make sense of it.
But again, no hard feelings - communicating online can be tricky. Sorry about that!
Sorry for not committing to scientific standards in my pioneering research into why OP would ask such a question!
Imagine you’re coming back home with your partner one day. You see your new pair of shoes all chewed up. In the corner of the room you see your dog, looking guilty as hell. Your partner might ask you “what happened to your shoes”. You might respond “I don’t know, but I have a theory”. To which your partner might respond “well actually, that’s not a theory, that’s a hypothesis, you idiot”.
Nicely explained! (not that that’s the only flaw of the logic of course)
I have two theories. [edit: theories why anyone would come up with such an idea in the first place, that is]
First, E = energy, and temperature is energy. So if temperature increases, doesn’t that increase E? And if E = mc², doesn’t that mean that either mass or the speed of light would need to speed up in order to keep up with it?
Second, although false, a lot of people are trained to believe that time stands still at 0 K. In that case, light could never escape 0 K, and as temperatures approach 0 K light would slog to a halt. If that was the case, the logical conclusion would be that speed of light would increase as temperatures rise.
Or maybe something completely different - I just thought it was a fun question to try to reverse engineer. :)
Temperature itself does not affect the speed of light - remember that space is freezing cold, and light moves through it just fine. So warmer temperatures don’t do anything with time.
If earth suddenly gained a bunch of mass, that would change things up as gravity would increase. However, we wouldn’t really notice, as everything would speed up more or less the same. We’d have to compare ourselves to someone in a system where time moves differently in order to notice.
Indeed - I very recently noticed mine was finally gone. ;)
You’re on Lemmy.world, where my impression is that the threshold is pretty high before they defederate. If you want to be kind and see as little garbage as possible, you could for example join Beehaw, which has a focus on kindness. LGBTQ+ people who are particularly tired of bigots can join Blahaj, where the mods are very trigger happy about weeding out that kind of behaviour.
If you’re unhappy about every approach to moderation out there, you can start your own instance and do it yourself. Of course most people won’t, but it nevertheless renders them in less of a position to complain.
And yes, moderation cannot ever be perfect. It takes a lot for users to leave a community due to disagreeable moderation. But still, users here have a lot more choice.
Personally I’m testing a platform where problematic users (such as the one starting this comment thread) are marked with warning signs, so that I can identify likely trolls right away and alter my interaction with them. It’s pretty neat.
Indeed! It’s almost like people got fed up of their internet experience being a flaming pile of garbage.
If anything the George Carlin-imitating AI serves to highlight that the brilliance of Carlin was in his thinking, not in his shtick of delivering cynical jokes in his signature fashion. The AI captures the cynicism and the voice and at least in part the delivery, yet it just left me bored. Carlin on the other hand I can listen to again and again.
I guess it’s like training a moral philosophy bot. Sure, you could train an AI on everything Immanuel Kant has ever written and it would be capable of delivering an endless series of platitudes that sound like something Kant could have written, but it’s not going to become a Kantian philosopher, and you’ll be better off just reading Kant.
At least he seems to be enjoying it, embracing the creative process and developing whatever he’s interested in. Seems like a pretty healthy approach.