welcome to redditfication of lemmy.

Time to move on to telnet mud games.

For me it is biting and chewing the skin around.

When it bleeds I also drink the blood.

Yes, I’m a vampiric who selfcanibalizes myself.

One day I will evolve to Ouroboros

There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

It is in no way recent news about him, but some of the issues aound his past is somewhat related with what is exposed in this video.

What tools to to replace math work besides calculator?

Mathematica is one example that solves integrals and do some elementary proof run-down for you.

Granted that it is used mostly by STEM students. But I rarelly see someone totally forbiding the use of Mathematica as learning tool.

If you want a more High-school tool, then geogebra is another great example (and also opensource.

Pretty useful to plot the graphs and help you see what you’re getting wrong.

I’m answering just to show that there are indeed mathematical tools used for the inbetween of a full math major and a “paltry peasant” that only needs to compute a good enough function for his problem be it an engineer working beams load, a chemist working enthalpy reactions or an biologist trying to find an EDO that best fits the data of prey/predator in a given ecosystem.

Btw, I’d suggest to install deepseek (or any other model) locally so that you don’t give your data for free to others (also for security reasons).

Take advantage that it is a free/open software and somewhat easy to install.

to piss both audiences here:

Emacs in graphical mode

Is 16 GB still in the market? I mostly find 32 or 64 GB for usb-stick.

8GB is pretty much dead nowadays (and so is CD/DVD)

(Honorable mention: RIP Floppy Disk )

An important addition is that saying “we are animals” isn’t supposed to cut what we judge to be morally right or wrong.

If anything, “We are animals” must be used to know that other animals may probably have similar introspection as us and we are unaware, thinking o ourselves as special kind of creature when it is far from being true.

If, let’s say hypothetically, a cow do have not only feelings but also moral thought, thinking of a sacred "cow god/goddess) and having moral argument with fellow cows, then it just makes butchering them even more of a “crime” that it is already.

First and foremost: You are correct.

Now allow me to try to be funny: Well… Apartments are just pretty square-ish caves.

(Note that I said “try to be funny”)

I’d say that only those who manage to write a kernel code that doesn’t upset Linus Torvald are true linux users.

A good anime weeby analogy is that nazis are like the demons from Frieren.

They only learnt to speak the polite words so they can easily lie to us and kill us.

There are a few misconceptions in your comment:

While I do agree that there are other problems like racism and bigotry which existed before capitalism (based on an answer you gave in another comment) and while I do agree these also need to be addressed, I do disagree that capitalism isn’t a major source of problems of modernity.

Why?

Because the cornerstone of capitalism is to use money to generate more money in a feedback loop towards (nonexistent) “infinite money” (which is different from feudalism, roman empire or ancient Egypt which all had some sort of market without being capitalist economies).

SInce it is impossible to make infinity money, an inherent part of capitalism are the crises cycles of boom and bust.

It also makes the creation of services as an afterthought (because making money is more important) and it is also tied to the enshitfication we’re seeing today.

I think you’re calling as “capitalism” a thing that is actually “technological innovation (under capitalism)”

We’re all aware of free/open source softwares

We’re all aware that it is possible to develop technological innovation outside of capitalist framework (and again: Capitalism = Using money to make more (infinite) money)

almost all of scientific researches advances are because of passion of the researches instead of the greed of capitalism.

Yes… Everyone “needs” money to survive. But I hope you do agree that nobody in the world needs billions of dollars to simply survive.

for God’s sake, a lot of people living in “third world” dream of earning 300 dollars a month to survive and consider that making 1000 dollars a month is a small luxury (I’m from brasil and 1000 dollars is around R$ 4000 or R$ 5000 while most people lives with R$3000 or less)

What I’m saying is that, past the required money for surviving and for having a few “luxuries”, there is no need for anyone having millions or billions of dollars every month and that it would be possible to keep scientific and technological grow under such conditions because curiosity and desire for changes are part of human nature.

if it was entirely impossible for humans to develop things without being paid before, then nothing around open/free software would exist.