It’s definately cheaper to have some in-house power plants than to pay utilities for the electricity more often than not, and hydroelectric or battery storage might also be cost-effective at times, although I’d say a bit less so than generation.

The problem with most paradoxes is that they’re strawmen.

Let’s look at the Wiktionary definition of Tolerance:

1. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance. [15th–19th c.]
2. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry. [from 18th c.]
3. (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism. [from 19th c.]
4. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement. [from 20th c.] And as sugar on top, the etymology: From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).

So tolearnce isn’t some omniforgiving quality, it’s the quality of “I don’t agree with you, but am prepared to endure up to a reasonable point”. This simple check at what the word means renders the paradox moot as the formulation of the paradox implies tolerance to be an infinite amount of forgiveness when it’s in fact a very limited amount of enduring things. And this limitedness is present in all uses of the word, be it in politics, engineering or medicine.

puts all kinds of restrictions to your rights

The document mentions a lot of US laws. I wonder if they try the same over in the EU.

As in: we [users in general] almost never tag the content of our messages by language

May I ask how one would go about doing that? I know it’s a feature of the protocol, but it seems to be inaccessible to me on my client of choice (Jerboa). The vanilla web UI seems to have even less feature accessibility

It’s history they want to repeat, not the present they want to accept

Agreed. Amnesia mode would be a much better name, but I feel if Firefox changed to it some uninformed users might thing Chrome’s Incognito mode was somehow safer.

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That sounds terrible. I’m sorry it happened to you. Is there any chance of the condition reversing?

May I ask what your symptopms are? As an avid coffe drinker myself I’d like to avoid that as much as possible - I try to limit my caffeine intake but coffe just tastes great to me for some reason and I don’t even know if it’s the caffeine or just the experience that gives me the puah I need to keep going at whatever it is I have.

Because you pretty much need a seperate Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon account. I’ve heard that it’s somehow possible to see Lemmy posts from Mastodon, but I haven’t really been able to understand it. Apparently, it’s janky as hell, but I wouldn’t know, as I just have 3 accounts I use, one for each ‘service’.

Since I moved during the Reddit fiasco when servers were overloaded and didn’t know what I was doing I just hopped from instance to instance. So now I have at least 7 dead accounts that are still probably counted in the ‘users’ statistic.

I’d say one person counting for ~10 is significant, and I doubt I’m alone, even if I am an outlier with my instance-hopping

A lot (if not all) Fedi users have multiple accounts on various instances and platforms, so that also inflates the figure

And then the higher quality pool has a larger percentage of bots than the standard one

Epic

You meant EA Origin?

Ironically, even if OP missed the point, the apps pictured are resource hogs and all of them don’t need to run on starup other than Defender.

Sure, leave OneDrive/Dropbox on if you use it. Leave Spotify if you just need your music to start blasting the second you reach the desktop. If opening Steam and waiting ~30 seconds for the lord Gaben-given daily update is too much of a problem let it do its thing on startup, but who in their right mind needs Soptify, OneNote and all the gaming clients slowing down startup of literally everything?

And CCleaner, McAffee and Adobe can go fuck themselves along wirh Nestle.

Other thsn the blatant lies written on it, I agree!

After Brexit there’s no justification for speaking English yet they mostly communicate in English.

Republic of Ireland is still an EU member, so the EU is still obligated to treat it as an EU language.

Also, the EU is quite rational and english isn’t going anywhere even if Ireland bailed since it’s the lowest common denominator as far as foreign languages go.

You wouldn’t download insulin

I feel that that comment adds some nuance to the discussion, so I wouldn’t call it ‘moot’ myself.

I’d argue english ortography is a lot more pointlessly convoluted than french numbers (*cough* *cough* ough)

I’d like to interject for a bit, if I may.

While german has cases, somewhat more complex verbs and gendered nouns, english also has its peculiarities that make it hard for non-natives to learn. Things like spelling and using the same word in a bazillion contests and methaphor-based idioms come to mind first. There are also simple-to-understand pecularities like its/it’s and paid/payed which not even natives get right sometimes.

The point being, for all the “hard” and “useless” parts of one language the other language (as it’s always comomparing apoles to oranges) has similarily “hard” and “useless” features itself, so in my opinion it more or less evens out.

What makes a language “easier” or “harder” to learn is how much of it you already know. In other words that’s usually how similar it is to the languages you know already.