Left side: Black mirror S01E02 “fifteen million merits” . A guy tries to “break the system” but this backfires and his critic that was supposed to change people’s minds is absorbed by it and turned into an entertainment product. The upper-left image shows the moment in the episode where he criticizes the system threatening to kill himself while the bottom one shows the final image of the episode where he how lives in an expensive suite
Right side: “Being ugly : My Experience” A youtube video of a guy explaining how his unattractiveness has biased his life and brought unhappiness upon him. A reason why this became viral, besides the obvious connection by many due to the topic was that a girl commented that she found the guy of the video very cute and they actually became a couple
The meme: It compares both cases implying that the guy on the right was breaking the system but that his cause was “silenced” by providing him a girlfriend and turning him into a channel that lectures people on having hope about the prospect of finding a suitable partner
The closest to this I can remember rn was the movie oblivion, where humans used masks to distort their voice? Not sure about the logic behind that, pretty sweet visuals tho, the UI design was sick
You can always be getting a result above average in a series of numbers as long as the nth number is significantly greater than the previous ones. For example, f(x) = x^2 would always be above average for every next number
I have decreased my meat consumption to about a third than it used to be in recent years. I’m not qualified to do an in-depth study about all the ramifications of the CO2 emissions, but agriculture being just about 11.2% of all emissions sounds like eating less cow won’t cut it to “save ourselves”
I have a hunch that shit will hit the fan and there will be a massive reduction in CO2 emissions because of a supply chain failure. Third world countries produce the vast majority of “low manufacturing complexity” products, which will be made even more unsustainable if those regions become a scorched earth. That, coupled with a lesser incentive to travel due to an adverse climatic situation, and a trend in population decrease due to an overall quality of life degradation, will really be the reason why we will reduce emissions, simply because things stop working and become unsustainable
Either way, I don’t think it’s possible to really predict the future and even less so in such a complex society where technology might be a game changer all of the sudden, so my opinion is not really that valid. Even educated estimates using proper statistics/data cannot guess the implications of new wars, AI, new scientific breakthroughs etc
This reminds me of a time when the blender fund was opened and at some point a bunch of companies jumped to donate money (steam, epic, google, AMD…) this was way back when 2.8 was getting in shape. Years later we saw the fruits of that labor with the 3.x series bringing nice improvements and refactors that were done over the course of many months and years
We probably won’t see a huge push in godot’s quality in what’s left of this year, but maybe in 2024 and later
Not everything needs to be about practicality. Even tho I don’t really understand the world of “ergo mech keyboards” I deeply admire the passion and creativity flourishing from this community. Cheers to you!
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A future sci-fi writers never could've imagined
math checks out (fedia.io)
Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser (www.youtube.com)
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Tell Borts I said "Hi" (lemmy.world)
unsure why we are surprised lol (lemmy.cafe)
Intrusive thoughts (lemmy.world)
You would think it would make me feel better to know that every person has intrusive thoughts. But it doesn’t at all, quite the opposite....
Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives (twitter.com)
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Rolio Progress (it works!) (i.imgur.com)
I’ve been working on a design for a split keyboard that is a hybrid between a Corne and a Sofle....
Baldur's Gate 3 is defying game industry trend-chasers — and is being rewarded for doing so (www.windowscentral.com)
The more annoying aspects of modern gaming are completely absent in Baldur's Gate 3.