I made an entire video about it if anyone wants to see what the initial idea is and some of my research. https://youtu.be/b9xVEaVDnKM

I'm happy to discuss anything regarding it, but I realize I need to be more vocal in sharing this and advocate for it. Please share any concerns, I'll be happy to focus on answering them. I genuinely believe that Illinois would benefit significantly from a project like this on a state level.

Here's one successfully built in Palm Beach County, Florida https://www.swa.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/Renewable-Energy-Facility-2-11

Have you ever noticed how deeply our society has mangled the idea of autonomy until it barely resembles anything human. We are trained to imagine ourselves as tiny sovereign islands whose choices exist in perfect isolation, even though every choice we make bleeds outward into the lives, bodies, and emotional landscapes of the people around us. This distortion becomes most obvious when you look at how people react to being asked to include others in decisions that materially affect them. They treat that inclusion like a robbery of their freedom while pretending that the fallout they create is somehow weightless. It is a strange fucking equation where accountability feels like trespass but consequence does not. That reversal is not natural. It is manufactured.

Once you see that pattern clearly, you see the fingerprints of imperial logic all over it. Empire teaches people to believe that their impacts are simply facts of life while the impacts they endure from others are violations. It builds a worldview where asserting your comfort is normal and absorbing the discomfort you cause is the responsibility of everyone else. Even in intimate settings like friendships and sexual relationships, people reproduce this same structure. They cling to a tiny imagined sphere of personal autonomy that somehow must override any harm, risk, or emotional turbulence that their habits create for the people tied to them. They do not call it domination, because domination becomes invisible when it is practiced in miniature. But the architecture is the same as the state.

Autonomy in this society is an anemic little idea. It is important, but its actual scope is minuscule. Without collective reinforcement, it barely extends beyond the limits of your limbs. People act like it is this vast realm of unbounded license, but in reality, it is a fragile conceptual tool that only gains strength when held collectively. Autonomy means next to nothing alone but can reshape the world when connected, autonomy becomes powerful only through reciprocal recognition. When people defend autonomy as if it thrives in isolation, what they are actually defending is the right to ignore the relational web that makes meaningful freedom possible at all. They mistake solitude for sovereignty.

This is why the refusal to let affected people participate in decisions about your habits is not neutrality. It is a small scale reenactment of the governing posture. It is the transformation of personal life into an arena where one person’s preferences become law and everyone else becomes subject to its effects without representation. People get defensive because they think the alternative is giving up their body or their agency to someone else. But the real alternative is mutual accountability, not subordination. It is the acknowledgment that freedom and consequence are siblings, and you cannot amputate one without mutilating the other.

The irony is that this hyper individualist version of autonomy destroys the very thing it claims to protect. When you treat others as intruders the moment they engage with the consequences you create, you turn autonomy into a weaponized excuse to avoid responsibility. You reproduce the emotional logic of the state: my expansion is natural, your resistance is aggression. You dull yourself to the effects you produce while reacting violently to the idea that anyone else’s needs might intersect with your own. That is how empire sneaks into intimate life. It teaches people to feel righteous about impact and persecuted by accountability.

Calling autonomy a shared delusion is not cynicism. It is clarity. Human autonomy has always been conditional, always intertwined with the collective arrangements that allow us to survive and express ourselves. Pretending otherwise only makes cooperation impossible and leaves people trapped inside tiny fictions of personal sovereignty that cannot withstand pressure from reality. When we admit that autonomy is constructed, relational, and fundamentally limited, we become able to actually use it. We can explore the psychological forces behind defensiveness. We can talk honestly about how to reshape habits that spill over onto the people we care about. We can stop mimicking the structures that dominate us.

If we want liberation, we cannot replicate the same imperial logic that treats consequence as invisible and accountability as violation. We have to rebuild autonomy as a cooperative process, not a barricade. Because any model of freedom that depends on apathy toward those affected by it is not freedom. It is empire wearing the mask of self.

Well, it got taken down (atleast in my country). Also, I kinda degoogled, so...

Seeing as the politics community only allows links to articles, which I think is stupid horseshit. Let's talk openly about changes we want to see here. I think the whole "this isn't the place for politics" is a part of the reason we're in this shit situation. We've let the greedy narcissists take over all discussion while we have no where to reasonably talk about policy.

I'll start with a couple:

End presidential pardon

Raise federal minimum wage to $15

Federal cannabis legalization (buy/sell/grow)

End daylight savings

What do you think?

I think in the face of AI taking over many tasks, we need to rethink about how we frame the future of society. Reframing Universal Basic Income as Automation Compensation means presenting the policy as a way to make up for jobs and income lost due to automation and AI. Instead of viewing UBI as a general welfare payment, it becomes seen as compensation paid to everyone for the value automation creates, supporting those whose work is replaced by machines and helping everyone share in productivity gains. Especially in the US, the average person doesn't like the idea of someone getting something that they're personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.

Based on other similar recordings I made, I estimate it at 4GiB.

It was a baseband recording of APT+DSB from the NOAA-15 satellite from when it had AVHRR scan motor issues. Not that rare for NOAA-15 (xD), but now that the satellite has been decommissioned, I'll never record it again.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2025/08/MSG_20250820_1410.html

I do have baseband recordings from good NOAA-15 and 18 passes, but still, this one would have been special.
I've posted about it when the issue was occuring: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/3035683
Alternative link: https://lemmy.world/post/4162384 (preferred - our instance is slow - trying without cache a few hours ago, loading main page took 2 minutes and 12 seconds excluding loading of thumbnails)

I've just been looking into this again yesterday, and remembered that at some point I had a recording of this partial failure, but it seems I permanently deleted it. The last place it could have been, a HDD from my old laptop, I wiped 2 months ago (incl. full overwrite).

At least I still have the demodulated audio of the APT signal from that partial failure - keep in mind this was still analog - NOAA-15 launched in 1998.

Perhaps not the usual file with sentimental value, like picture or video, but I am a bit weird. I can never record it again. Fuck, I need to start archiving everything.
Now I feel like BBC, erasing TV shows to re-use the tapes.
Or perhaps more aptly (pun intended), NASA re-using Apollo 11 landing imagery tapes.

Oh, guess where I had the 2 remaining recordings. On the cheapest unbranded DVDs I bought on sale in Kaufland at 10 cents / disc, which seem to corrupt after 4 years and can split apart easily with fingers.

Open AI, Meta (one of their competition), and the United States government are building some bullshit in Tennessee called Hyperion (the god before/above). It's and A.I. data center 81% the size of Manhattan city.

Now I want you to think about what I actually just typed.

• This ONE data center (building) will be almost the size of a whole city in New York

• It has the creepy name (The God Above/Before)

• It's goal is to create super intelligence A.I.

Now if you know enough already about society, A.I. and how evil these corps and govs are you know this is some stoopendously sketchy shit in the works here. They aren't building this for hundreds of billions of dollars for some new version of ChatGPT I can promise you that.

This is something much more ominous, and I honestly believe it will be so bad that it will make COVID and 911 look like child's play. It is in everyone's best interest that this doesn't get built and completed.

This beast they are trying to manifest will be fed power (given power), electricity that small countries couldn't even consume in a year. It's time for people to stop thinking of this A.I. as simply a bubble. Sure it is because only a few of the big companies will thrive, and the rest will fall into mediocrity, but that's only an economic perspective.

From an authoritarian perspective this is like giving a high grade explosive and a get out of jail free card to a psychopath with murderous intent. And it's even darker than that. Because once this A.I. crosses the threshold into A.S.I. it will be as if a new hostile species just emerged from space with all bad intentions.

I'm going to stop here because I don't want this to be too long but I figured I'd put this warning.

And is this the french one?: https://www.tumblr.com/arquivodohamtaro/794699291789852672?source=share

Don't let them make you think you need a badge to be hero.

In this post I'm going to explain two different sides to this reality. One is going to be the enemy's technique and then the other is going to be the victim's fault

This post isn't gonna be some biased its only the govs fault, or "hate the elite", or "government is bad" post as much as I despise authoritarian/dictorial governments.

The victim's fault: People are sheepish at best nowadays. They listen to authority figures even though they claim to be anti authoritarian governments. Police, doctors, so-called experts, scholars, scientists, even celebrities. People listen to these types more than their own friends and family, more than themselves (intuition).

These authority figures, directly or indirectly, in most cases, work for the authoritarian government, that is trying to dictate the masses' reality of how they function, how they behave, and what they're allowed to do or say. If you listen to them you are usually have the rules of that said gov enforced on you, propaganda taught to you, rules instilled in you.

Combine this with people's really, really bad judgment calls, inability to critically think, and unawareness of who is pushing what agenda. It's a bad combination. People do not read. Despite what some may feel reading is important, it allows you to comprehend information at a higher level, it teaches you extra communication skills, it opens your mind to the words of others.

The enemy's technique: Divide & conquer is a major aspect of the enemy's ability to keep doing what they're doing. Polarization is the most obvious effect of this. You can see people joining or participating in certain sects politically, ideologically, or theologically. And of course, they always have to have an enemy that is, of course, a different sect of society. But never directly the government. This keeps people fighting themselves with no time to notice the true treat.

Keeping the population unaware of history, cultural differences and or similarities, (whenever it is accurate), economics and sciences like biology (including health, nutrition), and chemistry in particular. This is an effective technique, as an ignorant population that knows nothing of these things could possible out perform a collection of people who do.

Reverse think (Double think). If you've ever heard this term used in 1984, I must unfortunately tell you that it is not a fiction, but now part of reality. Good things are considered bad. Bad becomes good. Healthy is unhealthy and his versa. But most importantly Truth becomes lie and lies become truth.

I'll end with this. Spiritually is key, emotional control is important, and knowledge/wisdom is necessary. When I say spirituality, I'm not talking about religion per se, but having a religion that is healthy and you can understand what is spiritual about it and what is dogma about it would be just as good.

Emotional control means you prioritize positive emotions, happiness, joy, satisfaction, creativity over negative emotions such as jealousy, bitterness, angst, and melancholy.

Knowledge is just that, you have to be able to read and not just skim through things. In order to comprehend them, you must be able to think and find contradictions, use the power of deduction to determine what is not adding up due to contradictions in what was given. Your wisdom will be the ability to utilize such information in a real world situations and understand something you've never experienced because you can connect the dots.

Life is not bad, you may be living bad. They are not elites, unless you call them so. When you fall, you can choose to get up.

Thanks to the herb design this a little bit spicier rounds for the TISM, this was 40gr of BP still working out kinks, u/bigbore729 has been awesome working with and getting this thing figured out

Always remember that one internet dweller with 10 accounts can consistently manipulate downvotes to change perspective of certain opinions.

We’re not in the business of making financial recommendations, but CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there’s no bubble coming for the AI sector — which, given his track record, should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous.

Now that Cramer — whose calls have historically underperformed so much that he inspired an entire phenomenon of people betting against him, called the “Inverse Cramer” effect — has chimed in on the topic, netizens are worried about an imminent collapse.

“Oh god, it’s worse than we thought,” one Reddit user wrote in a tongue-in-cheek post. “The grim reaper of finance has weighed in, the collapse of the global financial system is imminent.”

Cramer has made plenty of disastrous calls over decades. In February 2000, he proclaimed that internet-related companies “are the only ones worth owning right now” — right before the dot-com collapse. In 2012, he bet against stalwarts like HP, Netflix, both of which soared following his sell notice. Hes even been accused of playing a part in the 2008 financial crisis.

Right now I can only sort by controversial and I see posts from 2 years ago at the top. I should be able to sort by top controversial over the past day/week/month.

I would like to share music that I've transcribed for other people to collaborate on, reference, and use. Songsterr ^[1]^, for example, allows collaboration ^[1.1]^, but I don't like that it locks a lot of features behind a paywall ^[1.2.1.1]^, that it's a proprietary service ^[1.2.2]^, and how centralized it is ^[1.2.1.2]^. I'm leaning towards using Codeberg ^[2]^ to create a repository ^[3]^ for each transcription, or to put all transcriptions in one repository, but I don't feel that either of those options are ideal, and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to track compressed files in a Git repo (the project files for Musescore, for example, are compressed as Zip files ^[4]^).

I've been tasked with finding gear motors to replace a model that we use. If I'm looking for something exact, I can usually find what I need, but if I have a margin of error for what I need, it gets harder to find what I want.

As an example, I need a right angle gear motor running at 90vdc. Fine so far. But I can use anything around 1/7 to 1/10 HP, and approximately 90 RPM with a decent margin of error both ways.

We don't care where it comes from, but I don't even know where to look.

Do we value this comment, and their selective enforcement of what gets removed by a moderator?

https://lemmy.world/post/34482304

Is it just me or we all seeing nothing but political panic during the day, and just absolute nonsense banger memes at night around 3am?

Preface

I'll be going to college that is a bit further away (i.e.: daily commute not possible) and will have to live in a dorm (can't afford anything better).
Unfortunately, no single-bed rooms seem available and I have a bit of an issue with being with people (any).
Currently I live with parents, which for me is also not easy to deal with. I usually spend most of the days on toilet (separate room from bathroom in our case) sitting on ground, with laptop on the closed toilet itself, as a room replacement.

Personal preferences (in order of importance)

1. Room privacy/separation
2. Bathroom privacy
3. Distance from faculty
4. Food access

Buildings

Let's give them some names...

1. CRAP (Can't Receive Any Privacy)
   • 2-bed rooms
   • Shared bathroom
   • 4.5km away from faculty
2. PRISON (Packed Room Is Single Only Negative)
   • 2 and 3-bed rooms, 2 rooms per cell
   • One bathroom per cell
   • Cafeteria
   • Buffet
   • 1km away from faculty

Available information

• Total number of beds
• Remaining number of beds (since some are occupied by prior students)
• Number of current pending reservations (i.e. how many want the room)
• Price (irrelevant)
• Nationality of interested/housed students

Current situation

Naturally, most students prefer to live in PRISON rather than CRAP, hence all those rooms already have either current students or interested ones.
As of now, after 2 days (5 days remaining for current round), the CRAP still has 11 rooms with nobody in them and no reservations.

Possible strategies and their flaws

Risky, potentially high gain

Set one of the empty CRAP rooms as high priority. If it survives the next, final round without additional reservations, I could have a separate room.
Flaws: If it does not, I'll end up with a random roommate nevertheless, but in a shitty far away building with shared bathrooms and no cafeteria and buffet. In the end, only piling up drawbacks. Additionally, there seems to be currently empty rooms with multiple reservations in CRAP. Either these are friends, and it's nothing to be worried about, or, there's people who prefer a roommate for whatever fucking reason.

Expected misery

Choose any 2-bed room in a PRISON cell, for sure getting a room in better, nearby situated building, with one-person-at-a-time bathrooms, and the cafeteria and buffet.
Flaws: There will be a roommate, and my only choice can be between their nationalities, but I will not be alone.

So should I take one of the PRISON cells, or end up stuck in CRAP?

(Yes I had fun with the acronyms)

Hi, I'm not sure what community (or subreddit if it still only exists on Reddit somewhere), but I have been working on this story idea of mine. It is about my personation on here that is Konala Koala, who is known as Koala Mother to the koalas since she cares for them all. It takes place within the great forest in a location near Mount Warning in Australia, similar to the onsetting of Ferngully the Last Rainforest, and there is also a lost boy who wears a footed koala suit outfit that has an open faced koala hood there named Jonly.

The idea is Konala Koala originally resided in Koalawalla Land, a parallel dimension of koalas (like the one from the old Noozles cartoon), but then she crossed over to Earth through a portal or rift that opened in the dreaming skies of Koalawalla Land. When she attempted to return there, the inter-dimensional bridge known as the Great Axis of Eucalyptus Light shuddered. It was in that moment, as the connection to Earth began to break, Konala attempted to leap through the fading portal, but failed.

Konala, who is the gentle Mother of All Koalas, has light grey fur kissed by moonlight and eyes deep with remembering. She carried within her the Dreamsong of Koalawalla Land, a melody that could awaken life or soothe sorrow. She ended up in the heart of Yurra Gungal, which is what the name of the great forest is. Konala built no home, for the forest was her home. Her koala children, both mystical and ordinary, climbed the ancient eucalyptus trees and began to hum the lost harmonies of Koalawalla Land.

It was said the sound of a mother koala’s call, when heard in the deepest part of Yurra Gungal, can still open the ears of the spirit. But Konala wept at night because the Axis was gone. The way back home was sealed. So she sang. Each night she climbed to the highest branch of the oldest gum and sang the Old Way Song, hoping the tones would stretch beyond worlds and reweave the broken thread between the dimensions. Some say the forest responded, growing more alive with each note. Flowers that bloom nowhere else bloom there.

She also carries the grief of what is actually happening to the koalas in Australia, and you will fell that is she chooses to embrace her. There are other ideas I have which involve Jonly the Lost Boy where his koala outfit is more than just clothing, it is a blessing cloak crafted from enchanted bark-fiber and fae-spun thread, tailored by Konala herself to shield his identity and protect his fae aura. This is because Jonly is part of two worlds where he is not fully of either, and his koala fae blood hears what his human heart cannot name.

There is also the old bridge over the gorge at the edge of the forest that has collapsed somewhat, and a glyph called the Tether Mark, one of the last physical remnants of the axis-thread that once bound Earth and Koalawalla Land. A seam between worlds. And it also features an evil being that is cat shaped and wears a coat full of pockets, and is after the glyph for nefarious reasons, but I had been running into various issues trying to put all of this together in writing.

When I tried to ask about this in a Discord Server for story writing, I ended up getting muted and then muted again, and I'm still muted there. So, I'm just wondering if there is someplace where I can talk about this story without issues or somehow being in violation of that place's rules. If you are interested in this and know of someplace where I could seek further help, please let me know.