Obviously, there isn’t enough vegetable oil to run every tractor and every truck.

In Australia, bio diesel is subsidised in the same way regular diesel is.

Even if that were true they’re not presently in common use. Agriculture presently runs on diesel.

I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:

I’m not sure that’s true.

The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

I’m not sure that’s true.

The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

Political violence is always the last, worst option. Sometimes it’s the only option but that wasn’t the case here.

Kirk was a pretty awful person, who profited from spreading hatred. He didn’t just have an opinion, he had an agenda.

It’s a shame crypto has such a stink on it.

I mean, I despise crypto-bros and just don’t want anything to do with any cryptocurrency or tokens of any kind.

However, in another universe it might have been a nice way to do micropayments to support content producers.

Like I’m not going to click on an ad so the platform gets $0.02 and the creator gets $0.01, but I would click a button to give the creator $0.01 if that were a thing.

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, but IMO it’s not the whole story.

You’re correct that youtube is not going to be dethroned in the foreseeable future. The thing is, I don’t want an open platform to replace youtube, I just want some content to be available on that open platform.

I hear you.

I’d never really encountered the nutty parts of progressive politics until coming to Lemmy. Often times you don’t need to say something conservative, but merely say something that challenges a poorly conceived thought bubble and you get piled on.

There’s a really strong sense of idealism here. A lot of users deal in absolutes and don’t seem able to engage with the nuance of life.

People don’t, but companies do.

Company A might get a contract to do whatever thing for Company B and the contract says “all equipment brought on site by your team must be this or that or whatever IP Rating”.

It’s an insurance / liability thing.

Who cares what this asshole thinks. He’s an actor.

I still do not think he deserved to die.

That’s fine, but I think you can probably understand why other commenters do feel that way, given his profiting from hatred and the deaths of others.

Oh man. This just obfuscates the corruption.

Yeah, engaging with people in the comments has certainly influenced my opinion, many times. Daily probably.

Here in Australia there’s a few Trump sycophants that pull this type of stuff occasionally, or try saying “make Australia great again”, and just nutters that put Trump stickers and whatever on their cars.

The only explanation I’ve been able to develop is that they enjoy the reactions they get from people. In the same way siblings antagonise each other for a cheap thrill, these guys just like the feeling of antagonising people.

Our recent election has shown that Trumpism doesn’t get much love here in Australia.

your statement which mentions that someone can « deserve to die » because of his political view opposed to your

That’s not what I said at all though, is it.

Conservatives don’t deserve to die, disingenuous manipulator recruiting young adults to fascism do.

If all you see is someone debating asking to be proven wrong then you’re a naive idiot.

I’m also not from the US. youre right we’re living in fucked up times.

At first, I was kind of sickened by the rhetoric in these threads too.

The thing is, US legislative, executive, judiciary, and even the media, are all corrupt. There is no truth and no justice.

This guy was profiting by engaging in a culture war, and manipulating anyone he could into signing up. He was recruiting people to an ideology intent on persecuting minorities.

There are people celebrating in these threads, and it is sickening. However, I do believe that he deserved to die, and his death is much less sickening than the atrocities performed by the conservatives every day. If it were a time of war, we would’ve taken one of their generals. We are all lessened by it, but the world is undoubtedly better for it.

Yeah I agree that it wouldn’t have been easy on the kids. However, if dont think seeing a parent get shot, would be much different than having them die of cancer or anything else really.

Certainly, the kids have my sympathy.

I dont have the hardware so I’m using “open web ui” to run queries on models accessible via huggingface API.

Works really well. I haven’t invested the time to understand how to use workspaces, which allow you to tune models, but aparently its doable.

Read my other comments, explaining why people with negative equity often default on their mortgage.

Who is more likely to default, a borrower with $100k equity, or a borrower with negative $100k equity?