BobApril
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BobApril@lemmy.oneto World News@beehaw.org•Canada will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news under bill set to become law1·2 years agoAre they then going to force Google and Meta to continue to carry those links that they want the companies to pay for? It went badly for Spain, and then France had to rewrite their law - not sure how that finally wound up, but a lot of small media companies took the hit first. https://www.wired.com/story/french-regulator-says-google-must-pay-to-link-to-news-sites/
BobApril@lemmy.oneto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Using space-based solar power to stop climate change: thoughts?8·2 years agoShort- and medium-term, anything that leads away from fossil fuel is a good thing. Long-term, though, it seems like taking energy that would normally have bypassed the Earth, capturing it, and then adding it into our ecosystem is probably a bad idea. I’m a total layman, here, though, mostly going off of what I’ve read in science fiction.
Also, yeah, the weapons potential is a problem, though I sort of feel like we’ve already got all the weapons we need to intentionally eliminate human life, so further refinements don’t matter much. It’s the accidental extermination we’re worried about, and this might help with that for awhile.
BobApril@lemmy.oneto World News@beehaw.org•Met says Just Stop Oil protests have cost it more than £4.5m in six weeks8·2 years agoThat’s still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov’t and population.
BobApril@lemmy.oneto World News@beehaw.org•Some Oklahoma City metro Target stores briefly evacuated after bomb threat4·2 years agoThey think this IS their business. I say that not to excuse or justify them. But we can’t appeal to their “better natures,” because they think they’re in the right, that we are all not merely wrong but evil. That leaves us no room to convince them otherwise, because anything we might say is inherently vile deceit - their own chosen information sources have long ago convinced them that everyone else is lying.
So we simply have to beat them. Identify them, prosecute them as criminals (not as enemies nor POWs), and lock them away. Or, when they make it necessary in the moment of their violence, our police forces need to kill them.
BobApril@lemmy.oneto 3D Printing@lemmy.ml•I recently finished printing and priming 96 little paint swatches, it's going to be a good Saturday.1·2 years agoI’m guessing that painting them 96 different colors is going to take a little longer!
BobApril@lemmy.oneto 3D Printing@lemmy.ml•Finally got around to printing the articulated Mario!1·2 years agoNicely done! It looks like that’s all native filament color, no paint - do you have a multi-color printer, or just patience to print a lot of little pieces?
I guess the link didn’t make it through. https://www.printables.com/model/598216-stands-for-sanderson-sisters-funko-pop-set-no-supp