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  • gon [he]@lemm.eetome_irl@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    11 months ago

    If it’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing a little bit.

    I believe you’re referring to iPhone’s clean energy charging feature. Here’s my question: if you can use clean energy, why wouldn’t you? It might make very little difference to the environment, but a little difference is still a difference.

    Still, using ad-blockers is really not like that iPhone feature:

    1. That feature relies on the grid itself, meaning it’s useless for a lot of people that have basically no clean energy where they live, while ad-blockers can be useful to anyone using the internet.
    2. It may be to the user’s detriment, while ad-blockers improve user experience.
    3. It’s device dependent, whereas ad-blockers are available to virtually everyone, not just iPhone users.
    4. Ad-blockers can be combined with clean energy charging.

    The impact ad-blockers can have on the environment is similar to iPhone’s clean energy charging in the same way a healthy diet is similar to eating a carrot. Yes, on the surface level they do just reduce your consumption of fossil fuel-generated energy, but ad-blockers reduce your energy consumption overall, not just trade it for green energy (that still requires tons of fossil fuels to be burned).

    Much love,
    gon





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    11 months ago

    This reminds me of the Kiki/Bouba effect with congenitally blind individuals (blind from birth).

    Kiki and Bouba

    Basically, sight is needed for people to associate the sharp shape with Kiki and the rounded shape with Bouba. People that are blind from birth don’t really make this association, but after they gain sight they do!

    There is something in our brains that links sound, the feel of a shape, and the visuals of a shape the same way for almost everyone, but it needs to actually experience them first to make the connection.









  • IDK, I don’t think this is the right move at all… The announcement post and the comments you pointed out were cherry-picked and misinterpreted. They are an ideological instance. You wouldn’t say blahaj.zone is trying to “spread” LGBTQ+ “ideas”. They’re just a specifically queer instance.

    Everything Hexbear said was, the way I read it, in the direction of “let’s behave and be good with the federation”. I think you’re just confounding your own ideologies, and the way you think things should be done, with what the community at large wants.

    That being said, IDC that much, but I do disagree.

    PS: Posting from my lemm.ee account because this post doesn’t show up on my lemmy.world account for some reason.