Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
The difference is: Reddit doesn’t own the content, they can’t stop anyone else from selling it, or giving it for free; only the users could (the actual owners).
There are Reddit content dumps out there, which Reddit can’t stop anyone from using… so not sure what they are selling, but if it’s just that, then they’re scamming people.
From the TOS/EULA, the content belongs to each user, they just license it to Reddit to use as it pleases.
Vibration has two components: frequency, and intensity.
The brain is “floating” in cerebrospinal fluid, so your question can be deconstructed into two parts: how much of that vibration would the fluid transmit, and how would brain cells react to the resultant internal vibration.
We know that high intensity vibration can cause the skull to directly hit the brain, and/or compress the fluid to a point where just the pressure can start causing brain damage. I think you can find the (mostly) safe limits in OSHA regulations.
With high enough frequency vibrations, you could induce cavitation in the fluid, making it behave like an ultrasonic cleaner. That could start popping brain cells like balloons. Don’t do that. You might search ultrasound imaging equipment frequency and intensity limits, to have an idea of what is safe.
If it’s low frequency and intensity, that “we would consider safe”… there is no reason for it to not be safe, for the brain. That doesn’t mean it would be equally safe for other structures not floating in cerebrospinal fluid, like eyes, ears, teeth, the whole skull, muscles, spine, neck blood vessels, and similar. Cells are elastic to some degree, much more than bone, so soft tissues are less likely to get damaged by “safe” vibrations.
If you strapped a tiny vibrator to a head, there shouldn’t be any damage to the brain. One kind of such “vibrator” that many people use, is headphones. You could probably check the energy output of most toy vibrators with a dB meter for a rough comparison.
Strapping a head to a road vehicle… would depend on the vehicle’s shock absorbers, but there is a reason why seats usually have some additional cushioning on them.
If you want to check on some more extreme vibration limits, look at NASA’s manned rocket launch parameters. They aren’t pleasant, yet are limited so to not cause damage. (Don’t look at fighter jet limits, those are a tradeoff between “getting shot down” vs “some brain damage”).
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infrastructure, engineers and knowledge. Germany did not have any of those in sufficient amount
Germany had 17 nuclear power plants in 2011, when they decided to close half of them after Fukushima. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Last nuclear power plant closed in April 2023. I find it hard to believe that there was not enough expertise to build some new ones in all this time.
the decision to switch to coal & gas
This is what really rubs me the wrong way: coal should have been phased out before nuclear, not used to replace nuclear.
It all seems like a grift and a knee jerk reaction under the guise of “look how green we are”, while actually doing all the opposite.
does not mean that they will present a fair and balanced spread of ideas
Not fair, and not balanced, just full spread.
The “capitalist class” interest is to earn money, which necessarily makes it fill ALL possible revenue niches: from state sponsored propaganda, through different interest group propaganda, all the way to anti-system, extremist, and a large variety of scams. If nobody else is doing it, someone will, no exceptions.
Assembling a “fair and balanced” set of sources, is left as a task for each voter; that’s where each one’s ability to contrast sources comes into play.
Nuclear was already better than coal 50 years ago… the whole anti-nuclear movement was predicated on the Chernobyl disaster, making “natural gas” and renewables better than nuclear, with a supposed phase-out of natural gas. Coal was always the worst option, both in emissions, and in the impact of open pit mining, when it was already known that deep shaft black coals mines had been getting depleted for decades.
It was highly irresponsible to not renew the nuclear plants before there was at least enough renewables to replace them, and instead increase reliance on natural gas… from Russia from all places. Particularly after Crimea, there should have been a reassessment and a push to fast-track nuclear.
It takes only 5 years to build a nuclear power plant, Crimea was 9 years ago; Germany had plenty of time to prepare itself, instead of investing in increasing NordStream capacity.
Maybe nuclear could’ve been better than coal?
When you try to dismantle capitalism… you get capitalism under a different name, with a dictator on top of it. Better hope the dictator wants to protect the environment, and that he knows how to! (see: Great Chinese Famine)
Under a capitalist democracy with antitrust laws… the “capitalist class” will create all sorts of media sources to earn money from whatever sort of information any voters will eat up. A single group can’t control most sources of information, because it will be eaten alive by all the competing groups at once.
It’s up to each voter to decide whether they want to religiously follow a single source, or contrast it with others, and which ones.
Absolutely recycle metals
You don’t need to; all trash, no matter the bin, goes under a magnet that will pick out anything ferromagnetic, and through an induction trap that will pick out non-ferromagnetic metals. Even if for some reason it gets dumped in a landfill, it’s still possible to mine it out.
Aluminum in particular is more expensive to mine+refine than to recycle. Some places you can even throw it on the ground, and someone will pick it up to sell for recycling. Copper you can get even stolen from you, and don’t start me on Palladium, some people will “recycle” the catalytic converter from your car if you don’t park it in a safe place.
What conspiracy? Sounds like just savage profit maximization.
Ownership comes with both rights and responsibilities.
Platforms want as many of the rights as possible, without the responsibilities… which is why they have a contract (TOS) where they explicitly renounce to ownership, leaving it for the user, and only license the rights.
If platforms took full ownership, like in a “work for hire” agreement, they would be responsible for any illegal content a user could upload, since it wouldn’t be the user’s content anymore. Obviously they don’t want that.
A side effect of wanting as much content as possible without owning it, is that… well, they don’t own it. 😎
Incorrect. You get ownership of anything that’s yours, then upload stuff under whatever TOS your instance has… what’s that? it has no TOS? Then they’re in for a rough awakening some day. 🤷
Whether there are sellers/buyers… is something we’ll learn in time. For now, user generated content on the Fediverse gets shared with little regard or protection of anyone’s rights, so anyone can make a compilation, bundle it up, slap a price tag on it, and try to sell it.