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- Comment on Realistically 3 days ago:
I actually had this thought once. Long time ago I was in this industrial workplace accident (don’t wear loose fitting clothes near huge spinning things) and to cut to the chase I ended up on the floor bleeding and I’m guessing the shock made it so that I couldn’t breathe for around a minute. I can hold my breath for a minute, no problem, but in the moment when you don’t know what is happening and you can’t breathe and there’s no way to just start breathing, that minute felt very very long. I remember thinking “well, this is it, I will die now, but… I guess it’s for the best.”
Turns out I had been depressed for a while, and needed some change in my life. - Comment on Fax machine 1 week ago:
The caring you describe is part of the helping.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, but also construction workers building offices. How far does this rabbit hole go? An office worker involved in a project to hire construction workers to build an office for a construction company?
- Comment on The revolution will not be posted in shitposting 1 month ago:
As someone not from the US, what can we do to help?
- Comment on They should suffer 1 month ago:
This could be a Black Mirror episode. A sentient ad that felt pain when skipped fighting to avoid pain. It would have no option than to try to get around ad-blockers and be sneaky and feel bad about annoying users, but the alternative is pain.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 1 month ago:
Danish?
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
YAST will soon be deprecated though, but I hope something with similar functionality will come.
- Comment on Foiled again 😩 2 months ago:
Was the wish also to ride it?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The follow up question then is, how do we deal with that as a species? If we assume that humans have tribalistic tendencies, I don’t want to say inherent, but, deeply rooted? Can education and external pressure make it go away? Can we direct it into something else? It seems like sports teams with their fans is an outlet at least preferable to war, for example.
- Comment on She would be proud 3 months ago:
I work with old people and can tell you it’s not just when they’re young.
- Comment on It's called semantic processing differences 4 months ago:
That type of pareidolia is common for me when I’m in a certain mood.
- Comment on Those who died are justified 4 months ago:
I always assumed it was a printer.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Depends on country, that would be legal in Sweden. Seen as suspicious and perhaps frowned upon, but perfectly legal.
- Comment on Water 4 months ago:
Going by the top Duck duck go results for “how many stars in our galaxy” and “how many trees in the world”:
“According to Jos de Bruijne, a scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), the current estimate is between 100 to 400 billion stars.”
and
“There are an estimated 3.04 trillion trees in the world.” - Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 4 months ago:
What’s your favourite linux distro?
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 5 months ago:
Found Emil Ciorans lemmy account
- Comment on How many more flatearthers? 5 months ago:
It’s rare nowadays to see someone admit a mistake. We should all do it more.
- Comment on How old is the average open source programmer? 6 months ago:
I’m at my age now and I’m just starting programming. My plan is to never do it for money, only because I want to as a hobby.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 6 months ago:
Where I work, the fax was a way to ensure that information could be sent in multiple ways, if one way would fail. In the medical field (at least where I live) we must have systems with backup systems in a few layers. We have a nice digital medical chart system, and I still have to print out many things and put in a binder that no one ever reads. Because the internet could stop working, or electricity could fail. We even have routines for which types of pen and paper can be used if we need to write things by hand while electricity is gone.
- Comment on I swear to god 6 months ago:
The torso is a tricky concept, there’s no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it’s hard to define with precision.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 6 months ago:
It’s like the first time I saw the movie Trash Humpers (2009), I was thinking to myself: is this a good movie? It isn’t. But, the beauty of that movie is that it exists. There’s no deep hidden symbolism, it’s a bunch of old people in long awkward scenes where they literally hump trash. The lack of a coherent plot adds to the question why they do that. In this world of endless choices and struggling, these people are trash humpers. And that’s respectable in a whole aspect.
- Comment on Hej 6 months ago:
Switzerland
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 6 months ago:
After reading this I was at the local grocery store and counted 17 different kinds of bearnaise sauce they sell. Sweden loves bearnaise.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 8 months ago:
That’s how I think about it too. I guess the original description was a bit vague, what they did to the americas. It includes both. First invasion, then immigration.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 8 months ago:
I could be wrong, but to me those words describe the initial phase. Once established as a society, the rest involves people moving into this society, which I would call immigration.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 8 months ago:
What would you call it instead?
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 10 months ago:
It seems likely that the person who told OP meant it in the misused way, which makes the intent to intimidate clear.
- Comment on Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser. 10 months ago:
Lynx. Or maybe it’s time for gopher or gemini.
- Comment on The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it? 10 months ago:
It creates an effect where surrounding air is pulled with the stream due to the Bernoulli effect. It’s the same thing that pulls shower curtains in when you shower. If the fan is a bit inside the window, surrounding indoor air gets pulled into the stream, moving more air out in total.
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 10 months ago:
I don’t know, that’s a level deeper than I know about, but you could be right.