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- Comment on Nyarches your Arch 22 hours ago:
Debian one is best:
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 1 day ago:
Anti-Semitism is hatred or discrimination of Jews based on their nationality.
No sane person holds anything against Jews, or supports violence against them. Some actual antisemites do, but they are in the tiny minority.
What people mostly stand against is the violence perpetrated by the Israeli army on the land of Palestine.
Israel has all the capacity to defend its citizens; yet Israeli army went way beyond defence or retaliation, into the territory of indiscriminate razing of everyone and everything, women, children, and sick, homes and hospitals. The state of Israel is accountable for enormous amounts of recorded human rights and law of war violations, and that’s the key reason nearly all of the international community took the side of defending Palestine. Should Palestine have the capacity and will to do the same to Israelis at the same scale, the international opinion would reverse.
However, as Israel has to gain public support, which is hard to do when you’re commiting genocide, the government and its allies (mainly US and UK, both of whom have strategic interests in Israeli expansion) decided to adopt the rhetoric of antisemitism as something that would virtually put you along the lines of Nazis should you try and challenge their notion. No, Nazis were actual antisemites and pursued to eliminate Jews; the international community wants to put an end to the genocide of Palestinian Arabs, while rejecting any hostility directed against Jews.
Wishing to eliminate one nationality to make safer room for the other is a bloodthirsty and dangerous fantasy historically proven again and again to lead to terrible consequences while multiplying suffering; yet by some it is understood for the very imagined and unrealistic scenario of falling Israel, but ignored while Palestine is actively razed by a hostile force of a much greater scale, ignoring all international treaties.
- Comment on Single-bladed razors are superior! 5 days ago:
Yes, that’s what I use.
It’s just that safety razors are often considered to be a thing of shaving enthusiasts, and if you go through that rabbit hole, you commonly go all the way.
- Comment on Single-bladed razors are superior! 5 days ago:
Quite an interesting concept for genuine cartridge aficionados
- Comment on Single-bladed razors are superior! 5 days ago:
It seems to depend on your face and skin. For me, single-bladed safety razors deliver a closer shave with less irritation compared to cartridge, and I experimented quite much with both.
Still, the cult of safety razors is sometimes overblown. Just pick what fits you best.
- Comment on magic box rule 1 week ago:
You married the right one.
Being excited about random things you admire is a sign of genuine and great love :)
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 week ago:
Of course there’s always a relevant XKCD
Love it
- Comment on After the new Kurzgesagt video about black holes... 2 weeks ago:
Probably since they decided to take billionaire money, which limited what they can now say in their videos. It feels more superficial and vague now.
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
I can register formic acid if I touch an ant or am fairly close. Probably wouldn’t smell an ant from a distance, though
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Kinda sad I was too young to actively play Jedi Outcast multiplayer back when it was popular (and singleplayer-wise, I actually prefer it). It died off pretty quickly as Jedi Academy arose. But in principle, they both provide that feeling :)
Took me a while to learn some undocumented stuff, such as rotating your body at the exact speed of side saber move so that the saber would remain in enemy’s body the longest, dealing up to 200 damage. Then some folks learned even better underkicks to counter it instead of just evading it and getting some of the damage. Amazing times :D
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Private servers are good for building a community (I know, we all have fond memories, mine is SWJKA, especially in the later, JK+ times), but they fail to put players into skill brackets, meaning that if you enter the game later or don’t spend your entire life playing it, you’ll eventually fall off as pros will insta-kill you everywhere.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for provided context!
I’ll look into the data.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
The question to me is - do we even have to fluoridate water and is this really the best approach?
For example, most European countries do not commonly use fluoride in their water supply, and everyone’s just fine! No extra cavities, no special health risks. People commonly drink tap water and do not care about potential for any adverse effects, because it’s just that - clean water. And for any teeth-related issues, you already have your toothpaste providing more than enough fluorine.
- Comment on You did it. You broken the conditioning. 4 weeks ago:
I never took my question seriously, and I would certainly pick the same. In the original dilemma, I would pull the lever.
- Comment on You did it. You broken the conditioning. 4 weeks ago:
You fool.
Now you expanded the problem; is it moral to kill a person responsible for murder, to make a choice to end someone’s life?
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 4 weeks ago:
As a Chinese learner, it’s just vaginal examination to me
For some reason though whatever translating software there was it picked a swear option
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, because at the same time they offer a better business environment. US, for example, can do pretty much anything, being de facto commercial center of the world, with highest scale operations historically based there and interconnected.
Should you run this “experiment” in aforementioned Venezuela instead, you’re unlikely to enjoy the result.
- Comment on STEAL HIS LOOK 5 weeks ago:
As a microbiologist, I get to work with such freezers from time to time - they, too, get used for long-term storage. Technically, at around +4°C most organisms (but not all) put their activity to a halt, which is why your fridge is set at that, and at around -18°C just about everything stops any processes (thereby, freezer temperature), but the thing is, freezing at -18°C leads to the formation of relatively large ice crystals, which causes many cells to rip and die, which is perfectly fine if you want to preserve food, but not optimal if you want to store cells themselves. If you freeze at -80°C and lower, smaller ice particles end up not damaging the organisms so much, and they can later be restored. However, such fridges are expensive and draw, like, A LOT of power, and storing much stuff under such conditions gets costly.
Nowhere near as costly as the offerings are, though.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 5 weeks ago:
In theory - sure. In practice - all countries in the world have to agree to raise taxes, even though individually they are better off betraying this agreement and lowering them, thereby attracting the rich and ending up with more, not less, money.
And if all countries agree to tax the rich the way they should, we might as well go and build socialism everywhere, because not having everyone onboard is a main issue there too.
- Comment on lab supplies 5 weeks ago:
Nothing beats parafilm scarf
- Comment on Git good, son 5 weeks ago:
What I happened to notice with different girls as a guy is that for many, of not most, telling/showing the right way is a turn-off and having something the right way without showing first is a source of tremendous excitement.
With that said, we, men, are still not mind readers, and women really do have it very differently, so some common sex education, while useful, can only cover the basics, and even they are not universally applicable.
- Comment on Git good, son 5 weeks ago:
Yes! This does wonders!
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 5 weeks ago:
Legitimate reason as in “a man is in the range of visibility”?
- Comment on No meme today 5 weeks ago:
The instance has 200 users active in the last month. Not quite a trove :D
- Comment on No meme today 5 weeks ago:
My admin flat out refuses to add any donation options, citing he has enough money to maintain the instance as a hobby project. Nice!
- Comment on Should I buy it? 5 weeks ago:
As an actual owner of a similar thing: no
The problem isn’t even how much water comes from there (you can figure it out and not set the water jet to full power), but rather that you are expected to insert this thing, which, trust me, you won’t do since your anus is unprepared, unexpanded and, well, dirty.
So, while interesting on paper, this thing doesn’t really work the way it’s intended to. There you have it!
- Comment on Post-election blues 1 month ago:
Riots always start with local minority and get more and more people engaged.
America is not lost, and has plenty of people ready to take it on the streets. They just need a push. And having others around fighting for their future is the kind of push that can wake such people up. It’s way easier to join rather than start.
- Comment on Post-election blues 1 month ago:
That’s what happens to many authoritarian shitholes: progressives move and evacuate, loyalists remain. That’s how the country gets screwed more and more.
And US is a pretty high-stakes country, so losing that would be very bad.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
I’m not aware of how things are on the ground in the US; it’s more of a general perspective not tied to any specific country (which is my separate “meh” about strongly America-centric Lemmy, but it’s very tangential)
But seeing people actually hit the absolute mandated minimum is indeed depressing. I might expect that waiter’s income with tips is normally greater than the federal minimum, so maybe there’s a chance not all waiters will agree to work for that, which should balance it a bit?
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
If you believe no tipping will leave waiters to starve with no money, that’s not true. The very reason they are so severely underpaid is that restaurants know they’ll get their income from tips.
The less tips there are, the more your employer will have to pay you - in a form of salary that is way more predictable and reliable than tips.
Customers, on their end, will know price in the menu is final, and they won’t add crazy extra just so that they won’t feel like worst people on Earth.
In my country, tips do exist, but you are not expected to leave them by default and it’s totally fine and common not to. The result? Waiters get livable wage and can last a month without ever receiving a single tip (which they actually have, too, from time to time).
