Allero
@Allero@lemmy.today
- Comment on You did it. You broken the conditioning. 1 day 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. 1 day 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? 2 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Nothing beats parafilm scarf
- Comment on Git good, son 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Yes! This does wonders!
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 1 week ago:
Legitimate reason as in “a man is in the range of visibility”?
- Comment on No meme today 1 week ago:
The instance has 200 users active in the last month. Not quite a trove :D
- Comment on No meme today 1 week 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? 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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).
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 weeks ago:
If it’s not gonna happen, more fascist measures will be introduced - without people’s hesitation outside Internet comments.
A solid organized riot does change the course even for most authoritarian governments, even if they happen to suppress it. Politicians should feel that their position is not as solid as they would like.
But the further people prefer to not intervene, the more entrenched authoritarians become and more draconian measures are implemented. As such, the government is strongly interested in making people think rioting doesn’t help.
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 weeks ago:
Except minority rights, healthy immigration policy, right to abortion, fair economic policy, environmental policies, and a million other things.
- Comment on Post-election blues 2 weeks ago:
If you are from the US and you criticized people living under authoritarian regimes for not rioting hard enough, this is your time.
You still have it easy. You won’t be taken into prison for standing with a piece of blank paper. You won’t be beaten with batons and taken into custody for reciting Constitution. Yet. Go ahead before it gets there, and may you never see a true authoritarian horror.
Otherwise, all your words are not worth a dime.
- Comment on Fritz Haber moment 2 weeks ago:
For some people, joking can be relieving.
For others, totally not.
I don’t know what to make of it, but if you’re the latter, it’s okay, and you shouldn’t be downvoted so much. But, if you can, don’t take it so seriously. This is not meant to be a slippery slope.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 2 weeks ago:
The world: literally doesn’t care
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue plenty of people are simply not aware such alternatives even exist, and don’t bother researching.
Internet could be a different place if more people cared.
With that said, even then we’d probably be in a minority.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
Without discussing validity of the argument, which is pointless anyway, billionaires are in many ways similar to autocrats: they have a ton of unchecked, unelected power, near zero incentives to put this power to benefit everyone except for goodness of heart (but even then they are tied by laws obligating them to give profits to public companies), and every incentive to benefit themselves.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Modding a niche Lemmy community is a breeze, honestly
Not much is happening, but not many troublemakers, either. Modding is pretty much zero effort.
- Comment on The great outdoors 3 weeks ago:
In case you’re wondering, yes.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Oral is above everything
But anal play is really good too for those into it.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Second that.
It feels very good, both physically and emotionally (after you get used to the idea you can be on the “receiving” end). And many, many girls love it! They love to experience sex in a very new way, love to feel what you normally get to feel, and you’ll likely love it too!
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 3 weeks ago:
Now that’s creative :D But you gotta make sure one buyer = one rioter