porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Any advice appreciated 1 day ago:
Sorry, it’s too late. You needed to start training 9 months ago to become a successful pianist.
- Comment on Uber severely limits tips (<30%) 2 days ago:
There are a lot of countries that use a currency called “dollars”, Canada, Australia, NZ, Hong Kong, Singapore, Fiji, I’m sure there’s way more that I don’t know or remember.
- Comment on Numbers (I Can Only Count to Four) 3 weeks ago:
that’s ok you can still generate a CA cert
- Comment on Anon joins girl's night 4 weeks ago:
Wait, does that mean bigoted lesbians are dishonourable plumbers?
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 4 weeks ago:
it’s almost like you have your answer already
- Comment on Moralizing scarcity 5 weeks ago:
There are incredible restaurants in Australia for sure, but there isn’t really a national cuisine identity overall, distinct from the Anglosphere in general. Of course there are some distinctly Australian foods, but the largest category is basically “European dish with some native/local ingredient” - which can be extremely delicious but isn’t really that different from e.g. NZ, or even North America, and basically all comes from French and English restaurant culture. Aboriginal food culture isn’t really celebrated at all (beyond what I mentioned above) and even the immigrant food cultures which are more beloved (e.g. Greek and Italian) haven’t really fused into the mainstream, but are still largely relegated to the “cheap takeaways” category. So idk. On the one hand, you’re totally right that you can get awesome food, but I think the criticism stems from a valid place even if the people who parrot it don’t really know what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Boy dinner 2 months ago:
coke isn’t great for you, sure once in a while won’t kill you but it’s probably similarly bad to alcohol. also the supply chain is really unethical. ket sure fine.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 2 months ago:
Yeah no, I completely agree they still did loads of very evil stuff, it’s just the last time that they did any thing that was somehow helpful
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 2 months ago:
Yeah but these (usually flawed) studies that have wormed their way into the public consciousness were done long before gen z was drinking age. From up-to-date information it’s pretty clear that any amount of any kind of alcohol is quite bad for you. Obviously increasing with quantity.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 2 months ago:
The last time the US military did anything not evil was WWII and that was not really by choice. It’s their fault they were told to do stupid shit because they have at least three generations of murder as examples they could have looked at.
- Comment on Jimmy Neutron confirmed Chad? 2 months ago:
It is because of the hydrogen, but it’s not really to do with the mass, but rather because a “collision”/interaction is much more likely. For instance, ^58^Ni has the same likelihood to interact as hydrogen, while deuterium has only a fifth. ^135^Xe meanwhile has some millions of times the absorption power of hydrogen and it’s quite a lot heavier. It’s just not very practical as an absorber.
- Comment on What's yall's favourite Pythagoras quotes? 2 months ago:
Why is it called the Pythagorean theorem and not the Babylonian theorem then, huh, smart guy? Checkmate atheists.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 2 months ago:
it might be even less flattering to suggest they only know it because of sportsball lol
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 months ago:
I’m not into that lol, I just don’t have pretences that my feelings are based on absolute mortality.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 months ago:
Eating meat isn’t a necessity to stay alive, or be healthy in any way, plenty of entire cultures don’t do it. Keep deluding yourself my friend. The conflict isn’t mysterious, it’s just narcissism. You just find post hoc rationalisations for things that you like or don’t like, and decide it must be based on some kind of fundamental morality. It’s exactly right-wing extremist logic.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 months ago:
That’s a real sheep take. If a lot of people do it then it’s normal human behaviour. If you wanna apply some prescriptive values to that based on some moral ideas you have and say that common behaviour is wrong you’re gonna need to be consistent about the consequences. If you’re justifying your idea of its wrongness in terms of sentience and consent you can’t just then drop that for the thing that you like to do. Either you’ve got values or you don’t.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 months ago:
So you are a committed vegan, right? Since imposing confinement, forced impregnation and slaughter on unconsenting animals in real life is clearly a lot worse than wanting to fuck them in a fantasy.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Haha, 5 million? They would do that for 50k, a fancy dinner and a first class plane ticket.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 2 months ago:
Sorry but I doubt it. Brits are really not good at standing up for themselves. They are replacing it with an American style system, just a little bit at a time. In the last 30 years it’s come about half way, and it might take another couple decades to really finish the job, but I think it’s likely they’ll succeed in the end.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 3 months ago:
Sure. I consider myself a fairly good dev. Not an amazing genius or anything but pretty competent in my area. Wouldn’t have a clue how a load balancer works beyond what’s in the name, I guess it balances loads. I can assume it does this by distributing requests to different servers because that just makes sense, but I don’t even really know that. Networking might as well be black magic as far as I’m concerned. I’m grateful we have a decent infra team who knows about all that. So I’m not surprised.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 4 months ago:
Yeah, so it can possibly go wrong, instead of being guaranteed to go wrong.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 4 months ago:
The thing about the slow way is that it’s too readily reversible, and since the existing order allows the wealthy who would lose under such policies to consolidate power quite easily, those changes can be undone much more easily than they can be made.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 4 months ago:
fresh tomatoes: 10€/kg
wtf, do you live in like Svalbard or something? They are 2-4€ per kilo in the summer and 4-6€ in the winter in most places on the continent for normal truss tomatoes. I live in a country with very expensive food but basic Spanish tomatoes are 2€ right now in the cheaper supermarkets.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 4 months ago:
Dental treatments are paid
Nonsense. Dental treatments are slightly subsidised, but even with the subsidy are more expensive than paying outright in cash in France. They are only covered if you’re, like, gonna die from a tooth infection or something, and then they’ll remove it but not do anything about the missing tooth. The subsidy doesn’t even cover simple fillings, which still cost more than 100€ even for shitty resin ones. Why do you think everyone goes to Poland or Turkey when they need real dental care?
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 4 months ago:
It’s obviously not a strict one-to-one relationship but I do think more intelligent people are on average slightly less racist.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 months ago:
You have clearly been misled by propaganda. There is no broad disagreement about these issues. If there is debate about “how much climate change is caused by human activity” it is regarding the third nine after the decimal point of the percentage figure, which might be debated fiercely but makes no difference at all to the overall message.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 months ago:
No, not in the cases of vaccines or climate change. The incredibly overwhelming majority of scientists are on the plainly correct side of both of those, they don’t have to be geniuses for that, just somewhat educated.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 months ago:
Feels to me like they are related, rugged individualism is much easier to sell to people who feel this way.
- Comment on Ascend 4 months ago:
I want to write something here about the best conference catering ever, but it would probably dox me, so I won’t.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 4 months ago:
No, the theory of electromagnetism and by extension physics in general is knowing how it works. How to use it is engineering, a different set of knowledge which we also have some of.