porous_grey_matter
@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 6 days ago:
Haha, 5 million? They would do that for 50k, a fancy dinner and a first class plane ticket.
- Comment on onions 1 week ago:
Indian food uses loads of onions
- 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… 1 week 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 month ago:
So clearly you haven’t been to the dentist in Germany, or even read that very article you posted. Yes your 6-monthly checkup is covered, that’s great. But the subsidy for fillings in molars, for example, only covers amalgam fillings. Dentists don’t actually do those anymore, so you have to pay more than 100€ “extra” to get a resin one. The majority of other situations are similar to that. In the end, even though the rule says that medically necessary things are supposed to be covered, in practice they really aren’t.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Feels to me like they are related, rugged individualism is much easier to sell to people who feel this way.
- Comment on Ascend 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 2 months ago:
They are not bigger than big dogs, they aren’t always in packs, and they’re skittish yeah but not usually that aggressive. This story could well be fake but it’s perfectly plausible.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 2 months ago:
Sure, but between nothing and the axioms of the standard model we end up with a fairly comprehensive description which can predict how different kinds of magnets behave in a wide variety of situations.
- Comment on Al is coming for your backup plan as well 2 months ago:
I doubt anyone who’s going to give up women to fuck robots would have been procreating anyway
Uh, do your wife’s friend and her loser husband have kids?
- Comment on Motherfucker trying to 100% life 2 months ago:
It’s not even doing that, all the things in this picture are things which are widely admired by society.
- Comment on Motherfucker trying to 100% life 2 months ago:
bro you posted this pic glazing him, some introspection could be good here
- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 2 months ago:
Israel is not invading America lol. The president isn’t the boss of America, the oligarchs are, and they’re perfectly fine with their friends spying on the government for them.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 months ago:
China is strategically investing and they don’t care about Africa, only China
Yes, sure, it’s not altruistic. But there’s a huge difference between non-violent trade relationships which benefit one party more, and also benefit the other party, just less, and purposefully ensuring that an entire continent is in a constant state of civil war and desperate poverty so you can extract the maximum amount of resources through slavery. China’s foreign policy is absolutely for its own benefit but they’re taking a “rising tide lifts all boats” approach there and while there are some specific things which are fair to criticise it’s way better than what other major powers are doing.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 2 months ago:
Not being able to read it is technically illiteracy in that specific context, sure.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 2 months ago:
Pot, kettle, etc. I never claimed to have perfect grammar or punctuation. Your own comment could do with some revision if you think it’s so important.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 2 months ago:
As a millennial who didn’t stop using the internet in 2015 I have no problem reading this. I don’t write like that because it’s not what I’m used to, but it’s fine, it’s social media not a professional presentation, chill.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 months ago:
What kind of things does the overhead go to?
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 months ago:
You would find yourself in all kinds of legal disputes, permits not getting approved because the wife of the owner of the expensive corporate facility is on the city council, anonymous “stories” about your facility being told to the media, etc.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 months ago:
No lol, there’s a momentum component to that equation which is just conveniently 0 for massive objects at rest, photons don’t have a rest reference frame and are governed by E=pc.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 months ago:
They have momentum, not mass, in relativistic physics you need something more complex than p=mv to describe momentum.
- Comment on Alpha AF 2 months ago:
allegedly