NeatNit
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- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 2 days ago:
Yeah, to say the least. A year or so before the October 7th that sparked our country’s intentional relations nosedive, there were massive country-wide protests, which I also participated in. You can probably find articles about it. It was protesting against certain anti-democratic things the government was doing (I don’t want to get into the weeds here), but it was also fueled by unprecedented distrust of just about everyone in the government, and most of all Netanyahu. This distrust has only gotten worse.
That bastard should be in jail, but as “luck” would have it, he is always so preoccupied with all the wars he started that he can’t attend his court trial where he faces serious criminal charges. What’s that? Conflict of interest? He gains personal benefit from neverending war, so he has no incentive to actually end it (be it through diplomacy or through military victory)? Nah, I’m sure he has the country’s best interests at heart.
That people keep voting for him astounds me. But we’re seeing similar patterns worldwide, most obvious example being USA, so I guess this democracy thing is just failing all over the place this decade.
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 days ago:
Noooooo stop educating me against my will!!!
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 3 days ago:
Speaking as an Israeli, I don’t have an answer for you. But you’re not alone. Most of the people I know are in the same boat to various extents. That tends to happen with today’s social-media-fueled political polarization.
What I try to say online (if it comes up and becomes a problem) is this is just where I was born. But to be honest, I find that most people worth talking to don’t give a shit where you live. As one of them once told me in reply, you don’t control your spawn point.
- Comment on Is coding possible on smart phones ? 3 days ago:
I highly recommend Unexpected Keyboard for things like that. I still wouldn’t want to do more though, it’s just not comfortable.
github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard (F-Droid / Play Store)
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 days ago:
You might be onto something.
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 days ago:
I like it!
- Comment on Is there a parenthesis gesture like there are air quotes? 3 days ago:
Air quotes almost never mean literally quoting someone else. I’d say it signifies that the speaker doesn’t agree with the words they are saying. Per Wikipedia: “Air quotes are often used to express satire, sarcasm, irony or euphemism and are analogous to scare quotes in print.”
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- Comment on $1$ 2 weeks ago:
There have been some claims that the numberphile video is very misrepresentative of the underlying math. But I never dug deep enough into it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In many languages the days are numbered, e.g. “First day”, “Second day”, …, “Seventh day”. Speakers of those languages have no question about when the week starts.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#…
Notably, the older languages start the week on Sunday. Some of the languages that start the week on Monday can be attributed to mistranslation from the former group. So starting the week on Sunday is historically more correct.
Disclosure: I speak a language that starts the week on Sunday, so I’m biased.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
Literal superpower. You hold us all at your mercy.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
Is it worth it? That depends. What percentage of the boys does it bring to the yard?
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
Yes. In a frictionless vacuum.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 3 weeks ago:
2038 is going to be a fun year with all the 32bit clocks overflowing to 1970
Actually 13 December 1901, since it overflows to negative, not zero.
Other than that, good answer, full marks
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 3 weeks ago:
“For the most part” does not mean “entirely”.
I’m not taking a side here: maybe you’re right, maybe OP’s right. But I won’t stand for such cheap arguments!
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 3 weeks ago:
Relevant SMBC: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bot-3
It’s not insightful or anything, but I think it’s an interesting coincidence that you’re asking this question so soon after it was published.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Where I am, you get a message when it’s been used, but obviously not any identifying information.
Also I have absolutely no way of knowing if the message is legit or they just tell you that a random time after your donation regardless just to make it feel good and donate again.
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- Comment on Dumb critique 5 weeks ago:
potato, tomato…
- Comment on Dumb critique 5 weeks ago:
It was a slight exaggeration, but curl and libcurl are genuinely used pretty much everywhere. Including NASA space missions.
- Comment on Dumb critique 5 weeks ago:
Daniel Stenberg isn’t a random person, he is the lead developer of
curlwhich is the backbone of quite literally every networked device on the planet and outside of it. The curl project supports a very large number of protocols. His opinion does mean something here.That said, this does need to be clarified in the Wikipedia page, and it’s still possible that his criticism isn’t actually relevant in the end. I’m still reading about this.
- Comment on Fingies 5 weeks ago:
I find it very worrying that both fingers in the photo have the exact same fingerprint.
- Comment on Where is your God now? 1 month ago:
I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s a coffee machine with the coffee blasphemously being poured into a bowl instead of a mug.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 1 month ago:
And here I am, stuck living in the one country in the world that’s only getting closer to the US: Israel. I pray that by the end of the next decade or three, when the dust settles, we’ll be closer to Europe instead, as we’ve been in the past. But that seems practically impossible.
Sigh maybe I’ll move to Europe. I’d probably fit in better culturally.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 1 month ago:
I don’t think this answers your question, but this might interest you if you haven’t heard of it before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 1 month ago:
I am guessing that it’s different because they spend weeks and months on the ship. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be too keen to enlist in the navy if it required not having my personal phone for months on end. They gotta make some concessions in policy to keep everyone sane.
Or maybe they’re banned but people sneak them in anyway.
- Comment on What do you call this style of art? It is common in online articles 2 months ago:
(not a real answer) corporate art / art by committee
- Comment on Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do? 2 months ago:
If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”
I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.
- Comment on they say we never really touch something because our electrons repel.. so how does something like dirt stay on my hands when it's not really touching my hands? 2 months ago:
I recommend this video by Sixty Symbols, the same production of Numberphile and Computerphile in case you’ve heard of them.
But basically, when atoms are close enough to each other they attract each other (van der Waals force), which can cause things to stick to each other even without chemical bonds.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
boring
