Hapankaali
@Hapankaali@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did you know? 14 hours ago:
So in fact, the term “dog” meaning “sausage” does likely originate in sausages sometimes containing dog meat in the past.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog#Etymology
However, corn dogs are newer than hot dogs themselves, and it’s unlikely many of them ever contained dog meat.
- Comment on Camusflag 2 days ago:
That was a Camus reference, though if your response was as well somehow - well played.
If you didn’t get the reference, I’d recommend reading L’Étranger, which is a decently good book anyway.
- Comment on Camusflag 2 days ago:
Don’t care for it either way…
- Comment on *laughs in Dutch* 4 days ago:
On the other hand, the pronunciation in van Gogh’s local dialect would have been quite different from the standard Dutch pronunciation (with a “hard g”).
Then again, assuming this name refers to the town of Goch, the locals there (just across the border in modern-day Germany) pronounce it differently from both of these, which would likely be different from the way it was pronounced in van Gogh’s time (some Low Saxon or Low Franconian dialect, I’m guessing).
However, none of these pronunciations are anything like the absurd American or British English variations.
- Comment on Old but gud 2 weeks ago:
It’s an interesting phenomenon, because throughout most of human history it was men who wore (if they could) flamboyant outfits, while women tended to be more demurely dressed. Sexually dimorphic species (ducks, peacocks, etc.) are often similar, with males having vibrant colours. What changed, and why? I’m sure some sociologist has thought of an answer.
Signed, plainly dressed man.
- Comment on We are not the same 3 weeks ago:
It did in fact happen with regularity that incapable, insane or otherwise unsuitable rulers would end up ruling.
A famous example is Charles II of Habsburg (ruled the Kingdom of Spain from 1665-1700). Suffering from several though not precisely documented disabilities due to extensive inbreeding, he died in his late thirties.
- Comment on We are not the same 3 weeks ago:
I grant you, it would be hilarious to see footage of Trump on the front lines in Iran (Benny Hill music in the background).
- Comment on We are not the same 3 weeks ago:
You might think this would help prevent wars, but it was standard in the past for politicians to fight battles, and they were dying all the time back then in wars that were also much more common.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What is the role of “capitalism” here? There were plenty of people who justified the position of slaves, serfs or peasants with similar lines of thinking in tribal and feudal times, long before capitalism existed. In fact, while many societies do not take full (or even much) advantage of modern administrative means permitting extensive income redistribution, it is still true that some modern capitalist systems are the most egalitarian in human history since hunter-gatherer bands.
- Comment on Suck my 3 weeks ago:
The package also mentions a “creamy filling” and emphasizes it is “organically produced.”
- Comment on Why are AAA games a rip off in US, UK & EU? 4 weeks ago:
The price elasticity varies by market. The publisher makes an assessment of what price maximizes their profits. In addition to that, fluctuations in currency markets can lead to (temporary) distortions of the relative price measured in the same currency. After all, a seller in Kazakhstan isn’t going to update prices daily just because the USD or EUR exchange rate has changed.
- Comment on Guess the game (#004) 4 weeks ago:
Anglophones and diacritics: not even önçe.
- Comment on Guess the game (#004) 4 weeks ago:
Actually, no one guessed it correctly. This is in fact from the game Brütal Legend.
- Comment on Another one! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, they used to be far more common before the advent of modern central banking policy in the 1970s and 1980s, even though you’d actually expect the opposite to happen, all else being equal, because of the way recessions are defined. By only looking at GDP growth, it ignores population growth.
On the other hand, GDP, even on a per capita basis, has become increasingly less useful for defining recessions since productive capacity isn’t really what is lacking in any modern developed economy.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 months ago:
Norway exports far more than they use, and petrol prices there are among the highest in the world.
- Comment on Time for a bit of medical education 2 months ago:
Really? Seems I can’t step a millimetre in a doctor’s office without them asking if I’m allergic to anything (turns out that being allergic to stupidity isn’t an issue when it comes to medical treatment).
- Comment on Time for a bit of medical education 2 months ago:
Life hack: use the one your doctor prescribes.
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
Omelette du fromage is actually wrong, it does mean “cheese omelet” but it’s not how you say it. You say “omelette au fromage.” (Funny: the Wikipedia article has a chapter containing an analysis of the various viewpoints on what to drink alongside a cheese omelet.)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It was the style at the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Nice to meet you”?
- Comment on Wife changing money 3 months ago:
Yes, for various reasons it would be beneficial to have a global government responsible for global issues. However, until such time as we have one, local currencies are going to be the best bet.
- Comment on Wife changing money 3 months ago:
First of all, hyperinflation hasn’t been an issue in any modern economy for decades. We understand more about monetary policy than we did in the 1930s.
Secondly, economic crises did happen prior to Bretton Woods. In fact, they tended to be more common, and more severe.
Finally, it is not obvious at all that “universal currencys (sic) not run by local governments” could do better, especially given our experience with cryptocurrencies, all of which are extremely volatile and not suitable as a currency for that and various other reasons.
- Comment on Wife changing money 3 months ago:
We need better alternatives
Why? Modern fiat currencies do exactly what a currency needs to do.
- Comment on Always funny to hear the young try to figure out stuff from the past. 3 months ago:
The kid’s name? Albert Einstein.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 3 months ago:
Einstein might be good at physics, but he is the last person you would ask on ecology.
Einstein was no expert on ecology, but he was well-informed about general matters. Trump is profoundly ignorant when it comes to basic knowledge you’d expect the average 12-year old to know. Like, who doesn’t know what health insurance is?
That’s fair enough. But Trump’s Project 2025 buddies have the intention to undermine Europe. Unfortunately, when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.
Yeah, they’ve been at it even today, with JD Vance cheerleading for Orbán Viktor.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 3 months ago:
If Trump and Musk are stupid, they would be poor
This type of thinking is known as the just-world fallacy. It’s very tempting, because people prefer to believe that things happen “for a reason” and not just randomly. Yet there is no basis in reality for this type of thinking. Trump is stupid, and many of his comments can’t be explained by mere showmanship and playing to his base. The only reasonable explanation for forest raking, or negative GDP, or look, having nuclear etc. etc. is that he is a clueless idiot, and he is.
Musk is evil, and certainly no genius, but also not stupid. He has an undergraduate degree in physics, whereas Trump merely has an MBA of negligible academic standard, which certifies basic literacy at best.
The existence of markets naturally leads to an upward flow of capital from the have-nots to the haves. One of the interesting things researchers have found is that simulations with identical agents (i.e. all equally smart) and simple market mechanics lead to the emergence of extreme inequality. You can find the details in the economic literature if you’re interested.
Plenty of famous intergenerational wealthy families eventually lose their status because their descendants squander the fortunes handed to them.
As it happens, Trump did squander his inheritance, but managed to claw back his fortune, first by money laundering for Russian mobsters, then by using his political office for personal gain. Fake it until you make it very much applies here.
You may not be politically active, but they know already that you’re possibly anti-Trump because they took your social security details and other public records, and fed it into their surveillance system.
Well, call me naïve, but they are pretty cautious around this kind of stuff in Germany, I doubt the US government has access to these kinds of records.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 3 months ago:
Putin wasn’t the only KGB colonel before he became the president of Russia. He had peers and were given equal footing as him. But he had proven to be more cunning and ruthless than them so he gained power.
Putin isn’t in the category I mentioned. Even so, Putin rapidly rose up the political ranks and in the chaos of the later Yeltsin presidency ended up prime minister largely by chance.
Those low level conning salesmen you mentioned, they probably weren’t savvy enough.
The numbers don’t add up. Suppose there are a million savvy conmen. How can they all become major players on the international business and political scene? There just aren’t enough of those positions.
However, if they had been as savvy as the most successful con salesman, Elon Musk, then their fates would have been different otherwise.
Elon Musk started with a heap of money (as did Trump), in an oligarchic system heavily favouring those with money.
And well, who lived until the ripe old age of 70, while the other was murdered in cold blood with an icepick?
Not Lenin, who died of an unknown illness. I think you mean Trotsky.
Never underestimate the opposition.
My opposition, personally? That would be practically all politicians, ideologically, to some degree or other. I am not a member of any political organization.
One should also not overestimate them.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 3 months ago:
On the one hand, I think it is true that a certain kind of skill is required to read and manipulate people - the same kind of skill a conman or used car salesman needs to do their work, and that kind of skill obviously doesn’t need knowledge of quantum physics or even a rudimentary understanding of how the world in general works.
On the other hand, one shouldn’t give people like Trump, Berlusconi and Idi Amin too much credit. They ended up where they did largely due to historical happenstance, and millions of other conmen and used car salespeople stayed small-time.
- Comment on The difference is real 4 months ago:
The logic is a bit weird though. Like picking up smoking out of solidarity because your buddy died of lung cancer.
- Comment on They cannot imagine that you actually have a life when you leave your place of work 4 months ago:
Funny, I have to ask permission to work on weekends since they have to pay me more for it.
(Not USA obviously.)