Kazumara

@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have an answer but I have another example:

  “A part of something” gets turned into “apart of something”, I assume this is also not caught by autocorrect because “apart from something” would actually exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHY⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very very asexual?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sterile rot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do they mean trigger warning: unsanitary

  Clearly it was very pure virus concentrate, after removing all the dead cell pieces. That sounds sanitary as fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey at least it doesn’t have 3566 tonnes displacement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Chinese tanks stopped for the man in the photo!

  What a line dude.

  The military shot at the crowd and ran over people in the square the day before. Hundreds died. Stopping for this guy doesn’t mean much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  being a registered business they purchase for prices without VAT

  That’s not true, sorry. A business pays stuff with VAT included too, but they can later claim back the VAT they paid against the VAT they raised from selling stuff, so they don’t have to hand all of that over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably mean the sales taxes, those look similar from a consumer point of view, but they work differently.

  In a VAT system the taxes are collected all along the value addition chain. Each sale of intermediary products has the VAT cost on it, but companies can claim the VAT that they pay for their inputs against the one they collected on their outputs. In effect each company hands over the part of VAT that is raised on their part of the value addition. In the end it all comes from the consumer who buys the final product but doesn’t sell anything onward so they can’t claim their paid VAT against anything. This system determines the end consumer automatically.

  In a sales tax system, only the sale to the final end customer is taxed, and intermediary products are not taxed. Intermediary companies must prove to their suppliers that they are not end customers, that they intend to sell things onward, and that they are therefore exempted from sales tax and the supplier does not have to collect sales tax. If that fails, then that means mistakenly a company has to pay sales tax, and then their customer has to pay it again.

  Other than that I don’t know enough to compare:

  • What is more or less administrative overhead.
  • What is more or less open to fraud.
  • To what degree this is linked to the existence of a single national or many regional tax rates
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to make sure you know: Basically everyone has a VAT, except the US. It’s not some special EU thing.

  We have it in Switzerland, Canada has it, Japan has it, China has it, India has it, Russia has it, Brazil has it, Indonesia has it, Australia has it, Ukraine has it, Mexico has it, South Africa has it… I’m stopping here, but every country I googled had it so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah I don’t think it would feel great, I’m just saying it’s far enough from the LD50 that the answer to Anon’s question “Do I survive?” would be yes. (Unless he’s a child, or he has some preexisting condition making him more vulnerable to caffeine).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about 11 cups of coffee. Should be okay.

  I calculated the LD50 times average adult weight divided by 100mg per cup before, and I think the result was over 100 cups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enemies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 4.99 at the supermarket because it’s not worth the extra time to swing by the farmers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a big surprise, they did the same with Windows 98. Everything after the first 14 was silently dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't throw me off the scent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I got that, wasn’t trying to poke fun at you. It was just a funny mental image to me that I wanted to share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't throw me off the scent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The unit is Tesla. For reference, the earths magnetic field is around 50 nT on the surface (depending on latitude), and MRI machines have 1.5 T or 3 T. So your 10¹⁰ T might just nail you to the earths Iron core 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to make your decesion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last two guys in my team that got retired were 65, but excellent people, and taught me lots, so my first instinct was Wallace. But reading your report, it occurs to me that maybe the description “Is like 100” actually implies a certain oldness of mind that I didn’t consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s recommended you DON’T wash your chicken because that just throws bacteria around your kitchen.

  I believe that’s a myth. If you cook thoroughly, you don’t need to worry about bacteria. Why would it matter if its being moved around then?

  I think they mean that if you wash the chicken before cooking you might propel the not-yet-dead bacteria around your kitchen, which is worse than putting it all in the oven together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Laws don’t magically stop working just because you’re out of jurisdiction.

  Actually I would say that most do. Extraterritorial jurisdiction is the exception, not the rule. Many countries apply it for cases of Genocide and War Crimes for example. You are right though that the US does apply a lot of its laws on US persons or vessels in international waters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The writers have run out of ideas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all thanks for the picture, it looks so good! Much better!

  Secondly, aren’t the flames and smoke in slightly different positions? Perhaps there exist multiple pictures, or a video, from this angle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Apple kill iTunes for windows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I still had an iPod Touch, that only worked after Jailbreaking. The way they lock down the file system on iOS has been one of the worst parts of the Apple Walled Garden in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It had a bit of narrative (killing the corrupted son of the traitor out of mercy and to save the world, killing the corrupted angel like beings because they are a threat to humanity), but you’re right, what really drives you is the fun gameplay loop and the challenge of escalating difficulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Journalist writes “I’m predictably both intrigued and worried that 11 bit think there’s less interest now in games with a pronounced narrative component.” But then does not detail any attempt at getting a comment from the studio… What gives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it bleeds, we can kill it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I misunderstood, I thought you meant scumbag CEOs were typically men

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it bleeds, we can kill it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost, there is also Elizabeth Holmes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The End

  Would have been perfect if you said

  Thai End

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your perspective.

  For a moment I was wondering if it’s the similarity to the Israeli currency Shekel, but that doesn’t make sense to me either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Thigh”, actually :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rudolf Schenkel (yes really)

  What? What is weird about that name? Maybe I’m too German native speaker to get this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate hate hate stuart little⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Remy pilots a human mecha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Unfortunately, they aren’t used widely and consistently enough. Even in the press. So you frequently have to second guess what you’re reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterstrike Source was later and still had these tight knit communities on the gun game and surf community servers. There wasn’t any matchmaking in the client either.