DarkCloud
@DarkCloud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult? 7 hours ago:
Yeah, just take their well known public transport system, or take six months and tour the country by bicycle. \s
- Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult? 19 hours ago:
Of you had four to six months to learn and practice you might be ready enough, if your trip is sooner I wouldn’t recommend it.
Do you have a friend who can dedicate long two hour session to it? If so you might get it in ten hours or so of practice… But they’d have to be a good teacher (be able to teach you how/when the flywheel is taking up the momentum).
- Comment on Physician Whomst 5 days ago:
So you opened Pandora’s Lunch Box?
- Comment on Peepee poopoo 2 weeks ago:
It’s entrapment. This is how they get you to say peepee poopoo. My Fox News watching uncle put me onto this great documentary about it, “The Brown Trap”. Join the peepee poopoo truth movement. WWG1WGA!
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 weeks ago:
Wait is goat meat boiled in goat milk particularly tasty? What’s the deal? Anyone done a small portion?
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s in the single digit percentages of their funding.
- Comment on He's gonna be walking for a little bit 2 weeks ago:
Just put a sign on the door telling everyone who comes there to go to the inverse wing. Or go set up in the inverse wing of the hotel yourself.
Everyone in the place is moving right along the infinite axis… But there’s a whole empty wing of the hotel if you go left at the front desk.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 3 weeks ago:
If they were physicists they’d hold the tip of the handle with a pinching gesture, then pull the hammer back to horizontal and let it drop. Swinging with a perfect arc it would thud into the pope’s head with just enough force to hurt anyone who was still alive, and get a response.
However seeing as they’re still using a hammer to test for brain activity - we can assume the Catholic Church isn’t that friendly to science or something.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 3 weeks ago:
Donald Duck’s girlfriend really wants it right? I mean, we all agree that much is obviously? Flirting is her one mode of existence. She’s desperate.
- Comment on Feces is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. 3 weeks ago:
It’s called the double digestion diet, and it can halve your food bills!
- Comment on Anon has his way 3 weeks ago:
Ask for bank card and pin.
- Comment on Anon gets a job writing clickbait 4 weeks ago:
Anon just does the job, same as anyone that does that job.
- Comment on Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young. 4 weeks ago:
It’s about young Islamic men, if you’re wondering.
- Comment on Going to quit my job and just do sculping full time 4 weeks ago:
Docking procedure complete!
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 5 weeks ago:
Sewer mutants cooking up some grub.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 5 weeks ago:
It’s almost entirely located on land.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 5 weeks ago:
Hard to say because it’s a concept of an idea at this point.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
Who put Lysenko in a position of power?
Look bud, I don’t have all day to teach you this shit. I’m not your mommy or daddy or the teacher at the local school, so just stop bothering me with your lack of knowledge about this.
Lysenko was elected in 1945 to the ruling committee of the USSR Academy of Sciences—the top scientific institution in the country—numerous scientists spoke out against him, citing his poor scientific reputation [7]. Over the next several years, Lysenko was criticized numerous times, and there were even steps taken to open an institute of genetics [4]. From 1946-1947, up to 1.5 million people died within the Soviet Union due to famine [18]. Lysenko’s nadir during this period was reached in April of 1947, when he was harshly criticized by Russian chemist Yuri Zhdanov, who highlighted Lysenko’s failures. He pointed out the destructive manner in which Lysenko had demonized geneticists, and argued that monopolies in science inhibit advancement [4]. Zhdanov’s words were particularly dangerous for Lysenko, given that the chemist was from a family with close ties to Stalin (e.g., Zhdanov went on to eventually marry Stalin’s only daughter) and he was a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party [13].
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
I feel you don’t know much about what you’re on about.
Trofim Lysenko
The downfall of Soviet genetics and agriculture occurred due to the alignment of numerous social, economic, scientific, meteorological, and political factors. No single person can bear complete blame for the events, but a crucial actor in the story was Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was born to a Ukrainian…
www.storybehindthescience.org/lysenkoism
I also think you’re arguing just to argue rather than doing something more useful.
Bye.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
Past the numbers I told you about.
I’m done here - you’re having a conversation with yourself at this point. I addressed the topic I addressed (the deaths from starvation Lysenkoism caused).
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
You seem to think I denied those numbers rather than being the person who pasted them to you.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
No, I wasn’t. Also, frankly he wasn’t “responsible” for Holodomor and it’s clear you still don’t know what Lysenkoism is.
He was responsible for directing the hunger politically, not for seeking to, or being the cause of the famine.
I’m sure you’re understanding pf history isn’t deft enough to understand what I’ve said, so I’ll simplify it for you:
If one person turns a tap on and another directs the water, who is responsible for the fact the tap is on?
I’m saying Lysenkoism (which has little to do with socialist and communist doctrine or schools of thought) is the man who turned the tap on. Stalin, being an authoritarian monster - chose to direct the water to what suited him politically. But the famine at that point was already happening.
As I said, probably too nuanced a point for you to grasp. But maybe you’ll surprise me.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
…yet.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
Where’s it say to do that?
Why would correcting one point of fact mean ignoring another? That’s not how truth works.
Two statements can both be true at the same time.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
Not directly. The conman Lysenko, originator of Lysenkoism was. Stalin didn’t aim intentionally to create mass starvation in Soviet Russia. Nor did Mao in Chin, these were issues of understanding science which we tale for granted today but weren’t well understood at the time.
Wikipedia:
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin’s regime were 20 million or higher.[5][6][7] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it. This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8][9][10][11][12] around 1.5 to 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[13][14][15] some 390,000[16] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[17] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[18] According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, approximately 1 million of these deaths were “purposive” while the rest happened through neglect and irresponsibility.[2] The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million[19] persons in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 are sometimes included with the victims of the Stalin era.[2][20]
- Comment on photosynthesis 5 weeks ago:
Only one of these images is meaningful to the majority. The other is indecipherable.
- Comment on trapped in the middle with u 1 month ago:
Only the best child groomers get into heaven:
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 month ago:
I get the spirit of the comic, HOWEVER: if you put a little tail on it - you’re getting close to 4 territory.
You shouldn’t go straight to calling someone a dumb fuck for that.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 1 month ago:
Her research makes it seem like she’s also trying to kid HIV/AIDS ass.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s crazy. What’s that line: To the privileged any attempt at equality is going to look like a loss of privilege.
Something like that. I’m pretty sure they just want to harm come to groups they’re prejudiced against. Even more insulting is I’m pretty sure the Trump administration has a lot of drink and drug related parties, Trump spent his youth in nightclubs, Musk is addicted to ketamine and Grimes mentioned them tripping on acod together.
So it’s debauchery at the top, austerity for everyone else. It’s a real let them eat cake they’re doing. Not serious or good people at all. Very little in the way of mprals or ethics, it’s all about power, privilege, politics, and personal gain.