nimpnin
@nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 2 days ago:
Don’t pick your ex’s name for the love of god?
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Well, you know, that’s just like uh, your opinion, man
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
That does not sound like a charitable interpretation of my argument. For example
A woman in Smolensk was fined for posting a historical photo of her home under Nazi occupation, where a Wehrmacht flag and soldiers appeared in the background.
This has nothing to do with well-defined instances of hate speech. Even the Putin example is quite far fetched, though I guess I should have used a more precise example
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Specific well-defined instances of hate speech like “all members of group XYZ deserve to die” should be banned IMO. More ambiguous things should not, otherwise the government can start banning political sentiments that it does not like.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely weird but ultimately doesn’t make a difference
- Comment on What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time? 3 weeks ago:
“most passports are electronic” and “most passports checks are electronic” are two different things tho
- Comment on What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time? 3 weeks ago:
IIRC my dual citizen friend just uses his EU passport when entering the EU and his American passport when he travels back home. How would the customs person know what you are carrying?
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 5 weeks ago:
Kinda feeling the same, thinking of moving back to my home country from another EU country now after 6 years. Do you feel integrated in the local international community perhaps? That is what feels the most home-y right in the city I’m currently living.
- Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines? 5 weeks ago:
Well, you gotta index the whole internet
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 month ago:
It’s kinda impossible to answer, since there are infinite possible ways to randomly generate noise, for instance
- White noise is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise
- Pink noise en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
- Brownian noise en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise Most random audio processes do not have a name. And if any audio is possible, like in these processes, you would never get an exact real song, but getting close (same as a real song but a little out of tune) would happen eventually.
I think a better analogy to infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare is randomly hitting the keys on a piano, though still, you would need to specify how the timing of the notes is randomized. If the lengths of the notes and the pauses are uniform and limited to standard lengths, eventually you would get, say Mozart’s Symphony no 5.
- Comment on Why do some racist, classist, homophobic ect people do "good" things sometimes? 1 month ago:
Log off for real
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 2 months ago:
Good to know!
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- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 3 months ago:
I don’t think that many people are buying shit quality products second hand
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 3 months ago:
Well-functioning second hand markets encourage buying quality products new, cause they have resell value. If the quality is truly shit, nobody would be paying money for it, especially second hand.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 3 months ago:
A few thoughts:
- Depends how much money you are spending to buy those clothes. If it’s almost the same as the price as new, it makes it easier for the people who buy the clothes new to keep buying more and more stuff.
- If you aren’t spending a lot of money, this is like the opposite of fast fashion. You are making the life cycle of those clothes longer by buying them.
PS. I don’t think we should individualize things like this. A significant chunk of the clothes we buy – and other things as well – are made under miserable conditions and/or by children, and it’s very difficult to avoid all of that. It’s a systemic issue that needs to be solved on a systemic level.
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 3 months ago:
Yes, for example hypothyroidism
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 3 months ago:
They might be increasing in weight due to absorbing more water into their body
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 4 months ago:
I don’t and I’m 30. Almost anything before the age of 7 and quite little between 7 and 14.
But AFAIK most people do remember quite some stuff from their childhood for the rest of their life. And forget some of course. I guess it varies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Clearly its not universal but rather a cultural phenomenon if they were fine but you feel humiliated
- Comment on as a young person, what must one look for when it comes to finding a new country to live in? 4 months ago:
Apart from the obvious ones of like, getting a visa and difficulty of getting a passport, in rough order of my completely non-scientific guesstimate
- Stability, safety
- Long-term track record of employment opportunities, and pay vs cost of living. You want to be able to find a job, and not starve.
- Price and quality of government services such as healthcare, education etc.
- Language situation. As an English speaker, you’d either want to go for English speaking, or somewhere where people speak alright English but let practice their language so that you can eventually learn it. Also, see language difficulty for English speakers
- Culture and attitudes towards immigration; how difficult is it to socially integrate
- Matters of taste, would you like the culture, food, climate etc.
- Comment on Or jorkin' 5 months ago:
I had a door but that didn’t mean my mom couldn’t just walk in anytime
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
There are oral rapid tests for drugs in my country that the police use
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
- get each traffic cop one 2) there are similar devices for the rapid testing of drugs as well
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
No? This all sounds so weird to me. Breathalyzers exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Do some countries really use dumb tests like this to enforce DUI laws? What?
- Comment on Its all over 5 months ago:
Good luck with that
- Comment on Its all over 5 months ago:
Maybe? Or drinking cold water after not eating anything for a long time?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I never said anything about tackling?? Anyway, here’s the comment you replied to, localized to your dialect:
Now imagine
footballsoccer, it’s fun, social, great excercise, collaborative and you feel good afterwards. - Comment on 5 months ago:
I am talking about the most popular sport in the world, wtf are you talking about
