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- Comment on What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president? 1 day ago:
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 2 days ago:
That really is ancient in terms of the internet! Thanks for checking.
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 2 days ago:
Well, that must be waaaaaaay back then. I’ve been using Signal for quite a while now, and I am not sure what you mean then.
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 2 days ago:
Also I believe they used to have federation but all evidence of this seems to have been wiped from the internet.
They never had.
The talk about federation originated when the EU demanded interoperability from gatekeeper software i.e. Whatsapp. Signal said on day one they wouldn’t do from their end because it would mean lowering security.
- Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 1 week ago:
Yes, turtles are probably faster (especially in water), but I’m talking about Hermanns’s tortoise.
- Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 1 week ago:
Tortoises are fast. Though most of the time they just have no reason to and conserve energy because they are cold blooded.
Also, those fuckers can climb! You got no idea how many times we had to pick up one of my mothers tortoises from neighbours because they found another way to sneak out of the enclosure we build outside.
- Comment on How common are 80 to 100 mph winds in LA? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK's drive for net zero ‘being met by slave labour:' Britain's energy secretary Ed Miliband under pressure to outlaw the importation of solar panel components being made by oppressed Chinese Uighurs 2 weeks ago:
We would love to send you some but our solar industries got axed under the last two conservative governments.
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- Comment on Is it wrong to not have a disabled child solely to avoid forcing the child to suffer their whole life? 2 weeks ago:
And what is suffering?
Some people consider Down-Syndrome a horrible condition. Yet, people suffering from it can lead happy and fulfilling lives. It is a slippery slope that, if not navigated carefully, has historically leaded to atrocities.
- Comment on Is it wrong to not have a disabled child solely to avoid forcing the child to suffer their whole life? 2 weeks ago:
Which in your opinion are?
- Comment on Is it wrong to not have a disabled child solely to avoid forcing the child to suffer their whole life? 2 weeks ago:
While I’d also support my partner in terminating a pregnancy with a disabled child, please reconsider your wording.
A disabled person’s life isn’t necessarily horrible, and neither will they necessarily ruin someone else’s life by being born.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably something like the story within the story For the Benefit of Mankind by Liu Cixin.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
I am shocked I tell you! Shocked!
- Comment on You stand at the edge of a ruined town square. (Textpocalypse.art) 1 month ago:
Check apartment building
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 1 month ago:
If you walked through shit and dirt in your socks, sure.
But other than that? Do you really believe there is such a big difference between putting your feet wrapped in cloth on a seat and your ass wrapped in cloth? Do you think someone first puked on their feet, then put them on the seat and that’s how it got there? Do you really think the cushion is deep cleaned all day every day after the shift? Man, I got bad news for you.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 1 month ago:
It’s interesting to me that so many people assume by default that others have smelly feet. I guess we have all met the stereotypical sweaty guy at the local nerd convention. But in general, if your body produces a notable bad smell when you are not exercising and despite basic hygiene, there is probably something wrong.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 1 month ago:
And neither can it be improved by kneecaps being overly twisted and pressed against the front seat all the time. Shifting position to avoid one-sided stress on the joints is the key.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 1 month ago:
Mein Führer …
… the Zugführer has not kicked the dude off the train.
Also, I hope you keep your well aged salami and cheese sandwich in your Tupperware. And don’t you dare sit next to me with your cloth smelling like an ashtray because you “had to” smoke one more before the arrives.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 1 month ago:
Yeah, I should probably just cut my legs by like 20 centimetres, so I fit the body model the designers used. Shave off some width on the shoulders to so I can have more arm space as well.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 1 month ago:
TBF, I keep the socks on, but other than that: If no one else needs the space or sits next to me? Why not?
I’m a big guy, so anytime I use public transport either my back hurts because the top edge of the back rest pushes into my lower back, my knees hurt because the space between seat rows are too small or both at the same time. So let me at least stretch my legs when it doesn’t inconvenience anyone. Shoes off, socks on.
To anyone saying “Booooh! Unhygienic!”: I dare you to tap hard on the cushions a couple of times. For even more shock effect, do it when you are the first passenger of the day.
- Comment on If landlords didn’t exist anymore, how would shared flats work? 1 month ago:
One solution is community housing where the local government is the landlord and by extend the people in the area.
Another is housing cooperatives, which are groups of people pooling their money to build and operate housing.
- Comment on Eurocops red pill the Matrix 'secure' criminal chat systems • The Register 1 month ago:
Same reason as to why corporate big wigs want to stick with Microsoft: Ease of use.
- Comment on Why did Yoon lift martial law if he had the support of the military high command? 1 month ago:
Imho no. Apparently (I have not dealt with South Korean politics before this) he was quite unpopular to beginn with. Blatantly disregarding the elected parlament would have destroyed any resemblance of a “lawful” takeover and might have provoked protest from all parts of society.
Also afaik saying he lifted martial law after the assembly vote is wrong in the sense that martial law was lifted by the assembly already. Pressing on would have put him in breach of the constitution. Of course he probably couldn’t care less but keeping the appearance of still being a democracy is import. Most autocracy’s nowadays work this way. People get to choose but the guy on top gets to pick the options.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There is an ever so slight difference between the appeal of jumping off a building, slitting your wrists, overdosing on some self-made drug cocktail, … and having a professional inject you a syringe of carefully dosed substances which will make you comfortable drift off into the eternal void. Not just for the patient, but also everyone around them. In the past, I had to comfort a friend who was severely traumatised after a patient of hers jumped out of the hospital’s window after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s not what was written:
- People might feel pressured to kill themselves.
- And what is wrong with that?
That is exactly the opposite of giving people the option to choose. It’s pushing them into a given direction.
And just for the record: I watched my Great grandma wither away in a senior home while asking to be let go. I would have gladly given her peace. But it has to be the person’s own choice. Free from others influence and pressure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You shouldn’t draw conclusions about others from yourself.
Some people might still value what they have. And who are you to tell another what others should do with their live?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Overall yes, but that pressure might be magnitudes greater when there is “an easy way out”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The sick and elderly may feel pressure to not be a burden to others.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
Probably some follower of the rectangle who refuse to acknowledge that hexagon is bestagon.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
The answer to most of these questions: YouTube