Kornblumenratte

@Kornblumenratte@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid another form of governing rule would not change the exploitation of the environment, animals or people - humans always exploited the environment and animals regardless of the system of government or economics. We’d need a cultural shift from an individualistic self-centered culture to a culture that accepts our position as one part of a complex interconnected ecological and social network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Farming has an far greater impact on the ecosystem. There is no way to live for humans without completely reshaping their environment. We evolved as an invasive species.

  If you’re moral argument to call for a boycott of honey is honey bee’s impact on the ecosystem rather than their enslavement and exploitation to humans, your only reasonable moral course of action is Fruitarianism using only fruits growing in the wild - basically an Orang Utan or Gorilla lifestyle. That choice has been made some 4-5 million years ago, when our ancesters became an invasive species in the savanna and began our first reshaping of ecosystems. Good luck reversing that choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you asked. Fruitarians have an answer to that moral dilemma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s far to rural…

  Sorry, Appalachia does not exist in European mental maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit's getting real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  💯

  It has to do with the exploitation of insects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… black holes are not cool, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt this would work. The sun runs on hydrogen fusion. Adding water is just adding fuel to fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Connect. How do I get in contact with a real Human?? Need Support.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.ea.com/de-de/legal/impressum-swiss

  I don’t know about other jurisdictions, but German websites are legally required to have some info including postal address about who owns the site, called impressum.

  I think US firms have a similar requirement for the licence agreement? Not sure about thid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Connect. How do I get in contact with a real Human?? Need Support.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What about Contact_EAHelp@ea.com?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA for those in America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cats are the dominant species. Well, actually ants, but cats are a close second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  defending education or defunding it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Just a couple of centuries earlier, so your point still stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the story of the Alpaca farms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They ousted all Jewish and all politically non-compliant scientists. They were interested in science, that’s true, and according to their world view, eliminating “inferior” scientist should have enhanced the quality of the science done by “superior pure blooded Aryan Übermenschen”.

  While still being pro-science, they did cripple their scientific community on ideologic grounds. The communist regimes did the same.

  MAGA being outright anti-science, the effect will be far more devastating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Handmaid was a premptive documentary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Otorhinolaryngology was born in the 1850s, though, not 1700s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Taint is a bit inaccurate, I’d say. It’s actually “Schamlippen”. “Scham” meaning “shame” and was also used as an innocuous or rather less derogatory word to refer to this area of the female body that may not be spoken of. “Outer and inner shame lips” just stuck and is the colloquial expression for labia majora and minora.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They did not use coal back then – I’m not sure whether it was even known to the Mediterranean culture. Forests were plundered for shipbuilding. Crude oil was only available as naphtha in the Middle East, barely enough for the local fishermen to pitch there boats and for the Byzantines to use in their flamethrowers. Furthermore, crude oil was not used in steam engines — you cannot shovel a heep of oil under a kettle. Fuel existed, yes, but they had no access to it.

  All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.

  So a completely different machine? Shoveled wheels were invented centuries after Heron. Even if they played with such a setup – an open, non-pressurized turbine has no usable power. To use steam, you’ll have to pressurize it, and the technology to tame high pressure was only developed to build cannons that do not burst.

  In the history of the steam engine, the fuel supply was available before the engine. IIRC, Watt’s incentive for the invention of the steam engine was the need to drain coal mines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Herons steam “engine” had no power whatsoever and was not scalable. And even if it would have been scalable, they had had no fuel to drive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just take the bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just checked some brands, and you are correct: currently both cost the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨world changes so fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [1939](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash}

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just take the bus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually there used to be another, more important reason:

  Back in the old days, automatic transmissions accelerated pretty slowly. It was not possible to accelerate normally – or what we thought to be normal. No one in their right mind would pay ~5–10 % more (automatic transmissions used to be expensive) to get a lame car and annoy everybody at every traffic light. I don’t know when automatic transmissions got as fast as manual shifting, but this memo hasn’t reached Europe yet.

  And, last but not least, and only still valid argument: automatic transmissions are still more expensive than manual ones. Why should I pay extra money for some fancy tech with no extra benefit that takes away my illusion of control and feels horrible to drive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposure might cause suffocation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I got that wrong. Yes, Windows XP was the rebranded Windows NT 5. Thank you for the correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨>:)>⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it wasn’t. Or to be exact, we don’t know, but it’s highly unlikely. In 2009, the bone growth pattern of Myotragus was thought to occur only in cold blooded animals, but in 2012 they found it is widespread in extant mammals as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, Windows was discontinued after Vista. Windows 7 is actually the 7^th iteration of the Microsoft version of OS/2, which was rebranded as Windows NT with the release of the third version, and as Windows sine NT with the seventh version. Windows 9 had to be skipped because a sloppy version check for Windows 95/98 would have failed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are more complicated than cars, and surgeons are no magicians. I think your idea of the reason of your mother’s surgeon for refusal might be a bit off:

  1. Without adequate pre- and post-op physiotherapy, a joint will likely be worse after surgery.

  2. If simple physiotherapy is already too painful, cutting into this overexcited tissue risks inducing a complex regional pain syndrome.

  3. If someone suffers from both depression and from too much pain to do physiotherapy, they need a multimodal pain therapy to prepare for surgery.

  So, based on the bit of info you provided, refusing surgery was very likely the right thing to do to avoid worsening your mother’s situation. What I di hate is when doctors don’t explain themselves and just say “I can’t help you”, but do not point patients to someone who can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On work we accumulate a wealth of pesonal notes, forms, links, articles etc. We are strictly forbidden to use USB-Sticks, but the DVD-Burner are still working…

  My last DVD was a Knoppix though, just for the fun of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't *I* think of that?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They would look super cool? They do look super cool!

  Krämerbrücke Erfurt