Zwuzelmaus

@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under what circumstances or axioms do spheres (the shape) have infinite surface area?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  If the radius is infinite

  If the radius is >0 and the definition of sphere is used in infinite-dimensional space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does life have less value to people in Latin America?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to think that…

  SUBJECTIVE

  … deserves so many capital letters AND is the only thing that counts. Well, then maybe I should officially allow you to NOT read my texts anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does life have less value to people in Latin America?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people have their sufferings. In the end, most people even die from some suffering or other. That is just a part of life, and you cannot substract it away from it.

  I don’t know why depression should be so different from all other troubles. I don’t know why it should affect the value of life? How would you value a life with no arms and legs, for example? How would the person with no arms and legs value their own life? Have you ever asked one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does life have less value to people in Latin America?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Life has the same value to every living human. Everybody has got only one, and without it, there isn’t much else.

  But some do not recognize it (until late in their life).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s mainly for convenience. Americans demand much more convenience, and complain loudly about the smallest things.

  Americans are so much more demanding convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMHO when the two digit year equals the median age of all living people.

  In other words, when the people who are born in 2xxx become the majority. That’s probably somewhere in the thirties.

  (Not counting the ones who use a different year number, for example the Chinese)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  30 years ago we had a saying that optimists start to learn Russian now. Pessimists Chinese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what you are even talking about (and too lazy to put it into a translator now).

  But I know that North and South are terms that must be usable for everybody. So, especially for such people who don’t know what you are even talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant)

  These extra complications make it even more unusable that the anti thing itself LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that isn’t enough.

  Try all the 16 possibilities and then see how many “antis” you really need there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we really need West and South when we can use negative North and negative East?

  Yes of course.

  Otherwise I couldn’t say anymore: “I am looking North and my butt is looking South”.

  And how would you even pronounce south-Southwest then? Impossible unless you are quite drunk!

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my country: No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One Capitol state and 13 District states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you post a meme if its only half-political? c/memes or c/political memes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You must split the two halves!

  The left half of your post goes into c/memes, the right half goes into c/politicalmemes.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess because of the long distance. It is about 200 km. Water is fluid, but not frictionless. A little height difference can only pull so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  while their kids sounds like Norwegian native speakers.

  But isn’t that actually an indication for strong assimilation? You can’t expect everybody to be a language genius :) but on the other end of the spectrum there could be sub-cultures that last for many generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Revenge is never worth it.

  Never. No matter what ‘it’ is.

  Well, if it costs you absolutely nothing… you might think. But here in this case you are talking about a case where it costs you a lot. So: don’t!

  And even if you think that it costs you absolutely nothing, then it still costs you your nerve, a whole lot of extra negativity going round and round in your brain, etc. Better detach yourself from all of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people like Zelenskyy and the innocent people of Ukraine present an obstacle

  That was true only at the beginning!

  Meanwhile there are many other countries involved. It has become your typical proxy war, where Ukrainians are just the victims, pawns on the board.

  Putin is therefor a natural ally and has taught them a lot on how to manipulate political systems, media, and populations, and create a system of fear and control.

  I doubt that Putin actually teaches him.

  I rather like to believe that he simply orders him around - by means of “deals”, because that’s Trumps language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Marx was alive in 1970, then he could not write his books 100 years before.

  History were all different then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be paranoia. Try to check with a good therapist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My opinion: Scan it again. It will be faster than fiddling with the bad PDFs.

  Look at the dates while scanning.

  Later sort them into folders first by year, then by the name of the author/adressee/business partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if we can detect that bend

  I guess we could, if only we knew where our dark matter is :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try, AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let the body rest. Strictly.

  Keep your feet warm at all times.

  Drink lots of warm (or hot) tea.

  Alcohol is allowed (but remember, it is a drug) only once per day, right before sleep time, and only a small dose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask yourself:

  Do you like to hear loud music? At all?

  If yes, then you are in danger. Then you need to be careful all the time, and even more so with headphones, because the feeling of loudness is disturbed a little with headphones.

  Otherwise, forget it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not being from there myself, but: if I learned this correctly, Us governments have a strong tradition of not taking care of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only two wires?!?

  LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was about 21 years old, I learned that I have a half-brother (who lives elsewhere). But I learned it from my older sister. I did not dare to ask my father what he did etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  would governments be able to surveil everyone? (Is it practial?)

  The GDR has done it.

  There were no computers at that time. All mail was physical. They did not surveil really everyone, but many targeted people, and presumably all letters from/to the West.

  Today with strong computers and AI to scan through all texts, even hand writing, it would be feasable to do even more than that.