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- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 6 days ago:
Because it’s like now somebody came to you and asked to discuss about babies being brought in by birds instead of being born from mothers. How would you react?
I have traveled a lot in my life. I have seen the round earth from airplanes, i have experienced time zones first hand and have been flying all around the pacific ocean as well.
I can assure you, proof that earth is a globe is not required. What is required is get out of comfort zone and check it yourself if you don’t believe science, physics. It takes a nice clear day high altitude (commercial jet i mean) flight, and if you still are not convinced, well, take an airplane like i did from Europe to far east, then to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island, then to Chile. Woah, man, it’s round and connected! i did myself, i am living proof of that. You even get to experience the fun of living the same day twice when you spend your Saturday night in Auckland, NZ, then fly to Papeete and spend AGAIN your Saturday in Tahiti… Fun stuff.
But i was already sold on the “globe” thing when, almost 30 years ago, i did my first overseas trip to US and was phoning my parents with a -9 hour time difference, and it was actually real.
/s Now, see, back to that “babies brought by birds” thing, i read on the internet that all this about mothers giving birth is a big conspiracy to keep the woman enslaved… /s
- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 6 days ago:
Supposing you are serious, you cannot argue with somebody that defies logic and science to a level such as believing the earth being flat.
To be clear: nobody ever really believed earth to be flat, not even in ancient times since both Greeks and Romans knew its a globe.
Even in the middle ages earth was known to be a globe, despite common idea that middle wages where dark times.
Flat earthers are a modern thing and this says it all.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 1 week ago:
I installed openwrt capable APs on each floor of my house (three) because sognal wouldn’t travel well between those.
OpenWRT because you want something that let you roam between APs (fast transitioning) without your device to disconnect and reconnect between APs.
Also disable dhcp, flatten the network and link each ap with an Ethernet cable.
More details here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=networking%3Awifipla…
- Comment on Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps? 2 weeks ago:
Pure water is not good for you… You need your water to be contaminated with minerals at very least.
Also, our systems don’t like stuff to be too stesole as well, since that will make our defenses decrease over time. Being esposed to a reasonable level of bacteria and viruses is what male you stronger and build your defense.
I mean “reasonable” of course. And tap water is reasonable (at least, in developed countries so places like USA might not apply, right Flint?) clean to fit that description.
PS: there are stuff that will make you seriously sick in river and stream water, against which it’s pointless to build defences… So please don’t do that and always drink controlled water.
Fun fact, in the Alps every small village has a public fountain, where water is NOT controlled or checked, but still perfectly fine to drink specially of you have been drinking ot from young age, like I did. Others who grow up without drinking it, might feel some mild consequences if they drink too much.
- Comment on Do you think people from more "privilaged" backgrounds have a right to complain about the struggle and/or abuse that they went through? (eg: "Middle Class" or "Rich" family) 4 weeks ago:
Yes. To complain seems to be a human basic right…
If you don’t want privileged people to complain, you have a problem with envy that’s all.
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 1 month ago:
Care to elaborate on the conserving mass principle? Is that your opinion, a physics principle, or an actual thing related to weight loss and mucle generation on the human body?
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 1 month ago:
That is achievable…
Work out while very fat.
Fat loss brings less weight loss than acquired muscles, that are much more dense.
And this can happen very well in a calorie deficit diet.
Its a specific situation, but happens all the time when you start exercising, and people get confused, why I am gaining weight?
Just converting fat to muscle (so to speak, ofc)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Its companies… Can we stop considering them as people already?
A company don’t think. Maybe it’s CEO and board, as individual people, have opinions.
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 months ago:
Yes I fully agree…
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 months ago:
My areas weather is slowing improving a lot. Much drier and much less humidity is good… Not for agricultural and tourism (skying) but for actualiving here yes.
Granted, I had to install AC for that time in the summer (2 days 7 years ago, 2 weeks nowdays). And winters are still cold… But being overall much drier I love it more.
So is that a good thing? Nope. But you need to adapt I guess, not much hope in us fixing it.
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 months ago:
Not really here… You need to be a 1000km further north, maybe 1500km. And we have below freezing winters usually…
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 months ago:
Northern Italy here. We are having the coldest winter in 10 years. At my house, I live I the countryside, we had - 8°C for quite a few days this week, and also in November a streak of unusual cold.
While I can feel the global warming, and I think climate change is a reality, this doesn’t mean that we won’t have anymore frozen lakes…
Maybe less, indeed, and I wouldn’t invest in a frozen lake fishing enterprise (nor skying in the Alps for that matter), but don’t consider a locally warm season as the last good winter is gone forever… :)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Well, dont know what to say. Bring the content here.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 4 months ago:
Actually protestants in italy ate the most progressive form of Christianity we have. The Valesian church for example accept same sex marriage, has had female priests since forever and has a very strong position on church-state separation and non proselytizing.
You just don’t know much about protestants and think they are all the same like Trump or Bolsonaro.
- Comment on what do you think about that large difference in egypt (inequality) 4 months ago:
The failure of globalization?
Where it was supposed to lift third world countries from poverty and instead created bigger wealth gaps?
Font know really. It’s like that in many places… India, Mexico, South Africa just a few that I have seen.
It’s mostly failure of the state.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 4 months ago:
Very much yes!
Leftist doesn’t mean communist at all
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Dogs can express and feel lots of emotions. But don’t humanize them.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 5 months ago:
I have winter snow tires from them as well. Not studded, illegal here.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 5 months ago:
They only purchased the Nokia division that made phones. Nokia is still very well alive and doing great in tons of different markets, including lumber (*)
(*) at least was a few years ago last time I cared to check.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 5 months ago:
I have friends who learned japanese quite easily. Granted, they where living in japan so that’s way easier being deep into easy practice and daily exposure.
But grammar is quite easy, as well as phonetics (that actually depends on your mother language, for us it is at least).
Of course don’t learn the traditional symbols, or don’t learn how to write it at all, since that would be useless to your goal. If that is even possible I don’t know.
Disclaimer: I didn’t study japanese
- Comment on If you were a superhero and you knew a 21- to 23-year-old dating older people, what would you do? 5 months ago:
But why?
I would understand a 4yo dating a 30yo maybe, or a situation of abuse of power or violence, but a 22yo dating a 37yo while unusual, unless hides an abuse of power or violence, doesn’t need you to mess with.
Let the guys live that relationship out, it’s their life, not yours, they are both of age and presumely responsible for themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Maybe he should get more exercise? Maybe he is not fit cardio wise?
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 7 months ago:
I have never been banned on the fediverse. Maybe I just share my views in a way that doesn’t offend others or break the community rules?
- Comment on Is it possible to sell semi-old computers/parts? 7 months ago:
Ahahah looks great man…
I whish I had an old 8088/8086 with 1mb RAM a 20mb HDD (not yet IDE) and both 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives. I still have somewhere Ultima 7 original with a full set of 5.25 big floppies… And Ultima Underworld 2, both original monkey islands with 3.5 floppies… And many more.
- Comment on Is it possible to sell semi-old computers/parts? 7 months ago:
I feel encient. Tht setup isn’t old at all, it is still relevant. Now, if you said an AMD Athlon or a K6-III…
I still have my old i386 somewhere.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 8 months ago:
O don’t give a shit and 100% skip useless posts clearly created using AI.
But interesting posts, I do read them even if made with AI.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 9 months ago:
Well, yes, I would say it’s rude if you have no reason to say no. At least hear them out is usually considered nice.
But…
If the person is clearly wanting to sell something to me, or trick me into something, or take advantage of me (typical in touristic places) I would just say “no thanks” and move on.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Respect her and her needs. If she doesn’t want, there are good reasons for that.
She is underage, so that also counts maybe?
Maybe she is protecting you, or herself… Can you tell?
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 9 months ago:
Yes, because there is really no reason to avoid either I can understand having a preference or a dislike for props, but not really to avoid them.
Unless, of course, you clarify why.
- Comment on 4 different "blogs" with the same content? 9 months ago:
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