Shimitar
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- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 2 weeks ago:
Because you need to control humans, but there is no need for pets.
In fact, it seems that euthanasia and abortion are more difficult where religion is stronger.
- Comment on Will James Bond be on MGM+ after it leaves Netflix? 2 weeks ago:
'Arr mate, nope you don’t…
- Comment on I would write something extensive, but I don't wanna end up writing incoherent stuff, especially since I sometimes rely on AI to write stories for me. What should I do? 3 weeks ago:
Let me be concise and short to the point: AI Is a tool, as any tool, don’t abuse of it. In case of creative writing, just don’t use AI.
Specially if the problem is inspiration or plot, AI will not help you, just dig your grave deeper.
Use AI for small, specific tasks where you can verify what it gives you and that’s all, if use it at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Good stuff for a sci-fi movie, but that’s about it.
Nobody is going to phase out fast food or kill meat anytime soon. Not even anytime late…
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 weeks ago:
Nope. Its much safer to crash in a today car. 70’s would break as well and break you more. Both would be totaled anyway in such a case.
Today’s cars are designed to crumple and protect you, older cars transmit more damage to your body.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 4 weeks ago:
In that case, you should definitely open the shop.
I think, tough, that your prices will be higher than normal retail, due to volumes and supply chain.
Also, the local “Wall-Mart” (or whatever corporation) would need to sell a very small loss for a few months to kill you, while subsidizing their loss with other shops in other locations…
You can’t win. But you can try and people will undoubtedly appreciate that
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 4 weeks ago:
You mean including also staff wages? Would that also cover a wage for the owner? Or, in other words, a tiny bit of profit so the owner can live out of it?
At this point, try to put a cap on greed.
- Comment on Why does the colour blonde apparently only exist in human hair? 5 weeks ago:
My blonde hair kept always confusing small boys. Are your hair yellow or white?
So, there is that, blonde is not a color, it’s a whole spectrum of colors from white, yellow and brown.
- Comment on Are defense attorneys ‘good people’? 5 weeks ago:
Well anyone must have the right to be defended, even rapist and child predators have rights you know…
Even the worst of the human beings is still a human being.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 month ago:
Maybe, but why would somebody do that in the first place? Put effort, money, time and resources into a loss net gain?
You would need lots of those stores to justify others to lower prices like one or more on every town and place…
Maybe a state run enterprise at that point… But that woul be… Communism I guess.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 1 month ago:
Bot at all, here is my wiki where I wrote down how I did wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy its for my own memory and benefit, but shared for others who might need it.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 1 month ago:
My single user instance cost almost zero.
Self-hosted on my hardware that already used to host other stuff. Cpu overhead seems negligible, and network bandwidth is free (=already paid for). Disk space is nothing compared to my Linux ISOs collection.
- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 months 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 months 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) 2 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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] 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Yes I fully agree…
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 3 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 3 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 3 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] 5 months ago:
Well, dont know what to say. Bring the content here.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 5 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) 6 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? 6 months ago:
Very much yes!
Leftist doesn’t mean communist at all
- Comment on [deleted] 6 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? 6 months ago:
I have winter snow tires from them as well. Not studded, illegal here.