starlinguk
@starlinguk@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 days ago:
As do many military attacks (like the bombings of London, Coventry, Dresden, etc.)
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 4 days ago:
Everyone is waiting, only Luigi was doing.
- Comment on What should I do with boxes of old photos? 6 days ago:
Some people don’t have the space. My mother keeps giving me stuff but I live in an apartment without additional storage.
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 1 week ago:
- Comment on Tips for Surviving the Heatwave 1 week ago:
It’s nothing to do with Western media, it’s bad elsewhere too (over 50C in India last year and the rising sea levels are obliterating islands, for example) but it affects Europe the most.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
I bake a lot of biscuits because bought ones all contain palm oil nowadays. I just make a 3-2-1 dough and add cocoa, or I put jam on top.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Covid! An average loss of 1-1.5 IQ point every time you get it. Many people get it multiple times a year because you don’t really become immune anymore (up to 70 percent immunity for 9 months).
Which explains many people.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Bake cakes and biscuits (cookies)!
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
The Nazis were smart. This lot is brain dead.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Last week the French had to turn off many of their nuclear power stations because they couldn’t cool them down. The Germans sent them electricity. Generated by renewables.
That said, the German government wants to get rid of renewables too.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
I used to use margarine, but I can’t get any without palm oil anymore.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Also nice, but it’s cheaper to import Marmite in Germany.
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 1 week ago:
My next phone will be a Fairphone, but I’m not made of money so I’m stuck with my Samsung atm.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
The Brits, se Germans, ze French and de Dutch do, yes (don’t know about the rest of Europe).
Marmite on toast with lashings of butter. Yum.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Lady of the house speakiiiing.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
You can get butter that’s been mixed with oils to make it more spreadable.
- Comment on YouTube Premium Lite 1 week ago:
Until Google locks Android down.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
Samsungs produce shit photos because the firmware is appalling.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
So use Textra and change it.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
They no longer make really good hardware.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They’re often AI generated nowadays.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If it doesn’t match exactly what’s being said that means a human translated it based on not just what it literally says but also on context and on what a Dutch person would actually say.
Example, when Quirrel “finds” the troll in the dungeon in HarryPotter, he says “thought you ought to know”, which would literally be “ik dacht dat jullie dat moesten weten” but was actually translated as “Ik dacht, ik zeg het even.”
I remember that one because I laughed so hard.
- Comment on Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all? 1 week ago:
Nobody can opt out of the type of hair they have.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
Palm oil doesn’t tase good at all so you can just as well use margarine made from sunflower or canola oil.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
Its replacement depends on the product you’re trying to make. Like, they could not remove the cocoa butter from chocolate, for example.
Which reminds me, someone gave me a bunch of chocolate bars with a large “rainforest alliance” logo on it that had palm oil as the second ingredient. They’re inedible.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
I had an argument about palm oil with a vegan who said that I was against it because I supported Big Dairy…
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
The bad thing about palm oil isn’t how unhealthy it is (because what it is replacing isn’t healthy either); the bad thing is that palm farmers have destroyed many thousands of square miles of rain forest. When you fly from Singapore to Jakarta, virtually all rain forest you used to fly over is now palm. It’s an unmitigated environmental disaster.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My worst enemy is verbs. Konjunktiv 2. Especially Konjunktiv 2. Arrrhg.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Nope. I’ve seen ones that require 6 minutes at 240.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
The “answers” you get are either someone telling you that question has been asked before, someone using a lot of words while not answering the question, or “oh, I figured it out, never mind.”