squaresinger

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Might have been a flat answer, but a correct one.

  Just googleing “measles auto immune” gives you ample links that go in depth on why and how measles infections can CAUSE autoimmune conditions, like e.g. this one: my.klarity.health/measles-and-its-role-in-trigger…

  And one mechanism how they do that is specifically by confusing the immune system into not knowing what’s friend or foe, so that it starts attacking the body instead of contageons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You are what appens if someone is too dumb to understand anything but extremes. Being able to understand nuance requires at least the mental level of a 10yo.

  It is an quite extraordinary feat to be so dumb that you think a country has to be either terrible at everything or great at everything and anyone who says a country is not terrible at everything must be totally in love with everything that happens in that country.

  Literally kindergarden level of argumentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the best written Pokémon game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This could have been a great “difficult choice” moment. But Pokemon games don’t do these. If you want to 100% the game, you gotta catch em all. I haven’t played Arceus, but I’m quite sure the game never acknowledges whether you caught the Shaymin or not. And with no stakes on the line, there is no “difficult choice” moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You really have trouble understanding numbers, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have an issue with the way gnome works by default, then you are using it wrong and you should feel ashamed for that.

  • the Gnome dev team
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the best written Pokémon game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was so disappointed with b/w.

  The premise was really great. The “Pokemon is just dogfighting for kids” argument is a long-standing argument, and I was so stoked that they took it on.

  And then they just bait-and-switched it to “The team doesn’t actually want to stop dogfighting, they just want to be the only ones with dogs to fight everyone else”. It was the laziest cop-out possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If only that metric was included in the link above. Well, luckily it is. And guess what: When sorting by “je 100 000 motorisierte Fahrzeuge” (“per 100 000 motorized vehicles”), China ranks even much better.

  Sorting by per inhabitants puts China as the 68th worst country, so 67 countries are worse. Sorting by per motorized vehicels puts China as 115th worst, so 114 countries are worse.

  When looking at “per motorized vehicles” China is on par with Lettland.

  If only there was a way to follow the link and look at actual numbers before spouting made-up misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  John Oliver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your fault that you weren’t born as an aircraft!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations, you figured out that China is a large country! It would be ridiculous to think that a country with 1.4 billion people would have less people dieing in traffic than a country with a smaller population.

  If you just go by absolute numbers, a large country will have more of absolutely everything than a small country.

  Now go back to your link and sort by “Je 100.000 Einwohner” and see how that changes the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see the methodology. A zebra crossing also increases foot traffic compared to a location without crossings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They just named it like that so it’s easier to remember where pengins live.

  At least since the original penguins had been hunted to extinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ultra high iq⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much what I mean. If the thing one the most proud of is a high IQ, then that person probably doesn’t have a lot going for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ultra high iq⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  whereas conservative almost always look within their own ethnicity first

  Funnily enough, I don’t really see that happen. At least in my group of friends, the ones with the Filipino wives (and other wives from far away) are usually very conservative. They are then also very happy to talk badly about her family, her relatives and people from her country in general, but “she’s one of the good ones”.

  Maybe it’s due to the fact that they can’t find a local woman who’d accept them, and that way they get a wife with very conservative values who’s also happy to talk badly about her family/relatives/people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ultra high iq⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also going around parading your IQ falls straight into the rule “the more a person brags about some great personal quality, the less strong it is”

  Or it’s your only quality. The main reason to join Mensa is that you haven’t accomplished anything better since the IQ test you took as a youth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ultra high iq⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a language thing too. In German, for example, comma splices are grammatically correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ultra high iq⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mensa is for people who grew up in gifted programs being told that they will achieve greatness just because of the one test they scored hight on, and then they amounted to nothing, so they need a place where they can tell each other that they are unsuccessful only because they are so much smarter than everyone else around them.

  High IQ people who manage to do something with their life usually have more to be proud of than an IQ test they took decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cash is traceable (at least bills). All bills have serial numbers and any time cash enters a bank it’s tracked who took it into or out of the bank.

  So if I withdraw cash, hand it to you and you put it in the bank, the bank knows we are somewhat connected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich people exist everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we completely stop having children right now, worldwide, the population will not meaningfully decrease for the next 50 years.

  The major amount of climate damage will be done within the next 20 years.

  The only option to use population control to reduce climate damage would be to kill roughly half of the world’s population within the next 2-3 years.

  So if that’s your solution, you are either advocating for the greatest genocide the world has ever seen or are argueing in bad faith because you know that your solution is nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that difficult. First, you need to start with the right subjects: Maths with English on the side. Maths alone is usually enough, but English is a good side for slow times of the year.

  Then get into an agency that does tutoring at home and employs you as self employed. The don’t pay that much, but their clients pay a lot. In my area, they paid €19 for 1.5h to the tutors, but the clients had to pay €65.

  So after the pre-paid package that they booked was done, I took them on as direct clients for €40-50/1.5h. Together with the travel time (I used public transport and had the flatrate subscription) that came out at roughly €20/h. And since I was a student at the time, I used the travel time to study, so it wasn’t really wasted time either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  population reduction

  Yep, sure, genocide is of a problem the less drastic option.

  You are a clown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The perfect job doesn’t exi…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically the feudal equivalent of a disneyland mascot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. The survival of the species can never be an excuse to reduce personal comfort even a little bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can give up all you want.

  The biggest issue with your argumentation is that it takes one extreme (“farmers need to live in rural areas”) and use that as a justification for everyone who is not covered by that rule.

  For example, all of suburbia can go. Close to nobody living there is a farmer and people only live in the suburbs because they can use a car to get to city center quickly.

  But also in more rural areas there are a lot of people who commute to their office job in the next city.

  That is not a totally valid life choice by far. If you want to work in the city, move to the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s a bit of a conflict here: People want to live in rural areas with large plots of land and nature everywhere but want to have the comforts and amenities of living in a city center.

  Before the car this was a choice that people had to make: move to the city where everything is available or to the countryside where countryside is available and hardly anything else.

  The car allowed to bridge this gap to the detriment of the climate and the sustainability of life on this planet.

  And now we have another conflict: luxurity for people in rural areas vs survival of the human race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that surviving on €800/month is extremely lucky. I know quite a few other people who also did that. I also know quite a few other people who just stayed with their parents during university so they didn’t have to work at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither nor.

  I paid €350 for my flat and made €25/h doing tutoring. I had a monthly budget of €800 in 2015 and that was enough.

  I never received unemployment benefits and why on earth would someone invest in a random student?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, that’s not true. If your standards are low enough, you can get by with very little money.

  When I was at university (10 years ago) I could get by with 5-10h of work per week. I had a single-room flat and no car, a 10yo laptop, a cheapo second-hand phone and ate cheap food. The total amount of assistance that I received from my parents were birthday and christmas presents with a total worth of €700 over 5 years.

  Now I have a larger flat, a wife, two kids and a car. Now I need much more money.

  Of course, neither the cost nor the lifestyle are comparable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These totally legitimate comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the point of these three random emoji?