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- Comment on The timeline after the Harambe Incident 1 day ago:
And now we know how many people a gorilla can fight off
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 days ago:
Go ahead and water yourself while you’re at it
- Comment on Anon reads horror 1 week ago:
Pretty sure this is case law from like 50 years ago, but okay
- Comment on Anon reads horror 1 week ago:
At least in the US, I’m not sure if purely textual would ever be illegal. You could likely get away with a visual detection of the scence with current law.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I did not see a black person in real life until i was 16 in 2010 and traveled to Florida. And by then i had already traveled around Germany and France. I do not imagine the probability of bumping into one was higher in the 50’s
I’m sorry, but I doubt this. I live in Germany myself and see several black people a day. Not usually something I track, but this conversation got me thinking so I paid extra attention during my normal commute. Germany does not collect racial demographics for obvious reasons, but France does. They’ve expirenced roughly a 3% increase in their black population from 2010 to today. Going from 3 to 6%.
If we assume at least a similar increase I find never real hard to believe. Like I don’t really want to just call you a liar, but it’s just statistically unlikely unless you avoided urban areas all that time.
Also this is an interesting read and touches on the exact solider relations I was talking about at least for Germany.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Vacationing lol okay, I suppose all of the civilians left when any military was around so they never saw each other, oh wait that’s ridiculous.
I said the most populous countries in Europe. Germany, France, Italy and the UK all had very heavy military presence during and after the war. After is kinda key since soldiers were allowed to leave base and go to the towns.
Of course there are other European nations they were in too. Of the most populous nations they met the Soviets in Germany, but did not obviously make it to Russia. Not a majority of the Russian population but not insignificant. These troops would interact a bit during the occupation of Germany but that was limited as the cold war intensified.
In colonies you seem to forget people did travel both ways. Obviously more European based nationals traveled there, but people flowed both ways.
Btw troops were desgregated in 1948 during a period where the US was expanding military presence across most of western Europe. And even during the war do you think the battlefield was segregated? That’s crazy talk
Certainly some very interesting and interpretive takes though
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Idk maybe all the black Americans actively fighting in some of Europe’s most populous countries and the following American presence after the war.
And that’s ignoring the interactions between European nations and their African colonies. I’ll ignore the human zoos as well
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What the fuck are you talking about?
My whole point was by 1950 most white people had seen a black person and that their only idea wasn’t a minstrel show
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean let’s be real minstrel shows are explicitly a western concept. Go down another comment and I addressed the UK as well, but really that’s going to apply anywhere Americans were during WW2 as well.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
With the war and influx of American GIs and Britain, not to mention their colonies, I stand by my statement for Britain as well.
What helps in the case of the UK is a larger percentage of their population lives in cities than the US too. Just by the math living in urban areas you’re just going to see more people and more people from outside your community will be come in.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can promise you that the vast majority of white Americans had seen a black person in the 1950s.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
They make some good lefty memes, but I won’t deny they make those too. Although the specific community matters there.
If you browse all then only the decent stuff gets filtered through.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
But they make good memes. Just avoid the comments
- Comment on Very normal and safe 2 weeks ago:
If people stopped trying to make it something it’s not and built it as a proper tool, this is one of the few things AI is good for. It can proccess data quite well, or could. Because of all that’s being shoved in the hallucinations are getting worse, but I’ve been able to use it to proccess data sets with very specific instructions. Saved me hours of tedious work.
But a way to organize and proccess data faster isn’t exciting for investors so
- Comment on Language barrier 2 weeks ago:
Them: Papiere bitte
Me: What? Uhhh I mean, was?
- Comment on Language barrier 2 weeks ago:
So very much this, I’ve been living in a foreign country for 6 months now and taking language classes. I can eavesdrop better than just about any other skill. Including understanding when spoke too directly.
Doesn’t help basically everyone speaks English.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
Towers is plural, the two tower doesn’t sound quite right
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
But men is and 12 angry man just doesn’t work
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
If we want to a biological or evolutionary viewpoint it gets rather interesting. Autism would be fine and even beneficial, but in it’s most severe forms it would be very detrimental to survival and the passage of genes.
However, we will never know how that presented in the past. Our modern environment almost certainly influences the way what we classify as “mental illness”.
I would say any behavior, at least from a biological standpoint, that does not impact an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce would be “neurotypical”.
Of course human culture and socities make this very very difficult to interpret. Especially considering that our ability to survive in the modern day ia directly related to our ability to do labor. Labor that is well outside of the behaviors we evolved for.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 weeks ago:
Boy they are in for a surprise. It won’t take long for their hired forces to realize money is no longer worth it and their violence has way more value.
If we lost even 30% of the population is going to get bad
- Comment on Immune 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pillowcase not a soda stream
- Comment on Fingies 2 weeks ago:
He got monkey finger
- Comment on What the dawg doin 3 weeks ago:
I can’t blame here they’ve become impossible. I keep getting one that says “selected the tiles with a motorcycle” I select the times and fail. At this point I’ve tried selecting all that have the motorcycle and that failed. I then tries to include the driver, failed. I then tried to br less specific so if something was barely in a tile I wouldn’t include it, fail. Tried that again without driver, fail again.
There seems to be no possible way to pass the captcha
- Comment on What the dawg doin 3 weeks ago:
Legitimately has anyone found captchas way too difficult lately?
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
By putting a higher percentage on nuclear you reduce the need to create storage capabilities. Nuclear should ideally cover a majority of nighttime hours with the rest being handled through solar storage and wind.
Yes this will be more expensive than the current solution which is to fire up the coal plants at night, but some costs are worth it. Maybe this can be handled by battery storage, but no one has done that yet so it is hard to gage the final cost.
I care just a little more about not burning fossil fuels than the cost
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Nuclear is an either or situation.
No its not, how did you make up that conclusion?
Nuclear can be used to reduce the need for rather expensive storage for solar/wind energy.
You know what many places do now when solar falls short or at nighttime when the sun does not shine? They burn gas, oil, or coal.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
If we didn’t fight Nuclear energy for decades we wouldn’t have been in half as much trouble as we are in now. But the oil companies won with their smear campaigns.
Renewable energy is cheaper now, but that wasn’t always the case. Also nuclear can be part of solving some of the issues with renewable energy. We can build massive battery banks and double our number of solar farms so that we have power when the sun goes down or we can reduce the need and incorporate nuclear
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough.
This does not support my hypothesis
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
Allegedly the guy who shot Charlie Kirk was a right extremist who’s take was Kirk was too moderate.
So far I think it’s a bet gain for democracy though.
It’s an interesting hypothesis
- Comment on Fancy pants 3 weeks ago:
Usually I don’t care if you steal from a corporation, but I wouldn’t do it if my family or kids are involved.