birdwing
@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 13 hours ago:
If the specs suit, anything suits.
- Comment on Modern times require modern solutions 5 days ago:
You know what, fuck it, this is credible.
- Comment on Can we possibly experiment with the DNS on our own, at a micro level ? 6 days ago:
Debian would be handier for servers, OpenSUSE is handier for sysadmin stuff, iirc.
- Comment on Liminal Space 6 days ago:
I don’t think it’s the number of cells inasmuch it’s the connectedness. A baby has as many, if not more than you, and yet they’re dumb. They’re learning.
I think it’s safer to go by when childhood amnesia disappears, and that’s when the pruning process of removing unnecessary connections and adding other ones, has sufficently advanced. To the point that it slows down, and memories can stay for much longer.
That’s generally around 3 to 5 years of age.
- Comment on power generator 1 week ago:
look into reactor
it’s boiling water - Comment on I see you MVP! 1 week ago:
To be fair, as far I recall, the kid didn’t do it out of malice. Just poor skill, got offered help for that after.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
Counterpoints;
Sweden has a Nordic model, Norway has been moving away aplenty from oil (most of its vehicles drive electric now and energy production is largely renewables), Belgium’s wealth is no longer built upon that.
What countries in your perspective, would be ethical? And don’t say “none”, just say closest to ethical in that case.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, New Zealand, Slovenia, to name a few.
I’d at the very least exclude these;
- Israel
- US
- Russia
- North Korea
- China
- Iran
- Eritrea
- Turkey
- Literally all of Northern Africa & the broader Middle East for horrendous human rights, except for Cyprus
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Uganda
There’s probably a lot more, but yeah.
- Comment on Should businesses (big or small) be allowed to kick you out because of your speech? 1 week ago:
To give my own anarchist commie perspective;
Private property entails a social relationship in where the property claimant deprives whatever another person or group produces with that property.
Someone therefore shouldn’t be able to kick out someone from a store on the premise of it being their land. Nor should one kick another out on the premise of owning the store alone - instead, all who work there have a voice.
Workplaces may have their own rules; it could be that their commune has a different rule, or that the federation they partake in, has another. It is possible that people can say, “Bob, you come here, but we deny you service, for being an asshole”, and then Bob has to find another.
I recall that the Conquest of Bread had something to say on it, but I forgot where exactly.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
No idea, but it’s great that many of y’all and us are doing this. Buy local, buy from worker co-ops, buy from ethical countries!
I use Buybeaver, to boycot the US and the like. Generally I exclude Russia & Belarus, most of the Middle East (Israel included), and North & Middle Africa.
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 1 week ago:
Not exactly. It’s a antiandrogen, reducing DHT production. Estrogen has the main feminising effect.
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 1 week ago:
No. The optimal (from a highly individual viewpoint) is being well-off, with friends but without fame.
From a societal viewpoint, the best is everyone being “upper middle class” - well off enough to live, but not so wealthy that one can simply mooch off others and give nothing back.
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 1 week ago:
It prevents osteoporosis and can be used as doping (due to speeding up metabolism, energy output, and affecting the cardiovascular system), as well as medication against breast cancer.
Trans men do not use testosterone for those purposes, and instead generally want to transition. They may or may not wish for testosterone. One reason it’s hard to access is: sports doping, thus affecting the unrelated queer communities.
For sport doping, though, there are other means, such as anabolic steroids (which are structurally similar to testosterone though aren’t necessarily the same), and stimulants such as caffeine, modafinil, and so on. Extracting one’s own blood and then injecting it later (when the body has made new blood cells already) is also done, as well hyperbaric chambers and gene doping.
Doping is well-controlled for at sports’ competitions, so that shouldn’t be a large issue.
There’s been research in normal testosterone levels - those decrease gradually with age, from:
- 21 nmol/L total (with 0.4 free T nmol/L) at the age of 25-34,
- to 13 nmol/L total and 0.2 free T nmol/L) at the age of 85-100
Transmasc people who are on T generally showcase similar rates of testosterone/estrogen as that of cismasc people.
Banning or heavily restricting access to testosterone, therefore wouldn’t be meaningful - so why is it then done?
- Comment on Anon meets a celebrity 2 weeks ago:
Check out Sophie Straat, her lyrics are in Dutch but unfathomably based
- Comment on Part of internet most harmful to teens? 3 weeks ago:
Would also add the far-right heavy social media.
- Comment on Banning from social media 5 weeks ago:
Banning billionnaires from participating in economics altogether until they hand it all back to society, increasing equity for all.
- Comment on Wonder why? 5 weeks ago:
I still don’t really trust China, it’s more reliable than the US regime (minus Democratic areas) rn, but still, that’s a low bar.
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 5 weeks ago:
Northwestern Europe, to be precise.
- Comment on Rip lol 5 weeks ago:
i remember a greentext about this, and a wiki article, but where is it again? I thought it was the Norwegian oil platform disaster but no
- Comment on If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone? 5 weeks ago:
Also ensure that it can’t be tracked down to you, or have multiple escape routes planned out.
- Comment on Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance—now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick too 1 month ago:
CDU/CSU moment, they’re hired by CEOs
- Comment on How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on? 1 month ago:
See also: the owner of Chipshol (related to Schiphol, the airport(, who donated millions to the fascist party, despite donation restrictions being active.
- Comment on Amazon laid off 30,000 workers while CEO Andy Jassy got a 30% pay bump 1 month ago:
The more I hear about billionnaires the more I think the anarchist communists were right.
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 1 month ago:
/thread
though, a requirement for this would be post-scarcity, for which it’s necessary that most daily and small luxury goods are available at little to no cost.
there are many pathways to this, but they require the economics and politics to be reoriented to focus on society’s needs, rather than those of a few; and that the incentive to act on society’s behalf is always more than to act against it.
- Comment on The Joys of Motherhood 1 month ago:
Depending on whether there’s egg binding or not…
- Comment on i know it's just a cartoon, but me and my therapist were thinking about this. what disorders would the spongebob characters have? 1 month ago:
Mr Krabs: hoarding disorder (capitalism)
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 month ago:
Isn’t there also Jolla? Iirc they run on Linux.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 1 month ago:
I mean, that is their goal.
If anything, I think this will motivate the government to build even more.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
That’s just progressive tax brackets with extra steps.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 1 month ago:
On the other hand, Trump’s been busy trying to rule by decree. Being able to do that at all is an issue.