Tuuktuuk
@Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee
A human being from a Finland.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 12 hours ago:
Isn’t this a screenshot from Star Control 2?
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 1 day ago:
This just makes no sense. Who are the people who pretend to know nothing about weapons but do? Wut?
- Comment on Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care? 1 week ago:
Why would anyone care? Huh?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Dunno. I’m using PieFed and this is how this discussion’s th-characters look on my screen:
I’m pretty much okay with this :)
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Why spite?
People consider something a problem and this fixes the problem. The person can continue writing whatever characters make them happy and the others won’t need to worry about their text being cumbersome to read.
It’s a much more a usability improvement than something done out of spite. I would say the assumption about spite stems from your outlook to the world.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 3 weeks ago:
Drop the u and o away from between and you’ve got it :)
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 3 weeks ago:
I sometimes see people saying “pronounce it like it’s the name of a Greek philosopher” or “pronounce it as if it was Spanish”.
There’s a “p”, a “w”, an “n”, an “e” and a “d”. Say those in a row. “As if it was Spanish”, to make sure that e is really e and not i.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 3 weeks ago:
As it’s written. Pwned. No need to stick an extra “o” or “a” or any other vowel in between.
It says “pwned”, so “pwned” it is.
- Comment on Who dis? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s viewable for you through some other instance?
Here’s one link: https://piefed.ee/post/147630 - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Well, at least that line went without a dinosaur reference.
It’s a good.beginning! - Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 4 weeks ago:
Hm, yeah. Metallica does kind of sound like Beyonce, when you give it a thought! :)
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 4 weeks ago:
The same has happened in something like 25 % of countries, and they haven’t gotten sanctioned for that.
Most of our diamonds and cobalt and cocoa come from countries that have similar problems as USA now does. - Comment on When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers? 5 weeks ago:
There’s the thing known as white passport, officially “Certificate of identity” or semi-officially “Alien’s passport”. That’s a document that looks just like a passport of a country but has a white cover instead of red, black, green or blue. It means that the country that has issued the white passport proves that the person is who they say they are, and it also tends to mean that that person has a right to reside in that country. It’s much more difficult to travel abroad with a white passport than with an actual passport, but it gets you started. Then, after living somewhere long enough, you can get a new citizenship and get on with your life at last.
One thing that can be difficult is that to get some other citizenship, many countries require you to get rid of our previous ones first. For example in the Russia you can get rid of your citizenship only by travelling to the Russia and doing all the paperwork there. Which takes about two months. During which time they’ll send you to the front and you’ll die. It depends on the mood of the worker whether you can get a white passport in such a case or not.
- Comment on When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers? 5 weeks ago:
You’re not stateless if you are a citizen of a country. The country you are a citizen of refusing to fulfill its duties doesn’t make you stateless yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Note that Lifespan is not the same as life expectancy
In this article it is, though. That’s why they use the phrase “average lifespan”. There is no “average” in maximum.
In the article the phrase “average lifespan” is used in the meaning “average life expectancy”. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s because the 38 years as average lifespan is skewed by high child mortality. People lived about 70 or 80 years – provided they first made it alive through childhood.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But genetically we come from nomadic tribes, and AFAIK the nomads of a 100000 years ago, had a far shorter average lifespan than after we settled and began farming.
This is mainly because of child mortality. When you get five children, of which two live to be 78 and 89 and the other three die at ages of 2, 14, and 8, your children’s average lifespan is 38,2 years. Typically, you either died very young, or you lived old. And the average is, well, the average of those. Basically nobody died around the age of 38.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 months ago:
Some “fancy” ones do taste different, but the basic ones do share a clearly distinguishable common taste.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 months ago:
Yes, and the taste of what’s in moat energy drinks is what’s being sought for here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I almost completely agree with PM_ME_etc. Even to the part that yes, you are afraid of China and Chinese cultures in ways that are not necessary.
At the same time, it is China’s goal to turn the west towards authoritarianism. Many parts of MAGA’s political goals are coaligned with those of China, even if their goals regarding economy politics are extremely different.
Currently an increasing share of the western consumption is fed by factories in China. We’re currently practically completely able to produce mobile phones without China, because even if the phone is made in Mexico or South Korea, it is still made of Chinese components, such as the tiny torx screws not made in scale in a reasonable quality anywhere else than China.
Eventually China will shut down that trade. It will hurt China, but if as a consequence China can get us under its command, they will gain more than they lose.Currently it would be extremely crucial to support industrial production practically anywhere outside China, some clear cases, such as NK, of course excluded. An amount of sinophobia is very necessary to make this happen!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thisshiws very well to what extent China is communist.
- nationalizing industries: yes
- making industries worker-controlled
- private property partially abolished
- workers’ rights even less supported than in USA
- capitalist class being steadily empowered (they are getting increasingly rich and disconnected from the workers, even if their companies do have to follow the state lead than in more civilized countries)
- wealth is being moved to the wealthy (albeit not nearly as fast as in USA)
Of course this only tells whether China is.following its own official ideology, not whether what someone else does fulfills that ideology or not.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 months ago:
Some people do.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It might not explode!
- Comment on Shh 2 months ago:
How about people driving those trucks that directly dump mixed waste into the ocean? That's a very common thing to do in South-East Asia. Plus, there are a zillion villages everywhere around there that dump all of their mixed waste into creeks going through them – to be brought "*away*". Into the oceans.
That's where almost half of all microplastic comes from. Then there's the other approximately half that comes from cars' tyres. And then a part of a percent that comes from drinking straws and such. Hooray.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 months ago:
Could the other galaxy please pull us just the correct distance away from the sun to cancel the effect of global warming?
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 months ago:
Why just 400 kV?
At least Ukraine has several 750 kV power lines. Decreases the energy loss quite a bit!
- Comment on 2 OP 2 months ago:
It wouldn't look burnt.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 2 months ago:
Some people get them from common colds. Just be happy you do not.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 2 months ago:
I'm not using Lemmy. Do I have to leave?
