Tuuktuuk
@Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee
A human being from a Finland.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and the taste of what’s in moat energy drinks is what’s being sought for here.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Some people do.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It might not explode!
- Comment on Shh 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
It wouldn't look burnt.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
I'm not using Lemmy. Do I have to leave?
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
I do the same. Whenever I'm ill, I eat a lot of canned fish (no cooking required, and it's not nice cooking in a horrible headache).
I tend to get well very soon even if the illness has felt very bad. And sometimes when I don't do the same, for whatever reason, I remain ill much longer.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
What about him?