Jiral
@Jiral@lemmy.world
- Comment on No one talks about the REAL victims 1 day ago:
There were reports about considerable decrease in engagement with far right social media accounts. Those servers did not exclusively do search indexing. I think at this point it is not clear if this really had a significant effect or not on the Russian Psyops.
- Comment on Why? 3 days ago:
You don’t need PVC to create durable cabling.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Slop vs Adobe loses… This is torture!
- Comment on Just coincidence 6 days ago:
I get your point, but Austro-Hungary started WW1, not nothing either. The reason I was mentioning it is that the US might just as well be in its late days imperialism. One of these wars might actually end the days of US Empire.
- Comment on Just coincidence 6 days ago:
Interestingly “ministery of war” used to be quite frequent names for these institutions. The “defense” euphemism only came later in many countries. Austria-Hungary had also a “Kriegsministerium” (“war ministery”). It also had a much more badass double headed eagle bolted onto the building. Well, the building still has.
- Comment on Just coincidence 1 week ago:
The new name is oddly truthful, really not in line with their common stance on truth.
- Comment on I wonder why people treat it like an Ancient Egyptian cat? 1 week ago:
Because of its documentation, community and software ecosystem. That makes it especially a good entry point for beginners. At least it was when prices were still acceptable.
- Comment on My people need me 1 week ago:
Hippie » alternative medicine » anti-vaxxer » Russian propaganda consumer » nazi
- Comment on My people need me 1 week ago:
I am not American, so maybe that is why I never understood why words that are so terrible they should be never said, should be used inflationarily in mass media, but will end your public life if you make for example a cover version of the wrong popular song while being born with the false colour of skin.
- Comment on My people need me 1 week ago:
There are differences, actually from country to country. Austria for example pioneered the whole thing (at least in Europe) when, what is nowadays conservative mainstream, was in the international media reported as “nazi country doing nazi things”. Those stories stopped at some point or had gotten so hypocritical that they approached satire level. Not because those things aren’t “nazi” btw, but because they became popular in most Western countries.
Austria has been through at least 3 right populist cycles already, starting in the 1980s. Cycles, because unless the populist right manages to degrade democracy enough, they alway blow themselves up due to their boundless corruption.There voters remember for a few years (except for the hardened Nazi core) and then suffer from mass dementia and go back to those very same people messed up the last time.
In short, Europe is just one stepb behind the US. The fascist traitors dressing up as patriots do encounter setbacks once in a while though, see Hungary.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 1 week ago:
Federal agencies are expected to use the metric system, even if not all of them do. That is not quite “we recognize both systems”
I disagree with the obstacles, the main obstacle is politics. The US was already on its way and the rrason it is not to the largest part metric is Reagan. And if replacing signs is such an issue, something countlesd developing and developed nations have managed just fine, that would raise some serious questions.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 1 week ago:
If the average American mind only knew about its goverment being metric.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 1 week ago:
I rarely see the need for less precision. If you don’t know the precise temperature you say “around” if you want to describe a range, you just do that “x-y”. Easy.
Like I said, you and I are used to our temperature unit systems, neither is inherently more user friendly than the either.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 1 week ago:
You are fooled by your own habits. Most of the world uses C just fine and why wouldn’ they? The steps of one °C are just what starts to be relevant in daily life. Yes you would totally say it has 13°C and not round up to 5 or 10s. The latter you would only do if your unit has more precision than is needed.
That said, if you want more precision just say 13.4°C. Some wearher forecasts do that but it is really not very releant what comes after the comma for daily weather forecast needs.
- Comment on Praise the Ancestors 1 week ago:
Titties maybe, but I am definitely not going to be tempted by those foul cancer sticks.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 2 weeks ago:
Caution! Yellow fat emulsion was prepared on machines that can contain traces of actual cheese!
- Comment on Close ad button 2 weeks ago:
That makes more sense. It is surely not done just for fun. Gaming the attention economy with slop spam makes sense.
- Comment on Close ad button 2 weeks ago:
And the result sucks, like the one above.
- Comment on Close ad button 2 weeks ago:
What is it with the wave of sloppified memes, that are just worse than the original? What is their point?
- Comment on Close ad button 2 weeks ago:
Slop. The answer is AI slop.
- Comment on Petition to rename the French Horn to American Horn 2 weeks ago:
Neither. Vienna Horns rule anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you plan for mid to long term, have a look at the job market, if you can work for a foreign company with presence near you in the US. If you have a qualified enough job there, it may be possible to relocate to another company location. If a company wants you there, it can resolve many of the biggest hurdles and also enable you to go towards permanent residency permits. The readiness to relocate abroad might be even a bonus in a job interview.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 3 weeks ago:
Indeed, it does exist. I find it curious when neutral facts get downvoted. I find that product curious and many design decisions completely out of touch with trucker reality. It will have a hard time in Europe because of it. There are plenty of offers on the European market, that have 600-900kWh capacity, already for a while, without the weird dysfunctional design.
- Comment on When did humans stop creating wonders? 3 weeks ago:
Blasphemy.
- Comment on Oof 4 weeks ago:
I think what people miss here is that this is Americanisation that is the norm in most US movies. While the original movies were distributed by Warner Brothers, the producers were largely British, so where many other important people in the making of that movie. So they apparently stayed their ground in staying closer to the British source material.
In the remake those safeguards are gone. People just realise it because they see the contrast to the original. But look at other US movies, so much of it has fantasy scenarios that are still very “USified”, to not confuse the US audience too much. This is the most obvious when Hollywood takes up a successful foreign movie and makes a complete US “remake”.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 5 weeks ago:
Clearly not in their mass murdering so far but while the Nazis were masters of propaganda that were bathing in blood, some of them at least resented the commercial exploitation of something they considered a crucial and very serious pillar of their ideology. Not sure what to make of that but it is what it is.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 5 weeks ago:
Interestingly, that game was never sanctioned by the Nazis and leading figures actually disliked it for trivialising their serious goal of … genocide. It was a money grab product by a company that wanted to caah in on the jew hate.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 1 month ago:
Isn’t that illegal in the EU?
- Comment on Flawless Victory 1 month ago:
Mr Kaufmann the same skin tone as the baby.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 1 month ago:
Cool, state run slavery.
