BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan
@BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social
- Comment on This woman has nothing better to do 3 days ago:
This whole thing about whipping your phone out and recording a video is just a way for these cunts to act like cunts while forcing the person they are filming to be on their best behavior for the fear of losing their job. All companies and corporations should get a new policy where all disputes will be solved only when the people involved are not filming. Get a third party to witness the thing, call the cops, whatever you think is necessary, but shove that camera up your arse you old, miserable, twat.
- Comment on Do you still believe in having friends despite there being long, long gaps of time between the last time you communicated or hung out? 4 days ago:
I don’t have many friends. Most of the friends I have I see about once a year. Seems to work fine, not much happens anyway so its not like we spend 8 hours going through all the events. Its more like one major event and a few smaller ones, then its just shooting the shit.
But if I don’t see or hear from someone in ten years and they don’t respond to my contact attempts or respond in a way that makes me think they are not interested, then those are not my friends.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 5 days ago:
- Comment on What are some good Peertube channels? Also, issues with subscribing to channels outside MakerTube 5 days ago:
PeerTube is horrible for finding even channels you know exists. I thought doing a duckduckgo search for “the linux experiment peertube” would have given me a result to the page, but turns out the easiest way was to go click on the first link, which was to a The Linux Experiment blog post, about leaving some other video service and moving to PeerTube, and finding the link there… https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos
Anyway, thats the only one I can suggest, besides Veronica Explains, that I watch through PeerTube. I usually find the links to them through Lemmy. I haven’t been able to find new ones, or rather, I’ve given up on trying.
The whole thing is just a giant mess. I get that its a feature of the decentralized service, to be a bit of a mess but does it have to be this big of a mess? I remember trying to figure out how to subscribe to things through there, apparently you need to make a account. Sure, of course, makes sense. But then I read that you shouldn’t really make a account and save the account for creators? Not sure if thats instance specific thing, but I didn’t really bother finding out. Someone suggested to make a Mastodon account and use that, but I somehow failed to do that as well. I’m not sure how or why, but I gave up on that as well. So yeah, I’ve given up on trying to figure the thing out and just use it whenever I happen to stumble a link to a video hosted there.
Shame, really. I wanted to use it properly but its such a hostile experience and every time I’ve tried to figure it out, the answers have been very unhelpful or I’ve just found people asking the same questions as I do, with no answers to them. Bummer.
- Comment on What would be an interesting magical effect for a pineapple that is displayed but not eaten at a fancy dinner? 1 week ago:
Assuming we would still be in this universe we call reality, any, really. Anything magical would be interested.
- Comment on Online star Jake Paul and Logan Paul visited The Pentagon to support the troops 1 week ago:
Its getting downvoted because users think this is not worth seeing. And they are correct.
- Comment on Is it okay for a teenager to suck their thumb in public? 1 week ago:
I forgot to do that earlier, thank you for reminding me.
- Comment on Is it okay for a teenager to suck their thumb in public? 1 week ago:
I sort of assumed this was a question from Don_Dickle /u/patnou@lemmy.world
A bit surprised it wasn’t.
- Comment on Why is everyone now so afraid of AI and machines? Machines print the money we live by, machines help us to connect to the internet and so forth. Why now are we all afraid of what they will do? 1 week ago:
Yeah thats how I thought about it. Like, one such silly post every now and then is good fun etc. But if the whole account is just being a clueless dummy “just asking questions” in bad faith, it gets tiring very fast. But yeah, that’s how I use the block list, remove annoyances.
- Comment on Why is everyone now so afraid of AI and machines? Machines print the money we live by, machines help us to connect to the internet and so forth. Why now are we all afraid of what they will do? 1 week ago:
lol I’ve seen this guys (these guys’s? the profile says its being used by multiple people?) posts before and I’ve thought “is this person serious? Should I block them?” every time I’ve seen their posts. Seems like my hunch was correct.
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Line going up!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Welp, the good new is that its at +7 now lol
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What agenda is that?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Very strange indeed. I wonder if Kurzgesagt has done something to upset the crowds? I haven’t watched any of their stuff in a year or two, but the ones I did watch were excellent and I thought they were well liked and popular. And accurate. And willing to correct their mistakes.
Maybe I’ve missed something.
- Comment on Everyone deserves sympathy. Even him. 2 weeks ago:
No worries, I was just making a silly joke based on the title of the video
- Comment on This mess of a keychain I was handed at work 2 weeks ago:
No lock is “high security”, but Abloy are better than most.
- Comment on Everyone deserves sympathy. Even him. 2 weeks ago:
Does he deserve sympathy?
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 2 weeks ago:
I mean with Portugal, I remember reading a book about conscripts being used to defend colonies and putting down rebellions of locals in Africa and such. For that sort of bullshit I agree, conscription is not the way to go. But for purely defensive purposes, I do not see anything bad about conscription. But thats me with my Finnish background, we havent gone to other lands trying to conquer places. We’ve fought mostly defensive wars, in which the survival of the nation was at stake. The only time we went on a offensive, was to get back areas we lost a few years before. So obviously there is a difference in thinking there and I completely understand the reluctance of places, that used their military to go out and about, to have conscription back. So perhaps the way to do it is to make the laws so that it would be illegal to use conscripts in a non-defensive operations. Like, if Portugal wants to take part in bombing some militants in a ex-colony, that has to be done by volunteers etc. Even russia does (or pretends to do) it like that, I don’t know if they changed it yet, but at least it used to be so that conscripts were not allowed to be sent outside russian borders.
And back to US, what I meant is that once a weapons program is done, its done. Of course they go on for years, even decades, but sometimes they don’t. I wasn’t really arguing that they are not a waste of money, most of them are, mostly, a waste of money. But once they end, they end. Paying pensions and stuff only ends when the person dies. But of course, people live longer than weapons R&D programs, some R&D programs live longer than people. But I think we agree that both are a huge cost and both are kind of unnecessary in different ways. Weapons programs are unnecessary because most of them are completely useless or dead ends, paying soldiers is unnecessary because the US doesn’t have to go and start bombing Iran, they choose to do so and it costs a stupid amount for a long time.
And a final point on the conscription, I’m not saying that its good. I’m saying it MIGHT be necessary. At least in some capacity. Maybe having a purely defensive force is the way to go, like I said, make it illegal for the government to send soldiers to fight, unless they were attacked first. But of course the politicians will find a way around that. Its a complicated subject and I tend to not get into it too much, because I don’t live in these other countries, I don’t know the history, I don’t know the culture. All I know is that our defensive conscription model works for us and it works extremely well for us and nobody wants to get rid of it. But like I said, I completely understand that other places are a bit suspicious about it and I won’t blame them.
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 2 weeks ago:
Failed weapon system R&D costs are kind of one time thing. With military pensions and health care costs the US is paying like 700 billion $ every year. I’m not saying they shouldn’t pay that, I’m saying perhaps they should downsize a tiny bit. Maybe stop getting into wars all the time.
The thing is, for a country that attacks others, like the US, volunteer army is of course the way to go. You couldn’t do what the US is doing with a conscription army. For countries that have a military for defensive purposes, like the Finnish Defense Forces, conscription is a good thing (and for Finland, you can check the support for conscription, the majority support it and are happy to keep it).
The countries that are getting backlash from bringing conscription back are places like Germany, where people are a bit weird about that, for understandable reasons, sort of. But it does seem like they think that they might slip back into nazism at any point if they are careful, which is a bit weird if you ask me.
Anyway, Germany is not bringing conscription back because they want to go abroad and fight futile wars, they are planning on doing that because the security situation in Europe has changed, thanks mainly to russia attacking Ukraine and doing annoying hybrid warfare stuff, and also a bit because the US is being unstable, unpredictable and unreliable ally.
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 2 weeks ago:
I think a huge chunk of the US budget goes to the pay, pension, healthcare for the military personnel. I guess that’s a downside of having a huge military that is not conscripted, one that you have to actually pay. Also they have to pay them well and offer stuff like healthcare, pensions etc, to lure in people.
- Comment on Top Five Failures of the CIA 2 weeks ago:
I havent watched the video, is the list
- Failed Castro assassination
- Failed Castro assassination
- Failed Castro assassination
- Failed Castro assassination
- Jason Bourne
?
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
Just be happy that you don’t have moron uncles :D
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
A few days, maybe a week ago, my uncle said, in desperation, “but they promised to fix the fuel prices!” Without thinking I sort of muttered to myself, “and you believed them like a fucking moron.” Good thing I’m a bit bigger than him, I’m pretty sure he would have punched me if I were any smaller lol.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 2 weeks ago:
Where I am from, they’ve been doing that for a few decades now. We get snow and windy autumns, so trees fall on the lines, snapping them, leaving tens of thousands without electricity. Also the snow packs on the branches of the trees, making them either snap or just sort of lean on the power lines, snapping them, leaving tens of thousands without electricity in -25C degree weather.
- Comment on the lesson here is you tried your best 2 weeks ago:
I guess the perspective is messing with my eyes and brain. The one to the right looks like a 2*4, the one in the middle doesnt. Maybe I need to go get my eyes checked.
Or brain.
- Comment on the lesson here is you tried your best 2 weeks ago:
Uh.. Shouldn’t you be using a 2*4 at a minimum, and not just a plank of wood?
- Comment on Is there an easy to use video slicer? I want to just have the final battle out of Avengers Endgame. 2 weeks ago:
I see your point, but something as simple as cutting a section of a video file should be quite easy to do, even with the most complicated software anyone can find.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
Jeremys Space Penises
- Comment on War attention priorities 2 weeks ago:
If I were to keep up with all the conflicts in the world, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else. So I prioritize. The war russia launched against Ukraine is the closest and affects me the most, so I pay the most attention to that.
- Comment on Crazy town 3 weeks ago:
Also, the song is from Red Hot Chili Peppers - Pretty Little Ditty