alokir
@alokir@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
I do when I’m in a hurry. It’s not as good as the real one but gets the job done when I really need it.
- Comment on Why does some social media platforms calls it an "account suspension" but others calls it a ban or something else? 1 year ago:
A ban usually means that the account is closed forever, while a suspension is temporary.
But even if it’s not, brands like to distinguish themselves by using different lingo to their competitors. For example, even though Lemmy
is a Reddit cloneis heavily inspired by Reddit, they use different words like community instead of sublemmy. - Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
That’s really expensive, I pay around €7 for the family plan and I live in the EU.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s also ok to support neither or to say it’s too complicated to pick a side.
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 1 year ago:
It doesn’t bother me unless you go super slow, which is rare.
- Comment on How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos. 1 year ago:
So many assumptions based on so little information.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Notable Thief Rule could be Grand Theft Auto?
Notable - grand and thief - theft make sense, I don’t know what to think about rule - auto, tho.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
I’m not an expert on American politics but my impression is that there are a bunch of people with conservative attitudes towards change, and politicians know exactly how to play them.
They get riled up with the proper slogans and become what you have described. I’m not saying they are innocent victims here, they definitely should know better and everything they do is on them, but I still think this is mostly what’s going on.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
It’s not really about that, sometimes conservatives also agree that a change is needed but they disagree on how to get there.
They see the current state as something that was built up naturally over a long period of time and everything has its place for a reason. Sometimes those reasons are not apparent immediately and making a sudden change will bite us in the long run in an unexpected way, maybe 100 years down the road.
They might agree that the status quo is bad but they think change should come gradually in small steps, allowing things to settle down a bit, and reflect on the consequences before moving forward. They might say that at least we understand the situation and the rules of what we have now, we shouldn’t stray too far ahead into the unknown.
For example, imagine that you live in a country under foreign rule. Should you start a war of independence and risk getting crushed or should you try to force concessions gradually over time and risk not getting anywhere? This is roughly the debate that took place in my home country in the 1800s.
While it’s true that the extremes are that conservatives want time to stay still while progressives want to burn the world down and reform everything in a single day, but most of the time people are somewhere in between, or even change their positions depending on the issue.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.
Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.
Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.
Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.
- Comment on Is there a labour-friendly car company? 1 year ago:
It’s worth noting that a huge part of their manufacturing takes place outside of Germany where salaries are way lower and regulations aren’t as strict.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Ever since the internet became so popular political discussion has devolved into repeating the same lines as some political influencer while silencing everyone who disagrees.
This isn’t even unique to one “side”. In my home country it’s the people who call themselves conservative christians who have the most support and you’re wasting your time trying to talk with them. They assume you’re some woke agent on the payroll of some Jewish billionaire.
There’s a difference between having a different opinion, being misinformed or being malicious on purpose, but everyone assumes the latter for some reason.
- Comment on Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention? 1 year ago:
The problem is not straws but the single use, non recyclable plastic ones. They’re a convenience and not a necessity. Same goes for cutlery, plates, cups, bags, wrappings etc.
There are alternatives like durable plastic ones that you can reuse, metal or paper if you want single use straws.
- Comment on What do you like better, free speech or right speech? 1 year ago:
I don’t really understand your question. Like I wrote in my comment, I prefer to handle it depending on context.
- Comment on What do you like better, free speech or right speech? 1 year ago:
It depends.
Should governments regulate what you can or have to say? No (except if you threaten someone, call for physical violence etc.)
Should individual people have the ability to ban you from their property or web service because of what you say? Yes (I prefer if they don’t but it should still be their right to do so)
Should businesses? Yes but probably not arbitrarily
What about spaces that can be seen as public forums? It’s complicated, maybe it should be handled on a case by case basis
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Not necessarily, good content and users who share and comment help servers indirectly. An empty or toxic instance will most likely not attract too many users who will donate.
- Comment on Is Windows 11 decent yet? 1 year ago:
I see. If your concern is unfinished features, I don’t think you have to worry about that anymore.
What you could do is spin up a virtual machine and test it out there. Here’s the official guide on how to do it.
- Comment on Is Windows 11 decent yet? 1 year ago:
Depends on what you mean by decent.
For privacy it’s shit, it collects a bunch of data that’s sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.
They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.
If you don’t care about those things it’s fine, doesn’t get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can’t tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.
The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don’t mind since I wasn’t using it anyway.
- Comment on How does someone with no experience learn to make food? 1 year ago:
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- Comment on How does someone with no experience learn to make food? 1 year ago:
There are many youtube channels that aim at beginners. Find recipes there that are easy (no advanced techniques required) and require few ingredients that are easy to prepare.
The advantage of youtube is that you actually see how the food is made, how it should look, how much salt “to taste” means etc.
Stay away from short videos with titles like “most delicious meal with only 5 ingredients, I make this every week”. They’re mostly made to farm views and don’t actually teach the basics. Not to mention they’re mostly unhealthy.
Look for stews, soups, casseroles and oven cooked meat. They’re the easiest to make in my opinion, you prepare everything and wait until it’s done, maybe you stir every 10-15 minutes. Eastern European recipes are generally easy to make, cheap and taste very good. Simple Italian pastas are also great for the same reason.
Pay attention to the heat level, wash your ingredients, follow the instructions to the letter for the first several recipes and don’t worry if your first few meals are too salty/spicy or tastes bland. Take it as a learning experience, you’ll do better next time.
- Comment on lol 1 year ago:
The whole progression is fucked. As you get close to the end game your character gets WEAKER, not stronger.
- Comment on lol 1 year ago:
The graphics are pretty realistic, tho
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I drink carbonated water almost exclusively, it’s the same water, just with some carbon dioxide to make it sparkle.
It has no downsides afaik, it’s a bit more acidy but not as much as sodas, and it might make you burp, but that’s it.
- Comment on That'll be my last word 1 year ago:
It’s 231231 where I live
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 1 year ago:
I find it to be an interesting solution looking for a problem. There could be many applications but I’ve yet to see one that blockchain could solve better than anything else that we already have, outside of crypto currencies.
Web3 is an interesting though experiment but I don’t see how it would work in real life. It would be extremely slow, data loss would be a daily occurrence and it would be a privacy/security nightmare.
- Comment on Miiiiiiiiiiiiiist 1 year ago:
Should I play System Shock 1 to fully enjoy 2?