Apepollo11
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- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 4 days ago:
To be fair, I think we’ve been in the midst of a political crisis for some time.
Although I agree - I think Andy Burnham winning Makerfield would be the flashpoint for the leadership contest that has been looming for the past few months.
Maybe this is the only way things will settle down.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 4 days ago:
Next year? Hard to say. If Starmer gets ousted, which looks more and more likely, then that’ll probably mean a cabinet reshuffle. Honestly can’t say I’ve been too impressed by Rachel Reeves’ efforts, but then again I imagine it’s hard to totally insulate the economy from a mad bloke who’s seemingly trying his level best to destabilise the entire world.
If Burnham or Miliband do get elected, then I imagine we’ll do ok.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 week ago:
Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 week ago:
Absolutely! I’m currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.
A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.
I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn’t really feasible on other mediums.
But I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. I’ve been collecting animation cels for twenty something years!
- Comment on Guys, I am in need of niche media to larp, any suggestions? 1 week ago:
The PS3 hit, Fat Princess.
Cool fantasy setting, much fighting, clear objectives (princess kidnapping) - perfect LARP stuff.
Plus whoever is the princess gets to be fed cake all day.
- Comment on What somebody with cosmetic plastic surgery gets injured, does the plastic "spill out" or get seen? 1 week ago:
FWIW, and I’m only mentioning this because of the phrasing of the question, plastic surgery isn’t named after ‘plastic’ (the noun), but for ‘plastic’ (the verb). Plastic surgery was used as a term decades before plastic (the noun) was even invented!
But anyway, to answer your question, people tend not to use silicone in implants so much nowadays, preferring saline instead (as another person said). The main reason is that it is much less problematic if there is a rupture.
Leaking silicone is not immediately dangerous, but does need to be removed - which is difficult as it can squidge about and under other tissues, causing mischief as it goes. Saline, by comparison, will just get absorbed by the body, usually harmlessly.
- Comment on Why Ireland? 1 week ago:
You know, this makes total sense.
I was searching online trying to work out what Ireland had done, but a typo explains everything.
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- Comment on Many mythology seem to share a concept of spirits is there a reason for that? 2 weeks ago:
People die.
In cases where someone meets an unfortunate grizzly end, like being eaten, there’s an obvious reason. But more often than not, people just stop being alive.
Imagine you have no knowledge of science, how would you explain this? An hour ago, this body could move, could breathe, could do normal things. Now it can’t.
Something has changed. Something is missing. What was once a person is now a thing, a body.
It stands to reason that the missing bit is the key to what makes people human. It’s clearly not a physical thing - the body looks the same - so it must be something intangible.
Tie this to the fact that people are very good at detecting other people around them. We’re especially good at sensing when we’re being watched (in person, not through cameras, obviously). We also find ourselves in situations where we feel like we’re being watched when no one possibly can be watching.
So we have a fundamental element of human-ness as something intangible, and we also have situations where it feels like someone is there when there’s no-one around.
It doesn’t take a massive connection to associate the two.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah - I 100% agree. I was just trying to convey how ludicrously easy it is to grow your own. There’s no way you should base an entire survival strategy on potatoes, despite how plausible Matt Damon made it seem.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 3 weeks ago:
Get yourself a patch of soil, even if it’s just a couple of growbags, and grow potatoes. They’re like a magical self-replicating food. When you harvest them, keep some aside to plant later. One potato produces 5-10 potatoes easily, scale up for infinite potato glitch.
If you live in the UK or EU, you can even literally just plant ones you buy in the vegetable section in the supermarket. In the US, they often treat these with a growth inhibitor to extend the shelf-life, they won’t grow as easily.
Seed potatoes are guaranteed to produce healthy plants, but cost slightly more. You can buy them from garden centres or online.
- Comment on Looking for some advice please single father 3 weeks ago:
Saw this in !autism@lemmy.world but it was removed before I could reply.
What country are you in? What part of the country?
Once we know that, it’ll be much easier to direct you to useful services.
- Comment on Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe another thing worth considering is that rectangular flags are just bigger and easier to see than other shapes.
The Romans conquered most of Europe, and they flew rectangular banners from their standards. Following the fall of the empire, the different parts of Europe were at war with each other for one and a half thousand years. I suspect all having had this original template, then the subsequent fighting / conquering / reconquering / reconquering, probably lead to this shape becoming normalised.
- Comment on Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal? 5 weeks ago:
Not just mass-manufacturing - because of how they work, the rectangle is the default shape of cloth produced on any loom.
- Comment on snow isn't real 1 month ago:
I see four white rectangles there. If that’s not proof of snow, then I don’t know what to tell you.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 1 month ago:
I mean, the red robes and glowing orb do have a certain appeal.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 1 month ago:
The world (or at least the Anglosphere) has always called the # symbol the hash sign. I have no idea why Americans called it the pound sign - most places call the £ symbol the pound sign.
The term “hashtag” was not invented by an American. For the rest of us this makes sense - it’s a tag denoted by a hash sign - but I can see how it seemingly came out of nowhere if you used different words.
- Comment on What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy? 1 month ago:
This hits the nail in the head.
I have a friend who grew up in the USSR. From what she’s told me, the social pressure around pulling your weight can’t be overstated.
For example, her school uniform had a scarf, and the punishment for most offences (being late, not doing homework etc) was to have your scarf taken away for a day or two. Instead of being trapped in detention away from everyone after school, you had to spend the day publicly marked out as someone who’s let the side down. You’d spend the day subjected to disapproving looks, and then when you got home have to explain to your parents why you had your scarf taken away.
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 1 month ago:
Oooh, you said the 愛 word. A million downvotes for you.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 1 month ago:
It’s probably worth mentioning that this doesn’t just stop at legislation. A lot of things in the UK are the way they are, just because that’s the way they’ve always been.
What’s the official flag of the UK? It doesn’t have one. The Union Jack was a naval flag that became our defacto national flag. Before WW1, people could have lived their entire life without seeing a Union Jack.
What’s the official national anthem of the UK? It doesn’t have one. God save the King / Queen is our defacto national anthem. It was a song that gained popularity and people adopted it unofficially.
OK then. What’s the official language of the UK? You probably guessed - it doesn’t have one. English is only the defacto language of the UK. In fact, the only official language anywhere in the UK is Welsh, in Wales (obviously), where the vast majority of people speak English as their first language anyway.
- Comment on Entrainment Entretainment 1 month ago:
AM = morning PM = afternoon/evening/night
Like 7AM or 7PM
AM people are most awake and productive during the morning hours, and get more tired as the day goes on.
PM people are tired in the morning and more alert later in the day/night.
- Comment on Entrainment Entretainment 1 month ago:
It messes with PM people more than AM people.
If you’re tired in the evenings and wide awake in the morning, then going to bed slightly earlier and getting up earlier is easy.
If you’re alert in the evenings and tired in the mornings, going to bed early is counter-productive, you just lie there awake getting less tired. Similarly getting up earlier is even harder than normal.
If you’re an AM person, then you’ve drawn the lucky straw - the world is built for people like you. But there’s lots of PM people who struggle daily, fighting against their body clocks just to show up to school/work on time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Seeing as you start the question with “In the show”, I can fairly confidently say no, Squidward is never explicitly a communist.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 2 months ago:
Hey, if we find something bigger than Pluto, then by all means let’s call it a planet.
By any reasonable person’s definition of a planet, Pluto is a planet. It’s a rocky spherical mass that orbits the sun, with a varied terrain of mountains, plains and glaciers. It has days and seasons. It has its own system of moons.
Additionally, bythe IAU’s stupid definition of a Dwarf Planet, Charon should really be called a dwarf planet too. It isn’t a satellite in a meaningful sense - both Pluto and Charon orbit a point between them. The other moons also orbit this space between Charon and Pluto.
Want to know why it isn’t? Because the IAU class it as a planetary satellite. What’s the formal definition of a planetary satellite then? There isn’t one. It was discussed, but a formal definition was not decided upon. Charon is literally a moon now because it was called a moon before the definition of a planet was changed.
I’m all for formal definitions, but the IAUs current rules are just really sloppy. It’s maddening.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 2 months ago:
I’d be happy with:
Pluto = planet
Anything smaller than Pluto ≠ planet
Nine planets. Now with clear non-stupid rules.
- Comment on What do far-left Christian liberationists feel about Catholics? 2 months ago:
I imagine “good for them”.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 2 months ago:
Could not agree more - Christianity is supposed to be about the teachings of Jesus.
The vast majority of the Bible is not about that stuff, but it provides context for it.
Jesus taught respect for others and unconditional love. Surprisingly, Penny Arcade probably summed it up in the most succinct way I’ve ever seen it phrased: "Jesus says “don’t be a dick” ".
Someone would have to be delusional to look at the people that Jesus mixed with and advocated for, and conclude that he wouldn’t have similarly defended the marginalised groups of our time.
- Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word? 2 months ago:
Good catch! You are 100% correct.
I’ll update the message, but strikethrough the original so this still makes sense.
- Comment on How many people would it take to overwhelm a fully functioning military in a nuclear state? 2 months ago:
I’ll admit, I didn’t know the Supreme Court had said that.
It’s an insane interpretation - and I see that many justices said so at the time.
I guess whether or not the writers of the amendment actually meant every able-bodied man when they wrote “well-regulated militia”, or whether they meant a militia, is impossible to know for sure.
But to say that the word meant something different at the time is patently untrue. Around the English speaking world at that time, local militias - with that specific word used - were used to keep order. It was a common world for an actual thing people would have been familiar with.
- Comment on How many people would it take to overwhelm a fully functioning military in a nuclear state? 2 months ago:
That’s half right.
Militias were always things that you joined and they had a chain of command. Just because they were volunteer forces, it doesn’t mean that they weren’t an organisation. The Peterloo Massacre (1819) was conducted by the local militia. They were all volunteers, but they operated as a paramilitary group.
“Well-regulated militia” literally meant what it sounds like today - a well-regulated volunteer armed force.
The amendment is saying that the government shall not prevent people from joining well-regulated armed militias. Which admittedly sounds terrifying to modern ears but, historically, armed militias helped keep the peace in the days before police forces.