Apepollo11

@Apepollo11@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This alternative Trump totally looks like he could be leader of the UK Conservative party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d group Audi drivers and BMW drivers into the same class of obvious driving.

  Just yesterday I saw an Audi swoop from the slow lane straight into the fast last between two tightly-spaced cars in the middle lane. Without indicating.

  From a technical point of view, I’ll admit it was an impressively small gap to sneak through, but it probably gave the second car in the middle lane a heart attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The big difference between the US and China is that China is often close to the bottom of the supply chain.

  America doesn’t have the infrastructure already in place to supply the raw materials and basic essentials to manufacturers.

  Until this is the case (and I’m phrasing it optimistically but the reality is it never can be the case), all manufacturers have to pay extra just to have access to the things they need to produce their goods.

  This cost is passed on to the consumer.

  Like another commenter pointed out, there just isn’t a domestic supplier of many products. Crucial rare earth metals and various other minerals just aren’t available. Heck, to my knowledge, there isn’t even a domestic manufacturer of light bulbs anymore.

  Without putting anything in place before implementing these tariffs, he’s guaranteed that prices will go up on almost everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, that’s not true. We just want to “re-educate” you guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what to tell you. When it comes to school shootings, it’s politics all the way down. There’s a reason that the US is the only developed country selling bullet-proof gear in the back-to-school section.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • Question is about explaining terrorism to kids.

  • Kids go to school.

  • School shooters famously also target schools.

  • Kids are aware of terrorism due to the constant threat of a school shooting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it’s closer to half my life.

  Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can personally attest to Denmark having loads of English speakers.

  I encountered exactly one person in my travels there who did not speak fluent English.

  I’d learned a little, so I tried to use Danish to order things, ask directions etc, and everyone replied in perfect English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the Roman numerals based on what your hand look like when you count?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” begs to differ. 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is a two-party system considered democratic?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly why so many countries around the world roll their eyes when America bangs on so much about democracy.

  It’s a marketing thing. Look around the world. Find any country with the word “Democratic” in the name, and odds are you’ll find a poor excuse for a democracy.

  The actual democracies in the world don’t feel compelled to keep repeating the fact.

  The reality is that America is only really a democracy in the loosest sense of the world. All you need to do is look at how often the wealthiest candidate wins to see that it’s true. Or how often the person with the most votes loses. Or how unregulated lobbying actually is. Or the insane amount of power the President actually has. The power doesn’t lie with the people - it lies with the super-rich.

  Sorry if that came off as really negative! America has a lot of good stuff going for it, but its implementation of democracy is not one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re thinking yoga retreats etc, I’d consider building an Earthship or two first. They’re totally eco-friendly, almost hobbit-like buildings. They fit the vibe and would give you a base of operations for future plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people in constitutional monarchies pledge loyalty to the monarch, is it actually for real, or just symbolic / a pro-forma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting addition here, we don’t even have an official national anthem. There isn’t even an “official” version of the lyrics for the song we use as the de-facto national anthem.

  We just all kind of collectively agreed upon the first verse, and mentally update it whenever a monarch dies and a new gender is required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t worry about it then. Babies are a lot floppier than you’d expect - it won’t be doing any harm :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the baby’s just a bobble head.

  Unless the baby looked malnourished or uncared for, I wouldn’t worry. Babies are far more resilient, bendy and adaptable than we give them credit for.

  Also, unless there’s a developmental issue, a seven month old would easily be able to hold their head unassisted. Is it possible the baby was just trying to look at things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Porn is as representative of real sex as action scenes are of real fights.

  It’s a stylised and codified version of things that specifically is designed to appeal to our lizard brains.

  Also, get used to saying the word ‘sex’ around him. It’s weird at first, but the best way to make it clear that it’s all a normal part of growing up, is by acting like it’s a normal part of growing up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thinly-veiled political whinging really a question just because you used a question mark?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before.

  For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. As soon as you hit 40, every other visit to the doctor involves talking about something going wrong below the waist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no photos of earth from space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I pop this on the telly for my kids when they have nightmares. It’s interesting enough to distract them, yet gentle enough to lull them to sleep again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems pretty fundamental, but fighting games have had pretty much the same basic UI layout since Street Fighter II. Before then there was a degree of variability as to how the different elements were laid out. Since SFII, it’s always been Timer in the middle and Health bars on either side of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are still people, and money is just there to facilitate transactions required for the stuff you need.

  Part of the problem is that a bunch of not-rights have decided that instead the point of money is to accrue it like some kind of high score.

  If you are so rich that you no longer experience the normal problems associated with being a person, such as bad hair days, then you’ve probably become a weirdo yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok,

  I’d have paid off my student loans and mortgage already, as that’s the first thing I’d do as soon as I received the money.

  I guess a typical Friday would involve me waking up at noon, pottering about in my pyjamas for a few hours, then working on whatever project I have on the go. I’m one of those people who has an obsession-of-the-month, and I can’t imagine that would change.

  I’d have more time to spend with my kids and partner than I do, which I imagine would be nice.

  On the whole, I don’t think it’d be wildly different to how I live now - only that without the pressure that I have to work so many hours a day, I’d have more time to spend with my family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Approaching this cynically, all right-wing politicians blame groups as others as being the cause of their country’s societal ills. That’s just how it works.

  Jewish people were just one of the targeted groups, along with LGBT people, disabled people, and communists.

  One universal truth throughout history is that it’s hard to unite people behind a common goal, but it’s easy to unite people against a common enemy.

  Listen to any right wing politicians from around the world - their plans for making things better all start with getting rid of someone (be it a group of people or a governmental department).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that show. It was like Muppet Babies except with crows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same experience here. A former co-worker and good friend was raised JW, and was practicing for all the time I worked with him.

  We used to have long conversations about it, as I was raised COE, so was fascinated by some of the more extreme takes.

  Anyway, he now only refers to them as “the cult” and has absolutely nothing good to say about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And there was much rejoicing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, ok. Sorry, I thought you were referring to well-off ‘ordinary’ people.

  Totally agree that the way governments fawn over corporations is beyond the pale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand what you mean “still getting plenty for free”.

  I agree that there shouldn’t be this kind of wealth inequality, and it’s madness that people are starving in countries that are so prosperous, but it’s a little disingenuous to ignore the fact that wealthier people pay more in tax. They’re not getting stuff for free, they’re getting stuff for more than it costs poorer people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Children’s clothing too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you think this is?

  Lemmy isn’t university. There’s no implied or expressed expectations of “academic argument”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something that nobody seems to have touched upon is the fact that many dead people are embalmed.

  If you suddenly came alive again after being embalmed, you’d suddenly become dead again.

  Also, post-mortem examinations are not uncommon if the cause of death was not clear. Again this might lead to instant re-death.

  Finally, if the cause of death /was/ clear (such as trauma), then again, that may likely result in instant re-death.