Apepollo11

@Apepollo11@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh, you said the 愛 word. A million downvotes for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you rate your country's constitution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many people would it take to overwhelm a fully functioning military in a nuclear state?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends.

  Are the people actually part of a well-regulated militia, necessary to the security of a free state? Or had the government spent the last century reframing that right as “any idiot can own a lethal weapon without training”, and as a result the people are a disorganised and easily-suppressible rabble?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4th dimensional jokes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d tell a reduction reaction joke, but I want to stay positive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are worse places to live.

  Don’t get me wrong, there are loads of better places to live, but there are definitely worse places.

  America makes great animated series. It makes great movies sometimes too. Admittedly most of both of these things are actually made overseas, but you guys write them.

  You also have a nice flag. Although you do kind of ruin it by being super weird about them.

  You have really cheap petrol / gas. That’s definitely something you beat most of the world at. I think that’s the winner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I messed up being in my 30ish believe in Superheroes actually exsist? And we just don't hear about them? I just like to think that their is a person or persons out there.....q⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If masked vigilante crime-fighters count, I have a true story that might give you faith that there are superheroes out there.

  This is before COVID.

  There were a lot of homeless people in Manchester City Centre. There still is, but before COVID, it was more pronounced.

  There was a homeless guy who used to sit in front of the building where I worked. On my way out of work, I used to grab him a cup of coffee and chat with him for a few minutes before heading off for my tram.

  One Monday as I approached him I notice that snaking out from under his hat is quite a deep and angry-looking cut that had been stitched.

  I asked him about it and he said some guy had come walking down the road attacking homeless people with a broken bottle. They’d all been taken to hospital, patched up and given antibiotics, but everyone was really scared now.

  A couple of days later, he mentioned that the police have found the guy who did it. And ‘found’ is the correct word - the guy was lying by the side of the canal beaten to a bloody pulp. Apparently he’d been attacked by someone dressed all in black wearing a black mask.

  So, I know for a fact that there is at least one person willing to put on a costume in the height of summer and beat up villains - I imagine there are many more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Third’s the one with the hairy chest!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised they have it in the US!

  I knew they said it in Australia and Canada, though - I don’t know, I guess I just assumed it was a commonwealth thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably get a month, possibly two, out of them between washes. I work from home though, so they don’t really get that dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think PhD students habe a social life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can call me et al

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychology.

  Feeding people bad news makes them scared. Scared people want to be kept updated, so tune into the news. Repeat.

  Also: Scared people look for authority to guide them. Lots of money/power to be gained by having crowds of people who trust you.

  Presenting people with scary news keeps them coming back to you and offers opportunities for the stakeholders to profit.

  Exactly the same reason social media presents awful stuff all the time now. Ragebait is more profitable than nice stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some people genuinely like the taste, but I’m with you - they just taste kind of ‘meh’. Certainly not as nice as most other things.

  They are extremely healthy, though - they’re considered a top-tier superfood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re asking if head trauma can cause brain damage in animals?

  Dogs do have thicker skulls than humans, wrapped in more muscle than humans. Both of these make the skull better at absorbing shocks, so much less force should transfer through to the brain.

  As long as your dog isn’t regularly running headfirst straight into the corners of tables, I wouldn’t worry too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith VIII⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She has to defend her Masters thesis? Over here in the UK, you only have to formally defend Doctorate level theses.

  Kenya’s system must be a bit more rigorous than ours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  UK resident here. Absolutely no issues whatsoever - why would there be? People are people at the end of the day.

  Funnily enough, the route between my bus stop and my office takes me through Chinatown. Even though I walk through it every week, I still think I’m really lucky - the archway is amazing, the decorations are interesting and the shops sell all kinds of stuff it’s hard to find elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨allium gang rise up 🌰⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if I’ve got the same kind of thing. I love onions but absolutely hate leeks. They taste like the smell of stale urine.

  I’ve never understood it - I know they don’t taste like this to other people. I like the other edible alliums, but leeks taste uniquely awful.

  I keep trying them every few years hoping that my tastes have changed, but they haven’t until this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places online to earn certificates or degrees that you can who you a prolific in said subject? Hopefully something free maybe medical coding?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing “proficient” was the intended word!

  Medical coding covers a huge range of disciplines.

  For medical research like protein folding, you’d be best studying Machine Learning.

  For medical admin systems, you’d be best studying databases, UX and the like.

  I did Computer Visualisation at university. One of our assignments was taking the huge list of numbers generated by a MRI scanner and then creating a program to parse that data into a volumetric model. That kind of thing is yet again another discipline.

  None of these skills are particularly medicine-specific. If you work out what it is exactly what you want to do, you’ll more easily find resources for it.

  CodeAcademy has a pretty diverse selection of courses - I signed my team up to them and they’ve all found different niches to study.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amputate a leg?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA, NATO, Radar, Sonar, Laser, Scuba, AIDS, PIN, SWAT, YOLO, CAD

  The rule genuinely is “if it can be said as a word, it might be said as a word”.

  They’re called acronyms.

  BBC, TV, USSR etc. can’t easily be said as a word - these are just initialisations.