Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers? 1 day ago:
Those cases are different, and are dealt with through your country’s asylum process.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 day ago:
I suspect the N words in question are very much white.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I remember you from several months ago. I see from this post, you’ve not taken onboard any of the help and advice from last time.
Either that, or this is just a trolling account you turn to every now and again when you’re bored.
- Comment on Are there really no stupid questions? 5 days ago:
You’ve decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?
FWIW, I didn’t downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?
I’ll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.
“Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link”
“Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link.”
Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they’re exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 1 week ago:
100%
“Cooking is art, baking is science”
With very simple recipes, e.g. white bread, you might get away with it.
The more ingredients you add, the more chance something won’t behave quite as it should.
- Comment on Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 2 weeks ago:
I promise I’m not trying to wind you up, but I’m not sure what the first sentence means - sorry!
As for the second, there’re five countries that identify as communist right now - but I’m sure you’re aware of that, otherwise you wouldn’t have put that caveat in the original question.
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 2 weeks ago:
No it isn’t. There isn’t a difference.
You asked for an example of a “FULL COMMUNIST” country.
I’m saying that no-one can for exactly the reason you can’t name a fully democratic country or a fully capitalistic country.
The truth is people are messy and the world is messier still.
- Comment on Have you all not notice there are NO communist countries? 2 weeks ago:
There are no anything countries.
Show me a true democracy, a wholly capitalist country, an entirely anything country. There aren’t any.
This is the reality of living in a complicated world - nothing is black and white.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair, but I’m not arguing that it’s a higher-level language. I was trying to illustrate that it’s just to help people code more easily - as all of the other steps were.
If you asked ten programmers to turn a given set of instructions into code, you’d end up with ten different blocks of code. That’s the nature of turning English into code.
The difference is that this is a tool that does it, not a person. You write things in English, it produces code.
FWIW, I enjoy using hex-editors to tinker around with Super Famicom ROMs in my free time - I’m certainly not anti-coding. As OP said, AI is now pretty good at generating code - it’s daft not to use it as a tool.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just a greater level of abstraction. First we talked to the computers on their own terms with punch cards.
Then Assembly came along to simplify the process, allowing humans to write readable code while compiling into Machine Code so the computers can run it.
Then we used higher-level languages like C to create the Assembly Code required.
Then we created languages like Python, that were even more human-readable, doing a lot more of the heavy lifting than C.
I understand the concern, but it’s just the latest step in a process that has been playing out since programming became a thing. At every step we give up some control, for the benefit of making our jobs easier.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe closer to the version of Gandhi from the Civilization games than the real one…
The views on him are mixed depending on exactly what lines you think can reasonably be crossed for the sake of protecting America’s interests.
In Kissinger’s tenure as Secretary of State, there were very few lines that he considered uncrossable - extending into tacit endorsement of actions that are accurately classed as war crimes.
The carpet-bombing of Cambodia, the peacetime kidnapping and murder of a Chilean general, actual military support for a genocide campaign in what is now Bangladesh - all this and more.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 3 weeks ago:
GMT
We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again.
/s obv
- Comment on Am I cognitively performing less than I could've been if I hadn't drunk alcohol at that age? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this helps at all, but …
It’s impossible to meaningfully compare the actual you to an imaginary version of yourself.
The only meaningful thing you can do is reflect on whether, with the resources available to you, you can be better at the things you want to be better at.
- Comment on To refer casually to briefs-style men's underwear, is it Tidy Whities or Tighty Whities? 5 weeks ago:
No, I can see why some Americans might confuse them, with a “baddle of wadder” accent.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
Bum science, specifically.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 months ago:
Fun fact - I was 23 and studying for my MSc before I learned how to read analogue clocks.
If you’re after speed, all I can suggest is that you’ve got to embrace the old-people habit of using the nearest 5 minute mark and accept that level of accuracy.
- “Quarter past”
- “It’s just gone quarter-past”
- “It’s nearly twenty-past”
- “Twenty past”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not weird at all! The fact that you both live together is even a bonus - you effectively halve the taxi fare on the way home :)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Happiness is literally the result of chemical reactions in the brain. If you’re feeling happy, it’s real.
You’re running into problems because you’re conflating the feeling of happiness with the things that make you feel happy.
There’s no such thing as “true happiness” or “false happiness”.
The things that make people happy rarely have objective value, and everything with some kind of cost, even if it’s just time.
The happiness drug users feel is real, but the cost (money/time/health) can be significant. The happiness that you feel from playing games or reading is real, and the cost (money/time) is less, but still there.
Happiness is always real - just be mindful of the cost!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sorry if you felt I was trying to put words in your mouth, that wasn’t what I meant. I mentioned Disneyland etc by way of contrast - to illustrate Neuschwanstein was built as real palace. It’s not very old compared to others, but it’s still real.
To provide some context, I’m British and as I’m sure you’ll know, there are castles, palaces and fortifications in abundance here. But despite that, we have nothing even nearly as pretty as Neuschwanstein.
You said it sucks and it doesn’t have much history. I think that, even despite the fact that it’s not very old, it’s beautiful in a way that very few other places are and well worth visiting.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
With all due respect, I think you’re being a little harsh on Neuschwanstein!
It was a real palace built for a real king to use. Admittedly he died before it was completed, so it never actually got used, but it’s not like the Disneyland castle which is just a fiberglass facade.
It looks amazing, both inside and out, and is the closest thing to a real life fairytale castle that exists - because, as you said, that’s specifically the look the king wanted. It wasn’t built as a cynical tourist trap, it was built as a dream palace for a king.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
FWIW, in fairy tales the mother is the bad parent more often than not.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 months ago:
If the last few weeks in the UK are anything to go by, simply holding a sign is enough to be deemed part of a terrorist organisation.
(For clarification, this is in reference to the recent protests about the highly controversial proscription of Palestine Action, and the ridiculous position the police have been put in as a result)
- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 2 months ago:
I’ve sold a fair few things on eBay. It’s much easier now than it used to be - and if you ship with Evri, you don’t even have to go through the faff of going to the post office.
There was a period, ten-fifteen years ago, when there were so many rules that it really wasn’t any fun to sell on there. It’s much more streamlined now.
My experience nowadays is mostly from selling Transformers toys. Can’t really fault it.
- Comment on Why is the colour of sunlight different in every country? 2 months ago:
In addition to the answers given, we also have the phenomenon of the “Mexican Filter”. Films and TV programmes featuring scenes in Central America and South East Asia often use extremely yellow / sepia colour grading.
While mostly employed as visual shorthand to show that the scenes are now somewhere other than Europe / North America, it’s so prevalent that people think the countries actually look like that.
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 2 months ago:
Lemmy
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There was a guy with an awfully similar name to you, asking awfully similar questions.
I’m not trying to out you if you’re actually the same guy trying to get around a ban, but if you are, why pick such a similar name? It’s bordering on suspicious - picking an explicitly religious name then posting about prostitutes.
If this is coincidence, and you’re a completely different guy with a similar name posting about a similar topic within the space of a week, I apologise - and I don’t want to freak you out too much, but you may have a doppelganger.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Very much this.
Remember, it’s an “ectomy” - they remove a beansprout-sized chunk of your vas deferens. You will be left missing a fairly big piece of the plumbing - it’s not just a simple connect/disconnect thing.
If you do choose to have it done and you’re the curious type, they’ll actually let you watch if you ask.
Also, stock up on ibuprofen!
- Comment on does this actually imply alcoholism or just snark? 2 months ago:
For a little more context, any excess wine in the chalice after communion can’t just be tipped away (symbolising, as it does, the blood of Christ). The standard thing is that the vicar will drink the remainder themselves before moving on.
It’s a common joke that vicars intentionally put far more wine than necessary into the chalice, because that means that there’s more for them to drink at the end.
BTW, I’m talking within the context of the Church of England here, which Rev Hedges is almost certainly from.
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 3 months ago:
Top tip that I can give is to identify and stop consuming whatever content that has made you think that “females” is a normal thing to say.
This will give you the fastest return on investment over anything else.
Secondly, women are just people. No secret tricks. Different people like different things, hate different things and want different things.
Thirdly, and this is because I have no real understanding of where you’re at - maybe try asking some of the sex workers that you mentioned in a previous post if they’d mind talking and suggesting some pointers. Ask before - not afterwards, and do keep in mind that giving advice is not their actual job, so don’t be upset if they don’t want to!