zephr_c
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- Comment on If you eat nothing but smoothies, do you still poop? 2 weeks ago:
Fiber doesn’t actually have any nutritional value. It functionally just scrubs your intestines when you eat it. If you don’t have enough fiber it can cause very weird digestive issues as strange things build up in your guts.
- Comment on In case you haven't figured your Halloween costume yet 2 weeks ago:
I’d point out it’s a little late for that, but I guess it’s one of the two missed deadlines.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 month ago:
Look, I agree with everything you just said, but I don’t think you’ve really thought about the implications of how you first said it. Our options are find a way to make peaceful protesting and voting work, fight soon and definitely lose, or wait until the US is collapsing, fight then, almost certainly start the most deadly war in all of human history, and still have a pretty high chance of losing. As much as it has been frustrating and unproductive so far, the first option is still the best for a whole bunch of reasons. Saying that protesting is useless and we’ll have to fight is not a good idea. Maybe it will come to that, but we should be doing everything we can to prevent it, not egg it on.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 month ago:
Yes, as a matter of fact I did know that Stalin was Georgian. So? He didn’t care about that. He wanted the Soviet Union to be easier to rule, and right or wrong he thought making it less ethnically diverse would help with that goal. He didn’t want the USSR to become more Russian out of some kind of ethnic superiority garbage like the funny mustache guy from around the same time. He wanted it to further cement his control. That was pretty much the primary motivation for everything he did. Motivation isn’t really the issue with that kind of thing though, is it?
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 month ago:
It certainly true that “Stalin did holodomer because he was evil” would be a stupid thing to say. Good thing very few people are actually saying that then.
The actual point is that when the crop failures started happening Stalin decided to make sure it disproportionately hurt non-Russians, especially Ukrainians. Whether that’s technically genocide or not depends how severe it was and what else they were doing to try to Russify the area at the time, but frankly, if we’re talking about the subtleties of the definition of genocide I hope we can agree that whether it crosses that threshold or not what happened was not okay.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 month ago:
What makes you think fighting against the US military is an easier or more practical solution than protesting, exactly?
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Distrusting the government is not the same thing as believing baseless gibberish just because it disagrees with science that has been used to inform government decisions.
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
That doesn’t even make any sense if you stop and think about it at all. Sure, a single worker bee dying isn’t a huge deal, but they all do that. It would definitely be better for the hive and the queen if they didn’t rip their own guts out.
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
Carpenter bees are also cool. Not as fluffy as bumblebees though.
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
Okay, but bumblebees are the best though. Even fluffier than honey bees, and they almost never sting humans.
Sadly they’re also one of the types of bee that’s losing out in their native habitats to human supported honey bees.
- Comment on giving her 🧀 2 months ago:
I mean, if you have a shared interest in cheese this probably counts as a thoughtful act.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
My source is the obvious sarcasm.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
People who work together can’t really do democracy. The only true democracy is the one where a small number of people order everyone around without the input of most people. Because that’s what democracy means.
- Comment on Grrr! Stupid non-intuitive default settings! 3 months ago:
No. That’s not what I said. I said the manufacturers not testing their equipment on Linux made it so, and more users would change that. Actually, looking at it again that isn’t even true. This example has nothing to do with the operating system at all. It’s caused by connecting with a computer on a different subnet, which would have happened even if the OS were Windows.
- Comment on Grrr! Stupid non-intuitive default settings! 3 months ago:
Honestly, this is a pretty good example of why this isn’t an inherent Linux problem. It’s a problem of using any OS that isn’t popular enough to be supported by manufacturers. More people using Linux would cause problems like this to stop happening.
I realize that’s a distinction without a difference to a lot of people, and that’s totally okay. I’m not saying that’s wrong, but it matters to me that the benefits of Linux are specific to the OS, while most of the problems are not.
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
Pfft. The idea that Kamala Harris wouldn’t have voted the same way as Biden on Iraq and Afganistan if she had been in Congress back in 2001 is so naive that I can’t even take anything else you said seriously. That is hilarious.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yes and yes.
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
I have been called many things throughout my life. Some of them were even good. Classy has never once been one of them.
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
Well, what else do you want me to say? Do you want me to just type out the same response over and over? What do you even want out of me?
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
You could have read my response to the other person who told me the same thing before spamming me, you know.
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
Oh god, I had somehow blocked Bloomberg and Tulsi Gabbard out of my brain. Yeah, that was a pretty big oversight on my part. And yeah, I wasn’t counting the other people who dropped out before the primaries got started, which is kind of unfair. Fine. She’s just a Democrat that’s slightly more conservative than Biden. Are you happy now?
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant the only Democratic candidate in the 2020 primaries that was more conservative than Biden. I agree they’re both very mainstream middle of the road liberals. That was me not being careful with my language.
- Comment on We love our new Democratic Nominee, Don't We Folks? 3 months ago:
I mean, I’m not in love with the ex-cop who was chosen to be VP because she was the only Democrat more conservative than Biden, but this has more to do with Trump’s ideological inconsistency than Kamala Harris’s.
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 4 months ago:
Third world actually came from the cold war. There were the two major sides, but then there was a whole bunch of countries that weren’t really on either side. A whole “third world”. Of course, a lot of those countries were poor, so the term came to be associated with that, but there really isn’t a coherent definition of what it means to be a third world county. It has never really been about the standard of living for the average citizen though. More about whether a country is a bully or the bullied on the international stage, and we all know where the US falls on that spectrum.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
Hey, that’s a reasonable thing to hope. The flip side, of course, is that I’m hoping I don’t have to live through Star Trek’s idea of how the 21st century goes. They definitely got all of the details wrong, but I’m afraid the vibes are matching a little too well.
- Comment on Where does plaque come from? 4 months ago:
Bacteria are everywhere always, and sterilizing your mouth thoroughly enough to destroy all life is not a great plan.
- Comment on I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home? 4 months ago:
Take a cold bath?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Oh, also, it’s a common misconception that publicly-traded companies are required to maximize profits. They can have whatever goals their shareholders want. It’s just that the way modern publicly-traded companies work, most of their shareholders are people quickly buying and trading shares based on who they think will earn them the most money this month, so that sort of inevitably becomes the goal of any publicly-traded company.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
It’s not really direct cause and effect, but yeah. The incentives for a publicly-traded company make enshitification far more appealing then it would be for most other organizations.
- Comment on This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating 6 months ago:
I’m pretty sure the reason is that the hole isn’t deep enough for it to matter. That’s nowhere near big enough to be a manhole.