Ziggurat

@Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy on Mastadon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming it isn’t a rethoretical question : Mastodon is a micro-blogging platform (A twitter alternative) which was the first “big” platform to use Fediverse/Activity pub to decentralize (I am not sure what was created for mastodon and what was already there).

  And indeed, you can follow lemmy communities from Mastodon (but the UX isn’t great) or post to lemmy from Mastodon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A big change between the internet in the 90’s/00’s and today, is that today we don’t really have this internet with “all computer being equal”, we have a dozen of facebook/google/reddit/tiktok massive websites, and it’s relatively easy to close one of these.

  in the 90’s a judge could ask an ISP to close the homepage of someone without impacting the whole internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  safe. But if it’s at low altitude (<1000 ft; 330 m), then it’s very easy for the flight to go sour.

  When I talk about paragliding, normal people are weirded out when I tell that I am safer 1000m agl than 30m AGL. But we call the 5-50m aglthe death zone. If shit hits the fan, I have no time to react nor to pull the reserve. Lower, helmet and airbag would limit the damage,higher I can try something, but at low height you don’t have much time to react and need to be 100% focused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In flight?

  1. Musk would fall down

  2. The crew will start an emergency descent to a breathable altitude

  3. The crew will call a may day and reroute to the nearest suitable airport

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you consider Taylor Swift to be of the working class and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is the line between being working class and not?

  When thinking about where does the working class stops, it’s usually about people like engineers, doctors, upper middle management who earn way more than the median income, have some saving, and tend to benefit from “right wing policies”. However, it’s people who would need to cut-down their lifestyle if they work-less, it may not be as drastic as blue-collar, but they’ll need to work to preserve their quality of life.

  When people have huge income, enough saving to make a “passive income” and could stop working tomorrow without drastically changing their lifestyle, they’re definitely not working class

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If landlords didn’t exist anymore, how would shared flats work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A part of the solution is “government owned housing” rented at fair price. Most countries have such housing for “poor people” but not enough for everyone. Let alone the whole “cut-down in welfare budget” means that these building are badly maintained and that even if you’re poor enough but not homeless (e.g. full time minimal wage) you still need years for your application to be accepted. I believe that Denmark and Austria are the few countries where this model is common even for middle class. It may-be a model to follow, at least for lower middle class

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple of a house as an investment is already a lot, and way more than the average person can afford. If you go from a leftist perspective, the fact that they make money without workings sucks. These people who own a couple of house for investment are also the one complaining about “public retirement system is too expensive, so we should cut-down retirement benefit for everyone”

  More seriously, I understand that you want to play by the rule in today’s capitalist world. The problem is that in many places the rule are skewed. In some countries income from rent are less taxed than income from work, and the power-balance between tenant and landlord is favouring the landlord (and people see implementing stuff like rent-control and shorter notice for tenant as leftists policies). While it’s fun to say eat the rich including the landlord, you need to build a reasonable political program if you want to stand a chance.

  Another big issue, is the lack of affordable rental properties managed by the government/municipality. It’s basically massively promoting either homelessness or bad housing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In modern countries where worker right have more than minimal standard, by getting fired, you get a Severance pay (it’s not what it used to be, but may let you survive a few month) and unemployement benefit (which would give you a fraction of your salary until you find a job)

  Quiting means you’ll loose these rights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get back into academia for a masters degree after being out for 20+ years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who was doing that when I was a student. The guy got a scholarship from the unemployment system (basically was allowed to keep his unemployment benefit while attending university) got his master and became a teacher. So it was possible in the 00’s.

  If you’re unemployed talk with your employment advisor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s legal in some countries, so I don’t see much risks. They rotty sure you can look up for data from Switzerland, Belgium and Netherlands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since the government can theoretically access the location of everyone's phone, wouldn't it be unsafe for an undocumented immigrant to have a phone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In functional democracies, there is law protecting individual against the government. Meaning that you’ll require a court-order to request the localization of a phone (to the phone provider or applications collecting GPS data). This is (in democratic countries) allowed in criminal matters but not for administrative status matters like immigration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that if you’re Russian expressing your hate to Putin would at best put you in trouble, and at worst lead to a slow and painful death in a labour camp.

  Don’t under-estimate how privileged we are in the West to express our hate for Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Von der Leyen and who ever is the British PM it’s changes so fast that I stopped to follow. Without any legal repercussion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t you staying dead for millenia until the second comming and the judgement day ? To my understanding the reason why Christian burry their dead rather than burning them is that they need to resurrect on jugement day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory, An expat is someone sent abroad on short/mid-term mission while working for an employer, while a migrant is someone moving abroad to find a job and sometimes to start a new life.

  This means that, if let’s say if a Mining company in Ghana sends someone to New-York to be the “US sales director” that person would be an an expat While an American opening an hotel in Ghana would be an immigrant.

  But indeed, in many cases : Expat = European/North-American, Immigrant = From somewhere else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really possible to tax the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the rich cannot just move to a tax haven. Sure someone who inherited multi-generational wealth can hide it in the Caiman island.

  But if you own a canned tomato factory, or even if you’re a business consultant, you get rich because of very local things, and can’t easily move-it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I love the theoretical idea of direct democracy, the EU is supposed to address high level issue with generic directive.

  So complex laws on complex topics. Do you know the details of directives like reach? (and typical lemmy audience has more chance to understand REACH over finance) Do you know the details about every chemical substance allowed/banned? Even good faith politicians end up believing lobbyists, imagine a regural person without a team of assistant

  Direct democracy is great, but the EU is a too generic level for it to work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I have no doubt that officer (and even most NCO) do know more than basic english, I have some doubts regarding the typical high-school drop out who enlists in the infantry.

  So if you need to talk about geopolitic, aircraft maintenance or even coordinates two different group of soldier, NATO english would be fine. But how would a multi-lingual crew works on a warship ? What about a multi-lingual patrol ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually forgot about that one, but indeed that’s an interesting case

• Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do offline, local groups get started and reach others now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Website, social media (including meetup or facebook), flyers,
  In many jurisdiction, it’s not that complicated to create a small non profit club to collect money to rent a space which is often sufficient to attract people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's eligibility⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, can a judge strip someone from their election/vote right as part/alternative to a sentence ? It’s a relatively common sentence for French politicians found guilty of corruptions (Which save the cost of keeping them in prison and limit their ability to re-offend) but no idea whether it’s universal or unique

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going to try not to swear when you're around. Is this a good apology to a coworker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t wory too much about that coworker, if they can’t handle something as banal as fuck, it’s their problem, not yours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, if OP lives in the northern hemisphere, the season for Tomatoes is over, so it’s hard to get fresh tomatoes that doesn’t taste like water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Answer based on European standard where worker have some basic rights

  • Not happy in the job : do the bare minimum while looking for something else guarantees that pay keeps coming, worst-case they fire-you giving you a severance pay (not necessarily big if you’re new in the company) and keeping your right to unemployment (which in general are lost when you quit).

  • Toxic environment impacting mental health : Go to your doctor and take sick-leaves, and please do it before being in full burn out, then come back to previous point

  • Very toxic environment, like harassment : Talk with a lawyer or an union representative you may have a case to sue the company, and even quit on the spot while keeping severance pay and unemployment rights, but you may-need a legal advise for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people with Ph.D don’t use the Dr title out of a formal setting.

  Between People thinking that you’re a physicianand asking about their health, and people thinking you’re pedantic. Better staying discrete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How would a dishonest person add extra? Here in Australia you go in, get signed off on a book, and they give you a piece of paper for your voting preferences. You don’t get unlimited papers to vote multiple times.

  My hypothesis is that the dishonest person is an official, so they can be the person giving the ballots/envelope, they were present when we opened the box with ballots/envelope to put them on the table, and have access to the box where they’re stored to refill the table over the day. So getting ballots/envelope is quite easy, and all in less than 2 minutes you can put them in the box and sign near a sick/old person name. Looks like even easier if you close/open the voting office every morning/evening for a week, and store the box for the night. So I am curious about the safeguards.

• How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been over 40 years that Japan has been massively exporting anime to the west.
  People under 50 yo grew up watching Dragon-ball, Sailor-Moon, Naruto or one piece rather than Superman/batman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can users avoid bad content on Lemmy (particularly rule breaking or illegal comments/posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Block Lemmygrad, hexbear, and may-be even .ml if your instance doesn’t

  Don’t browse the c/ starting with politics/worldnews and similar

  Keep on relax, cool, communities. places like !foodporn@lemmy.world, !jukebox@sh.itjust.works or even !imageai@sh.itjust.works should be pretty safe compared to !world@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Useful for what?

  As a kind of joke, look at these senior citizen doing tai chi in the park, while many 80 years old can’t walk without a cane. Looks like pretty useful.

  Judo or Aïkido will teach you how to fall, which may save you a visit to the ER if you slip on the street, and pretty useful again.

  It’s also a fun way to exercise and stay in shape, so again, it’s useful