Ziggurat
@Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 3 days ago:
People should grow up and take responsibility for their lives.
This is something on I don’t agree at all with liberals. When people are manipulated by cult-like technique (or even (social) media optimized to give their brain a fix of dopamine) it’s not about their individual responsiblity but the responsiblity of the assholes manipulating them.
- Comment on Is it greener to just burn plastic? 1 week ago:
Incineration, is the standard way of getting rid of non recyclable waste (a lot of plastic can be recycled) not that green but it allows to produce electricity and hot water which saves some oil
- Comment on If I sign up on a hot air balloon ride and there is bad weather can I get my money back? 1 week ago:
Have you asked each company in details? It’s typically the kind of small business who understands everyone unique case rather than a large corporation full of procedures and lawyers.
I assume they would rather reschedule to not loose the money, but a way to cancel may exists
- Comment on Why do passports need to be signed to be valid? 1 week ago:
Not even a disability, but kids under 5-6 can’t sign by themselves, and will nead at least another decade to come with a real signature.
Think about this 9 year old with a toddler photo on their passport and a parent signature over is
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- Comment on Does middle name on plane ticket gave to match passport? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure there is a character limit on plane ticket. So I wouldn’t worry too much. People with 5 “first name” can’t just put the 5
- Comment on What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you need to touch the fine structure constant to do so. And believe me, touching fundamental constant has a lot of side effects, for example semi conductors properties would change
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
What made your experience negative ?
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I’m on an large instance which doesn’t federate with Grad, so I don’t see the Right-winger playing to be leftist by supporting right wing dictators
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Tons of communities don’t get that much political beside the respect basic human rights and sometimes comment the news
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Even with the European election ongoing, I don’t see much political discussion on European communities
So may-be try more “casual/fun” communties than the political one.
If you use the “local feed” it may be worth checking another instance. I heard good stuff of Blahaj Lemmy which as no downvote and act mostly as a safe/relax space for queer but is open to non queer people
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- Comment on How is the US able to instantly stop an attack from Iran but powerless when Israel attacks hospitals? 3 weeks ago:
Politics. US is ally with Israel but notxwith Iran, US isn’t the world police but a country defending their interests which includes their allies.
I somehow hope, that this slow drone attack is also some political theatre like, we shoot some drones to protest our embassy bombing, but we won’t go further
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- Comment on Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings? 4 weeks ago:
As someone who enjoy listening to “weird cover” thanks (Is there a /c/ for that ? )
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 4 weeks ago:
Why do you need shoes to Cook ( well one du, Imight be injured by a falling knife) also use commons sense, if I break glass, I would keep shoes until It’s cleaned.
Garbage Day is like once a week, so not sûre why this example. If I go shopping, I take 30 seconds to pass a pair oh shoes. It’s net that long
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 5 weeks ago:
It would be easier to understand, if it was making an sens :)
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- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
But you need a very specific plant, dry-it, and burn-it. Just let some fruit ripe and you’ll get alcohol. The ability to digest alcohol (rather than being poisoned) is one of the evolutionary advantage of some “great apes” including humans. It’s pretty great because it give us access to more food. Look how fruits into alcohol (wine, cider and more) is a great way to preserve them for the winter
- Comment on How did OS worked for early "Smart" devices 1 month ago:
Actually, firmware is the Word I was looking for. Thx for the clarification
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- Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies? 1 month ago:
Relate question, why don’t animal get tons of health issue like osteoporosis ? Or the get it but no one cares as they’llbe slaughtered for Meat.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
The strength of the fediverse is that it’s a whole network of individually owned servers. The weakness of the fediverse is that it’s a whole network of individually ownwed servers.
it’s a strength because you don’t rely on large companies and are closer from the internet as it was designed with a decentralized network of equal importances server rather than a few big one. Which limits the power of the people owning the server and let having diverse moderation policies (e.g. I am all in letting a space for far righter mocking left-winter on Lemmygrad, but I am glad my instance doesn’t federate with them)
It’s a weakness, because the person running the instance may-close it tomorrow, many instance relies on someone spare ressources in time/infrastructure/money, some would accept donations,some are run by larger non profit (which also rely on donation, but have a legal structure to take them). It also means that they don’t have the legal ressource to know the exact limit between legal and illegal leading to critic about their moderation closing community about topic like piracy Thread
the cool thing is that even if an instance closes, migration is fairly easy, so the impact is limited. It can be frustrating, I remember the closing of a large forum where I was involved in the large 00’s which was quite frustrating for contributors (It was like a server crash followed by a corrupted backup, shit happens)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’ll die. In 50-70 years you’ll be sleeping in a grave, while there is a good chance that the US (or Germany/France/China) will still be around. Even though a couple of countries have multi-generation mortgages (looking a your switzerland) most bank won’t lend money to people if they think they’ll die before paying pack. It’s less an issue with governments. Well if we look at history, every 100-200 years, there is a moment when a country stop paying their debt, best case they throw the bankers in jail and seize their goods, worst case they do economic reform and punish their own citizen. but it’s still way safer than lending money to a person/company.
That said, public debt is still a potential issue, the era of negative interest rate is over and these interest are part of a country budget. Moreover, i am always weirded out when the state take poor money it’s called taxes, but when they state take rich people money it’s called debt and we give them interest.
Finally, even though everyone know that at a point any government will either declare bankrupcy, have inflation, or a revolution to cancel the debt, the risk over a few years (to take typical treasure bonds is still very low. My money is safer in public debts of almost every country than on stock of a large company)
- Comment on Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm 1 month ago:
Considering that you need to check tire pressures every 6-12 weeks, I wouldn’t worry about the summer/winter difference.
On my bike the recommended pressure is in the 4-6 bar range. so way more than the expected variation from temperature (or day to day pressure).
- Comment on What does "araffe" mean? 1 month ago:
We, ve made it Lemmy ! We created a Word and brought it to Google front page
- Comment on Are the languages that can be fluently spoken only if you are descendent of a particular community/country ? 1 month ago:
Are you trying to recreate the race theory ? There isn’t enough difference among human ethnicity to have sounds that you can’t do biologically.
However, as brain plasticity diminish with age, there is tons of sounds that non native can pronounce, look at French trying to speak english and struggling to get the th sound correctly Ze Ding is Tat or English speakers unable to get the french u sound properly Excousez moi. And this is for 2 countries which are pretty close geographically and culturally. I let you imagine what happen when an European try to learn an east-asian or sub saharian language, especially as an adult. IT’s not about genetic, just about not being used to these sounds
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Many countries aren’t that far from UBI. When you add all the welfare programs, People alrcadx get money When not working or When notgettimg a fair wage (yeah wage are so low that in today’s economy minimal wages workers alrcadx need some welfare benefits tolive)
UBI is about generalizing it and making it a livable amont. This would be a taxable income, it would allow working class to work less (letting works for others) whiletaxes won’t let the rich get tricher zithouthaving to work
- Comment on Are people in the stock photos real? 1 month ago:
Bonus question, was being a stock photo model a “full time job” or it was more an actor/model job that you do between more interesting projects ?
That said, with the ridiculous price of stock photo, and the remaining glitches in AI model, not sure whether it’s really cheaper to generate an AI image (Need to get high resolution image, and to review them, you don’t want a bad buzz because a necklace didn’t close or whatever glitches are left) . It’s basically depending whether some stock photo bank have implemented a natural language search.
- Comment on Can I follow a Lemmy user from Mastodon ? 1 month ago:
Switching back to English if you don’t mind.
I know that following the whole community works. But I wanted to try a lighter way by following only the V4uban to get only the daily thread on my mastodon feed (and then click on the main message to see the whole thread). I’m going to check the meta, but at least I know that it’not supposed to work that way
- Comment on Can I follow a Lemmy user from Mastodon ? 1 month ago:
Mais tu es partout ma parole :) C’est justement l bot V4uban que j’ai essayé de suivre, mais sans résultat. Tant pis je repoueterais pas les discu interessante du FL sur Masto alors :)
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