Ziggurat

@Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what brought the pirate bay guys in jail, why the scihub girl is seen as a criminal by the US, and what caused reddit founder Aaron Schwarz suicide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome here.

  Not sure what are reddit friends for anyway. And in general the point of a new account is to see fresh communities/person. I don’t think you can import reddit to lemmy anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Comm’on bringing reasonable and moderate argument on an internet discussion :) You’re supposed to bring strong troll-like arguments about one of them being a worst place than best Korea either because you couldn’t bring your god given car in the pedestrian centre of a European city, or that you fell threatened by the idea of everyone being a gun carrying psycho, even that a guy from the US office of your company brought you to a shooting range

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I have an account on Mastodon.Social, and another account on PieFed.Social are they technically on the same instance, since they're both on .Social?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need some Lemmy gold, because tht comment desserve it

  @aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me A small statue of Lemming made in gold, inspired by award given at ceremonies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave and come back anytime you elect to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean ? Tons of people come back to school later in life, and it’s ~~often ~~ sometimes funded by unemployment, better giving money to someone for 2 years than for thei rwhole life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it can quickly get unreadable. I mean, I’m fine having a smiley to mark-down the humour/sarcasm, or the bad news but on some social media it’s like

  *During 🍑 🍆 the 🐱 👁️‍🗨️ at 💑 *

  Even more straightforward stuff can still be messy, I am not saving much by writing 🇧🇪 still has no government (Is that Romania ? Germany ? Belgium ? ) over Belgium still has no government

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of them aren’t.

  User data are more than post/comment history and likes. Where do you connect from (no matter whether it gives hint about your relationship status or your work and customer), which comments you didn’t write, which device you use to connect and more.

  Lemmy instance I know, don’t collect much data, hence the short term of services and the lack of cookies pop up unlike big (social) media sharing their data with hundreds of " partners"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how does a tote bag work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s light and fit in a pocket/purse, so you can go shopping without carrying a heavier bag. But indeed, some have weird handles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in court counsel can object to what one says or shows and the judge will say sustained and the jury disregard. How in the hell does a jury just auto take it out of their memory?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that in US law, jury didn’t have to explain their verdict? (I believe the whole “object” is an US law thing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The question isn’t how many play, but how many song does your plbylist have.

  If you pay Spotify/deezer 9.99 a month this is phe price of 10 song a month. After 5 years it’s a 600 songs play list.

  If your plbylist aren’t that big, it’s a loss, if your playlists are bigger, it’s a win

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about south Korea customs declaration⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even too limit. Just to properly evaluate and tax it if needed.

  While you bring only a laptop in carry on, someone may be transporting 15 000€ worth of diamonds for their Korean customer.

  Custom also case about illegal goods such as drug and fake brands, but their main job is to ensure that the government properly collects import taxes