khannie
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- Comment on All downhill from there 14 hours ago:
I saw it in a documentary but it was a good while ago so to be honest I can’t remember what the exact mechanism was or if it was just a contributing factor over longer distances. I just remember storing it away as little nugget that made sense when presented.
It’s very late here and now you have me curious so I’ll probably have a dig around in the morning.
- Comment on All downhill from there 18 hours ago:
Neigh.
- Comment on All downhill from there 21 hours ago:
Oh I am most definitely not speaking for myself. Neigh. Not one bit.
I think that’s mostly down to our comparatively sedentary lifestyle though. Skinny AF, fit because I’ve had to run down a horse once a week and mid-20’s me could hopefully out-distance a horse. A small cow anyway.
- Comment on All downhill from there 21 hours ago:
The other advantage we have while running is that we’re not constantly slamming our intestines into our other vital organs and lungs because we’re upright.
Humans can out-distance a horse. A fucking HORSE. Incredible animal the oul’ human.
- Comment on All downhill from there 22 hours ago:
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 2 days ago:
Howled laughing at this. Amazing.
- Comment on RIP America 6 days ago:
Mmmm. I’m not sure tbh but I don’t think so. If your grandmother had an Irish passport though that might work. Worth checking if you’re considering it.
My sister lives in the UK a long time now and all her kids have an Irish passport. It’s actually a great passport to have for travel. EU is obviously wide open but most places accept it without much (or zero) effort.
- Comment on RIP America 6 days ago:
Yeah he knew about ten words of Danish after over three years there before he moved to Germany. Even his lectures were in English which I was surprised at.
He has had to learn a little German but not that much and he’s there about 18 months now. The office he works in has folks from all over so they just use English.
Netherlands also in my experience basically everyone can speak perfect English.
I prefer to try to use a bit of the local language when I’m travelling myself as I find folks react well to the effort.
I’m terms of offence, it’s unlikely. I’d imagine tourists are common enough everywhere. I have reasonable French myself so I do try to use it when there so I can’t say for France specifically.
If you’ve any other questions I can pass them on to the young lad.
- Comment on RIP America 6 days ago:
Almost anywhere in Europe is the answer. My son did his masters in Denmark and never learned Danish. He lives in Germany now and speaks fuck all German.
Once in the Netherlands, after losing my glasses I asked an optician if he could speak English and he was thoroughly insulted.
Britain and Ireland are both native English.
- Comment on RIP America 6 days ago:
If you have an Irish grandparent you can get a passport. Lots of work here and Americans are welcome.
Otherwise work visas that turn into residency aren’t difficult to come by with sponsorship and it’s not the kind of sponsorship that makes you a slave.
- Comment on RIP America 6 days ago:
Welcome to Europe, researchers!
Lots of great choices and don’t worry, you can move to France without knowing French or Denmark without knowing Danish!
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Ah I eventually discovered that it was a scheduled signal message. Cheers though.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
This was going to be my next port of call but another comment caused me to figure out that if was a scheduled signal message.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Thanks. I was about to do this but another comment caused me to check scheduled messages. It was signal.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Just updated the comment above yours. It was a scheduled message in signal. Thanks!
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
OK now we’re getting somewhere. I don’t have that chronological order thing but I do have an icons section and in there is alarm. When I disable that it disappears. It must be an alarm of some sort that’s not in the clock app.
There is no upcoming alarm in my drop down either.
I’ll dig further.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
That’s my experience from seeing it before. It eventually just went away and I couldn’t figure out why it was there or what would have caused it to go.
At least I’m not alone.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
No, nothing like that. I don’t generally use my phone in complex ways. Like I’m a geek but the phone is mostly texting, calls, movies and Lemmy.
I’ll update the thread if some reminder does come up later but I’ve had this icon before and no “oh that’s what it is” moment after I notice it’s gone.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
No. Double checked. No timers either. Rebooted the phone to see if it’s still there and it is.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Hmmm. I don’t have any automation apps installed. Can’t think of anything else I might have scheduled. No backups or anything like that. I thought maybe WhatsApp scheduled backup because I know that’s a thing but it’s off.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Network time all the way. Good idea though.
I used to have a clock app from f-droid installed but got rid of it ages ago as it wasn’t working properly for alarms. Double checked and I did uninstall it back then.
Scrolled through all my other apps (I run a relatively tidy ship so it didn’t take too long) and I can’t see anything that I think would be setting an alarm.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Great idea. Off to do that and hard kill the app. Will report back.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
💀
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Oh great idea. I had high hopes for this one! Went through all occurrences of “mode” and “scheduled” in settings.
The only one I have scheduled is “eye comfort”. It doesn’t turn on for another 11.5 hours so I think it’s unlikely.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Nice idea. I checked and (unusually) I’ve nothing in calendar for today. Everything coming up after that is normal looking but the nearest thing is tomorrow afternoon.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 1 week ago:
Thanks, but no. I double checked.
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- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 3 weeks ago:
No worries :) I appreciate the back and forth.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 3 weeks ago:
It’s not though.
The British didn’t cause the famine, they “just” made it worse.
It’s a common misconception but there are a few issues with “didn’t cause the famine” for me:
- Potato blight != famine. There was a potato blight across all of Europe at the time. Ireland still produced more than enough food to feed itself even in 1847, the worst year of the blight. It wasn’t a case of making it worse, they literally wouldn’t have gone hungry at all.
- The only reason Irish peasants were so dependent on a single food crop to feed themselves was because it was what produced the most calories for a given area of land. The British stole the land from the Irish then forced payment at such a high rate from the people they stole it from that it left no choice but to use that single crop to feed themselves. They had to use their remaining non-potato land for higher value cash crops to pay rent on the land that was stolen from them.
- An enormous number of people died from exposure after being fucked off their land and having their homes burned to the ground because they couldn’t afford to pay rent to those landlords.
So the British did cause the actual famine in it’s entirety and the deliberate lack of relief was seen as an act of God / retribution to reduce the population here (which they 100% left to starve, with some kind landlord exceptions).
It’s why the Irish don’t call it “The Famine” any more. It’s “the great hunger” here because there wouldn’t have been a famine at all if we’d just been left the fuck alone to grow a variety of crops instead of being raped and pillaged for hundreds of years.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 3 weeks ago:
Ah yeah. I’m Irish and I don’t blame modern folks over there for it. I know it was the ruling class but damn where they cold AF. To be fair though there were lots of acts of brutality from British soldiers over the centuries who I have to guess were working class. Well beyond just “following orders”.
We do remember the acts of kindness at the time, especially the Choctaw as I mentioned in another comment. Just goes to show it’s nice to be nice. You will be eventually be forgiven the sins of your ancestors they you do bad things, but you will forever be remembered as kind if your ancestors do nice things.
