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- Comment on Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season 32 minutes ago:
The other two have corrected you on the lifespan of red dwarfs.
*They corrected me on which star the meme was about.
Either way, thanks for the mention of a theory of a second, “dark” big bang - that was an interesting web research just now.
- Comment on Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season 43 minutes ago:
see above - missed that it wasn’t supposed to be our sun.
- Comment on Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season 43 minutes ago:
that’s not the sun
Yeah I missed that reference, as it is an artist’s impression it didn’t occur to me this could be any other star since the last format of this meme that I saw was still using something on the planet Earth as subject of the joke.
- Comment on Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season 3 hours ago:
*billion
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 6 hours ago:
Unfortunately, in the
USADSA, spending money usually means handing it over to the ultra wealth hoardersLet’s not kid ourselves and call them “united” anymore. Anyways, this is lemmy.world, not lemmy.dsa, so while I am pretty sure that even in the DSA, spending money helps the economy, I was talking global.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 7 hours ago:
I don’t think you understand what “spending money” means. It’s a good thing because one of the bigger problems in today’s world is wealth-hoarding - accumulated wealth grows and when it’s spent, it actually helps the economy, by people earning money from the services / manufactured products bought.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 12 hours ago:
Indeed, OP is a stupid take. For all the shit boomers pulled off with this planet, spending their own money is a good thing.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 2 days ago:
Damn good summary. Even more BS than I complain about on a weekly basis.
(written from my smartphone when I should be sleeping)
- Comment on Looking for answers 1 week ago:
Arguably, accepting the necessity of occasional violent protest is more reasonable than giving up pacifism.
- Comment on Looking for answers 1 week ago:
You got flak - rightfully - because you critiziced the claims adjustment while having no sympathy for the victims of legalized mass murder by denial of claims. So don’t play the victim here.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
Then blame the monsters who ignore human rights for sake of profit, and their enablers. Not the person who saved lives by giving the billionaires a reality check. Yes, it was an unlawful killing. But if the law protects mass murder by denial of life saving care, then how should people change something?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
The laws are designed to allow murdering the poor. That doesn’t make it “not murder”. When you deny live-saving treatment out of profit considerations, that is both premeditated and killing out of greed. There’s two murder criteria right there.
If the laws are designed for the elite, it is very stupid to argue morality based on what’s “lawful” and what is illegal.
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
By saying wobble, I was referring to:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession
For identical reasons, the apparent position of the Sun relative to the backdrop of the stars at some seasonally fixed time slowly regresses a full 360° through all twelve traditional constellations of the zodiac, at the rate of about 50.3 seconds of arc per year, or 1 degree every 71.6 years.
Re leap years: On second thought you might be correct about that one.
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
While the wording is stupid, and “astrological” indeed refers to the superstitious bullshit, the zodiacs are not a believer/non-believer thing, but based on an astronomical(!) constellation being at a particular position in the sky in the period of said zodiac. That said, however, and without checking, I am sure that this does not align with the dates assigned to the zodiacs at all anymore because the Earth wobbles on it’s orbit & also because the zodiac cycles could never possibly align precisely with a year on Earth, simply because the dates are fixed and don’t account for leap years (the ~0.25 day extra each year).
Why did I make this point? Because it appears that in Europe at least, everyone knows their zodiac - I would be surprised if it’s any different in countries that use the same calendar.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
It’s a guess by me, but honestly I think it’s quite accurate - then again I just checked some statistics and those absolutely does not confirm my guess - however most unfortunately mix PCs and laptops (which are not the same in terms of how you learn with them, imo) and oftentimes even tablets (which are completely useless to learn anything about computers). The actual numbers as per the first statistic I found say that households with PCs are down from ca. 65% in the early 2000s to ca 43% in the 2022.
Thinking about it, that might actually be true, but I don’t think that anywhere close to 40% of children get exposure to computers & spend way too much time on mobile devices.
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 3 weeks ago:
Go troll in your toilet.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
kids are missing out on a lot simply because the number of PCs in private households has shrunk by ca. 90% - consoles just don’t give the same gaming experience / definitely not the sense of immersion.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
long live (classic) EQ :)
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
That first bit is a pretty accurate description of a lot of early online gaming.
- Comment on Is AI progress stuck? 5 weeks ago:
Stupid title. LLM are less AI than a trivial control loop
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 1 month ago:
Well - if people still trust any piece of software coming from Epic…
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 1 month ago:
is “easy anti-cheat” a brand name? Or was that just your wording?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 1 month ago:
You’re essentially allowing different game companies to install a rootkit on your computer so you can play a video game.
Put like that, makes it even more obvious how insanely stupid some gamers are, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 1 month ago:
Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that’s something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 2 months ago:
Well - I thought I’d mention that it could look like that - but of course it really depends on the personality / financial situation of your friends whether that might have influenced them
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 2 months ago:
Is that a tip jar on the table? Even if not, just the association is enough for people to feel like they have to contribute financially for the food. While that isn’t an outrageous thought, for people who are tight on their finances, it might be an uncomfortable situation where they’d rather skip on the food than take it and not pay a share.
- Comment on Happy Birthday 3 months ago:
2+0-2+2 - checks out.
- Comment on Toni Kroos: Germany is No Longer The Country It Was 10 Years Ago Thanks to Mass Migration 5 months ago:
Fuck off racist.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
came to point out the Hitler likeness…
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
Scandinavia has always been very left side
Maybe from a hard neo nazi perspective. Denmark and Sweden especially have right-wing extremist parties (Denmark Democrats + New Right + Danish People’s Party together ~= 14.3%, Sweden Democrats 17.5%) with a voter base that has been established over a longer time. The German right wing populists have risen to that level only in recent elections, which is frightening. Geert Wilders is not “the new guy” from the Netherlands, he’s been a populist rightwing piece of shit for decades. Unfortunately, the average Dutch person over 40 / outside university towns is also quite racist under the surface - I lived there for 4 years, speak fluent Dutch with a German accent and since they felt “safe” with their bigotry around me, I have heard enough racist and sexist bullshit from “average middle class” Dutch people that I didn’t feel comfortable in that country anymore. The young people in urban centres are okay, but unfortunately those are not a large enough demographic.
As for comparing with the US - maybe not a good idea: Even young US americans see the democrats for the corporate shills they are, and know that they have to vote for them just to prevent a Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 becoming a documentary.
The US are the scary example for Western Europe as “this will happen here if you don’t pay attention”. No one in Europe will be able to say “I didn’t know” when we slip into a totalitarian regime filled with hate and controlled by corporations, because it might be happening in front of our eyes with a ~10 year headstart in the US. I just hope that’s not what is going to happen in the end, but things have progressed far too much into the worst dystopian future thinkable for this century.