froh42
@froh42@lemmy.world
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 3 days ago:
It works by applied statistics.
When you littered before - with the old cap - you’d have two pieces of plastic, now they are connected and it’s only one piece.
I’m only mildy annoyed by the new lids and got used to them, but it’s the bottle cap regulation is one of those that’s purely better for statistics.
It reduces littering by bottles to around half, just because we count the pieces differently now.
Maybe we should better just start taxing by the amount of plastic used in food packaging, as a lot of the packages get bigger and bigger just to display the contents more visibility.
- Comment on Chickenslap 1 week ago:
I saw you username first.
Then I misread the rest as a Mallard Reaction.
- Comment on Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough 2 weeks ago:
Wait, Italians also meme about the Pissplatte?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
“Race” was invented by racists. There was a lot of fake science here in Germany in the 30s to “prove” that not only “human races” exist, but even so that they have different worth.
So this is what I always still hear when someone is using the word - and commonly they are racists.
I do understand where you’re coming from, and I totally agree that there are a fucking lot of supremacist people and yes - if I had been a teenager in the 30s, people would have seen I’m blonde, blue-eyed and tall. So I would have that privilege and still it is a privilege in the modern world.
Prejudices about skin color exist, I absolutely agree. Racists exist, I agree. Just “race” - every time I hear that, it’s like something out of the Nazi textbooks my grandfather had to use at school.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 weeks ago:
I can stand carbonated water and hat plain water. When I was a kid, my family wouldn’t drink water but other beverages.
My kids (17 and 20 now) grew up with drinking water at home. Water was the thing to drink if you are thirsty, everything else was allowed but “something special” like a sweet. Going to a restaurant also was special, they could choose what they like.
While I still struggle with water - I manage, but I still drink sugar free soda as well, my adult kids can’t understand how I like that sweet stuff all the time.
So I firmly believe your preference is what you grew up with. You can change it, but it takes effort.
- Comment on If they where only reprogrammable.... 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact, some. LED candles just use such a cheap chip connected to a LED instead of a speaker, so they’ll flicker… they’ll flicker the song all along.
- Comment on No context needed. 4 weeks ago:
I just googled for “flat pasta strainer”, as the one I have was a present from my dad.
- Comment on No context needed. 4 weeks ago:
I grabbed this pic from Amazon to show the strainer. It’s not how I cook pasta.
- Comment on No context needed. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 🥑 Video 1 month ago:
Was zum fick.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
When I was a kid, it was forbidden to peruse DHMO during class, regardless how bad the withdrawal symptoms were.
- Comment on Germany to create ‘super–high-tech ministry’ for research, technology, and aerospace 2 months ago:
No it is the Superhochtechnologieministerium. Use the right wording, dammit.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 months ago:
There was this weird guy around here who claimed women are 100% man - they have been made out of a man’s rib or so.
And a lot of people believed this guy.
- Comment on Dentures 3 months ago:
Someone forgot to add the googly eyes.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 3 months ago:
Let’s say grok is just leaning a bit to the right.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 3 months ago:
As a man I’d have never believed how common such behavior is. I’d have thought that’s really outlandish.
Now I’ve gone through the (probably stereotypical) process of a guy having a daughter, she’s an adult now.
What she told me - no, all this stuff isn’t unusual at all. The first time she was afraid (and called me as she already had a phone of her own) she was not even 10 years old, riding her bike from my place to the ex-wife’s place, teenage boys catcalling her.
There’s a lot of us men around who find it hard to believe, because it doesn’t happen to US.
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 3 months ago:
See, for me - I crashed in that time, burnout, divorce, financial problems.
I’m rebuilding my life now step by step, and I’m rebuilding it in a way I don’t get into overload too much anymore.
I learned to offset stressful times by time off, for example, and 4 out of 5 weekends I relax. (And, yes I do allow myself to cheat, but I’m aware I go into “credit” energy-wise. So in total I take care m energy account stays positive and my life is so much better for it)
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 3 months ago:
It got better, that time was peak responsibility.
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 3 months ago:
Being 55, I agree.
- Comment on I bet I could break in a few new places 3 months ago:
Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you.
- Comment on you are the democratically elected leader of a liberal democratic country which so far has had a good relationship with the US, how do you and your country survive 4 years of trump? 5 months ago:
Over here?
- Create a common EU army
- Put EU defense bases on Greenland
- Invite Canada to become a EU member
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 5 months ago:
6 bits, 36 bit words. Octal
- Comment on The lost days 5 months ago:
I always thought it was the christian brand version of Roman Saturnalia.
- Comment on Welcome 5 months ago:
- Comment on Welcome 5 months ago:
*Muskistan
ftfy
- Comment on Checking in 5 months ago:
I shared the link to this to friends a week ago or so.
- Comment on Murphy's law 5 months ago:
“This video is no longer available”
- Comment on How do I PS5? 5 months ago:
One tip when you have kids: If all the accounts are set up correctly as family accounts you can control playtime right in the settings. The PS will then log out the kids after (say) one hour of play automatically.
Using the PSN website you can grant an extension day by day. When my son had done his homework before playing I would regularly grant another hour. “Can I play more? - Have you done your homework? - Yes - No problem”
In the long run that conditioned him to do his stuff before playing. (And I did trust him, when he said he was finished with his work)
- Comment on Putin's Sovereign Gaming Console Revealed 5 months ago:
That ticket is already included for free when you order the console.
- Comment on What is the history of modern male gender roles and where did it come from? 5 months ago:
When my life turned upside down and a lot of shit happened I got interested in Stoicism to the point I even read a bit of Seneca.
I never felt it as a way to be emotionless or a way to hide or suppress emotions , but rather as a way to just accept my them and “yeah, I see and acknowledge I feel like crap, no need to go crazy about it” (in my situation). It brought an understanding to me that not everything that happens is about me personally and I stop fighting what I can’t change to put my focus where I can have an influence.
Warning: this is not a definition of stoicism, but what I took away from it for myself.
