AccountMaker
@AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
I had a very similar experience a few years ago with Tannenberg. And easter front WW1 shooter that, at least at the time, I don’t know the current status, had just enough players in the evening to fill up one server, so I’d play with the same people night after night. It never felt empty because of that and it was great fun.
- Comment on Cleanliness is more important 5 weeks ago:
Same, but with popcorn
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 1 month ago:
Oooh, I didn’t think of that. “Eat all you want without gaining weight with this one simple trick”
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- Comment on Ackchuallly 2 months ago:
Yeah, but for example, IEEE conference paper templates explicitly state “The word ‘data’ is plural, not singilar”. So if you use it with a singular verb you will receive this post in an email and you can only say thank you and change it.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 2 months ago:
I figured that she noticed him visually, a shadow was cast or she saw movement. Anon also said that she heard her mom “for the first time” when she got the implant.
Taking all this into account, while the greentext seems to have avoided the first label of homosexuality, the verity of the story nevertheless has to be put into question.
- Comment on stop 3 months ago:
And that “no poop challenge” that was everywhere on lemmy about a year ago. Not sure whether that was a lemmy thing or wider, as I don’t use anything besides lemmy.
I’m glad a local culture is growing here naturally, but I didn’t expect it to be beans, jeans and no poop
- Comment on CAW 3 months ago:
Interesting, I thought their beaks were just some hard material, like our nails. Didn’t know that there’s bloodflow there.
- Comment on Grok do a good 3 months ago:
This image always comes to mind:
- Comment on Can I still use this salt? 6 months ago:
From what I heard, salt is usually packaged with iodine or some substances that prevent clumping that expire over time. So after some time the salt won’t have those anymore, but it should be safe to consume. Salt cannot spoil because bacteria cannot grow in salty places.
Don’t know how plastic containers relate to that sadly.
- Comment on Trust issues 7 months ago:
I’m so traumatized by that video that now, 17 or so years later, I had to carefully scroll your comment in case the picture you posted was the screaming face
- Comment on They now put ads in cigarettes 1 year ago:
Sure, adults have the right to smoke if they want
Even if it forces everyone in the vicinity to inhale that crap? Smoking has one distinct feature in that it harms not just the user, but everyone around as well.
- Comment on [META] Never change, lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Nowhere in your link is it said that “knowledge and efficiency” was lost by getting rid of the farmers deemed “kulaks”. What is mentioned though is that grain was being massively taken out of Ukraine, and the borders being sealed so that starving Ukranians wouldn’t leave, and that even after the famine started, the USSR kept exporting grain rather than use it to feed the people.
The holodomor was a targeted weakening of Ukranians that could’ve been prevented if Stalin wanted it. Painting it as a story of commies taking away from the people that became rich because they were the best at what they do and that caused a collapse is sickening, and I really hope you try and reconsider whether the source where you got that is worth your attention and what were the motives behind twisting something as horrific as the holodomor into a cartoon story about evil commies and honest efficient workers.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
Same. Instant in the morning and a normal one with grounding beans in the afternoon.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
Oooh, I didn’t realize that you subtract from the original number without the last digit. Thanks
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
But what about 14, 21 and 28?
14 - 4*2 = 6, not divisible by 7
21 - 1*2 = 19, not divisible by 7
28 - 8*2 = 12, not divisible by 7
Or did I misunderstand the algorithm?
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 1 year ago:
Σύντομα θα είναι 4 χρόνια
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 1 year ago:
Yeah, but what I meant is that for English you don’t need to look for it. You’ll see English on every social media. At least in Serbia, most, if not all popular foreign songs are in english, and most younger people listen to music with english lyrics, on TV you’ll find mostly american series, movies and shows, technology uses english by default, and everyone learns english in school here since year 1 of primary school.
My point is that Anlophones who want to learn, say, French, have to actively seek it out and motivate themselves for the sole purpose of being able to engage in French culture, while here (but I imagine it’s very similar in the rest of europe) people are bombarded with english everywhere they look, whether they want to or not.
And this reach really makes it insanely easy to learn english. I’ve been listening to so much Swedish metal that I’ve learned a handful of words, and if I had immediate access to Swedish like I do to English, I’d probably be talaring svenska by now, but I do not, so I don’t. So to make a fair comparisson, I’d say it would be better to see how many people speak 3+ languages, and compare that to the number of bilingual Anglophones.
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 1 year ago:
To cut Anglophones some slack, quite a lot of people are bilingual by knowing their native language + english because it’s pretty much the de facto international language, especially in Europe. For Anglophones it just happens that their native language is english, so they don’t bother with learning a new one since realistically they don’t need to, whereas for others knowing english is often mandatory for jobs.
Besides that it’s much easier to learn english than any other language because media and culture in english is unavoidable unless you live without internet and TV.
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 1 year ago:
Δεν είμαι Έλληνας, αλλά μαθαίνω τα ελληνικά! Ήθελα να διαβάζω κείμενα στα αρχαία ελληνικά, αλλά βρήκα αυτό πολύ δύσκολο. Λοιπόν, αποφάσισα να πρώτα μάθω τα νέα ελληνικά, καί μετά να προσπαθήσω ξανά τα αρχαία.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Democracy is very weak and that’s why it takes so much to keep it at place. One autocratic leader is enough to break it. We saw it in Germany before the war
It wasn’t “one autocratic leader” who broke democracy in Weimar Germany. Most of the judges, civil servants, parties and people were not happy with the transition from the German empire. Democracy breaks when nobody cares about it anymore. For Germany, this was most evident in the Prussian coup, when the state illegaly replaced the Prussian government, and nothing happened in response. This was taken to court and Prussia did have some success with it, but generally the deed was done. Imagine that during the next US elections it gets decided that California voted for the Republicans, and that goes through without much fuss. That is what causes democracies to fall, apathetic people and institutions, especially the latter. It’s the institutions that stand guard, like in 2019 when the Supreme Court declared Boris Johnson’s suspension of the parliament unlawful.
That’s not to say that democracy isn’t weakening globally, it’s just that this idea that Germany became a dictatorship because this one charismatic leader came and broke democracy is wrong. The Nazis, while not irrelevant in any sense, were not the main driving force behind Weimar Germany before 1933. The very reason Hitler became a chancellor was because the unelected conservative government thought that they could easily control him. The erosion of democracies happens in the institutions and people’s will, the autocratic leader just strikes the final blow.
