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- Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 1 day ago:
No you can’t sous vide at body temperature. red meat needs 60 °C (130 to 140 °F).
Try to warm some water to 60° C and put your finger in it, and see how long you can hold it there.
Or maybe don’t because you will get burned. - Comment on How often do thieves (and identity thieves) actually get caught and served justice? Are there actual examples of law enforcement actually doing anything? (Because I think most cops are just lazy) 4 days ago:
Police here (Denmark) is seriously understaffed, I don’t think they do much unless they see a pattern and suspect it’s organized or a repeat offender.
But at least we can call the police without fear of getting shot when they arrive.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 4 days ago:
OK fair enough, but that’s not what it looked like to me when I read the headline.
I don’t use anything Microsoft, and I use only very few Google things for basic functionality of my phone. - Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 4 days ago:
What? How was Mozilla ever in any kind of OS integrated way in bed with Google?
Google was just the default search engine in their browser. That it, and it’s dead easy to change the default search engine in Firefox.Why are you making a completely false equivalence, to make Mozilla look bad?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
AFAIK it’s not uncommon for a small upstart company for instance, to rely on friends, because friendship helps working together.
I know it can smell a bit like nepotism, and we know that’s bad.
But there are actual good reasons people prefer to work with people they know. So I think it will be just fine, as long as you are not fighting over the same girl. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
If it’s only air it just gets cloudy, not discolored.
It can be disolored from iron, and that’s not a health problem AFAIK.I have never heard of anybody here in Denmark who has brown or cloudy tap water. That would simply not be considered acceptable.
Tap water here is always CRYSTAL clear, and generally higher quality than bottled water. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Sad for you, but just because you can’t taste it doesn’t change the fact that water actually has taste.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
You are spot on. Water is absolutely not flavorless.
Fortunately I live in a place with high quality clean water, and on a warm day if I’m very thirsty, the taste of water is really really good, it clearly beats any soft drink IMO. I can even prefer it over a cold beer when I’m thirsty!
But even minor contaminants can make it taste way worse, if you live in a house with old plumbing, or if you can see buildup in the metal filter most taps have, the taste of your water is probably influenced by contamination besides Iron from the pipes. Good iron pipes are OK, but new synthetic pipes are better.If I drink a carbonized mineral water, I can also most definitely taste the carbonation.
If the water smells like rainy weather or wet skin or in some other way smells off, it is probably contaminated. However the water can have a slight metallic smell because there are actually naturally occurring minerals in the water. BUT if your water is discolored, it is definitely contaminated, and drinking it can make you sick.
Our water is pretty high on calcium, but there is for instance also a small amount of lithium. Lower calcium water taste a bit sweeter, so natural water definitely exist that is even better than our water.Remember always let the tap run for a short while before drinking from it.
If the water doesn’t taste good, it’s probably because it’s not good. - Comment on What are the key things people need to know about islam? 2 weeks ago:
Well for starters (besides every extraordinary claim is a lie), the founder was a pedophile.
- Comment on What are the key things people need to know about islam? 2 weeks ago:
Not to join.
- Comment on Received an official government letter dated nearly two months ago... 3 weeks ago:
‘within 10 days of receipt’?
IDK about other countries, but they NEVER do that here.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
That’s strange, because the old pope was. I thought he was supposed to be the one defining catholicism more than anybody else.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
only two key events of the biblical story of Jesus’s life are widely accepted as historical, based on the criterion of embarrassment, namely his baptism by John the Baptist and his crucifixion by the order of Pontius Pilate.
Except there is no historical evidence of these events.
The only evidence there is, is that John the Baptist is an actual historical figure, and there exist AFAIK a reference to Pontius Pilate, although his position is unclear. But the events are NOT documented and neither is Jesus.The historicity of Jesus is a concept driven by Christians that have undertaken the biggest accumulated search in history spanning 1800 years, to document the existence of Jesus, and they have turned op NOTHING!!! Just the Mormon church alone has spend massive amounts of resources on this for more than a century. Obviously the Catholic church is by far in the lead, since they are both the oldest and most wealthy of all.
There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors
No there are not, not a single one is contemporary, and not a single one is first hand or even has a reliable source. This is required to be considered reliable historical evidence.
It may sound convincing on the surface, until you dig into it, and find out it’s all hear say, and it’s all created AFTER Christianity became a thing.
Also evidence for the existence of Jesus is just about the most faked historical/archeological thing there is. Because it creates fame like nothing else, and churches are willing to pay enormous sums to get their hand on it.I’m an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.
You didn’t investigate enough.
This is a long piece, but it’s easier than doing the research yourself:
www.atheists.org/activism/…/did-jesus-exist/ - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
GandalfNo but that’s because Lord of the Rings is way more consistent than the Bible is.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
That sounds like a cool priest, but unfortunately Catholicism is still against gay marriage, meaning they are still discriminating.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
There is no evidence Jesus ever existed.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Everybody farts, the gasses released are a result of digestion, and even though not all foods or bacteria in the stomach are equal, they all release gas at some level, which results in occasional farts.
Eating fats and protein creates less gas than eating carbs. But it is never zero. - Comment on The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m naive, but I haven’t seen this besides from spam accounts that are generally quietly closed.
The thing to do is of course to report it when you spot it. - Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s originally because of bad programming. It’s so incredibly stupid I don’t have words.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 5 weeks ago:
the guidelines that NIST, Microsoft, GCHQ and a few other institutions now recommend for password security
Because they are morons that don’t understand entropy.
Requiring at least 1 number increases entropy less than simply allowing the use of numbers, and then recommending it.
But most password queries are lousy at describing what’s allowed when creating it, and they generally don’t describe it at all when you enter it for access.
The second part can be crucial for remembering exactly how the password was created, because what is now required, used to often not even be possible to use! - Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 5 weeks ago:
Your password MUST contain big and small letters, and contain at least 1 number character and 1 spacial character, it MUST be 8 characters long, and it MUST be typed on a German Cherry keyboard between 8-9 PM, using ONLY 1 finger while blindfolded and listening to ABBA music.
This is because of something called entropy we never even read about so we have zero understanding of it.Making all these possibilities OPTIONAL would actually make for safer passwords (higher entropy), as would using multiple words separated by spaces. Then only meaningful way to accept a password would be to test it against common bad passwords, and test the entropy to determine acceptable levels. There is no good reason a password couldn’t be 10 words and at least 127 characters. There is no way that should stress a properly designed modern system.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects
Better get rid of all loudspeakers then.
Even a stupid lightbulb has a magnetic field that influence you more than a solar flare.Most of the papers I read on this mention “Schumann resonances”, and sometimes “pineal gland” crystals.
Probably to dupe the gullible and uninformed with technical terms.
These people are probably either con-men or mentally ill.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances
Schumann resonances are the principal background in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum[2] from 3 Hz through 60 Hz
These frequenceies are very close to many other everyday phenomena, occurring in music (loudspeakers) and light-bulbs as previously mentioned.
my.clevelandclinic.org/…/23334-pineal-gland
secretes the hormone melatonin. Your pineal gland’s main job is to help control the circadian cycle of sleep and wakefulness by secreting melatonin.
So why is the main function of the gland unaffected? Also there is very little reason to believe these alleged “crystals” would be magnetic.
It consists of small crystals that are less than 20 µm in length
20 µm is very small.
From the above link about Schumann resonance:These correspond to wavelengths of 38000, 21000, 14000, 11000 and 9000 km.
There is NO WAY these 2 can resonate together, simply NADA possibility. There is a factor of 1 billion distance between them being able to resonate!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s hard to say, it doesn’t seem like the CEO of Apple being openly gay has detracted from the popularity of the brand.
And as we have seen with Elon Musk and Tesla, an unpopular CEO definitely can detract from the popularity of a brand.
There has been no such reaction against Apple.
So my guess is, that it is possible, but it obviously depends on the candidate.If you had asked a few years before Obama was elected if a colored president would be possible, I would probably have guessed no. But Obama proved it was in fact possible when he got elected in 2008.
I think if the right person comes along, he or she can win disregarding color sexuality or gender.
Of the 3, it seems to me that currently not being a man is probably the biggest handicap.But in time politics will be dominated by women, the trend where I live (Denmark) is pretty clear, women will most likely dominate within a few decades. Just recently all the Scandinavian Prime ministers were Women. To me that was a very clear sign of a trend towards more women in politics, and more women gaining leading positions too.
We also had a gay man as a pretty popular leader of the conservatives of Denmark. So it is not much of a stretch to say a gay man could absolutely become Prime Minister here. No issue whatsoever.
USA might be a bit harder, but not impossible. - Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 1 month ago:
Yes, but that goes only for infant animals, infant animals generally look cute to most predators, to give them a chance to survive if they are detected by a predator.
But I think the question is meant to go further than that, because animals can become part of our group as adults too. And will help rescue in a situation of disaster, and will also be rescued. For those animals the love goes deeper than just looks. - Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 1 month ago:
True, but you can have similar emotions towards wild animals.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 1 month ago:
It’s probably mostly a side effect of our ability to feel love for each other.
As a group animal we have an instinct to protect each other that is born from love, the pet is included and has become part of the group maybe even family.
So in short it’s based on an instinct that helps the group survive, this is also useful regarding dogs horses and to some degree farm animals. For less “useful” pets, the instinct is the same, but doesn’t really serve an immediate purpose. Except maybe it can be helpful to overcome hardship. - Comment on is it ok to call a woman “sir” in your opinion? 1 month ago:
To use the wrong gender is derogatory, not recognizing the person you are talking to. Or at least most would probably consider it that way.
So the answer would obviously be a very strong no. At worst you may ruin someones day, at best you just look like an idiot. - Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 months ago:
I agree, but technically it needs to be 2 quarters in a row to be an official recession.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 months ago:
If the US tariffs stand, I think the chance of recession during this year already is near 100%.
So my guess is that the financial analysts are betting that there is a good chance like 50% that these tariffs are removed very quickly. And by very quickly I really mean VERY quickly, like in a matter of a couple of weeks.The economy in many places around the world is already shifting away from USA. The obvious boycott by Canada and also in Europe by consumers, is only the surface.
To run a company you want stability, and companies all over the world are already seeking alternatives to USA, just as American companies are already seeking alternatives to imports.
This will stall economic progress, it will create jobs and take away jobs in USA, but the jobs created will be lower wage than the ones that are lost. American production will take over low wage jobs from abroad, and despite the tariffs making competition easier on those jobs, it will not make them high wage jobs.
It will make US trading partners poorer, so they can afford less US imports. And companies are already looking towards ways the highest profit US exports can be replaced. Those are all in services, something not even considered in the moronic US trade deficit calculation. But the area where USA actually has huge surplusses, and at profits often nearing 90%!! Those jobs are at risk now!
All in all it will make both USA and trading partners relatively poorer. But probably USA will be hit the hardest, as the outside world has a more than twice as big trading block than USA has with itself. If that scales linearly, USA will be hit twice as hard by their own tariffs than the rest of the world.
Personally we’ve stopped buying everything American that we can. And as the one who does most of the shopping, I was actually surprised by the amount of American things we used.
On a side note, USA has now forced EU to cooperate with China more on trade, something we held back on for security reasons.
But now that security balance has changed dramatically. USA is no longer a more secure partner than China is.
For instance USA is aligning more with Russia now than even China is!!I don’t see how this will not end with a recession for USA maybe already for 2nd and 3rd quarters, which I guess is the soonest possible actual recession (2 quarters of negative growth).
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 months ago:
If you consider Democrats left wing then yes, by far the most here are left wing, since by most European standards Democrats are clearly right wing.
Republicans are extreme right by most standards. Republican (MAGA) is basically an American version of AfD!
So by that standard I guess about 80% here is left wing.