AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize; and when someone does, I just suspect that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what you would have bought otherwise—you presumably buy a limited amount of clothing, so what purchase is it replacing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sending letters via post to friends in the same city wasn’t uncommon—but beyond that, you could leave messages at common locations. Like if you both go to the same shop once a week, you could leave messages for each other with the shopkeeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve made prototypes, but it never made it into production because the workers keep taking smoke breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re describing isn’t capitalism per se, but a free market. They tend to be correlated, but you can have either one without the other. Capitalism strictly speaking is about private ownership of production—when private investors control industry and reap all the profits after wages and taxes.

  Crony capitalism is when investors influence the state to reduce wages and taxes, and to manipulate the market at the expense of rival investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fair to judge people for the collective actions of a group they’ve voluntarily joined—a political party, a military, an occupation, etc.

  But when you look at the behavior of a country (or any other group that people belong to by birth), you’re seeing what any other group of humans would do when raised in similar circumstances. You can judge their institutions and their leadership, but when you judge them as people you’re judging all of humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  30 years ago?

  So right about the time The Truman Show came out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other comments are correctly stating that the sun is white, but appears yellow/orange due to the blue light being scattered—but that doesn’t fully address the issue, because objects seen under a white light with an orange filter in front would still have an orange cast.

  The difference with the sun is that the scattered blue light is still reaching objects via the light from the rest of the sky—it’s the orange light from the sun combining with the blue light from the sky that makes things appear white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always seen/heard/read about dumb criminals. Has the opposite ever been true a smart criminal? Not including that white collar crap?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the primary trick of smart criminals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the underlying concepts are left wing, but the people using the label aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically a version of Georgism, rebranded to avoid Georgism’s left-wing association.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should assume I'm not going tomorrow, right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is [contingency] something that may be contingent on other things that may take time to verify?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of actors never get into drugs, and lots of other people do anyway. We’re just more aware of the actors because they’re living under a spotlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’ll be when the majority of the working population is Gen Z or younger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a ritual of social inversion (a fool was crowned king, personal status was ignored and identities concealed, religious and social rules were relaxed, etc.)

  There are differing views, but one theory is that it served as a reminder to both lords and commoners that the social order could be overthrown if the lords became too oppressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Carnival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article on Public.Resource.Org:

  Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

  More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Feeding the trolls?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.

  My opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the sense that the original organic material has been replaced by minerals? I guess that’s a version of the old Ship of Theseus question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We could use one, and assume we’re operating in the field of complex numbers:

  North
  i North
  -North
  i^3^ North.

  And we could use the complex modulus to indicate distance… or we could map the Riemann sphere onto the surface of the earth and use a single complex number to indicate location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there is not a pope without grey hair? I mean a much younger pope like 30s 40s. Really can't be that hard. You got an ocean of cardinals and priests who pretty much tell say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of the people electing the pope have hopes of becoming pope one day themselves, so they elect someone they expect to outlive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aphasia or aphrasia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before trains, sea travel was the standard way to travel long distances even if a land route was available. Sea voyages came to represent any destination that was far enough away that communities wouldn’t be in continuous contact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is re-visiting a place of trauma a good idea? Have anyone done it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any direct experience with that—but I’d say if you’re going to do it, do it with some friends and try to create some positive new experiences to overwrite the traumatic ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah—Milton’s Paradise Lost seems closer to the modern conception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s reversing cause and effect: the AI bubble is the result of the preexisting corporate practice of enshitification getting a new toy to play with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Immediate civilizational collapse.