Pandoras_Can_Opener

@Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨launch him anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a lemmy best of where thus can be reposted? It’s that awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the sci fi arguments in this thread. Somebody wrote a fiction about science that usually wasn’t invented yet. These books tend to be decades+ old. Why would the fantasy of somebody count as an argument? If anything if means developers are on the lookout for the social/emotional dimension.

  As for myself. Errrr depends on the AI? I’d like to test it’s decision making process against human decision makers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  German with a scientific background. I can deduce the meaning of the words but I’ve never seen them used. I’m not even sure these units of measurement were mentioned when these were discussed. Most stuff is ton, kilogram, gram, miligram, microgram; kilometer, meter, centimeter, milimeter, micrometer. Rarely decimeter are thrown around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think humans tended to do such epic face plants for a lot longer. But these days every idiot and their dog has a smartphone to record everything and an internet connection to share it to the world. You look a lot more silly with your epic face plant if it’s captured in 4K and broadcast to the world.

  Random side note: if you want to hear about a rather epic historical face plant there’s a good video on the Erfurt latrine disaster on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is your electorate let itself be manipulated like that and as you said the perpetrators are still very much at large. It follows they will manipulate the electorate again and there’s no reason to believe the same demographic won’t easily fall for new lies. (Unless they died off.)

  This sucks for the Brits who knew better but it also means the EU would let an unreliable partner back in if nothing changed. It seems the pro Brexit crowd will need to learn the hard way that no really you were lied to and you still have to bear the consequences of your own actions (vote).

  Being lied to isn’t an excuse to accept racist fearmongering and plainly suicidal economic reasoning. Nor is it an excuse for the project fear slander that happened at the time. They were lied to and were also told the truth. They need to learn to accept ownership for their own guilibilty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. And the rerendum wasn’t even legally binding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really would like to see reactions from France if Britain makes moves to rejoin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also your mates and family don’t really get his your marriage worked and didn’t like your ex’s politics for confused reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain the boundaries around 'people pleasing'?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a nice saying in the community of people who heal from childhood abuse: don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm. I always found it to be a powerful and succinct way of describing toxic people pleasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, neat. I’ve heard of pasta straws in private use but an Italian restaurant, that’s cool. Yeah wooden and metal straws get cleaned. Tho wooden straws would eventually be burned I assume. And metal maybe remelted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chronically ill person checking in to mention people with my autoimmune disorder died a slow painful death in the past or ate pig thyroid. And people with endometriosis just spent their days in intense agony (some/many still do because current medical treatment doesn’t work for them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Germany plastic straws are forbidden these days. There’s straws made of metal or wood still. Can’t comment on the larger question tho. I’ve never used straws to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel ya. But with these people I’d forever wonder what they’d do if I did something less innocuous as buying a phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally am not the biggest apple fan but I find it downright disturbing how your “friends” are so adamant about this. My own dislike stems from overinflated prices, working conditions in the electronics sector in general and apple in particular (I have a fairphone) and waaaaaaay back I had an iPad that wasn’t compatible with a windows/linux machine. Doesn’t mean apple doesn’t have their good points, you are most firmly entitled to decide yourself what you spend money on and anything else wouldn’t be decent behaviour in my opinion. Let alone how I’d treat my friends. Stating an opinion is nice and healthy, what they do… Not so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. No w that’s there’s paragraphs I’ll read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are against iOS and Apple in general, have you tried their devices lately?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have ADHD but same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hate against children here?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And maybe report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does an actor who plays an evil character become evil IRL?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering OP is in the comments claiming people aren’t even able to entertain the notion I’m far less charitable about the very convoluted logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How common is it for atheists to be against homosexuality/abortion?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been born to people who didn’t really want kids. I admit this colours my perceptive n greatly but yes I’d never condemn a new life to not being wanted/going into the foster system. The damage that you do to someone by not having a good caregiver is immense and I dearly dearly wish I had been aborted. I think it’s sad that so little of the debate centers around the needs of the child once it is born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And evolution. And maybe climate change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are good examples of cute as a look for men/masculine folks?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think many male idols in kpop manage to pull off cute very well. Taemin from shinee for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do that with mine frequently enough. We both needn’t know we’re pack to each other.