Treczoks

@Treczoks@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks the French are posers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  More like “The French have good PR”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth will not care. Life on earth may suffer, but Earth will not care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind that if you are in a public space, about half the people around you have an IQ below 100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Examination you say? What kind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In comparison to some article descriptions on Amazon, this is actually a comprehendable translation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that nearly all fast food recipies changed in the last decades primarily to make them cheaper to produce, you can safely assume their flavor went down the drain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you going to tell this to the British expat pensioners in France and Spain? Because they probably never knew that meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fast food is called “fast food” because it’s fast, not because it’s food.

  Apart from that, there is probably no production chain that has profited better from making things the cheaper way than anything related to food.

  So this does not just concern fast food, but the HFCS loaded soda you drink, your bread swimming in dough raising and stabilizing chemicals, or your tinned soup made from water, starch, food coloring, flavors, and preservatives.

  Just because of the masses produced and sold, any cent saved on a single Burger quickly adds up to a million dollar in extra profits. Don’t expect them to waste that money on better ingredients or flavor, as long as you keep buying that stuff, they keep on making it worse to save yet another cent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im flyinf to the USA from england⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t take your real phone with you. Just get a cheap burner phone that you can reset after customs went through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Premium Ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What ads? (Firefox and adblocker)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Normal AA or AAA battery, or a CR<something> button? If it is a button cell, try wiping it with alcohol before you insert it. Many modern button cells have a coating that tastes horrible to prevent people (children) from taking them into the mouth. I’ve noticed that on some brands, this coating measurably increases the resistance of the cell, not only reducing the the power it can deliver, but als making it appear “emptier” than they are ofor the measuring circuits. Wiping off the coating with alcohol (90% isopropanol) expanded the cells’ life (in a kitchen scale to boot!) significantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, white, rich and influential people don’t get arrested just because they committed a crime!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the money is not gone. It is just with someone else, probably one of the billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But count is in the name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of ours was approaching her 40th birthday. But she only admitted to having a “round” birthday, and even forbade her kids to talk about mommys age, even though we made a big production to learn her age with trick questions and all. And then we told her that if she keeps mum about her age, we’ll just guesstimate it.

  That’s how she got sent loads of cards for her 50th birthday. She was a bit pissed when we arrived for the party. And then we handed her the real cards for her 40th.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oahsa rocks guys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to post it. Can you imagine, there is actually a DVD with that film - and a load of extras from the creators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sue them for voter intimidation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We only had one group visiting on Halloween. But that’s due to a decline of Halloween in general in this area - the fad is over. Here it basically started when our kids were young, and there were maybe five to ten groups coming through. But after a few years, it simply declined.

  I still buy some sweets - I don’t want to disappoint kids - but whatever is left goes into the sweets bowl at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go fuck yourself, Mike⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the maximum annual pay for a 0-60 h/week job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re waiting for a bunch of very stupid and very stubborn people to … what do they say? … “age out” of the voting pool.

  Sounds like it. It is harsh, but probably necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see the UK rejoining the EU in the future. It just makes sense for both sides. And 15-20 years might be a sensible time scale to get over Brexit, too. BUT: I’m not sure if the UK can afford to stay out of the EU for that long.

  The problem is pride and British exceptionalism, like Polish people in the UK are “immigrants”, while English people in France are “expats”. Those expats form close-knitted communities, buy in their own shops, don’t like to converse in the native language of the country, don’t integrate well with the natives - exactly what the leavers said about e.g. the Polish people in the UK. Pride and exceptionalism made the “Project Leave” work. It was a “blue passport”, “our fish”, “souvereignity”, “we can trade on our own”, “they need us more than we need them” that powered the “independence” movement.

  So the UK citizens need to overcome that and realize that one state fighting alone in a world of ever-growing Blocks is bound to fail. Any rational person knew this all along - but they were called out as “fear-mongers”. And any rational analysis of Brexit must state that leaving was a monumental failure. But admitting that one has f-ed up on a big scale is probably one of the hardest things one can do. Especially as there are nearly as many people who voted “remain” and will tell the leavers “told you so”.

  I expect that the UK needs the time to realize how bad things can get outside the EU, and whatever makes the UK realize this must be harder than the hurt pride of admitting failure. And the UK will have to deal with some points that will hurt - not because the EU is out to hurt, but because things have changed since the UK joined the first time. And quite a lot of those things were actually started by the UK when they were still members.

  I wish you guys all the best, and I want you back in the EU. And in the tiny little corner of the universe where I can help I’ll surely do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m outing me as ancient:

  • M.U.L.E.
  • Load Runner
  • The Castles of Dr. Creep
  • Seven Cities of Gold
  • Paradroid
  • The Sentinel
  • Hanse / Kaiser / Fugger
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second that! Worms was great fun when hanging out with friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you like/dislike about lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I like: It is definitely nicer than Reddit was.

  What I dislike: It lacks some of the communities I was frequenting in Reddit when it was good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is creative tax application AKA tax evasion. Somehow, rich people manage to pay way below what one would expect in relation to their income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While they might need one, they surely don’t look like they want one with that kind of payment offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The German equivalent did the same. The list of requirements was as long as an arm or two. from memory: The person should be a team leader with 10+ years of experience, know Windows, MacOS and Linux, networking, security, hacking, etc, pp, and have knowledge of the legal issues regarding this stuff on top of the technical knowledge to boot.

  They offered ~€2500/month. Some guy with a company in that business said that he would rent out someone with that level of knowledge (minus the legal stuff) for more than that per day.

  They pulled the ad after a few months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to clean a rescued pigeon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the culinary answer for the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I second that. I wanted to remove loam in the front garden (here it is 5cm top soil and then hard loam down to the center of the earth, it seems), so I could mix in sand and other stuff in order to actually get something growing there.

  I started by shoveling two 90l buckets by hand, and wanted to go to the landfill with them. But up the road was a construction site. I stopped and asked, and they were happy to take my stuff - for free. I went back home and refilled the buckets, and returned to the construction site to dump them again. My back already was quite unhappy about that day, as the clay is rock hard and heavy up here.

  There I saw them riding a front loader, and I asked them if they could drop by and just take a load or two with that. And they did. With just two runs they took out more than I could have done with a dozen runs on my own. They really saved my day, and my back. And it only cost me a case of beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Efficient Seed Extraction⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to see the background to know that this must be in a hospital somewhere. Perfectly executed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads a book for school⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just imagine this with the books I had to read in school. Yes, I would have read it, I’m a fast reader, so a bad book does not waste too much time. On the other hand, I would have no problems with grilling the author over the shit he or she wrote. Because basically every book we had to read for school was crap. There are so many good books, books that would spark interest and passion for reading more, but somehow they had selected the worst of the worst back then, aimed at making children reel in horror when they see books and vow never to touch a book again after school.