NeoNachtwaechter
@NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
- Comment on Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics? 3 weeks ago:
Surely we would not have our bodies so full of microplastic if our stomachs could destroy them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mendel was an actual scientist, that’s right. But he and his work did not confirm Darwin’s ideas. That’s the most frequent error of so many Darwin followers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
But that’s Mendel, not Darwin.
A different flavor of ice cream doesn’t make a wholly new dessert.
- Comment on Why don’t brands make simpler names? 3 weeks ago:
Manipulative tricks. They do NOT want to make it easy for you.
For example, if they can keep your brain busy with a complicated name, then you put a lot of brain energy into remembering their product.
The “Silver Adam 590 HT” is so much better than the Adam.
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 4 weeks ago:
Microwave, 2 plates.
Half a teaspoon of water between them, or even a little less.
15 seconds, and already that little amount of water is turned into steam and your plates are hot.
When you take them out, wipe them dry immediately, otherwise they could cool down quickly.
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, because I haven’t read the wiki page yet ;-)
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 4 weeks ago:
It’s called procrastination.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The caveat here is why Europeans are a bit better than this?
The European countries had their own wave of fascism and dictatorship in recent centuries. Some seem to have leaned from the experience.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It should also be said that tarring all Americans with the same brush is unfair. I think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality
But that means all the non-voters are to blame as well.
And why are the streets so empty now? I can’t see all these democrats out there.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The descent became a downslide and now it’s an avalanche.
No, it hasn’t always been that bad. Stupidity happens. It is human. Most times people were able to keep stupidity in check.
That’s why democracy was invented, by the way. It was founded on the belief that a collective can be more reasonable than a single or small group.
Not saying that reason were the opposite of stupidity (that would be wisdom), but reason is a means to keep stupidity in check.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 weeks ago:
leading to all out war and global catastrophe.
I doubt it.
Unlike your typical nice bar brawl, not everybody is actually that eager to get involved in an exchange of nukes, and alliances get sometimes weaker when the risks get higher.
I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.
Of course you are free to build your opinion on whatever speculation you like the most.
Did you know that a good share of all American nukes are mounted on short range missiles that can travel only 100 km or so? Some people were considering funny scenarios there…
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 weeks ago:
I suggest to read about Hiroshima, and what really happened there, and afterwards.
Here’s a good book: Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a.co/d/8KS4RXC
One bomb kills people in a circle of 10 or 50 km (I forgot), and injures people maybe 100km around. Then it does damage to nature maybe even 1000 km around.
But the planet has a circumference of 40.000 km. Now let your thoughts run around the planet.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 weeks ago:
an effective deterrent to war
Do not fool yourself. Nukes have NOT achieved that on their own.
It has always been humans who were somewhat responsible and willing to communicate (diplomacy) instead of shooting blindly.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 weeks ago:
Top 100 means about half of all countries.
So many people having their fingers at the triggers. There would be many unreasonable and evil ones among them.
We would have nuclear war every year.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
In Usa, “protesters” are not allowed to do anything further than waving a few signs.
Even when they start shouting too loudly, they go to jail immediately. And then they need a president who releases them (but he releases only the right ones).
Have you noticed how many, many police and national guard troops they can afford? Massa Musk does not cut down on police, only on schools and scientists and caregivers for the sick…
- Comment on How did you guys get your fediverse real-time notifications to work? 5 weeks ago:
fediverse real-time notifications
Don’t.
Keep the last tiny bit of your sanity.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 5 weeks ago:
Reditors say, goto therapist.
Therapists say, goto redit.
But they are all the same.
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Create a startup in reasearch and development of fully autonomous robotic electrical helicopters with swappable batteries and shiny plush seats for the passengers etc.pp. Collect huge venture capital for it.
Don’t forget to brag about your $1 salary!
Go broke after 3 years with a shrug.
Rent that land for some nice money to your startup as a test airfield.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
get people to [ …do XY]
Doesn’t work unless they can drive right into it with their small cars.
- Comment on Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach? 5 weeks ago:
anyone with more money gets more free speech, which isn’t how rights work.
The ones with a lot of money are the only ones who have rights anyway.
- Comment on Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know any of their reasoning, but money as a form of speech is just obviously bullshit.
Unfortunately, freedom of speech is the only one of all the basic human rights that Americans seem to know. So whenever someone needs a new right, they have only this to build upon.
(Whenever they want to take away a right from someone, they babble about NatioANAL Security)
- Comment on Is there any negative consequence to wearing socks inside out? 5 weeks ago:
I think the wear out is the same.
The look depends on the socks of course, and if anybody would see them at all.
Just do your thing :)
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you were a billionaire that suddently had a change of heart and wanted to go against trump, how dangerous would it be to resist? 1 month ago:
it’d be you vs every other billionaire
How very Usamerican of you to assume all billionaires were inside of your country :-)
No, it would not be actually dangerous. You just need to be prepared to lose a good part of your money.
After all, it is only a Tricktator. A manipulator and a trickster. No real teeth. No real dictator (though he absolutely wants to become that). No real strength, neither physical nor mental.
- Comment on Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) 1 month ago:
Electricity was invented some 7000 years later.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 1 month ago:
From a software perspective adding a kill switch is needlessly adding a potential vulnerability.
Of course they would test against all imaginable vulnerabilities. It is a weapon after all.
And of course they would make all the needed software tests in a safe environment where the switch doesn’t really destroy things.
need spare parts and software updates
As I said, no direct profit from the kill switch. But the possibility of indirect profit: for every destroyed weapon, there is the potential to sell a new one later.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 1 month ago:
I am very sure that it is true.
Not only such primitve things as a kill switch - because nobody can make any profit directly from deactivating a device - but also lots of dependencies from the manufacturers and from the Usa, for the supply of ammunition, materials, spare parts etc. The same idea that we know as “vendor lock-in” in lots of consumer products.
- Comment on Not that I would. But could I go up to the capital building and do the exact same thing Jan 6th morons did down to a T? Since Trump pardoned them, or does it apply for a few while the rest are screwed 1 month ago:
But could I
He pardoned them because they worked für him. For him personally.
You can’t do that if HE doesn’t want you to do that.
- Comment on Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN? 1 month ago:
Then you would be dead.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 1 month ago:
he explained he still had feelings for me and would love to still be friends.
although he’s bi, he’d only talk about hot men (especially fictional)
He’s trolling you. He’s making fun of you.
O.m.g. what a very bad guy.
I am sure he is talking about you to his other friends, and it is not exactly praise then.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think it is mostly used by AfroAmerican people, and i believe
Have you ever asked one of them about the meaning or purpose of that habit?