HumanPenguin

HumanPenguin , 1 day ago

that mostly are non-practicing

Just to be clear. Practising was not a consideration to the NAZI ideals. And is in no way relevant to any of these events.

HumanPenguin , 3 days ago

Every nation with currency sovereignty manipulates its currency.

Add to that. Citizens / voters blame politicians when a currency is low relative to others. While those same politicians claim responsibility for improvements.

Including US ones.

HumanPenguin , 2 days ago

It dose. But its not like western xtian stopped influencing Africa some time in the past. Today American xtian orgs spend a fortune lobbying African nations and supporting extream right wing politics.

Lets face it the western world has difficulty removing money from politics. Even in the richest nation in the world. So having money from that nation interfere with the politics of less wealthy nations. Well lets face it there is a reason those are the nations right wing xtians try to push their ideals. It works.

HumanPenguin , 3 days ago

Just petty tit for tat?

As opposed to a strategy that allows one nation to attack another knowing no effective response is possible you mean.

You choose to belittle the idea a nation should expect consequences when they try to seize another nation as petty tit for tat. Rather then a fair response.

HumanPenguin , 2 days ago

Bollocks. The Ukraine has every hope of convincing Russia to leave its soil. If it has the support of other nations.

Having those nations allow the Ukraine to use weapons supplied in a way that forces Russia to actually spend resources defending its own inferstructure is the first step to lowering there ability to push everything they have into another nation.

The Ukraine has done a fantastic job of limiting the ability of Russia to over run its nation. While being limited in its ability to respond to the attacker. Forcing Russia to defend its ow borders will make a huge difference in the Ukraine ability to remove Russia fro mits own borders.

HumanPenguin , 4 days ago

Lets remember the fanta story.

Coke never left Germany even when the US finally joined the 2nd World War. The traded as fanta to avoid losing sales as an American brand. Once the German people felt they had reason to distrust the US.

Remember this company has a history of refusing to take sides.

HumanPenguin , 4 days ago

Pretty much.

Edit. But if we are honest. Its not like western nations are going to stop buying vote to teach them the cost.

Unfortunately I don’t drink their products as I’m cheap. So can’t really help myself. But I would be amazed if a boycott of coca cola ever happened effectively.

HumanPenguin , 8 days ago

Blasphemy quick stone the unbelievers.

Kidding of course. Have to admit I agree. I’ve used Linux since the late 1990s. So long long before it was usable by most folks standards.

I started because my university had HPUX machines that we needed to submit work on. So wanted a unix like enviroment at home I could work on. This was a tim when linux was basically slackers on 50plus floppy disks. Xwindows needed configuring for every monitor. Honestly by current standards usability was non existant compared to windows.

But honestly I spent so much time on the system. And watched it improve. To the point I find windows an utter pain in the arse now. And will avoid it under all circumstances.

But the idea of convincing folks who have no interest. Where the hell do folks find the time.

HumanPenguin , 8 days ago

Lol.

Not part of an EU treaty. As lets face it if the EU had actual laws requiring a member nation to express approved political views. No nation would join.

As far as I know. That also applies to every other international treaty. They tend to limit actions not political opinions or speech.

HumanPenguin , 7 days ago

Again not covered by the EU agreement. Although a few EU members argue strongly for military unification. It was raised by many during brexit as a reason to leave the EU. So again unlikely to find full upport in the near future.

Currently the supply of arms and weapons is totally uncovered by EU trade agreements. NATO has some agreements. But non that cover this.

The thing people forget. International law dose not really exist beyond atual agreements nations are willing to commit to. Unfortunately as the world is a bloody long way from a utopia. Most nations are unwilling to agree to things that limit their own military actions. So nothing most other nations can do.

The closest we ever came is post WW2 where the Geneva convention and ICC was set up.

But as you can see. No nation is forced to abide by such rules. The US and Russia make i clear. Might makes right until some event leaves oa nation on the losing side of a battle with enough losses of resources to need help from other nations.

What the rest of the world thinks in wars is still pretty much unimportant to the events.

HumanPenguin , 11 days ago

Dammed impressive. How evil AI is managing to post defending itself.

I for one will be happy to bow to our new AI overlord.

HumanPenguin , 11 days ago

Honestly what we have now is AI. As in it is not intelligent just trys to mimic it.

Digital Intelegence if we ever achive it would be a more accurate name.

HumanPenguin , 12 days ago

First remember pubs do not exist. They are entirely fictional. They were created to confuse potential invaders during the 2nd World War.

Basically pubs are public toilets containing the most dangerous people in the UK. Improv actors. Designed to confuse the shit out of foreign agents.

HumanPenguin , 12 days ago

I assume they think the bank of England and international investors are to left wing.

It is basically what lettuce brain is claiming. Also a common hiding point for extream right wing supporters. We are not wrong the world is out to get us and refuses to give our ideas a real chance.

IE democracy is out to get us unless we try to limit the left from actually acting.

HumanPenguin , 17 days ago

Hard to be sure without knowing the exact tech developed. How efficient that is on defferent fuels will have an effect on how much effort is placed into gaining those fuels.

Of course if real options exist the easiest to obtain fuel will be used. Capatalism will ensure that. Though honestly so would most other systems.

But let’s face it. If mankind was able to generate plenty of cheap energy.

The people profiting of limited resources supply now. Will not go away. And invest what they have in controlling supply. So expect some fairly unpredictable polical moves during the roll out.

HumanPenguin , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

revoking their visas and restricting any US-based property transactions.

So any icc employee who has settled in the US. Loses access to family. And is unable to sell property to fund moving them. To a less politically toxic nation?

It could be a ĺittle more then symbolism to the lives of anyone involved who has a visa.

Republicans seem to really ignore:we no longer live in a world where the girl/boy next door is your most likely wife/husband. Many of us human beings build relationships accross borders now the Internet is so linked to our daily lives.

HumanPenguin , 19 days ago

More worried by the sci fi like future.

Where this stuff evolves into something that looks to hunt mankind. Due to the micro plastics we all have in our bodies.

Huge black fungus blobs rolling up the beach. Covering sun bathers and slowly absorbing the living body over decades.

HumanPenguin , 20 days ago

Imm gonna guess. There ovens would not fit it.

HumanPenguin , 21 days ago

Honestly the USA would have issuez pulling it off today. After creating the tech taken from german desigbs over 50 years ago.

HumanPenguin , 21 days ago

Lol. Visual impaired typing on a phone. I feel no shame in the odd typo.

But yep germany has a very long history of scilled engineering. Before and after Nazi control.

HumanPenguin , 21 days ago

Not OP. But curios on the subject. I use debian bookworm with an older Nvidia 1050.

I currently tend to use gnome. As I have multi res monitors. Mainly due to vision issues. 2x32inch 2k 1x28inch 4k and a 24inch 1k

Dose any desktop allow stable fractional scaling for each monitor independently. Its been a good few years since I looked into it. But in the past it was unstable.

HumanPenguin , 21 days ago

Thanks ill lookninto that sometime soon.

HumanPenguin , 26 days ago

Not OP but thanks for sharing a good link.

Technically it is not a cure for type 2. But a repair to further damage caused by a life of type 2.

The type 2 diabetic is still insulin resistant after this treatment. It is just some of the harm that resistance dose to their islet cells. Makeing them partly mimic type 1 diabetes with reduced insulin production. Can be rebuilt with stem cells.

The patient will still need to eat and manage carbs as a well treated type 2 must. To avoid having issues.

HumanPenguin , 26 days ago

Its worse the that. Many think now it is reversed. As T2 is a resistance to insulin. And without insulin you cannot gain energy from your diet. It is now commonly accepted that those prown to t2 diabetes are often forced to eat due to the body gaining less energy from food.

So being genetically prown to to can lead to weight gain prior to diagnosis. Rather then weight gain leading to to t2d.

HumanPenguin , 27 days ago

It being a self directed thing. Rather the run by scummy magazine and movie producers. Makes a big big difference to how many feel safe taking it on.

So yeah being so popular likely is very much a gen z thing.

HumanPenguin , 28 days ago

As the manifesto are not released yet. At best it will be a guess.

Week or so you may start seeing 2019 sites updating. As they get ready for release.

But honestly. Most folks will be looking at voting against the tories. Rather then voting for policies.

FPTP tends to punish idealised voting. And the current polling makes it clear removing tories is more important then specific policies to most voters. So it is very likely tactical voting will be the bigger site motivation this time.

HumanPenguin , 27 days ago

Is kind of annoying

Very. But unfortunately FPTP dose tend to force it. And the big parties know this so will not help to remove it.

HumanPenguin , 28 days ago

As the other commenter said. There is a reason drafting is normally done at a young age. Once you get to late 30s. It takes effort to stay fit. Most folks having done a desk job in that time. Are not suitable for the sort of roles conscription is generally used for.

Conscripts tend to need to be trained in ways older minds are less willing to accept. Amd tend to still be used for tasks that are more physically demanding then professional soldiers.

Now back in ww2 the UK did draft older people. So it is lass rare in Ukraine like situations. But it dose show how rare such situations have been in the last 40 years or so. That many of us have grown up never seeing a draft get so desperate for people.

Unlike some posters on lemmy claim. It is not really a sign that NATO nations will look to conscription yet. Or at least those that do not do so in genral will not need to move to doing so. The simple,e fact that nato nations are drawing from well over 900m people to russias 145m. Means it will take a major change before Russia is able to form a ground war within nato territory. Even the new ones of sweeden and Finland. Russia would need some seriose funding and rebalencing to be able to threaten the professional forces in a way that would look for conscription.

But this dose paint a clear picture of how bad things actually are in the Ukraine.

HumanPenguin , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Success is no proof of comparative ease.

Just that the division is actual evidence that a different approach is needed. And let’s face it. In most daily situations the military has a do it the way we always have attitude.

Thanks for sharing though. Its a good story to share.

As I said we did it in the UK. Not just with regular troops in ww2. But spy units were trained in secret (along with the home gaurd). To act as a resistance if Germany ever took the UK.

This was made up of retired and protected industry non conscripts.

Much of it only released under the official secrets act in the last 20 years. They were literally trained to sabertarge the German lines and keep the resistance active if our government was removed.

But as I say. Its a different thing to train older people. Unless they have had reason to remain fit. Many take more time. And care to train to military standards. The higher level their carreer the more likely much of it was spent at a desk.

And teens leaving school are more used to being directed in the way they are expected to think. Old folks have good reason to think they may know better.

As I said harder to train not impossible. Often best with a more flexible approach then the break down and rebuild most basic training attempts.

And my grandfather died a few years back. But could not keep up was not a phrase I’d dare use untill the last few years. But generalisations have value when folks are making decisions based on a whole nation.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

As gnome shell and ubuntu. Have nio such good faith agreement.

And thisbis just a process ubuntu has to reduce its own work load.

Who really cares. Ubuntu can include and reject any software they choose.

Ubuntu users can also add and take what ever risks they choose.

And gnomeshell can choose to change there releases and software as they choose.

This os the cost of free as in speach software. If you are need 3rd parties to make your software work. You have to accept they have the same freedoms you insist on.

Personally i prefer that and the option to use older versions if thing go wrong. Then a privrate for profit ccompany making the same choices with less freedom for me.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Note the language: “ANY of the following acts”.

Meaning a) would indicate any nation at war with a nation with a defined identity (most ).

Is technically guilty.

I am not questioning if Israel is. There actions are over the top whatever.

But that definition is extreamly broard in a world that dosenot ban defensive wars. Few would argue a single response on a nation that attacked yours is invalid.

Yet by that definition. Hamas committed genocide on Oct 7 and Israel repeated it with their first response.

Absolutely no violent attack on one nation from another. Dose not involve killing members of a nation ethnic or religious group. As that describes every one.

So seems like a law very open to being considered wrong and reinterpretation as the nation considers it.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

Feeding anyone shrimp you have kept in you pants. Def needs adding to the genocide definition.

Under imposing measures intended to prevent birth. As you and anyone accepting them I Will def be single.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

Giving it the opposite issue,

Thanks for updating me BTW.

But that then make it impossible to proove in any case where the commiter is not vocal…

IE if Israel says its self defence. Absolutly no one can proove their motive.

Allowing crap like the claims all folks objecting are just antisemitic. Cos lets face it. There history was one of the few cases where the nazis were open about plans.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

Fair points.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Can’t disagree with the tittle. Although its not just the US that needs to thinkbabout keeping capacity.

But the idea that China is not playing by the rules. Is rather hypocritical. When you consider the subsidies the US has used for past priorities. Lets face it whose rule is China breaking. And why the hell should China be expected to follow them when the US and other nations have made zero effort to prevent there own corperations outsourcing to China. More to the point. Getting China to take over production has been an intentional move from the west. As a way to reduce the hold on communism. Western governments have openly tried to encourage a growth in capitalist ideas and a buying Chinese population to sell to.

Yhe US can and should do what they like terrif wise. Doing so is basically just subsidy in reverse. IE charging other providers rather then funding reduced cost production of your own manufacturing. Its just less efficient because you can only effect limited other nations when you have treaties with some. Where as subsidies allow you to ensure your nation can still produce its own requirements. No matter what other nations do. Why nations should be very careful about agreeing to subsidy banning treaties.

But the US has used subsidy with oil farming and many other industries through history. When it suited them to ensure their industries could compete. As has europe and much of the world.

But if you don’t like the fact that another nation dose not follow rules you have invented with out their agreement. Don’t pretend its chinas fault. China dose plenty we can critisize them for.

But the moving of production from the west is a open choice by Western companies. And one many many people have warned will leave the west without their own facilities. Since at least the 80s. The fact that western governments and western voters of those govs etc, did nothing to stop the actions. Is hardly a reason to blame China.

But let’s face it the day and politician anywhere says. OK we are doing this to fix our own lack of gas ( give a shit ) over the last 50 years.

Is the day we see a huge change in modern democracy. Or at least the attempt at one.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

You can. Most things have gui options.

But you quickly learn for somethings. The terminal is just easier.

If you ignore odd stuff. Most everyday stuff to maintain the system is available in a controlled panal like program. It varies based on distribution and windows manager. But the basic setup is there for most things.

Its when you want to do something creative it gets more complex. While most commands have gui apps. Most online guidance will just find the terminal an easy way to guide you.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

How?

Well no country is forced to obay sanctions. Such things are (like all international law) built on treaty agreements between nations.

So only nations with agreements to support sanctions against other nations are required to enforce them within there own laws.

And in russias case Those agreeing nations are mostly NATO members. Where as china was a warsaw pack member during the cold war.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Oh right wing def feel every life has value.

Just less value then everybodies right not to be forced to pay for them.

They are fairly open about the value of a states non right to force an indevidual to fund anothers life. Being more important then anything.

That the value for all lives is based on either an indeviduals ability to self support. Or other indeviduals willingness to offer charity.

It is forced charity usinging the states ability to use violence they consider a greater crime then any % of society not wanting to support the lives of those in need.

Its not value or no value. But priority of those values that differs.

IE states using its same power of violence to kill forign people who might disagree with the state. Can be argued with no worry about the value of those actions. They have no issue with not choosing to fund defence or the actual state ability to use violence to enforce its laws.

Just the state taking money via potential force to provide life to US citizens in need.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Ill say one thing. As some one with disabilities. While i have no desire myself. Heck my life will be short anyway.

I do feel it is a right people should have.

It just really requires a sound mind at the time of choice. And huge effort to ensure it is not a choice the paiteint is neing forced or guilted into making.

As I cant really come up with an effective and garenteed way to enforce those restrictions.

Im currently happy my natiin will not allow anyform of assisted suicide. It must be entirly at partients own control. And technocally even then its a crime. But one that xamt be punished. Where as an assistant will be jailed.

But I can hope/wish for a world where people could choose to have suffering ended without so much risk of others pushing them into it for thier ow. Reasons.

As I say its not a choice I would make. But my own health means it could be one I mY want amd need help to make in the future.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

So again, the reason the crew is stuck is that USA don’t allow them offboard.

Yes that seems to be exactly what the article is saying.

But honestly. This is pretty common world wide with shipping issues.

Most nations will only issue a temp visa to crew members. Based on the expected exit date of the ship. And even then only to nationalities with some form of visa agreement.

Most nations are required to meet the laws applied. And when the ship is safe. No emergency law applies. So the only ways a crew could leave. Would be to leave the nation with the ship. As is done in a sinking etc. Or for Congress to pass a law allowing immigration etc to give the passengers visas.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Reasonable people are clearly being a little to reasonable. We have been looking at this for 50 years now. Exxon announced the issue in the 1970s.

But corperation. Including exxon under new leadership. Have spent a freaking fortune using false science and media lies. To try and slow down any effort to limit non renewable use.

So yes. Reasonable people are being way to fuckung reasonable.

Edit. And allowing corperations to be only concerned with profit. While killing human beings and destroying the planet.

Honestly if you add the amount of false science research funded purely to allow corperations to create anti climate change. This (plus the plastic industry.)

Have done way more intentional harm the the tobacco industry did whe they discovered the harm fro there products.

But at least many nations punished the tobacco lobby and fined them to help cover the costs.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

Except aircraft actually has the easiest inferstructure to change. As it is centered at a limited number of locations compared to any other transportation.

So refusing to invest in research to change that. Has a larger effect in how long harm will continue. As rebuilding there inferstructure is cheaper.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

For military it has been looked into. Issue at the time was weight vs power.

Main issue being such an aircraft cannot become a unaimed bomb in the event of downing somehow. And while air may statically be the safest way to travel. Planes have had many issues. More so during the time of this research.

So only with the nuclear unit contained in a 18000ft drop saft container. Is such an idea considered viable. Subs and ships do not need that level of protection. Or have that much limitation on power to weight.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

this kind of shit is just another bump in the road.

I assume you are younger.

I am in my 50s. The risk of this shit was known and tought to children in schools in the 1980s.

Yet at every level. Things have gotten worse. We had solar in the 80s. Less efficient but only about 15% rather then the 20% we see now. But tax payer money in all western democracy. Was still funding oil research not batts wind or solar.

Cars became bigger and less efficient as we watched. GM was known to have destroyed its own ev production pack in the 90s.

Nothing at all was invested in building inferstructure to support other fuel types. Again dispite huge public investment in oil.

And at every 0ossible point. What little that was done was aimed at indeviduals who have the least control. While corperations were allowed to keep expanding there use. Without facing any of the costs for replacement.

Its a bump. But a 40plus year bump built intentionally to slow and limit changes in the way wealth is made.

With so much false science and outright lies from corperations its insane.

Exxon the plastics industry and many other. Behaived much worse the the cigarette industry did before them. And have not had to pay anything for there intentional and informed damage to billions of lives. Where as at least in nations with real health care options. Tobbaco companies have lost lawsuits and paid a fortune since discovery.

HumanPenguin , 1 month ago

Eggs are some of the most versatile foods to cook. They are used all over the place. As many have suggested.

But. Yeah it is very unlikely you will find anyone selling one. As almost everyone expects to buy in multiples of 6. There is not the demand for shops to open a box.

Your best bet is to talk to a few niebours. Odds are one of them is happy to sell you an egg if you explain why.

And you never know. You may make a local friend interested in cooking.

HumanPenguin , 2 months ago

Add to that.

Nestle has a huge bonus long term from sugar. It is hugely addictive. Haveing children grow up with an early addiction can only benifit them long term. Given how much sugar is a part of other non bany products they sell.

HumanPenguin , 2 months ago

Not a very valid point.

Every nation complains about its leaders. Some are still bigger shit heads then others.

Simple fact is human beings are more likely to comment on issues then note boring reliability. It still in no way effects the cross nation comparison.

The best of nations in anything has a right and even need to look for better. That is afterall how progress works.

But you need clear comparisons and data to accusse those complaints of properganda.

HumanPenguin , 2 months ago

Over simplification. But generally correct.

Unfortunately it misses out the huge % of low income earners who have fallen for properganda.

The right wing have spent decades convincing everyone that someone else is responsible for their low status. Without that the simple fact is those with less will always out number those with more. So it is essential to ensure those with less blame others for there lack.

This ensures that they are a divided vote.

This works everywhere if you can create enough enemies of different opposing types. But is much more effective in a fptp nation where minimal separation of ideals can allow control.