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lasagna , 9 months ago

I don’t think hands are good at peeling potatoes. Maybe if you sharpen your nails?

lasagna , 9 months ago

Doesn’t really matter if the economy got bigger if it just means more money to corporations. The average person has certainly not seen growth. A mortage increase of 5% coupled with low wage increases, high food and fuel inflation left most people much worse off.

Then again, this unit of measure has always been a very poor one in countries with huge wealth gaps.

lasagna , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Whataboutism bs. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

whataboutism /ˌwɒtəˈbaʊtɪz(ə)m/ noun the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Credit is definitely due and this is an amazing feat by India.

I haven’t bothered to discuss the other topic. Is there even any point when US issues are always on the front page here? I probably know more about US politics than my own country at this point.

Though of course you could also go there and take a jab at Americans. Let me know when you do so I can give you some support.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Whatever your reasons, that was whataboutism.

Expecting others to know what goes on in NASA discussions is moronic at best. That’s not the topic we are in. You didn’t even link it or reference it.

The Indian caste system is a humanitarian crisis. Would you rather westerners ignore it? There’s just no winning then, is there?

lasagna , 9 months ago

Would slowing them down be enough? I’m thinking along the lines of a magnet.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Remote is something I’d only enable while using it. Once found my ubuntu (I use arch btw) with the setting on for some reason. Might be worth checking even if you never turned it on.

lasagna , 9 months ago

I say this as a long term caffeine for the rest of my life addict. Coffee + sugar is a wildly different effect than just coffee. I avoid sugar completely during my coffee hours.

lasagna , 9 months ago

I think the implication here is to take the knife and stab the scissors person.

lasagna , 9 months ago

One of them carried a hammer held by her bra. Wild. The person in charge of this place should be facing criminal charges.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Wanna bet most people making a scene out of it don’t even use sunscreen?

The sun pumps out some amazing stuff. It happens to be the OG nuclear reactor.

lasagna , 9 months ago

What doesn’t? At this point I’d guess most people want him dead.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Floridaman too busy wrestling aligators and cooking meth.

lasagna , 9 months ago

It fell off a window.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Was he seen alive recently? For all we know, that was just a pricey cremation.

lasagna , 9 months ago

He was paid in exposure, pride, and accomplishment.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Yep. Taking the piss aside, it was a smart move to co-star with someone so famous.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Nice and short. Thanks for the link. I never knew much about the actor so it’s good to see.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Add this to your profile:

alias mkfol=mkdir

Have a fun life buddy.

lasagna , 9 months ago

The people who generally want to destroy a system and rebuild anew are usually clueless or have an ulterior motive.

While we are nowhere near the best we could be, we are also nowhere near the worst we have been in the past. Today is the result of an endless amount of people putting their effort, and often their lives, into improving society. This fight never ends.

lasagna , 9 months ago

In terms of the current systems we have in the west, yes. In terms of older revolutions no. It wasn’t intended to be a universal statement.

And I said generally. Not absolutely as your ‘all’ implies. The anchor for what I consider a person with excellent ideals and a beacon for humanity is MLK.

But you’re welcome to think of me as a moron if it helps you fulfil your outrage needs. Sleeping well at night is important.

lasagna , 9 months ago

That head grab before the kiss though. Looks like he is used to forcing these things.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Just get an ass infection.

lasagna , 9 months ago

No cake frosting in the jungle.

lasagna , 9 months ago

Isn’t that basically what he pitches? To be angry at the system that has, in their minds and from their perspectives, been wronging them? Even though of course people like Trump are a tumour in the system.

lasagna , 10 months ago

China has entire towns that are toxic wastelands. This is just a political statement, probably their usual brainwashing of self.

lasagna , 9 months ago

What I now think of brainwashing and those who fell victims to it is almost completely different than what I did when I was younger.

I don’t blame you for thinking this way. Since these aren’t your ideas.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Since when do we blame the responsible people when things go wrong?

lasagna , 10 months ago

Good luck getting to stay in most of those places. They’re happy to have tourists, not residents. Unless you have a lot of money to open a business. Proud little boys don’t strike me as wealthy.

lasagna , 10 months ago

I find that unlikely. AI is a subject much like space tech. It may not always be the giant it is now but it’s a baseline research countries will be conducting. Even if only as a means to defend themselves.

lasagna , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

This sounds like a line from a David Tennant’s Doctor episode (probably the Master who said it) but I can’t be bothered checking.

lasagna , 10 months ago

And that’s not the worst I have seen. Things like raisins are basically flavoured sugar.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Any flavour preferences?

lasagna , 10 months ago

The sugar we know isn’t that different. It’s essentially a dried plant too but with stuff removed.

Sure adding sugar is another big issue. But fruits aren’t that great for us either. Certainly better to eat an apple than drink apple juice though.

lasagna , 10 months ago

There is a whole lot of things that aren’t fresh but are good for us and better than fruits. Interesting statement.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Whole grains, lentils, frozen vegetables, plenty of meats, fish, eggs. These come to mind. In the perfect world I would give fruits a blanket stamp of approval (I know right, the self-importance). But almost nobody I know don’t already have plenty of sugar in their diet, which means fruits just compound that. That’s not to mention that selective breeding has made our fruits unnecessarily sweet (try the most popular apple types after not having any sweets for a few weeks).

Of course though, there are lots of fruits and many of them are great as long as they’re not processed (e.g. smoothies).

I generally just go for vegetables. Getting into them can be tough but once you do they’re a game changer for your palate.

Pedanticism aside, fruits are miles better than almost any sweets. So if you do manage to replace cake time with fruit time, congrats. That’s a huge step.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Don’t tell the people fighting this about coal power plants and other things that actually fuck the environment and kill us.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Welcome to the world of training datasets.

There are many ways to go about it, but for a limited number they’d probably use human analysts.

But in general, they’d put a lot more effort into a chunk of data and use that as the truth. It’s not a perfect method but it’s good enough.

lasagna , 10 months ago

A bad guy.

lasagna , 10 months ago

It’s a sum with n from 1 to infinity. The first value with n=1 is 3/4, with n=2 it’s 3/16. And if you keep adding those terms as n goes to infinity it approaches 1 but never gets there.

Then if you look back at the meme, you could zoom in for infinity and always find a smaller square.

lasagna , 10 months ago

On top of how many? Still though, that’s insane. But with such an aged population it’s no wonder. Japan is in a vicious cycle and many other countries are getting there.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Have you tried rubbing a lamp?

Facebook has been abusing people’s mental illnesses for decades. It will take more than a statement on lemmy to fix that.

The fires are happening today.

lasagna , 10 months ago

That’s the problem with averages vs medians. It completely overlooks wealth gap.

Here is an example. Moderna CEO made something like $500 million last year. If Moderna had 1000 employees, that would mean the company’s average employee pay is $500,000. And that’s before even adding their pay to this average.

lasagna , 10 months ago

So many corporate cock gobblers commenting on this topic.

Parasites like Meta infiltrated our society, did their damn best to become a monopoly, currently steal from smaller businesses, lost personal data from shitloads of people, makes you their product, and even fueled instability in entire countries. Then people wonder why a government wants to use it to perhaps save a few more lives. It’s not like Meta is a company deserving of goodwill, so are you people getting a cent for this PR work or are you just suckers?

lasagna , 10 months ago

I have thought about it for a while but the US is basically in a cold civil war, with a significant chance of it becoming hot. And it looks very similar to their previous one. Neither side seem to have a charismatic enough leader.

It’s easy to look over the pond and think it’s none of our problem. But if the US falls to chaos a lot of other countries will follow suit. We can already see this influence in the UK and I’d argue many other EU countries. Russia probably saw this weakness, bet on it worsening much quicker than it did, but lost that bet (so far).

With that said, addressing the US as a whole no longer makes sense. I’m sure plenty, plenty of Americans see what is happening.

It’s unfortunate that one of the wealthiest people on this planet has taken the anti-democratic side, but it’s not the first or the last time in history a powerful man, rich beyond measure has done so.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Awww they’re just too shy to list the “we need bottomless profits for our investors” fee.

lasagna , 10 months ago

We have been shown over and over that investors will take profits during good times, build no resilience to handle disasters, invest the bare minimum back into infrastructure and jobs, drain the companies until bankruptcy arrives and taxpayers are left with the bill.

This could work with proper regulation. But regulation can be corrupted. Money corrupts. This industry involves lots of money. And so here we are.

When Jeremy Corbyn proposed to buy back utility companies here shortly before the energy crisis, people looked at him like a lunatic.

lasagna , 10 months ago

Because communist societies did better?

Maybe it’s time to admit that the biggest flaw in our systems is human nature.