khannie
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- Comment on European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers 5 days ago:
What you’re missing is that after Brexit the EU is desperate to appear to citizens that they’re listening and this would be such an easy win that yeah, I really expected them to not only listen but actually get their fingers out of their collective arseholes and do something about it.
Blah blah funding. Sure, start by targeting games that sell over X units or Y euros in revenue.
If the article is correct then it’s a massive missed opportunity.
- Comment on prediction 1 week ago:
Everyone looking at the date counting down going “before what exactly?”
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 week ago:
My wife had a favourite song when she was pregnant and it was very useful for calming after the birth. It was quite a chill tune.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 1 week ago:
Yeah, all fair points. I do love the convenience of using my phone to pay too in fairness.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 1 week ago:
This may seem like a silly solution but maybe pop your debit card inside your phone case. It should bop through it.
- Comment on UK | Retired priest, 83, among 29 Palestine Action supporters arrested under Terror Act hours after government bans group 1 week ago:
The happy head on her is hilarious.
“Go on. Label me a terrorist, you fuckin’ Muppets”
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 1 week ago:
Howled laughing at this. Amazing.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 2 weeks ago:
Ah I eventually discovered that it was a scheduled signal message. Cheers though.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
This was going to be my next port of call but another comment caused me to figure out that if was a scheduled signal message.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I was about to do this but another comment caused me to check scheduled messages. It was signal.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Just updated the comment above yours. It was a scheduled message in signal. Thanks!
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
OK now we’re getting somewhere. I don’t have that chronological order thing but I do have an icons section and in there is alarm. When I disable that it disappears. It must be an alarm of some sort that’s not in the clock app.
There is no upcoming alarm in my drop down either.
I’ll dig further.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
That’s my experience from seeing it before. It eventually just went away and I couldn’t figure out why it was there or what would have caused it to go.
At least I’m not alone.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
No, nothing like that. I don’t generally use my phone in complex ways. Like I’m a geek but the phone is mostly texting, calls, movies and Lemmy.
I’ll update the thread if some reminder does come up later but I’ve had this icon before and no “oh that’s what it is” moment after I notice it’s gone.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
No. Double checked. No timers either. Rebooted the phone to see if it’s still there and it is.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Hmmm. I don’t have any automation apps installed. Can’t think of anything else I might have scheduled. No backups or anything like that. I thought maybe WhatsApp scheduled backup because I know that’s a thing but it’s off.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Network time all the way. Good idea though.
I used to have a clock app from f-droid installed but got rid of it ages ago as it wasn’t working properly for alarms. Double checked and I did uninstall it back then.
Scrolled through all my other apps (I run a relatively tidy ship so it didn’t take too long) and I can’t see anything that I think would be setting an alarm.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Great idea. Off to do that and hard kill the app. Will report back.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
💀
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Oh great idea. I had high hopes for this one! Went through all occurrences of “mode” and “scheduled” in settings.
The only one I have scheduled is “eye comfort”. It doesn’t turn on for another 11.5 hours so I think it’s unlikely.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Nice idea. I checked and (unusually) I’ve nothing in calendar for today. Everything coming up after that is normal looking but the nearest thing is tomorrow afternoon.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, but no. I double checked.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
No worries :) I appreciate the back and forth.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
It’s not though.
The British didn’t cause the famine, they “just” made it worse.
It’s a common misconception but there are a few issues with “didn’t cause the famine” for me:
- Potato blight != famine. There was a potato blight across all of Europe at the time. Ireland still produced more than enough food to feed itself even in 1847, the worst year of the blight. It wasn’t a case of making it worse, they literally wouldn’t have gone hungry at all.
- The only reason Irish peasants were so dependent on a single food crop to feed themselves was because it was what produced the most calories for a given area of land. The British stole the land from the Irish then forced payment at such a high rate from the people they stole it from that it left no choice but to use that single crop to feed themselves. They had to use their remaining non-potato land for higher value cash crops to pay rent on the land that was stolen from them.
- An enormous number of people died from exposure after being fucked off their land and having their homes burned to the ground because they couldn’t afford to pay rent to those landlords.
So the British did cause the actual famine in it’s entirety and the deliberate lack of relief was seen as an act of God / retribution to reduce the population here (which they 100% left to starve, with some kind landlord exceptions).
It’s why the Irish don’t call it “The Famine” any more. It’s “the great hunger” here because there wouldn’t have been a famine at all if we’d just been left the fuck alone to grow a variety of crops instead of being raped and pillaged for hundreds of years.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
Ah yeah. I’m Irish and I don’t blame modern folks over there for it. I know it was the ruling class but damn where they cold AF. To be fair though there were lots of acts of brutality from British soldiers over the centuries who I have to guess were working class. Well beyond just “following orders”.
We do remember the acts of kindness at the time, especially the Choctaw as I mentioned in another comment. Just goes to show it’s nice to be nice. You will be eventually be forgiven the sins of your ancestors they you do bad things, but you will forever be remembered as kind if your ancestors do nice things.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
The British didn’t cause the famine, they “just” made it worse.
This is absolutely false. They didn’t cause the potato blight but they absolutely caused the famine by forcing the export of the remaining food stock which was more than enough to feed the population.
We still have not reached pre-famine population levels after 180 years.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
Hats off to the historical accuracy of this comment chain. Not sure how many of you are Irish but honestly it’s heartening. ❤️
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
We’ve stopped calling it the famine here and now it’s “the great hunger”.
Ireland was producing more than enough to feed itself but the British landlords were forcing the export of non-potatoes and leaving us to die.
The queen at the time politically shamed the Turks into reducing their aid to us because it was lower than hers.
What’s up, Turkey? We haven’t forgotten your generosity.
Massive, massive shout out to our Choctaw brothers and sisters in America who gave what they didn’t have after the trail of tears.
For those not familiar, we have never, ever forgotten that one.
Sculpture in Cork called “kindred spirits”:
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 5 weeks ago:
Don’t start your car tomorrow
(I jest of course).
