Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American photographer Nan Goldin condemns genocide in Gaza at Berlin exhibition opening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It turns out their power elites never ditched the foundational mindset that gave birth to and underpinned Nazism - that above all else Race defines how people should be treated - hence they’re supporting a Genocide being commited by extreme Racists and well on it’s way to a new Holocaust, with the only justification for that support being the dominant ethnicity of the nation commmiting it.

  Unsurprisingly, in that moral swamp the AfD is finding it easy to grow since they’re just support doing “for our race” the widespread and widely accepted political view in Germany that people should be treated differently according to their race and some races should be treated better than others (a view which has now been shown to be supported all the way to the extreme situation of maintaining unwavering support of a nation pretty much going full on Nazi on the ethnicity they deem “human animals”, because that nation claims to represent the Jewish ethnicity)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey Temptation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The places I know were they do cook stuff using volcanic heat (in Peru and the Azores islands which are part of Portugal) they do it by digging a hole in an area were the ground is hot from volcanic heat and putting a pan cooking in it (they cover it all to keep the heat).

  So it’s more a local technique for cooking for free that then evolved into a couple of traditional dishes.

  Never heard of trying to roast stuff on the output of a geyser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shiny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of effort to obtain the female-impressing rock by the crow is far less than by the human, thus indicating that the crow is the wisest of the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Had one too many succulent Chinese meals…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but they’re great at discharing people’s righteous indignation of people who might otherwise do something extreme like going on demonstrations or start campaigning for non-“moderate” political parties.

  This way people just put their personal data next to a meaningless and powerless piece of text on a website alongside that of other people, get the feeling of release after having done something about what pisses them of, and won’t do anything further about it.

  Petitions are the single greatest invention of the Internet Age to keep the masses dormant (Social Media would’ve been it if, it wasn’t that, as the far-right has shown, it can be used to turn some people into activists).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an alternate theory:

  Back then both parties tended to use the “slimy posh salesman” kind of deceit (half lies, misleading statements, promises left unfulfilled with twisted excuses given for it) and what happened was that Republicans, almost against their will (Trump was an outsider) stumbled upon the “strongman saying what people want to hear using straight talking language” technique of deceit.

  It was a massive success because people had been fed the same kind of posh-saleman deceit (with pretty much all the media having gone along with it and turning into de facto propaganda outlets) for decades, found the new sort of discourse refreshing and comparatively trustworthy (even though it was still bullshit, just delivered differently, because it did not sound at all like the usual bullshit it seemed trustworthier to many and all the media that had chosen sides and gone along unquestionigly with the old style of deceit was’t trusted anymore so all they’re blooming out the “other side’s lies” was ignored)

  Whilst the Republican did adjust to the unexpected success quickly, the Democrats did not and just kept using with their usual deceit techniques and media-outlets to which lots of the electorate had built a resistance to, and acting to favour the usual people when in government.

  So here we are today with a lying populist getting power for a second time in the American Two-Party system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even that is incredibly “murica” - he’s white and a rich guy from a rich family hence he’s not getting the same treatment for overstaying his visa a non-rich no-white African.

  Racism and profound wealth discrimination are as American as it gets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of people your age is only going down with time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but today is always the first day of the rest of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the problem is because CRT displays didn’t have pixels so the uniform noise which is static was not only uniformely spread in distribution and intensity (i.e. greyscale level) but also had “dots” of all sizes.

  Also another possible thing that’s off is the speed at which the noise changes: was it the 25fps refresh rate of a CRT monitor, related to that rate but not necessarily at that rate or did the noise itself had more persistent and less persistent parts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way, the picture illustrating the post isn’t actually displaying the real thing - the noise in it is too squarish and has no grey tones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitelly an analog over the air TV thing.

  The way digital works you would either get a “No signal” indicator (because the circuitry detects the signal to noise ratio is too low) or squarish artifacts (because of the way the compression algorithms for digital video are designed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently I’ve been playing Airline Tycoon Deluxe, Sims 3, Battle Brothers, Kerbal Space Program and Prey.

  I think the newest is Prey, from 2018.

  Airline Tycoon Deluxe is from 1998 and still fun (at the beginning, eventually you just make tons of money, use it to do more of the same to make even more money and it stops being fun).

  By the way, they all run on Linux, though I had to literally pirate the Sims 3 to get it to work even though I own the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One Frankenstein can make many monsters but one Frankenstein Monster is just the one monster and that being a monster wasn’t even his choice.

  Logically, Frankenstein is the one who ethically and morally can be deemed Bad, not the monster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, it's me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Little kid: “Why is there a bright ball of light in the sky?” Me (thinking): “Oh, shit…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't figure out if this is a baby, or a cat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all fairness, he never had any in choice in your relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived in a couple of cities in Europe and I can tell you my nose was runny far more often in a poluted place like London (UK) than it is in the small city I live in now in Portugal or the places I lived in when in The Netherlands.

  I suspect that the tendency to catch colds and suffer from alergies is often coupled with all the Sulfur Oxide gases around in cities with lots of car polution which turn into various sulfur oxiacids when those gases mix with water in the nose and airways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognitive Biases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point.

  Ever since I’ve became more aware of those I’ve found myself doing similar kind of “disarming” of such falacies when I notice I’m using them.

  My point it’s that it generally feels like swimming against the current.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognitive Biases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say a lot of those things are the result of cognitive shortcuts.

  It kinda makes sense to make a lot if not most decisions by relying of such shortcuts (hands up anybody who whilst not having a skin problem will seek peer-reviewed studies when chosing what kind of soap to buy).

  Personally I try to “balance” this by making the research effort I will put into a purchase proportional to the price of the item in question (and also taking in account the downsides of a missjudgement: a cheap bungee-jumping rope is still well worth the research) - I’ll invest more or less time into evaluationg it and seeking independent evaluations on it depending on how many days of work it will take to be able to afford it - it’s not really worth spending hours researching something worth what you earn in 10 minutes of your work if the only downside is that you lose that money but it’s well worth investin days into researching it when you’re buying a brand new car or a house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognitive Biases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s interesting is how, even when knowing these biases, one has a tendency to often have and display at least some of them.

  (At least, that’s the case for me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any process unless specifically adjusted to compensate for it (and the adjustment itself is a distortion of it and has secondary effects) will be affected by the environment it is working in.

  So specifically for Capitalism and the practice of Science under it, funding and the societal pressure on everybody including scientists to have more money - as wealth is a status symbol in that environment - are he main pathways via which Capitalism influences the practice of Science.

  It’s incredibly Reductionist and even anti-Scientific to start from the axiom that environment does not at all influence the way Science is practiced (hence Capitalism is unrelated to Science) and then just make an entire argument on top of such a deeply flawed assumption

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You had a cardboard box?!

  Luxury!

  When I was young …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re supposed to use baby talk with them from about 15 years old and until they’re 18, to really piss them off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about he at the end of the day going home to his young wife and 5 month old baby with a sad face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We didn’t hear the whole story during the Holocaust.” (emphasis mine).

  It seem mean in the sense of back then people weren’t hearing about what was going on in near real time, and only afterwards was the full dimensions of the horror discovered.

  Mind, you don’t think we are hearing the whole story of this Holocaust in near real time either: it’s not for nothing that Israel has blown up the Hospitals (were the dead were counted), has murdered over 1000 journalists and is blocking aid organisations from entering Gaza - all of which to block people outside from knowing the full scope of what the Israeli are doing in Gaza.

  We are hearing enough to know its a Genocide, but the full dimension of the thing (possibly with it, in scope and in methods use, already being or well on its way to be a new Holocaust) will only be discovered later if at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any unbiased “what if candidates had done things differently” evaluation must include the actions of all candidates that resulted in a Democrat loss. This means it should include how much Clinton herself screw her own chances, for example by comparing the votes she got on those states with the votes previous Democrat candidates got in those states.

  (I strongly suspect that Clinton has a far larger proportion of the blame for her own defeat than all 3rd party candidates put together)

  This focus on blaming everybody else but your own leaders is just the traditional tribalist mindset of “the chief is good, it’s everybody else whose a problem”. The decades long enshittification of the Democrat Party is mainly the product of its supporters acting as mindless tribalists rather the rationally, thus not holding their “chiefs” to same standards as they do everybody else.

  Unsurprisingly we see the very same problem of the Democrat Leadership having carte blanche from the party fans to do just about everything and even damage their own electoral chances - with, as we see right here, the members of the tribe eagerly scapegoating it all as being the fault of 3rd party candidates - with their support for the Israeli Genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birmingham Travel Guide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  White vans, no less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done this almost from the very beginning (back in the 90s) and always had very small mobile communications costs because I could easilly change providers and plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birmingham Travel Guide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The style of architecture (notice the roof shingles, chimney shape, the dark red brick low wall between the street and the pump court and the iron fence in the middle of the road that goes by the pump - the photo was taken from the other side of the road), the kind of cars there, the weather and even the guy working with a reflective vest (all the way to the right of the picture) all suggest UK.

  In fact even without the title the whole thing looks very UK (as opposed to other places in Europe, though I wouldn’t be as sure).

  I lived in Britain and this picture immediatelly said “familiar” and “UK” as soon as I saw it. What’s funny is that to write this post I had to try and understand what elements made it so familiar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Curiously, it’s one of those words that for me feels enjoyable to use yet I seldom have a chance to do so :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s quite shrewd way of going about it.

  Since it’s not emitting anything the power it needs will be way less that something emitting its own signal and then checking for bounces which is how I naveivelly expected it would work.

  Cheers for the detailed explanation.