Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Is this what happens if you type 5318008 too often?
- Comment on Why is head hair different from other hairy parts? 5 days ago:
Fact 1 - sexually active people subconsciously look at peoples’ crotches when meeting them.
Fact 2 - evolution doesn’t fine tune things if they’re good enough to get the job done well.
So the fact that pubic hairs are unsightly crazy-looking things might not be because they are fine tuned to be like that - it might just be because they do their job well enough and they just ended up looking like that.
What job could that be?
To confirm visually that you are sexually mature.
That may literally be it - a localised fuzzy indicator of whether or not you’re able to make babies.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trying to downplay the reality of serious health concerns sometimes being behind food habits, but I think I need to say…
Picky eating is an absolutely normal part of child development. Anecdotally, both of my kids went through two distinct phases of picky eating, at around 3-5 and 8-11.
They gradually grow out of it. All you can do is try to make sure what they are eating is nutritious enough while they are going through it.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
Dry cereal always worked (still does!) as a nutritious snack. Granted, the nutrition has all been sprayed on, but it’s still there.
A little mixed tub of Cornflakes/Branflakes/Rice Crispies/Coco Pops always goes down well.
- Comment on How many songs are about Courtney Love? 2 weeks ago:
Nerf Herder have a song called Courtney about Courtney Love.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I always wanted a Nokia - I know it was a cliche, but I was amazed at how indestructible they were. Even when they did actually break apart, you could just pick up the bits, clip them back together, and it would just work again - with no visible damage.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I started university in 1999. Pretty much everyone had a mobile phone there. They were fairly new, granted, but they were pretty ubiquitous.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I know it doesn’t help, but Europeans have always been amazed how much you guys were charged for SMS. Even in 1999, over here messages cost a fraction of what you were charged - that you pay for them at all these days is just mind-boggling.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 5 weeks ago:
I guess the USA famously uses rendition flights and offshore detention centres, so maybe the plot twist is the other ‘US’ is actually the USA?
- Comment on A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral? 2 months ago:
Maybe I am being obtuse - but I really don’t see what it is you think you’ve had taken from you.
The conversation, the exchange of information, is intangible and transient by its very nature. You don’t own the conversation. There’s nothing about it to own.
If you think there’s some obligation on the part of the moderator to preserve the transcripts of conversations that you’ve taken part in, even against their own better judgement, then I’m sorry but I don’t see it.
But anyway, like I said - if you set up your own instance, you can keep those threads open for as long as you like.
- Comment on A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral? 2 months ago:
But they’re not taken from you - they still happened.
No actual harm has happened. Nothing changes the fact that you had a conversation. You are no poorer for it being hidden.
I know it’s said a lot, but if you don’t want to play by someone else’s rules, you can set up your own instance. Every single thing on here is the result of someone just setting up their own instance. Honestly, it’s never been easier than it is now.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 2 months ago:
Also, at the time, in the west, Al Qaida were a largely unknown terrorist cell operating in far-away third-world countries. It seemed incredible that such a devastating attack could be carried out on US soil by a small group most people had never heard of.
- Comment on Labour’s business conference promises government of, by and for the banks and corporations 3 months ago:
Finally, this is the change the country needs. A government that listens to the rich and powerful.
- Comment on How do you accept the things you cannot change? 3 months ago:
You could find solace in hard determinism.
This was always going to be the way it happened.
Your actions were determined by your biology and life experience up to that point. Likewise, the other person acted how they did according to their biology and experience.
The gears of the universe turned in the only way they were going to turn, and the outcome you got was the only one that was ever going to happen.
It doesn’t mean that you can’t now act upon it moving forward, but hopefully there’s some calm to be had in knowing that what has already happened was always going to happen. It’s just a tiny artifact of the vast and intricate clockwork of the universe.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 3 months ago:
You’ve have some examples, but in case they are not clear enough:
If [you have AIDS] then [you are unwell]
[You are unwell] if and only if [you have AIDS]
The first one is not the same as the second. Why? There are plenty of ways to be unwell, without necessary developing AIDS.
The first statement only defines one possible path to B, not all of them.
- Comment on what has worked for you to stop getting angry thinking about people who hurt you? 4 months ago:
I’m really lucky in that I learned “what goes around comes around” at a relatively early age.
When I was 16/17, the main bully from my secondary school died. He’d taken a car to go joyriding and lost control when being chased by the police.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learnt that, while it can sometimes take a long time, people who treat other people badly get what’s coming to them more often than not.
- Comment on Good printer for beginner 5 months ago:
Fwiw, I don’t recommend an ender. Admittedly it’s capable of great things, but certainly not out of the box.
Admittedly it’s not a huge selection, but the best printer I’ve used in terms of ease and quality is the FLSun Q5. Prints great out of the box, auto-levels, easy to repair, plus it’s a delta (which are just magical to watch).
- Comment on How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello? 5 months ago:
Yikes - and I thought I overanalyzed my text messages
- Comment on How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello? 5 months ago:
This is what I do too. For double letters draw a tidgy little circle on the key - that should be enough to let the text recognition know what you want. It’s a useful movement just to have as part of your swipe-typing technique.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This. It’s less to do with religion, and everything to do with human nature.
From Ancient Egyptian Priests and Medieval Christianity, to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson - when in times of uncertainty, people will turn to anyone claiming to have all the answers.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 5 months ago:
That isn’t how free speech works.
All it means is that the government can’t stop you from saying what you want. It doesn’t mean that you can say whatever you want with no repercussions.
YouTube is not the government. It has terms and conditions that you agree to when you sign up. They have a right to delete your comments. You do not have the right to post whatever you want.
Sorry, but that’s the truth of it. If you circumvent the built in filters, then users can still downvote / report you and creators can still delete your messages.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 5 months ago:
As @princessleiascat said, I think you’re assuming that most people can relate to this, but the truth is that they can’t. I’ve never had a comment deleted from YouTube - ever.
As a creator, I’ve deleted the occasional comment someone else has made on my content, though.
This is why most people are defaulting to the position that maybe it’s more about what you are writing, rather than a broken system.
- Comment on This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside 5 months ago:
He’s deliberately built it in a skip because that’s the loop-hole. Houses come with all kinds of regs/costs involved - these costs are magnified in London.
There’s literally no way you could legally build a house on the land for anything remotely close to that - maybe even at all.
Conversely, you’re allowed to put whatever you want in a skip, as long as it fits. And you can put a skip pretty much anywhere on your own property.
The obvious downside is that his house doesn’t technically exist. However, the upside is that his house doesn’t technically exist also.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
Hanlon’s Razor, my dude.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
I realised that I’m in the bad here - I missed the connection between the specific wars in the cartoon (i.e. that the US was/supports the aggressor). I thought it was just anti-war in general.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
Ah, ok, I see what’s happened.
Ok, misunderstanding. I’m not American - I didn’t see the connection with the US being the aggressor in the examples in the comic. I was just interpreting it as ‘Anti-War’.
The rest of the exchange makes more sense now!
I was honestly baffled, it felt like I was having a different conversation than everyone else.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
Not just the US, throughout the world, the more right-wing and populist a party’s stance is, the lower the average level of education their supporter base has.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
I agree?!
I’m honestly not sure what would make you think otherwise.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
I should say what to Russia? I don’t understand.
I agree that the world has a duty to stop any attempts a country might make to annex another country’s territory.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
Oh, I agree. Personally I think the world has a duty to stop any country attempting to annex parts of any other country.
I was just tickled by that exchange.
- Comment on Reactionaries have you used the same talking points to shun progress throughout history. 5 months ago:
With all due respect, you’re literally replying to a post saying it’ll always be “This war is different, this war is justified” by emphasising how this war is different and this war is justified.