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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I understand the reasoning for discontinuing. Google standing in the way? Not enough f-droid users benefiting from it? It didn’t see development cause it was already feature complete?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If some immortality serum gets discovered, I hope it’s Gabe that gets to use it and I hope he keeps it secret from other rich people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, getting money out of politics is necessary for correct decisions to be made by the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The type of traffic shaping you are thinking off can still be done under net nutrailty and was never an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So prices will go up until you and me will get around with rickshaw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are used to there being teams in everything. If you are not like me, you are with the enemy team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that affect you instagram browsing experience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do passports need to be signed to be valid?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legacy from a time when it was used as authentication. I guess. I sure find myself not reproducing my past signatures very well. Never got me in to trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “exceeds human performance” … in crushing whatever it is gripping, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not arguing that this happens everywhere, in the same way and is then set in stone forever. People in different places and times had different circumstances. Hence, they could have chosen to handled things differently. Cultural norms can also sometimes change over night. Look at the sexual revolution of the 60-70s for example.

  I was trying to answer the question where this norm comes from. Not why this norm isn’t universal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There really needs to be laws requiring any smart device to have, like, 20 years of security patches, customer support and liability if anything goes wrong. If they want to place a device, that they insist needs internet access, in my home, they need to, at the very least, pay their way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is growing and they are coming⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked it out! I have avatars disabled. Didn’t even know they were a thing. I can confidently say; yours is the best avatar on Lemmy that I have ever seen! audience clapping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I think that is where we are heading. In societies with high quality of life and high standard of eduction, it is already an expectation. Unfortunately there are places today, that are still somewhat mediaeval.

  To clarify; the reason why males might have initially made these requests of their partners is, I reason, insecurity and perhaps fear. Imagine you live in a society where you can not expect protection from anyone except maybe your own family. You find yourself in that threatening situation. Your choices of what to do about it are limited. From the perspective of both the victim and her husband. If most peoples choice are the same, it might become a norm and part of the culture, eventually. You can imagine how the resulting behaviour would probably have been supported by both sexes. Because they feel safer. Because it’s practical and easy. With time it becomes pointless. But it’s culture.

  If I were to find myself in that situation, today, I might have told my wife “let’s leave”. My choices in that moment are still limited. Of course I can report the incident to authorities and what not, after the fact. That sucks for me. It probably sucked even harder 12k years ago.

  I have never found myself in this situation, but I can imagine it. And I think my wife would cover up, not because she wants to, but because it makes her feel safe. That is not great. That is not an argument for bad behaviour. Thankfully we generally feel safe where we live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution doesn’t have a preconceived goal it goes for. There can be pressures of all different kinds. I did not intend to convey that sexual pressure was the sole factor on the evolution of breasts. Clearly they have other functions. I only make the observation that it is a sexual signal for males in the vast majority of mammals. I believe humans are the only mammal with breasts that doesn’t shrink when they are ready, as it were. But I am a proponent of the hypothesis that it was evolved as a trait of sexual secrecy, to confuse males, so the female can attract the favour of more males.

  It’s alright to disagree with the premise that there was no sexual pressure on the evolution of breasts. You would probably be in the minority in the scientific community on that one though.

  For the record; I fancy myself an egalitarianist. I believe in women’s rights. I do not believe slavery is good for any kind of society. I really believe males and females are very similar. Small differences in our physical makeup. That is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry it came of that way. It was not my intention. The gold bar part is perhaps a bit unfortunate. I was trying to illustrate and emphasise to the reader that doing anything carries a risk and that people of different regions and cultures have made different choices to manage those perceived risks based on their circumstances.

  I believe people, more often than not, make choices out of practicality. Morals, religion, politics, fads, all come and go. “Hey, wife, those guys are staring, I know it’s not convenient, but can you cover up” has probably been said by males partners pretty consistently over the years.

  The word steal might have been a bad choice too, now that I think about it. Perhaps kidnap would have also worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since we are all going; here is my take. Breasts were always sexual in nature. For most species they signal fertility and what part of the cycle the individual is in at the moment. At some point human females evolved to have perpetually inflated breasts. There are a few different theories as to why that happened, but is is beside the point for this discussion. So considering they were evolved to attract or dissuade males, I say they certainly have a sexual function. In addition to this, breasts play a big part in sexual pleasure for the wearer.

  Now consider people pairing up in monogamous couples. The male suspects that other males might be motivated to pursue his mate by the visage of his mates nice boobies. He asks his mate to cover them up so he feels more safe in his position. Now hundreds of years pass, and what do you know, it is in grained in the cultures. It’s not really too bad for the women, so they have lived with it, for the sake of peace. Sometimes it is convenient to be covered. For example in cold weather.

  Tribes have not only hidden their populations breasts, they have been known to hide their women all together, so the neighbouring tribes don’t steal them. I feel that this is a bit similar. Put a gold bar in a glass display long enough, and someone will try to take it. Everything carries risk. If your society isn’t good at maintaining law, then it’s a bad idea to display the gold bar. In some places it might not be an issue at all. All women could go around topless as well, but the risk that they are approached by an aspiring male will probably be slightly increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animals⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much like when humans turn their head to better vague where the sound is coming from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely there is no way to install steam on linux and download stuff off that installation without revealing that you are doing it on a linux machine. I mean you are either requesting a linux build of the game from their server or you are downloading some wine/proton components or configurations. Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukrainian women tell of beatings and threats under Russian occupation⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not fun to be under Russian rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does mucous have calories?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once tried spitting all day when I was a kid. There is this sudden pain when your throat dries up enough and sticks closed. It is not pleasant and you will instinctively retain every little drop of spit after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bob was the first. It was only bob and the universe sized computer. Bob decided that he would simulate a universe with his universe sized computer. Then big bang happened. Now bob is everywhere. Through observation we can infer that he was made out of atoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying he is a dumbass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia is Using Chinese Farming 'Golf Carts' to Send Infantry Into Battle⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those kidnapped Indians must get to the front somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s use that money to build an orbital ring instead. Would be cooler and more useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you just keep going? Do you not come or do you not have a refractory period?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we don’t have the baseline of trusting our senses, which should include perception of our own thoughts; how can we make that statement? Why should one trust perception of thought over other senses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read about your home partition troubles. I ran in to that recently as well. Similarly I thought I would quickly try stable diffusion. Ended up not being as quick as I had hoped. I had to boot gparted and resize root and home. I had done that before at some point; but I keep forgetting how to do things. I was unsure if it is safe to do that without the latest version of gparted, so to be safe I redownloaded it and updated my system as well. Of course I have some old Nvidia hardware that tend to make my upgrades painful, so that took not so little time too.

  I’m not really sure why having a separate home partition is even beneficial to begin with. Next time I make an install, I might just go without that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Russia not Financially Crippled?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steal children from the countries you invade. They are doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to burn belly fat if I have cervical spondylosis and scoliosis?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the best type of exercise is the one that you think you will keep doing forever. Basically it has to be fun and motivating for you to actually do it more than once in awhile. Find that activity. Doesn’t matter what it is as long as it gets you tired and sore. Otherwise, eat less, which is also hard to do consistently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  6900 XT

  I have different hardware, but I am running arch with firefox daily. I have had maybe 2 freezes in the last two years. Other than that it works as I would expect. Are you keeping your system updated?