qyron
@qyron@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 2 days ago:
Because they can.
I can’t read a single word of german but I’m glad to randomly stumble on a german post.
Makes the fediverse more pluralist.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
Have you considered applying for a sales representative at the company? The best pitch comes from the person that knows the product, inside out.
There is the cultural difference I can’t get past: yes, cooking may very well be a chore but I would more quickly change my entire diet than resort to substituion mixes.
Nothing replaces the contact with real food items. The smells, the textures, the colours, the flavours. The pleasure that comes from it.
I can be very pragmatic and utilitarian towards what I eat, borderline spartan, but a mix is not food and not even very sick I will consider it as such. It’s fuel, sustenance, not food. I could live off it but, again, I would hate every moment of it.
I sincerely admire your apparent indiference towards relying on that mix. I would rely on it to keep me alive, in a serious emergency, sure. But as a means to get to an end, not the end itself.
- Comment on Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos. 1 week ago:
You mean that Game? Not the other?
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
I’m glad to know you lived a fullfilling life at the time and it is obvious after your reply it wasn’t about you or those like you I was thinking about.
Although I still lack the capacity to view Soilent as a good name for a brand…
Besides some cultural differences, I respect your view. It made your life easier (still does, if I’m understanding correctly), you don’t seem a person who enjoys cooking that much (fair enough) and it freed time for things you had higher in your list of priorities.
I can’t do that. If need be, I would, but I’d hate every single moment of it.
- Comment on Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos. 1 week ago:
That’s hilarious!
Turn the volume to max and play this track and watch how every thing in line of sight shakes and vibrates.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 1 week ago:
I still licked lead pain in the craddle, ate too many food preservatives and artificial colorants, ate too much red meat, too much fat, got micro plastics poisoning…
And all I have to tell is bad breath, flatulence that could strip paint off the walls and a stupid sense of humour.
- Comment on Don't mess with me bro 1 week ago:
República do Vegetal?
- Comment on Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos. 1 week ago:
I’m getting NFSU2 flashbacks from that picture.
Does it have neons also? Or is it LEDs nowadays? And the pop-up LCD?
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
Bourdain was a genius. Controversial but they all tend to be as such.
I agree with you. But please take a moment to consider this as well: people need time to eat. And by extension, to live. Something we are colectively slowly being drained of, through “work ethics”, “fashion trends”, “healthy life styles”, etc.
We need to live. To eat. To sleep. To be together. To get angry with each other and make amends afterwards. And we are being robbed of our humanity by not having it.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
Some company actually markets a product under the name “Soylent”?
Scary.
When individuals reach, in my opinion, that point they are starving for more than food.
Food is the first basic impulse we get satisfied and it is intermixed with confort, closeness and bonding. Later it will upgrade into a communal moment and the sharing of time and exchange of experiences.
Again, in my view, to see eating as a chore says how lonely and dehumanized a person is. How little self worth they have.
Which is sad.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 week ago:
My two takes on this:
- food is fuel
I can and do subsist on a basic and bland diet if necessary. Food is a way to preserve my existence, so I have to eat. And when hungry I will eat anything for the sole sake of keep myself functioning. Some exceptions do apply.
- we’re biologically hardwired to seek pleasure from our food
That is why sugary food and more simply fruits and berries appeal so much to us: it’s sweet, it tastes good, it’s nice.
We actively seek enjoyement in eating. When this no longer happens, worry yourself. Even old people enjoy eating.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 1 week ago:
I followed the link of a video here on Lemmy just a few minutes ago and it opened in the browser.
Nothing shocking up to this point.
Then I get a prompt from the video saying “Ready to buy products advertised in the video? Log into the official app in order to.”
Direct purchase through the YT app is a novelty for me.
Newpipe all the way.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
I don’t give two cents for the american auto brands but spare me the drama: try and make a proper car.
Looking at Ford: try importing a few models from the european line and offer it in the states. Small, economic, somewhat reliable, fuel efficient cars.
Stellantis has a slew of models that could be brought into the american market. They make good cars.
And I’m willing to bet GM as a few models they build and market overseas that would be guaranteed sucesses.
- Comment on I can fix her 1 week ago:
Yikes! That’s a stopper.
- Comment on I can fix her 1 week ago:
Considering the US penal system, I’d risk many are in for ridiculous things.
- Comment on Lick it. 2 weeks ago:
This is evil and yet I can not censor it.
Do it. Have some fun. Tease Darwin.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Amazon basically solved this problem for me: they locked me out.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 4 weeks ago:
We could just regulate tech companies and outright ban some practices but since we apparently don’t have time for rational solutions…
Well thought out sabotage can be written off to causality or involuntary human error.
Not giving notice of lay off is an abusive work practice and only shows how far we’ve allowed work conditions to degrade.
And that practice itself can be highly dangerous, if we consider a person can be midway into a complex task that can turn extremely difficult to follow by another: waste of time, resources, energy and money.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 4 weeks ago:
Small acts of sabotage are easy to write off to causality, if well planned.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 4 weeks ago:
Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?
Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 5 weeks ago:
A national supermarket chain has its own foundation and sometimes runs fund rallies for it, which they collect through their store front.
What I stated comes from an explanation I was once given by an accountant. It works (or worked, hopefully) like that here, Portugal.
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t doubt your word. I paraphrased the explanation an accountant in my country (Portugal) gave me. It may work differently in other places and I sincerely hope so.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 5 weeks ago:
I stand corrected.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 5 weeks ago:
Never used it for personal ends. But I’m curious to see if all the companies using as a work tool will divert from it.
Signal.
And IF I learn how to run Jammi, it will be my default communication application.
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.
According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.
a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign
This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.
As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.
b) You donate. But now it’s their money.
Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.
That money is held within the company’s vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.
It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).
c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you
Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.
This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.
Want to do something good?
Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don’t hand over money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, stupid heartless people are a dime a dozen.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A couple that lived near me had a little thai cat, a sweet of an animal. They would let the cat out daily.
At some point, they just decided to leave the country and abandoned the cat.
The creature became the neighbourhood boss. Killed several males in fights, some even larger, fought off dogs, became a ferouscious hunter and never agaim entered a house.
That cat was king of the street for three years until one of his own blood dethrowned him.
- Comment on Interesting question I really hadn't thought about 1 month ago:
That’s a thing?
- Comment on Jo jay! 2 months ago:
Is that wine or paint? Wine washes off, unless you boil the stain into fabric.
- Comment on Jo jay! 2 months ago:
I’m going to risk that is going to last for a very long time.