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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
From my Xennial experience, some time in the 00s. Maybe because the wide spread (heh) availability of internet porn, but I don’t really know. 90s were bushy. 00s was a transitional era and 10s and onwards are bald eagles everywhere.
(Personally I don’t enjoy shaving my parts, I don’t enjoy having shaved parts and I prefer lady parts with some trimmed carpeting rather than both desert dunes or wild djungles.)
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 1 week ago:
It could also be conditioning and culture. A lot of American culture seems to be centered on the ego, the satisfaction of the ego and then a very fast escalation to anger and violence if the ego is perceived to be threatened.
I don’t think it is realistic to wish it go away with the generation exposed to lead paint. And I doubt it is productive to make microplastics the new excuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He had completely gotten the point but is afraid you’ll do an irreversible mistake. He is clearly looking out for your best interest. Because he loves you.
- Comment on NeoDB is committed to creating a free, open, and interconnected space for collecting and reviewing books, movies, music, games, and podcasts. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been craving something like this as an alternative to Trakt since their latest enshittification. Are there other alternatives? Do they share protocols and whatnot like lemmy, kbin, Mastodon etc?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Dangerous line of question as it is easy for sociopathic fucks to twist and manipulate it all around into justification.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 4 months ago:
The problem with launching nuclear waste with a rocket is that you’re shooting an enormous dirty bomb and hoping it will make it out of the atmosphere. One single incident and we’ve got an environmental disaster of unprecedented scale.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 months ago:
One aspect of punishment is retribution for the victims when there is nothing else and another is to keep people that are harmful away in order to keep other people safe.
Here in Sweden we have a current massive problem with organized crime that are now systematically abusing our criminal justice system that is built on humanitarian ideals for rehab and protecting suspects and criminals rights to the absurd. So yes, in those cases I think punishment will do. Cynically abusing protection measures of society deserves punishment. It may not change those individuals for the life they have chosen for themselves but it will keep them out of making even more damage to society and violent crime against individuals and I honestly see no problem in harsh consequences for their own decisions.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I’ve been doing multiple ciders from concentrate over this year. My favourites have been ginger, lemon or lime, cinnamon and trying out dry hopping. Careful with the last, it adds lots of flavour.
- Comment on Golden retriever are the Volvo of dogs 9 months ago:
I say all good boys live forever in our hearts. I know all my previous dogs do. <3
- Submitted 9 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Refractometers 9 months ago:
Thanks! I’ll look into it!
- Comment on Refractometers 9 months ago:
Oh, that makes sense. I guess it be further research time. Thanks.
- Submitted 9 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 9 months ago:
Use whatever works for you. Don’t take selection advice from people that make their operating system of choice a crusade and identity.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 9 months ago:
I think the “people are free to believe what they want to believe” is a mistake. This is the very statement that relativitises opinions and belief systems with facts and creates the illusion that they are all equal.
Look at the “facts don’t care about feelings” crowd that believe wholeheartedly that statements pandering to their feelings are facts and disregard any actual facts as fake news. I don’t think it’s because they decided one day to pick and choose what is a fact and what is not, but they actually can’t tell that there is a difference in opinions, beliefs and facts in the first place.
People need to accept that sometimes the truth is painful, that it contradicts what you want it to be, and worst of all - that you may have been wrong.
- Submitted 10 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on It would be terrifying if it were to actually start raining men. 10 months ago:
I think there is a Junji Ito novel with people raining from the skies. It is, as expected, quite unpleasant.
- Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in 10 months ago:
Dude. Chill.
- Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in 10 months ago:
Indeed, I agree with you fully. My observation was that the people complaining about the gentrification overlap heavily with the early waves of gentrifiers.
- Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in 10 months ago:
My intent was a quite light hearted observation that I’ve made over the years when a hip crowd takes a liking to a previously neglected area and very rapidly claim to be hashtag-first and whine about gentrification with stickers and chatter in the cafes of which none of its kind has been there before.
- Submitted 10 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on We should count in base four 11 months ago:
Are we trying to outmath the Danes or what is going on?
- Comment on Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 11 months ago:
That’s ok. So do I.
- Comment on Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 11 months ago:
Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they’d be a low RISC high reward investment.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 11 months ago:
I have a supposedly smart washing machine that came with the apartment. Setting it up in my locked down appliances network, it didn’t work with home-assistance, required cloud access and wanted me to open up ports in the firewall. Nope. No network connection for you. You are a regular dumb old washing machine.
- Comment on Is wine active enough to cultivate and use as a yeast? 11 months ago:
It probably varies, but in principle yeah. Bread yeast main purpose is CO2 production and in winemaking gases are considered a side effect. Hence the refinement into different strains. Still, even 8% homemade wine is better than none.
There are also people doing all kinds of wild ferments with both wine and ciders from whatever yeasts happen to be in the air and battle it out and become dominant. Sort of you never know what you’ll end up with. I don’t know much about it but it seems like fun.
- Comment on Is wine active enough to cultivate and use as a yeast? 11 months ago:
I think that wine yeasts are basically refined strains of the common bread yeast, saccharomyces cerevisiae. Actually a lot of traditional recipes for alcoholic beverages call for bread yeast, like beetroot sherry for example, because that’s what regular people had access to in the olden days.
- Submitted 11 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 7 comments
- Comment on Forgot fruit wine with citrus zest in it for over a month 1 year ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Update - Crossposted to !leatercraft@lemmy.ca - [SomeoneElseMade] Leather Milk Carton 1 year ago:
Nice. But, please let’s not devolve this community into another anything goes random stuff dump. There are enough of those already.