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- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
I agree it’s a huge concern and I also absolutely don’t trust the CDU, and especially Merz, as far as I can throw them. However I’m just saying that the situation is not identical to the USA, there are some points of difference.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the
SDPCDU broke that and started working with AfD.I’m also very worried about that, but it’s another point of difference - there were historically enormous protests (tens to hundreds of thousands per city, well over a million total, more than a percent of Germany’s total population) several times recently because CDU looked like it was slightly cooperating with them with an informal and unbinding agreement about immigration. These protests had the support of the churches, the sports leagues. Various senior government figures support outright banning the AfD. It would not be as easy for them as in the USA, where everyone immediately capitulates.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
Let’s be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That’s rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah then explain this *gestures broadly at everything*
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 1 week ago:
garbage in garbage out
Yes
if you ask good questions
It’s way too late for that, the garbage already went in in the training stages, now you get garbage out
- Comment on Giving the neighbors a laugh 2 weeks ago:
Lmao at the slogan “EasyToys home delivery service. We always come.”
- Comment on Is there really a difference between my understanding the phrase "go for a walk" and my dog understanding the phrase "go for a walk"? 2 weeks ago:
No other animal has even come close to creating such a close co-existence with humans.
Horses are at least close
- Comment on Subscribe now for your life saving warnings! 2 weeks ago:
Their confidence intervals overlap…
- Comment on Lost in translation 2 weeks ago:
This is getting so tired. Take it up with Facebook.
- Comment on US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo 5 weeks ago:
Washington has long leveraged aid as a tool of its foreign policy, saying it cares about development and drawing a contrast with China, which is primarily concerned about seeking natural resources.
Lmao. “Our noble investment into development, their barbaric seeking of natural resources”.
- Comment on UFO sightings 2 months ago:
every bird is a UFO if…
Not all birds fly
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 2 months ago:
Yes, of course it depends on the person, their ideas and feelings and beliefs about sex will have a big impact. But I want to be clear that I’m not arguing it’s not at all damaging, just that people really underestimate the way other jobs are damaging and the centuries of work that has gone into improving labour standards so that they are less bad.
- Comment on Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law 2 months ago:
Working in a business environment is connected to our souls and will damage us inside, it’s not different in kind, and if it’s different in intensity it is because of the lack of protection and the level of abuse which people get away with.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
The mac comes with 256 GB though, and 256 > 1
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Support for M1 and M2 is pretty good now but M3 is not quite there yet and it’ll probably be years before everything works nicely on M4, sadly
- Comment on Spoopy Science Costumes 4 months ago:
It is, to within 5%
- Comment on Clever, clever 4 months ago:
Wow, I guess cryptography is just fraudulent, who knew
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 4 months ago:
Don’t worry, people here yell at you for not using profane language because “you can swear on the internet”, they’re a weird bunch.
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 4 months ago:
Sure, I agree
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 4 months ago:
Agreed with the privacy concerns but
So, 15s saved per person. Which is handy, but 25 seconds fits squarely in the “blazing fast” category anyway.
This is huge when there are five 787s worth of people in line for ten passport control machines, it’s the difference between waiting half an hour in line or five minutes.
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 4 months ago:
It is the standard means of passport control in Europe and UK, just with the passport added, but all by machine. Once they are convinced the biometrics are good enough they’ll do this too to speed things up.
- Comment on OH SHI- 4 months ago:
*structural biologists
The crystallographer is sitting in the beamline control room at the synchrotron swearing about how this person mounts their crystals right against the metal pin
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 months ago:
“just”
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 4 months ago:
They have replaced the H in the chemical formula for water (H2O) to represent “coconut”. However, C already stands for a chemical element, carbon. That implies this product is a molecule made of two carbon atoms and one oxygen. If such a thing exists, it would be incredibly unstable and react with anything it touches; you certainly would not want to drink it.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 months ago:
This is satire for sure
- Comment on The US federal loophole that allows food companies to decide what's safe for you to eat 5 months ago:
That probably captures many such things but it’s not fool proof. I like to make bread with 2-4 different kinds of flour, 4-8 different kinds of seeds, a teaspoon or two of sugar to get the yeast going, sometimes milk or olive oil or another fat source. At it’s most complex it could get pretty close to 20 ingredients but I don’t feel that should be classified as ultra-processed. The kinds of ingredients used and the actual process also matters.
- Comment on Be still my beating tastebuds 7 months ago:
*everyone
- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 8 months ago:
No amount of infrastructure fixes a drought lmao
- Comment on Elsevier 8 months ago:
Those few top people are assholes who love the enormous power they wield over PhD students, postdocs and junior faculty, and they are usually editors on those big name journals. Unlike the people who actually do the work, they are getting paid from this system.
- Comment on Elsevier 8 months ago:
Nope, you just can’t get a job unless you suck it up and publish in these journals, because they’re already famous. And established profs use their cosy relationships with editors to gatekeep and stifle competition for their funding :(