LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 1 hour ago:
Yes. You know what they are though? Fast. That’s kinda the point. I can throw one of these in during a meeting and just leave it in the microwave, then consume the slop, the whole thing taking maybe 15 mins at most, with the vast majority of that time me still being free to do something else while it’s cooking.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 1 day ago:
Yeah. I remember the last time they tried to ban ready meals. We are a nation of nothing. No housing, no food, no nothing - the ultimate austerity.
My only wish is that the VPN I have to use to even browse steam workshop also physically transported me to Germany or France or something.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 1 week ago:
That’s completely fair honestly
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 1 week ago:
If you’re not gonna get drunk, what’s the point of imitating alcoholic drinks? Just drink a soda at that point, it’s tastier.
- Comment on Real and True 2 weeks ago:
10 seems kinda rad ngl
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious if anyone ever made a “Super Mercator” projection, something where “ze west” is even more exaggerated and some continents even more disproportionately reduced missing/removed to own the libs. It kinda sounds like something governments would do/people would like nowadays.
- Comment on UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic 2 weeks ago:
That must be a mere fraction compared to just the sheer rent increases though
- Comment on UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic 2 weeks ago:
Regulatory and taxation pressures? Wouldn’t it be mostly due to rising rent prices?
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 2 weeks ago:
Also, citizenship is not a thing in US or UK universities eithe
Huh? I was literally an international student in the UK at a UK university for a BSc and an MSc. It’s very obviously an incentive. I would say, the incentive. Of course the point of paying £14k a year for a degree was for well-off families of thirdworlders to give their children a better life in the west. My parents had the talk with me even as early as 10, saying that Russia is a politically unstable, backwards shithole, and that if one wants to live a life, one must go west.
They were pretty much spot on of course, given recent events, any amount of money was worth spending to gtfo from there, a life outside the third world is priceless regardless of how bad things get in terms of housing, anti-piracy etc.
In the third world people get treated like animals and so they treat each other like animals, but in the west you get a shot at something more.
Otherwise unless you’re specifically going into research where degrees are cred, you’re just falling for a pyramid scheme.
I can’t speak for everyone of course, but I knew a lot of “international students” since as early as year 9 of school all the way up to MSc and eventually work visas. Almost everyone had plans to settle, and anyone who claimed they weren’t doing it for eventual settlement and citizenship was lying to themselves big time lol, all who had it in them to not drop out are still here, counting the days.
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 2 weeks ago:
Well, shit, TIL.
So why are all these people going there then, if they have no real promise of citizenship etc.? Or am I wrong there too? Is Chinese education that prestigious? Or are we talking PhDs and researchers and the likes?
Wouldn’t mind a source as well.
- Comment on A new public footpath is planned for one of the UK’s most famous ancient sites 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised we haven’t sold it off for raw materials to the Chinese yet
- Comment on Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead 3 weeks ago:
And what’s the number of international students at those Chinese universities? I doubt it’s anywhere near what the US has even on ICE raid day.
- Comment on EU shies away from condemning Trump's renewed threats on Greenland 4 weeks ago:
It’s so over for Europe holy shit
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
Oh well sorry then, I must’ve misunderstood
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
Harmless means absence of harm. That we don’t know of any harms does indeed not mean there aren’t any harms to be eventually known.
Therefore, as far as we know it is harmless. Hence why I said so. That would be understandable to commenters ITT if they knew how to read.
And additionally, in my personal opinion - it makes plain sense that the longer we study vapes, yet find no harms, the probability increases that they are indeed harmless.
Or at the very least I believe they are no more harmful than the harms caused by our existing standards for e.g. air pollution, in that vaping causes no excess deaths, but may do so if we had cleaner air and lower base rates of lung disease to which vaping may be some contributing factor.
I’m not an expert nor do I think the above two paragraphs constitute a fact, and I’m more than happy to change my view given sufficient reason, however I also dont think things for no reason or purely because it serves me or brings me some sort of comfort of a lazy mind. Frankly I doubt I would stop using nicotine even if I knew vaping was directly harmful in some way no more than I would stop using alcohol already knowing that it is incredibly harmful (not that I drink alcohol but that’s besides the point).
My reasoning for this is that even with the extremely primitive understanding of both the scientific method and the human body (not to mention technology for the analysis of it), cause and effect around tobacco-caused illnesses was known since the 1700s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco
You can check the sources yourself, but for example:
Overview of the history: …wiley.com/…/j.1440-1843.2003.00483.x
Here’s from the 1800s: …utexas.edu/…/Nicotiana_tabacum-notes.html
Here’s a note of observations between the late 1800s to 1920s
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
That’s just an example.
I do find myself subconsciously judging pornography creators and consumers, but I would never express such a thing nor act upon it as if it’s the truth.
I’m not so stupid as to think that just because of a personal distaste in my subjective preference that it is somehow objectively bad or harmful, much less that any action should be taken based on something as vague as my own vibes. I’m not a bigot, and I try my best to not trust my “gut” and to think rationally instead.
That, to me, is simply being rational, something that is in short supply nowadays.
- Comment on Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery 5 weeks ago:
That’s very cool! Go Scandinavia!
- Comment on London coroner calls for circumcision safeguards after baby death 5 weeks ago:
This country only gives a shit about genitals when it’s trans people receiving treatment for their disorders.
When it’s actual children being mutilated against their will because their parents are so deeply schizophrenic they believe it is the will of people that don’t exist that they mutilate children, it’s all muh “community leaders” this and “concerns” that.
- Comment on Banned for an Intro Post — SpaceBattles Has Turned Moderation into an Ideological Purge 5 weeks ago:
Not that I don’t believe you, but I’d really like to know what specifically was in your post, because you seem to dance around it without ever mentioning it, in a sort of “states’ rights” esque way, with the obvious follow up question being “states’ rights to do what?”.
IRL not everything can be solved on pure principle, if you were genuinely hateful or inappropriate, then by tolerating you, intolerance would only increase.
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
It’s a meme ya dunce. I think it’s meant to be edgy. And I don’t think it’s glorifying vaping, it looks like typical /r/drugscieclejerk
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
- Close enough tbqh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
Yeah your statement doesn’t contradict mine, as far as we know they are harmless. But we also know really well too, these things have been studied up and down since the 90s and still nothing was really found.
The *blends" thing idk about, the only ingredients out there that go into vape juice are VG, PG, nicotine and flavouring, there aren’t any legal variations on that, this is usually pretty well regulated in the first world.
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 5 weeks ago:
Jesus that’s messed up
- Comment on Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery 5 weeks ago:
I wish them well in this experiment. Hopefully this doesn’t mean outsourcing a public service to American big tech megacorps
- Comment on 2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office 1 month ago:
Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all.
- Comment on Meet the YouTubers Terrorising Britain for Clicks 1 month ago:
Ironically these people and what they do are the ultimate effect and evidence of a social contract circling the gutter, but not for any of the reasons they would have you believe.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 month ago:
No, they’re just on payroll of the corpos.
- Comment on 'Racist prick' Tommy Robinson 'bullied' at Dubai boxing event 1 month ago:
Racists sure love their little Dubai holidays lol. You ever seen a leftist go to Dubai? Me neither
- Comment on Secret courts' still handing out warrants for energy firms to break into homes 1 month ago:
Uh, no, the headline pretty straightforwardly describes what is happening. These are private firms, they should frankly have zero recourse other than simply not doing business with that customer again and reporting to other private firms that track credit scores.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg arrested at Palestine Action protest 1 month ago:
More sources:
news.sky.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-prote… theguardian.com/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-…
Some right wing media sources too, for your suffering:
telegraph.co.uk/…/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-… www.dw.com/en/…/a-75286097 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17x1jenvv9o