zout
@zout@fedia.io
- Comment on Bungee jumping 16 hours ago:
I have so many questions...
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 2 days ago:
Not all consulting firms, Deloitte actually charged the Australian government about $290.000 for a report written by AI.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 1 week ago:
Though I get what you're saying, someone who had their sex changed on their passport has already decided dealing with the gender dysphoria has priority. It's not like it's a quick decision (contrary to popular republican belief), and it's never been easy to be trans in the society so every trans person will consider if coming out as trans is worth it. A lot of those who do feel it's either that or death.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 1 week ago:
How about chickens? If you have some hens without a rooster, you've got good chance that one of them will "transform" into a rooster. Especially if you had a rooster but it died.
- Comment on Good News: Study Shows That Most Men Are Not Toxic 1 week ago:
The second and third largest groups (27.2 percent and 26.6 percent of volunteers) both showed low to moderate values across the eight indicators of toxic masculinity
- Comment on What kind of resistor is this? 1 week ago:
I've looked at the manual again, and it seems to me you could do a drastic thing and drill a hole through the PCB in the place of the old component where you could put an axis of a different v-resistor through. This could then be connected to the board with wire.
- Comment on Researchers turn spoiled milk into 3D printing materials — extracted proteins from dairy waste combined with polymers to create plastic alternative 1 week ago:
They are also suggesting polymer waste. The thing is, nobody is going to build a plant to make this if one of the raw materials isn't readily available. So you'd either need to make sure that there's always polymer and milk waste available, or you need a back up if it isn't.
- Comment on Researchers turn spoiled milk into 3D printing materials — extracted proteins from dairy waste combined with polymers to create plastic alternative 1 week ago:
Basically. Also, we'd have to think about the ethicality of keeping cattle for plastic production.
- Comment on What kind of resistor is this? 2 weeks ago:
Do you still have the component? You could try repairing it, there's a youtube video where your last picture came from.
edit: in case you didn't already have the vid. - Comment on the year of the linux desktop 2 weeks ago:
Upvoted you, then realised you probably didn't mean "privacy conscious Linux Wank" as referring to a type of person. Keep the upvote.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 2 weeks ago:
I don't know what part of the world you live in, but the late 1980's and early 90's were wild, the whole eastern bloc fell in 1989, there were revolutions in the Philipines, South Korea, South Africa, and dictatorships in Argentina, Paraguay and Suriname elected democratic governments.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Whomever made that map has never met someone from Amsterdam.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
I was born in 1975, and during the eighties a nuclear war was always just about to happen. I can't tell you what you should be doing, for the most we just lived with it. What helped was there was no 24/7 news cycle back then, so maybe try to block out the news to maintain a healthy consumption level?
- Comment on Only one country in the world produces all the food it needs. Here's why | BBC Science Focus Magazine 2 weeks ago:
Coming from the Netherlands, we produce so much food that we export 2/3 of it. Sure, we import some stuff that we don't grow here, but we won't be perishing without those.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
Beginners mistake, you should always wield a semi when doing this.
- Comment on 19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns 3 weeks ago:
Right, or soldiers as they see themselves as the leaders after the collapse. They're actually putting a lot of effort into figuring out how to stay in charge of their security force among other things. Here's a nice article explaining some of this if you're interested.
- Comment on 19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns 3 weeks ago:
They won't, at some point money won't matter anymore. They think they've got it figured out with their bunkers in New Zealand and Hawaii and where not, but I don't see them having the skill set needed to survive in that scenario. They just think they do, having gotten rich in IT and being surrounded by yes-men ever since.
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 4 weeks ago:
In my view and understanding, genes define the potential, environment defines the realization. I mean environment in a broader sense though, I read some time ago that for teens the friend group has a bigger influence than the parents, who's impact on development is close to zero at that point.
- Comment on What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector 4 weeks ago:
Have my angry upvote...
- Comment on for ranked smoking only 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Funny how we all do THIS 4 weeks ago:
I'm 50, what do you mean "old status"? I'm young but there's some seriously suspicious stuff going on with my body.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 5 weeks ago:
Only if you're lucky!
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 weeks ago:
I don't think I've ever had bad food in Germany. In England my limited experience is mixed, some good, some bad and some interesting lunch choices like salted peanuts.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 weeks ago:
The fish is not raw, it's gibbed and cured. It's also eaten a lot in Germany and Scandinavia.
Also, we have vla in the Netherlands, and mustard soup! And we frown at people calling kale a super food, because it is considered one of the most generic winter foods over here.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 month ago:
Nederland and Netherlands both mean low country? Low as in Lower Rhine. It has an origin in the Roman name "Germania Inferior".
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 1 month ago:
2 fingers in who's ass?
- Comment on Getting vaccinated against shingles could protect you from getting dementia, or slow the progression of the disease, says a new study 1 month ago:
There are multiple vaccins against shingles, and I can't find which one was used in this study. Does anyone here know which it was?
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 months ago:
How would you measure the time it takes to wake up without somehow monitoring brain activity externally? I mean, you start sleeping, so at best a dodgy perception of time, and at some point in time you're awake. For me it would be impossible to tell the time it takes, might be a second, might be an hour.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The stupid thing is, there were already talks about moving away from the blackface. Of course the people at the television stations (who could make this happen) took their time, which caused the people of "kick out zwarte Piet' to make a stir. So far nothing wrong, but they did this at the televized arrival of Sinterklaas, so now they had crying children on tv. This caused the "all brown people back to Morocco" crowd to scream outrage, and suddenly we are at the current stage with two very vocal groups screaming at each other.
My kids were still in the believing age when this started, and I never had a problem explaining the issues and the changes to them (Piet used to come through the chimney, when this wasn't possible anymore he painted his face black to look the same, but now he realized this looks like blackface). The right wing voters had problems explaining, because they didn't want to, and now they see it as a defeat by the "others". Throw in some politicians who can only fare well if there's disorder, and suddenly it takes over twenty years to phase out something that should have been gone a long time ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Come to the Netherlands, we have layers on this since Santa Claus is Coca Cola's take on our Sinterklaas, who is usually acompanied by "six to eight black men" (more commonly known as "zwarte Piet", black Pete). he was was taken to the US by Dutch immigrants, after which it evolved in the current Santa Claus. And it gets worse, because while it has alway been a bit of a battle between team Sinterklaas and team Santa Claus, the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team "Dutch tradition" and team "kick out zwarte Piet". Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end, where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.