nimpnin
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- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 5 days ago:
I don’t think that many people are buying shit quality products second hand
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 5 days ago:
Well-functioning second hand markets encourage buying quality products new, cause they have resell value. If the quality is truly shit, nobody would be paying money for it, especially second hand.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 5 days ago:
A few thoughts:
- Depends how much money you are spending to buy those clothes. If it’s almost the same as the price as new, it makes it easier for the people who buy the clothes new to keep buying more and more stuff.
- If you aren’t spending a lot of money, this is like the opposite of fast fashion. You are making the life cycle of those clothes longer by buying them.
PS. I don’t think we should individualize things like this. A significant chunk of the clothes we buy – and other things as well – are made under miserable conditions and/or by children, and it’s very difficult to avoid all of that. It’s a systemic issue that needs to be solved on a systemic level.
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 1 week ago:
Yes, for example hypothyroidism
- Comment on What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit? 1 week ago:
They might be increasing in weight due to absorbing more water into their body
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t and I’m 30. Almost anything before the age of 7 and quite little between 7 and 14.
But AFAIK most people do remember quite some stuff from their childhood for the rest of their life. And forget some of course. I guess it varies.
- Comment on as a young person, what must one look for when it comes to finding a new country to live in? 4 weeks ago:
Apart from the obvious ones of like, getting a visa and difficulty of getting a passport, in rough order of my completely non-scientific guesstimate
- Stability, safety
- Long-term track record of employment opportunities, and pay vs cost of living. You want to be able to find a job, and not starve.
- Price and quality of government services such as healthcare, education etc.
- Language situation. As an English speaker, you’d either want to go for English speaking, or somewhere where people speak alright English but let practice their language so that you can eventually learn it. Also, see language difficulty for English speakers
- Culture and attitudes towards immigration; how difficult is it to socially integrate
- Matters of taste, would you like the culture, food, climate etc.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if the centralization is worse than the large portion of users on the large servers who joining copies of established communities on their own instances. Also, from my other reply:
It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.
Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 month ago:
It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.
Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 month ago:
IMO, a more opionate search would fix this. Just recommend the most active community and show the others in gray.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 2 months ago:
Sorry if this sounds rude, but based on your comments it seems that you’re just entering the early phase of the Dunning-Kruger curve on nutrition. Which means, you’ve started learning and are getting overly confident, despite not knowing that much in the grand scheme of things.
Don’t make big dietary changes because you just read something online. Don’t fall for fad diets. Don’t quit eating a large group of foods because they vaguely feel “unhealthy”. Learn about nutrition thoroughly, from reputable sources.
It’s good that you’re asking questions, though.
- Comment on Why is ethanol so tasty? 2 months ago:
Never heard of this and cannot relate, maybe the better phrasing would be “why do I like the taste of ethanol so much”.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 2 months ago:
Irrational customer behavior is usually manufactured by well-funded marketing departments.
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 2 months ago:
They don’t ”have to”, they know it’s not gonna fix anything. Strategically, it’s perfect though: it only increases instability and makes the economy worse, which in turn is just further going to fuel authoritarianism.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You might have had shitty experiences with some particular women, but generalizing that to other women is bad for both women in general and you.
- Comment on Are there communities online where artists share their art for free / donation? 3 months ago:
Free music archive freemusicarchive.org has a lot of music licensef under the various creative commons licences
- Comment on Are there communities online where artists share their art for free / donation? 3 months ago:
For photography, maybe unsplash.com ? The site is commercial and many people upload stuff for self promotion reasons, but still, most photos are available for free and under a rather permissive licence
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 3 months ago:
Downvoted for the use of ridiculous units
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 months ago:
Parks and libraries are really nice. Most other third places seem to want you to spend money, that’s my experience here in northern Europe anyway.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 3 months ago:
Deflection
Says the person who declines to answer simple questions.
none of the countries you listed or any other country considered socialist has ever reverted to social democracy
This is the most incoherent argument I’ve read all week. What does it matter if a country reverts to what? Also, some USSR states did revert to social democracies, but that probably doesn’t count to you because of reasons. To be clear, I don’t care about your reasons for that.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 3 months ago:
If you were well-read in socialism, you’d know that there are a lot of disagreeing factions, and those disagreements include semantic ones over what is and isn’t socialism.
So you tell me, what is socialism? Is marxist-leninism socialism? Is Cuba socialist? Current-day China? Mao’s China? Rojava? Would a society organized in worker co-ops be socialist?
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 3 months ago:
From Wikipedia:
Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality.
While it is not an objective definition, I think it is a valid point of view to see social democracy rather as a reformist variant socialism than capitalism.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 3 months ago:
Social democracy
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 3 months ago:
In general, investing borrowed money is risky… People just don’t realize they’re doing that when they take on a mortgage.
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 3 months ago:
There are other disincentives besides price that keep people from going to the doctor if they don’t need to
- wait times to get to the doctor
- the time spent actually getting to the doctor and being there
- social disincentives of having to explain a minor issue to a professional and probably something else that I forget now.
I used the health care services at my home town once this summer, and I spent two months there. Basic care is free at the point of service there. And I only went because I had had a concussion. Didn’t seem that the other people were there for no reason either.
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 3 months ago:
The indirect savings of people going to the doctor earlier etc actually mean some of the healthcare ends up being free.
Also, saying that you’ll have the same problems regardless the system is both factually incorrect and unnecessarily nihilist.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 months ago:
Sugar is produced naturally in sugar beet and sugar cane plants.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 months ago:
Well, mostly water. But besides that, it’s mostly sugars and fiber, in that order.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 months ago:
I don’t think no 1 is a valid argument as that applies to all food
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 80 comments
