Tuuktuuk
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- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 days ago:
We’ll see. Bedouins might be able to survive, indeed.
Though, I’d wish for my children and grandchildren to be among the ones who will keep thriving. It’s not the easiest thing to organize.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 days ago:
I’d love to see us go the way of Neanderthals!
But I don’t think that will happen. I think we’ll go extinct instead.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 days ago:
We survived by reverting to areas that were not covered in ice. The areas under direct influence of the ice age did not remain inhabited. We didn’t really adapt. We just had another place to go. In this case, we don’t.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 days ago:
Depends on what you define as “lasts forever”. We are direct descendants of some kind of a rodent. Yeah, our species has changed “kind of much” since those days, but I wouldn’t worry about that kind of “expiration”. We are some rodents’ grand-grand-grand-…-grandchildren, and I think the rodent would be very much okay with us not looking very squirrellike, if they somehow was to find out they are our ancestor. They’d love us all the same :)
But of course, in our case, it won’t be that evolution changes us into something else. It’s rather, we will just vault 92’ify ourselves.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 4 days ago:
I know. That’s what I thought I was going to be shown :D
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
I had a chance to get to watch it in 3d when it had just come out.
What they failed to tell was that it was with 3d sound but 2d visuals 🥳
Well, 3d all the same. What’s the difference anyway?
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
Here’s a list of their toll-free phone numbers in various countries: mastercard.fi/…/global-services-phone-numbers.pdf
And the content of that file, in case that they might remove that link: Mastercard Global Service™ Local Toll-Free Telephone Numbers American Samoa 1-1-800-307-7309 Japan 00531-11-3886 Anguilla 1-800-307-7309 Korea, Republic of 0079-811-887-0823 Antigua and Barbuda 1-800-307-7309 Liechtenstein 0800-89-7092 Argentina 0800-555-0507 Luxembourg 800-2-4533 Australia 1800-120-113 Malaysia 1-800-804594 Austria 0800-07-06-138 Mexico 001-800-307-7309 Bahamas 1-800-307-7309 Monaco 0-800-90-1387 Bahrain 8000-0087 Montserrat 1-800-307-7309 Barbados 1-800-307-7309 Netherlands 0800-022-5821 Belgium 0800-1-5096 New Zealand 800-441-671 Bermuda 1-800-307-7309 Norway 800-12697 Bolivia 800-10-0172 Panama 001-800-307-7309 Bonaire 001-800-307-7309 Peru 0800-77-476 Brazil 0800-891-3294 Philippines 1-800-1-111-0061 Cambodia 800-881-001 then 877-288-3891* Poland 0-0800-111-1211 Canada 1-800-307-7309 Portugal 800-8-11-272 Cayman Islands 1-800-307-7309 Puerto Rico 1-800-307-7309 Chile 1230-020-2012 The Russia 8-800-555-02-69 China 10-800-110-7309** Saba 1-800-307-7309 China 2 10-800-711-7309*** St. Eustatius 1-800-307-7309 Colombia 01-800-912-1303 St. Maarten 1-800-307-7309 Costa Rica 0-800-011-0184 St. Kitts-Nevis 1-800-307-7309 Curacao 001-800-307-7309 Saipan (N. Marianas) 1-800-307-7309 Cyprus 080-90569 San Marino 800-870-866 Czech Republic 800-142-494 Saudi Arabia 800-844-9457 Denmark 8001-6098 Singapore 800-1100-113 Dominica 1-800-307-7309 South Africa 0800-990418 Dominican Republic 1-800-307-7309 Spain 900-822-756 Finland 08001-156234 Sweden 020-791-324 France 0-800-90-1387 Switzerland 0800-897-092 Germany 0800-071-3542 Taiwan 00801-10-3400 Greece 00-800-11-887-0303 Thailand 001-800-11-887-0663 Grenada 1-800-307-7309 Trinidad and Tobago 1-800-307-7309 Guam 1-800-307-7309 Turkey 00-800-13-887-0903 Guatemala 1-800-999-1480 Turks and Caicos 01-800-307-7309 Hong Kong 800-966677 United Arab Emirates 800-0444-3895 Hungary 06800-12517 United Kingdom 0800-96-4767 India 000-800-100-1087 United States 1-800-307-7309 Indonesia 001803-1-887-0623 Vatican City State 800-870-866 Ireland 1-800-55-7378 Venezuela 0800-1-002902 Israel 180-941-8873 Vietnam 120-11576 Italy 800-870-866 Virgin Islands, 1-800-307-7309 Jamaica 0800-307-7309 Virgin Islands, U.S. 1-800-307-7309 Last Updated 31 January 2019
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 5 days ago:
Trump wouldn’t act that guilty if it was.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 6 days ago:
I don’t think it will be an apocalypse movie, because nobody will want to watch it at that point.
Unless it’s a documentary, of course. “This is why we will all die.”
- Comment on ill take a double scoop 6 days ago:
Uh… That sounds disgusting. Toilet paper does zero to protect your hands. It’s so thin and perforated that bacteria pass through it as if it wasn’t there at all. The point of TP is that it collects poop and pee.
After wiping, you wash your hands with a LOT of. soap, because your hand is full of poop bacteria
It looks like OP wasn’t taught this by their parents and just walk around smearing shit in every door handle that comes across. Not something I wanted to have to know about…
- Comment on ill take a double scoop 6 days ago:
Toilet paper is so thin that all bacteria pass through it as if it wasn’t there at all.
Toilet paper’s point is not at all to protect but to collect. You need to wash your hamds afterwards just im the same way as if you had held poop in your hands.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 1 week ago:
Uh, what? Something like 80 % of their economy is now government spending.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Latvians kind of must do just that. They’ve got an archaic notation system for writing down their oldest fairy tales that are used to convey important parts of the culture to the next generation. That notation system has symbols for the about 20 most important figures of the old stories, just to help remember the whole story. There are no other symbols in the system. And it has been in use actively and continuously for several thousand years uninterrupted. And one of the very few symbols happens to be the swastika.
This Latvian-Lithuanian tradition (that had largely died in Lithuania at one point) is where Hitler stole the swastika from, that decision supported by its use as far away as India.
Latvian traditions include embroidering those symbols to mittens and such, believed to protect and support the wearer. And indeed, by far the most common of those symbols has traditionally been the swastika. That’s precisely why it caught Hitler’s eyes.
Those symbols are a very integral part of their culture and the pressure Hitler has caused for Latvians to stop their use is a way for 1930’s Nazi Germany to kill Latvian culture from beyond the grave. Since Hitler considered Latvians “Untermensch”, he would definitely be happy of that.
But yeah: good luck with that, Latvians. You have no choice, but you’ll still get trouble for that.
- Comment on No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows 1 week ago:
Thety bombed their own food? Why?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I was also very confused, so I looked it up now. So, here goes:
So, to bend the knee means several things. In the context of this post it means submitting to authority, in this case specifically, doing whatever Trump tells to.
The flag has been a libertarian symbol for a few decades, but in the last five-ish years fascists and MAGAts have started using it so much that it gets associated with them by default.
Historically, that flag has been a symbol of the war for freedom from British rule.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 3 weeks ago:
There is overwhelming evidence that this didn’t happen in the Jurassic era: Stegosaurs had been extinct for tens of millions of years at that point.
The theropods (“possibly”) electrocuted contemporary dinosaurs, not dinosaurs that had gone extinct 100 million years earlier.
- Comment on Most people's earliest memories are at around 3 or 4 years of age, which correlates with the age kids start asking "why" for everything. Kids start asking why when they become self-aware. 3 weeks ago:
Some people remember things as images and see stories in books as images. Do you have a memory from that time that is preserved as images so that you can actually see what the world looks like from the perspective of a 2-year-old? Also, can you recognise things in that memory that have caught your 2-year-old attention that would not catch the attention of an adult who already has answers to many questions? Or the other way around, is something missing in the memory that by all logic should be there, because a two-year-old doesn’t recognise it as significant?
(My oldest memory is from about that age as well. It’s me looking at a pavement made of 30 cm (~1 foot) wide concrete slabs while sitting in a stroller, observing how the lines between the slabs are recognisable when I look further away but turn into a blur if I look as straight down as I can)
- Comment on Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission 4 weeks ago:
Assuming the fine isn’t progressive, of course.
Over here in Finland fines for any but the minor offences are defined in percents of income, not in fixed sums of money. There have been cases of traffic fines of several hundreds of thousands for going 30 km/h over the speed limit. That makes them a punishment for very richest people as well, not only for the lower class.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
Breaking anti-bribery laws of a country is illegal, no matter whether they are enforced in some other country or not. Of course Microsoft can break the law and then keep paying large fines until they decide to no longer break the law.
- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 3 months ago:
Uh, the Russia is doing that on every possible platform. Why would ours be an exception? What makes Lemmy so special?
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 4 months ago:
But makes a very big difference. Talking bad things about someone publicly is not okay, and the whistleblower is doing the right thing. Well, mostly. It’s not really cool that now the private messages are shared with even more people!
Talking about anything privately is a private discussion and as such, not a huge problem. Sharing someone’s private messages with a group with more than two or three members is already public to an extent.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
You probably meant this is an answer to me, so I’ll reply.
What I mean is that for example France supporting undemocratic regimes in Africa in order to get cheaper minerals and cheaper cocoa and cheaper bananas is colonialism. It does not mean that it is as bad as what France used to do in the past. And it’s not even as bad as France still retaining several actual colonies. But it is still bad. And it is colonialism. It would be colonialism even if France did not have any formal colonies around the world.
And when China does in 2025 what France is now, in 2025, doing with now-independent countries that used to be its formal colonies, then both of those are colonialism in the same manner. If what China is doing is okay, then that part of what France is doing is also okay. And I do not like the idea of accepting European countries’ colonialism, not even a little bit.
Being bombed is worse than being economically abused, absolutely. But it does not mean that abusing a country economically is okay. I do not like it at all that cocoa and bananas are as cheap here in Europe as they are. That luxury of low prices is coming from other people’s lack of well-being. And someone doing something even worse does not make this bad thing any better. At least in my opinion.
For what I understand, in reality we two think much more alike than you think we do.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
I’m sorry but you sound pike the people who call DOGE “auditors” who “look for corruption and end it”.
China has been trying to get into big infrastructure projects in Finland as well, with the precisely same kind of loan arrangements. And it’s very good that we declined the offer. We were a colony of Sweden for 600 years. We don’t need to become one of China’s now.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
What you’re saying suggests that France’s current behaviour is not colonialist. What are your thoughts on that?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
Nothing’s wrong with building infrastructure. Why would it be?
What’s wrong is the financing scheme that makes the infrastructure effectively Chinese national property. And when China can decide how and when a country’s infrastructure can be used, China gets a lot of influence in that country’s domestic politics. And it does use that influence.
USA destroying Iraq doesn’t make China any less colonial. China helping rebuild Iraq in a way that will make Iraq a vassal of China… That does make China more colonial.
USA should absolutely focus on itself. And it will do it much more than before, because now that it has decided to cut its international soft power, it does not really have other options, does it? :)
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
How is humanity not in its senses?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
With Belt and Road, and all the colonialist projects China is doing in Africa, I would absolutely not say that “China is focusing on itself”. Or, at least: Even if it’s mainly focusing on itself, there is a very noteworthy imperial and colonial project going on.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
Until November 2024, there was actually a good chance for Trump’s plans to be foiled. But yeah, after that the case’s been quite clear. Those were the last presidential elections of USA. Or, at least the last ones were the votes matter.
