starlinguk

@starlinguk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Death Valley deaths are caused by heat and the lack of water.

  There was one place on earth last year (somewhere in the middle east, iirc) where evaporative cooling was no longer possible and people would have died because the air would have condensed insides their lungs. I don’t think anyone lives there, but there’s will be more and more areas where this will happen thanks to climate change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram makes people unhappy and unhappy use Instagram to show that they are not unhappy.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t follow influencers, just actual friends and the odd comic. Instagram doesn’t make me unhappy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans can’t do it. No EHIC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad is in his eighties. You know what he does for most of the day? He visits elderly people in the countryside who can no longer drive and are stuck at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Skip Germany. They’ve just banned wearing the LGBTQ+ flag in parliament claiming it’s “not neutral”. Even though, yanno, banning the damn thing definitely isn’t neutral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  School boards are not political in the Netherlands, Germany or the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like people who say that you shouldn’t get vaccinated, you should just get the disease so you don’t get the disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there were nukes in those bunkers, they would have moved them as soon as Israel attacked. Sauce: journalist who works in the Middle East.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your approaches to donating?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t give to politicians. The state gives them money to campaign. Over here giving money to politicians is considered to be highly dodgy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They want more power, they don’t just want to keep it. I don’t get it, isn’t it absolutely exhausting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody. That’s the point of the “idiot”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Work is a hugr part of your life. Getting along with your colleagues and having them as friends is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only you don’t accidentally beat someone to death with a hammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough it resulted in more gun control, so it was something good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing, though. People need about 2 litres of fluid a day, and most of that comes from their food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The food industry’s propaganda is that you need to drink 2 litres of water a day. You don’t.

  In 1974 the book Nutrition for Good Health, co-authored by nutritionists Margaret McWilliams and Frederick Stare, recommended that the average adult consumes between six to eight glasses of water a day. But, the authors wrote, this can include fruit and veg, caffeinated and soft drinks, even beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because you don’t drink as much as other people. People who chug a ton of of water or whatever after they’ve eaten something spicy are giving themselves diarrhea.

  Sauce: a Taiwanese lady.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naughty rats get the tube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moustrophobia was right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that Trump justified went to see Les Mis, right? Does anyone in these comments realise that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hand out flyers with the lyrics, I see that a lot during demonstrations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump is going to make the troops at his birthday parade swear an oath of fealty to him during the event.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would literally be against the oath they’ve already taken, but since some of them have already broken that oath, I suppose they won’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks up Time Ghost on YouTube. They have tons and tons of information, including videos about the human side of WW2 and living in Nazi Germany.

  Anyhoo, both my in laws nearly starved to death. I don’t know what happened to their parents. Since it is never mentioned, I’m guessing they weren’t exactly in the resistance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not DNA, but the other guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oncologists trying to apply for a grant for uterine cancer research without using the words “female” or “women”.

  This list of banned words was introduced months ago, has the US only just discovered it exists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going viral, I guess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not allowed to mention the word corona (or women, or female, it’s a really long list).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone like this. She votes Trump because she genuinely doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on. Her family has always voted R so she continues to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once you are over 30 we no longer want to go out - we want to be left alone, with a beer/wine, a blanket, tv, and tacos…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to conventions all through my thirties! Start Trek, LOTR and Stargate, mostly.

  Now I mostly travel, go to cute cafés, museums, etc. Pubs and clubs are too friggin’ noisy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people on the internet are not my people.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cats, cats are nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people on the internet are not my people.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in one group that gets along great when it meets, but we met online in a website comment section before social media was really a thing. We wreaked havoc and I think we traumatized the admin for life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do some people put a space before a question mark or exclamation point?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And some people dodn’t use a space at all!They type like this.Argh.

  Or they use commas instead of full shops for ellipses,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love me an old Embraer with propellers. More legroom and more overhead luggage space.