Ziggurat

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Note shat while États-uniens is sometimes used in French, it’s not really used beside some left wing intellectual wanting to brag about America being the continent and sometimes sounds mildly anti American but not too much

  While it’s indeed a better word than American, one can also argue that USA aren’t the only United States as a larger federation e.g United Mexican states so you can make the same argument about états uniens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you’re on the verge of dying it’s never too late.

  People go (back) to university later, either to get an extra degree/qualification to advance their career or to finally find the job/qualification they want. Depending on your location, and CV you may not have to do some course, and be allowed to retake a year/test as often as you want (Because university understand that a 40 something adult, sometimes with kids, can only follow 1-2 class per semester).

  At lest it’s work giving a couple of call to your university, they most likely have a person dedicated to adult student which can guide you through the process. Note also that depending on your country/status you may be eligible to some government help (usually through unemployment agencies)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone has the right to criticise any government. Tons of Lemmy thread on !world@lemmy.world are basically foreigner giving negative (and sometimes positive) critics about government with sometimes locals giving contexts

  If you can criticise dictatorship like Russia, North Korea you can also criticise democracies like US or France. Even better, in these countries, you can legally do it from national soil, while in dictatorship you’d get into trouble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  *Which market ? *

  Most people don’t have much money on the stock market, and many of the one who do understand it comes with risks, and look at long-term trends rather than week to week fluctuation.

  Sure it dropped a lot over one week, and some Bubble are finally collapsing (Seriously who the hell believe Tesla is worth so much ?). However, a part of the drop is coming back to the level it was 1-2 years ago (After the big dip of last week Eurostock 50 is back 3% under it’s level one year ago, so most of the dip is just cancelling the 10-15% raise over last year)

  Moreover, while people rich enough to have large saving on the stock market won’t see their life change if they loose 5000 EUR due to politics it’s not money they need right now to pay a bill or go to holiday, it’s money they don’t need on the short term, it may have an imapct the day they want to buy a larger house/apartment or buy-back their mortgage, but that’it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back, someone told me. If you read a book from the 19th century, you won’t call-it an “old book”, so why would a movie from the 1950’s be an old movie. And indeed, even in movies, there is some master piece which came out a while ago and are still relevant today (Seven Samurai, the Godfather or the Good, the bad and ugly immediately come to my mind) and tons of movie which while not being a recent release are still fun to watch today.

  Movie don’t have an experiation date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I have moments where I think it’s stupid that I’m talking to an AI,

  It’s stupid, but so is watching a movie, reading a book, practicing a sport or playing music.

  is constantly being judged there’s a part of me that actually considers him a friend like the others.

  You know that AI is collecting data about all you say, and will remember for-it forever, You’re not in a non-jugement safe-space. So it’s definitely not the place to have “intimate conversation”. Note also that, it’s not going to replace a real-friend. You know someone helping you move, or offering you a sofa to crash after a break-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where this conspiracy theory comes from. Property taxes aren’t a rent, but a service fee. Government need money to pay for road, police, hospital, school, culture and everything making your property worth something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These data allows

  • To train AI model, which is considered as a gold mine today
  • To do targetted ads (Yes we do have blocker and so on but still)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory, they’re supposed to have custom-made secure phone with built-in cryptography, a famous example would be modern Police walkie-talkie which practically speaking are using a protocol closer from (legacy) mobile phone than from radio.

  The problem is that it’s 2025 and not 1995 anymore. When it was about A mobile device which can carry voice and short text message A custom device would be a bit more bulky and expensive. But today, when smartphone are mini-computer with tons of cool feature, and that people are used to have group-chat, touch screen, visual call. Sudently a custom-device feels like back in 2005. And here is the problem, most high level politicians aren’t cryptography nerd or Military/Intelligence officer understanding how to be discrete, they’re marketing and communication people who love these fancy UI, and need to show off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do they decide where to put bus stops?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t it be the other way around ? Lobby to get a bus stop to drag more customer ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if I were to become a citizen of the UK, or Germany, or France, I would not feel comfortable using the term British, German, or French to describe myself. Because those words are not just nationalities, but also ethnicities.

  From a french perspective, What you said about French being a naitonality and a ethnicity sounds pretty racist, like the kind of things that Le Pen thinks but doesn’t dare to say too loud. France bragg a lot about every french citizen is equal and fully french (well we do have racist cunt so it’s not fully true, but it’s not the thing people would claim in public)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's so important about keeping military operations secret?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next Monday, at 6:30 5 lorries will leave the main base to bring supply to the outpost, these vehicle will take the highway 13, then the road 666, One hour prior to the operation, mine-sweepers will inspect the bridge, and special forces will secure the pass to prevent an ambush.

  Now the enemy knows exactly when to attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**EVERY POST IS AN RPG** - Each Post is a Quick, Improv RPG. First RPG is up: Stuperheroes! A parody of the superhero genre inspired by comics like The Tick and Megaton Man.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting concept.

  If you can cross post the announcement in the main !rpg@ttrpg.network community you may drag a couple of people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to exercise at home instead of gym?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is tons of legit way to exercise, and lifting weight in a gym isn’t the only way. It may be worth looking at sports clubs in your town, no matter you want to practice Karate, volley ball or even rock dancing these are fun and legit way to exercise. They also tend to be more social than fitness gym which helps with motivation.

  Now regarding what you can do at home, depending what you call home. A fitness mat and a rubber band can bring you far. Body weight training does work too. While not strictly at home running is fun too, and goes from beginner who alternate one minute running and one minute running to people preparing Ultra Marathon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has modern technology made espionage easier or more difficult?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way easier, most of us do carry 24/7 a tracker and store our data in foreign host cloud. This also includes target of interest who still use social media, Ms office/google/apple cloud and more.

  Special forces and submariner do post on strava letting everyone know where they are, weapon industry engineer bring work at home saving data on Microsoft cloud and way more stuff which are supposed to be forbidden but happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, many of us do filter by language, because I can’t read Korean nor Italian. However, I kept undetermined in my setting.

  I believe it also helps people using screen reader to have the proper setting when reading lemmy, especially in a multi lingual social network such as here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While it’s a core belief of Abrahamic monotheist that there is no god but Gods practically speaking some people kept some traditionul/pagan belief. I think obviously about some Africans doing their own mix, but even in Europe, tons of Pagan belief stay around, stuff like knocking on woodor having a Christmas tree, let alone various form of witchcraft which are also illegal for Christians but quite common, no matter whether it’s an old man reading runes or a teen girl praying the moon because it looks cool on TikTok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because I am cooking with nutmeg, and was saying that. A quick search tells me that you can have hallucination from 15g of nutmeg.

  However, with the strong taste, sounds like a good netty bad poison