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- Comment on If you are born in disputed territory claimed by two *jus soli* countries, you could be born with birthright citizenship in both countries! 5 days ago:
…as well as the fact that some countries in theory allow multiple citizenships but in practice only their own country’s. Iran is a prominent example. If you have Iranian birthright citizenship, it matters little if you have a second or third one: the minute you set foot in Iran (which is presumably not something that people are doing a lot these days), you will be treated as an Iranian, and if you break the law, you will be tried just as every other Iranian.
- Comment on Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford and the rich pay to evade. 6 days ago:
Where I come from, there’s a saying that goes something like this: ‘There are only two kinds of people in jail: the very stupid and the very poor.’
- Comment on Any good selfhosted instant messaging? 2 weeks ago:
Prosody (XMPP server). Setup takes an hour at most even if you have never worked with Lua. Easy to interact with (it has a built-in shell), easy on system resources, and easy-to-understand config. Support for groups, E2EE, attachments including videos and voice recordings, among others.
- Comment on Israel promises 'Gaza-style destruction' in Lebanon after denying deliberate destruction for 2 years 2 weeks ago:
First of all, it didn’t leave, it was driven out. Second and more important: there are IOF positions in Lebanon as of this writing, so the statement is wrong on both ends.
- Comment on Israel promises 'Gaza-style destruction' in Lebanon after denying deliberate destruction for 2 years 2 weeks ago:
Hezbollah was founded because Israhell invaded Lebanon back in 1982 ;) . No Israhell == No Hezbollah.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 2 weeks ago:
That depends entirely on your definition of ‘success’.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 2 weeks ago:
Israel is a failed experiment in statehood. It’s about motherfucking time for every decision maker in virtually every government in the world to acknowledge that - and correct course.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 2 weeks ago:
Text book example of “I know what I am doing is stupid, but everyone else is doing it and I’m more intelligent so when consequences arrive, they’ll affect everyone except me”.
- Comment on Retvrn To Tradition 3 weeks ago:
During each American war of aggression, I think about this quote from ‘Lord of War’. I know it’s fiction, but it also describes reality and it hits very hard each time.
Yuri: But in the Iran-Iraq War, you sold guns to both sides. Simeon Weisz: Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on I like how inventive this is 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much sums up my life rn…
- Comment on The purpose of many company emails is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. 5 weeks ago:
Bureaucracy is a construct designed to maximise the distance between a decision maker and the consequences of his actions
N.N. Taleb
- Comment on At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today. 5 weeks ago:
Interesting !
Reminds me of the Islamic concept of the Aura, which basically denotes body parts that should be covered in public. There’s the so-called greater and the so-called lesser Aura. The greater Aura (= the body parts for which you commit a greater sin should you uncover yours in public or look at someone else’s), goes from the navel to the knees. Thus, for a Muslim woman, it is less of a sin to go topless (as long as her pants cover all the way up to the navel) as it is to run around in a miniskirt or shorts.
- Comment on GitHub Is Down 1 month ago:
Replace code written by humans with AI-generated code! They said. It will be fun! They said.
- Comment on There's still life left in them! 1 month ago:
That’s a feature, not a bug.
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? 2 months ago:
- Comment on In most cases the simplest explanation is the correct one 2 months ago:
This really happened to someone I know. Her child is indeed an asshole, so when she got the test results all negative and basically saying that the boy is nothing but a spoiled brat, it was a surprise for no-one but her.
- Comment on The lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" imply you can be happy and not know it 2 months ago:
Best (and most existential) one I’ve seen in quite a while.
- Comment on shit 2 months ago:
For those who haven’t had the joy of killing Barney, I’ve got you covered.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 3 months ago:
I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide is just awesome.
- Comment on Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet. 3 months ago:
You might laugh, but the first time I made Lebanese-style yoghurt (the one with mint and cucumbers), I simply added salt in the same amount I would have added sugar for a sweet yoghurt. Needless to say, I couldn’t eat it…
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 3 months ago:
Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 4 months ago:
Totally not a bubble. At all.
- Comment on Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work. 5 months ago:
…though I’d like to add that, in the original post, ‘at work’ == ‘at someone else’s company’
- Comment on Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work. 5 months ago:
Good point, thanks for the insights
- Comment on Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work. 5 months ago:
My point is (almost) exactly the opposite: I’d argue that any of those non-specialists can be replaced at any time with other non-specialists (best case scenario), or with bootlickers, nutjobs and yay-sayers (worst case scenario). In other words, you shouldn’t aspire to be the one your boss delegates every shitty piece of ‘work’ he can think of, rather, to be THE one everyone else in the company has to wait for if they want X or Y done.
- Submitted 5 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 5 months ago:
I have ZERO sympathy for companies whose services are affected by this. Because seriously, fuck Amazon.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 5 months ago:
…and 99,99% of middle managers ‘’‘working’‘’ in tech be like yeaaaaaaaa daddy just cram that shit down my throat like I’m an abused goose!