Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 week ago:
Yup! Some 90-95% of women wear the wrong bras. Especially those who have been extremely gifted by nature, this can lead to pain in their later years.
Going to an actual bra fitter and getting a fitted bra or two is something every woman should get. So, people, if you love your gals, get them a gift of an actually will-fitted bra. Doesn’t need to be fancy, but if it fits, she will love you for it!
Source: SO got a fitted bra, couldn’t shut up about it for three months, just being in complete shock about how comfortable it was.
- Comment on Hostile architecture 2 weeks ago:
Haha, classic newbie blunder! You think it’s better to spend money on fixing the problem, instead of making money on redesigning public architecture? Haha, oh my!
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
US and UK weren’t one country. US was a UK colony
Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.
that’s why they celebrate independence day
Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.
The only reason Ukraine and Taiwan want to separate from Russia and China respectively is because of American interference
Nobody gave a shit about Americans in Ukraine when the Orange Revolution happened, or during the Maidan Protests. They just wanted democracy and re-integration with the West.
One more time: Ukraine was an independent country around 400 years before Muscovy (proto-russia) became a thing. It got gobbled up by the various superpowers of the area, but always retained its national identity. Culturally, there’s a very clear continuation from the Kyivan Rus all the way to modern day Ukraine.
You might as well suggest that the Scottish independence movements exist because of “American interference”, even though they existed for hundreds of years before the American Independence.
You’re just repeating russian propaganda points verbatim, so I don’t know if you’re this ignorant, or a russian bot. If it’s ignorance, feel free to ask questions, I know lots of people are super confused with what’s going on in Ukraine and that area due to russian disinformation campaigns.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
US and UK used to be one country. Should US now become subservient to the UK based on that?
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
Are you high, friend? They speak Ukrainian, it’s a completely different language. Similar, but different.
Imagine you’re suggesting that Spain is “basically Brazil” because they “speak Portuguese”.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
Calling Ukraine “new” just shows how ignorant you are. Kievan Rus has been around since 11th century. Ukraine is older than russia.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
and it is a former USSR territory
So is half the EU. What’s this got to do with anything?
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
That’s because 90% of these articles about their technological breakthroughs are bullsht.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 2 weeks ago:
Nothing they’ve done in recent years is ground breaking.
Room temperature superconductors? Fake.
Self-driving bus using painted lanes for navigation? We have trains and trams for that.
Thorium reactor? Germany had one in the 80s, shut it down because it was expensive, there’s around 20 different projects happening in Europe and North America to make it more efficient.
The fusion reactor from the article? They maybe potentially hypothetically achieved one breakthrough of the dozens still needed to make fusion viable.
Etc., etc.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
100% agree. I tend to get my political comments downvoted a lot because I keep saying silly things like “capitalism and communism are both utopias that break due to human greed” or “anarchism won’t solve the issue of people like Trump grabbing power”.
Lots of weird people loving the power of magical words around here.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
Your comment is like one of those “I love apples” and someone responding “SO YOU HATE BANANAS”
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
Most people who look to extreme solutions tend to be hyperfocused on their immediate surroundings without paying attention to the fact that alternative solutions or states exist.
For instance - the US or UK law and law enforcement systems are faulty (to put it extremely mildly), sure… But that doesn’t mean we need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, it means we should look to, and take inspiration from, more positive examples. Countries such as Norway, Finland, Switzerland have judicial systems and law enforcement systems that people can (mostly) count on, and trust them.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
Anarchism is probably the most naive of all the available systems. It’s like it’s been designed by someone who’s never met any other human being outside of a very small, and very tight friends circle.
You have it backwards. We didn’t invent civilisation and then the ruling class decided to oppress the working class by inventing laws. We had an honour system, but because people are greedy cunts, we had to gradually replace it with a law system. And because people are greedy cunts, many of them being plain evil, we had to add an enforcement system (which used to be angry mobs).
Like, what do you think religions are? These are early, pre-“formal law” attempts at ensuring people behave according to rules, allowing for the growth of the community.
Think about it - you’re complaining that the enforcement of law is not equal for everybody, meaning that some individuals are effectively exempt from being affected by law, and you know that the 1% on the top are practically all in that group, you can clearly see how this 1% is fucking over the entire world… all of which you conclude by saying “there should be no laws for nobody”… Make it make sense.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
Wait… Do you think that “any law system” is essentially evil and only anarchism will save us…?
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
There are far too many cases of the law being selective in who it protects and who it punishes
No. *There are too many cases where the interpretation of law is selective", and/or “there are too many cases where the enforcement of law is being selective”. There are no laws (that I know of, correct me if I’m wrong) that say “if you’re rich, this doesn’t apply to you”, or something like that.
I think it’s functioning exactly as its corrupt creators intended.
And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
Enforcement of laws is a separate issue to the existence of laws.
Remember how Trump was talking about starting for a third term? Which is illegal in the US? Well, they intended to introduce legislation that would allow him to start legally. Problem is that if they did that, Obama could also start. Their solution? Add a clause that it had to be a third term within one term of the previous term, or something like that. Making it illegal for Obama to start but legal for Trump to start.
That’s a law that “exists for no other purpose except to protect/benefit the dominant socioeconomic group”.
A law saying “if you kill a dude for no reason, you’re going to jail” is not, even if oh so often certain class of mostly white guys are exempt from it.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
All of those laws are unequally enforced
There’s a massive gulf between “the purpose of a law existing” and “a law being enforced”.
Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.)
I know you don’t work in the field because you have no idea how absolutely, ridiculously hilarious this statement is. :D
Also, calling drug dealers “working class” is certainly a vibe…
The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended
Are you from the US?
The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal
The laws ARE universal. But because humans are humans (therefore: shitty), they’re not being universally or equally enforced.
And none of this changes the fact that laws do not, in fact, “exist for [no] other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group”.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country
“In any given fundamentally broken country”, you mean?
The law absolutely does exist for other purposes. Otherwise we wouldn’t have as robust anti money laundering laws, child protection laws, rape laws, human rights laws, etc., etc.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
This is such a childish thing to say, my god…
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
What he said has nothing to do with law. He just said stuff knowing that nobody will do anything to stop him. Or to stop them.
The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
Mate, have you seen the valuation of companies handling AI or hardware that AI requires?
Shareholders are creaming their pants any time someone says “agentic” or “AI”.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 3 weeks ago:
It’s so hilarious to see people’s reaction to something that happened two years ago.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.
No such thing exists, especially with legacy corpo software.
Windows is inherently unstable, that’s my point.
As a Windows admin for the past ~20 years - nonsense.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).
… which is exactly my point. What’s yours?
Oh. And of course it’s badly debuggable and frequently goes wrong.
Not so frequently to cause major disruptions.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
Or you can just not introduce extra instability layers and use native Windows. I can’t even fathom the cost of implementation and maintenance of something like that in a company like HCL (200 000 employees, last I checked).
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
Linux has excellent legacy support for Linux.
Now run a 1998 obscure Windows vendor custom app. The vendor went out of business 30 years ago.
Not to mention that it would kill the entirety of existing IT automation, the entirety of centralised system management, and lots more.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 weeks ago:
Nobody wants any of them, they’re old and pretty and also worth exactly zero euros.
You’d be VERY surprised.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job
What are you talking about? Under this guy’s tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He’s doing an excellent job, as far as they’re concerned.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
That would never happen. The entire reason why Windows is not as power efficient as MacOS or some Linux distros is the backwards compatibility that it brings. People laugh at the fact that you can still find icons and .dlls from Windows 95 (or, probably, even 3), but that’s exactly one of the reasons why this OS is so massively popular, especially for enterprise users.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 3 weeks ago:
if I was annoyed enough, I’d do something like hang a picture in the house taking a dig at Wikipedia and then the interview could mention that and now it could be in the article about the house taking a dig at them.