Tuuktuuk

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want some advice on which filaments to use⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d assumeits biodegradation takes 5 years instead of something like 10 000 years of conventional plastics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute zero is almost always colder than sub-zero.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This lead me to wondering: Do the Fahrenheit people talk about sub-zero as well?!

  I had never thought of that possibility. 0 degrees is just generally cold, but -17,778 degrees is already in the area of “seriously cold”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These 3D Printed Ceramics are Insane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Klarna can also be used for payments directly from your bank account. They probably didn’t have another platform for handling that internationally. Much nicer than using a bank card for the payment!

  (Well, okay: That site has elected to disable that feature. I tried choosing Helsinki, Finland as delivery location and payment by Klarna, and all I got was this:

  Kiitos kun harkitsit Klarnaa

  Arvostamme kiinnostustasi fiksumpaa maksutapaa kohtaan. Valitettavasti joustavat maksuvaihtoehtomme eivät ole juuri nyt saatavilla tällä alueella tai tälle valuutalle.

  Tiedämme, ettei tämä ole paras mahdollinen tilanne, mutta toivomme pian tarjoavamme maksuvaihtoehtojamme useammissa paikoissa.

  So, they don’t want to use Klarna for what would actually be a fair and sensible thing, only for the bad stuff. Heh.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pla keeps balling up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does this work?

  Or, more precisely: Why does the dirty plate cause this balling-up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want some advice on which filaments to use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s any risk you might lose something you’ve printed while outside, it’s very good if the material is biodegradable!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A possibility does exist that I may, or may not, have read XKCD more than the recommended centennial dose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve ever in your life tried sleeping the spoony way, you’ll know that there’s always at least one arm too many, plus a million other sources of discomfort (such as an untimely hardon.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I join lemmy communities from my brainbin account https://thebrainbin.org/u/TheracAriane ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When trying out mbin it worked out best for me to write the community’s full name (such as hitchhiking@sopuli.xyz) in mbin’s search bar. For some reason writing it on the URL bar didn’t work like it dies elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Drop the u and o away from between and you’ve got it :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes see people saying “pronounce it like it’s the name of a Greek philosopher” or “pronounce it as if it was Spanish”.

  There’s a “p”, a “w”, an “n”, an “e” and a “d”. Say those in a row. “As if it was Spanish”, to make sure that e is really e and not i.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As it’s written. Pwned. No need to stick an extra “o” or “a” or any other vowel in between.

  It says “pwned”, so “pwned” it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can only read this scentence if you can read this scentence.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It hurts me that y isn’t th like it was in the past, or that x is not sh like it is in in Portuguese and Chinese. Why did they reverse those two in the otherwise excellent proposition?! :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, yeah. Metallica does kind of sound like Beyonce, when you give it a thought! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same has happened in something like 25 % of countries, and they haven’t gotten sanctioned for that.
  Most of our diamonds and cobalt and cocoa come from countries that have similar problems as USA now does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s the thing known as white passport, officially “Certificate of identity” or semi-officially “Alien’s passport”. That’s a document that looks just like a passport of a country but has a white cover instead of red, black, green or blue. It means that the country that has issued the white passport proves that the person is who they say they are, and it also tends to mean that that person has a right to reside in that country. It’s much more difficult to travel abroad with a white passport than with an actual passport, but it gets you started. Then, after living somewhere long enough, you can get a new citizenship and get on with your life at last.

  One thing that can be difficult is that to get some other citizenship, many countries require you to get rid of our previous ones first. For example in the Russia you can get rid of your citizenship only by travelling to the Russia and doing all the paperwork there. Which takes about two months. During which time they’ll send you to the front and you’ll die. It depends on the mood of the worker whether you can get a white passport in such a case or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you attempt to get visas or citizenship status, you usually need legal documents from your home country, but what about dissidents who fled, and their government refuses to issue papers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not stateless if you are a citizen of a country. The country you are a citizen of refusing to fulfill its duties doesn’t make you stateless yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, most of Russian dissidents are angry about how the war is fought.

  They would have wanted Ukraine to be taken over in a way that doesn’t spill Russians’ blood.

  There are people in the Russia that are really against the whole war and want to see all of Ukraine’s territory liberated, but those are not many! I would estimate their number is somewhere between 100 and a bit over 1000 individuals. Among 140 million.

  A good way to figure this is asking “who does Crimea belong to?"
  Everyone who is really a dissident will say “Ukraine”, because in reality the case is crystal clear. Everybody who moved there knew it’s not part of the Russia in the same manner as other regions where the white-blue-red flag is waved. And yet they elected to.move there. It’s a sad thing they’ll need to move away, yes, but they knew or at least had the responsibility to know what they are doing. And this is what Russian dissidents (both of them…) think.
  But almost all “dissidents” will say “it’s complicated” or something similar. That’s how you know a person protesting against how the war is done.

  And let me say: it is statistically extremely unlikely that the deported ones were among those 0,00071 % of the Russia’s population that are real dissidents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This gives me strong !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works vibes. But still a different theme, as meanwhileongrad is concentrated on tankie madness and this is more of a generic “you speak bad about people supporting some form of totalitarianism -> we dislike you”.

  It’s also sad that it doesn’t suprise me something like this comes from .world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A priest is the only employee who actually HAS to drink on the job.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, wine tasters?

  And, de facto also people whose job is to strike deals for a company. And ambassadors, I’d say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that Lifespan is not the same as life expectancy

  In this article it is, though. That’s why they use the phrase “average lifespan”. There is no “average” in maximum.
  In the article the phrase “average lifespan” is used in the meaning “average life expectancy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because the 38 years as average lifespan is skewed by high child mortality. People lived about 70 or 80 years – provided they first made it alive through childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But genetically we come from nomadic tribes, and AFAIK the nomads of a 100000 years ago, had a far shorter average lifespan than after we settled and began farming.

  This is mainly because of child mortality. When you get five children, of which two live to be 78 and 89 and the other three die at ages of 2, 14, and 8, your children’s average lifespan is 38,2 years. Typically, you either died very young, or you lived old. And the average is, well, the average of those. Basically nobody died around the age of 38.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some “fancy” ones do taste different, but the basic ones do share a clearly distinguishable common taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and the taste of what’s in moat energy drinks is what’s being sought for here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost completely agree with PM_ME_etc. Even to the part that yes, you are afraid of China and Chinese cultures in ways that are not necessary.

  At the same time, it is China’s goal to turn the west towards authoritarianism. Many parts of MAGA’s political goals are coaligned with those of China, even if their goals regarding economy politics are extremely different.

  Currently an increasing share of the western consumption is fed by factories in China. We’re currently practically completely able to produce mobile phones without China, because even if the phone is made in Mexico or South Korea, it is still made of Chinese components, such as the tiny torx screws not made in scale in a reasonable quality anywhere else than China.
  Eventually China will shut down that trade. It will hurt China, but if as a consequence China can get us under its command, they will gain more than they lose.

  Currently it would be extremely crucial to support industrial production practically anywhere outside China, some clear cases, such as NK, of course excluded. An amount of sinophobia is very necessary to make this happen!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thisshiws very well to what extent China is communist.

  • nationalizing industries: yes
  • making industries worker-controlled
  • private property partially abolished
  • workers’ rights even less supported than in USA
  • capitalist class being steadily empowered (they are getting increasingly rich and disconnected from the workers, even if their companies do have to follow the state lead than in more civilized countries)
  • wealth is being moved to the wealthy (albeit not nearly as fast as in USA)

  Of course this only tells whether China is.following its own official ideology, not whether what someone else does fulfills that ideology or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These ones:

  Kerbal Space Program
  Morphblade
  Dicey Dungeons
  Fallout 3
  Endless Sky
  /usr/games/sol

  (Plus on my phone Feudal Tactics and Shattered Pixel Dungeon)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened with Sublinks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe @jsonarray@utter.online can say? :)
  (Though, I'm not sure if they read their Mastodon anymore. But maybe yes?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remove Nutomic from Lemmy development for transphobia - Change.org⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing this petition can achieve is maybe getting a few people to move their donations to projects such as PieFed.

  Beside that... Well, Nutomic and Dessalines are the two people who decide on how to act regarding this petition – if they should remove themselves or not. I find it unlikely that they will look at the finished petition and go "oh, people want us gone. Okay, we'll do that".

  But yeah: Do not give money to Lemmy. There are other projects that are compatible with Lemmy and have use for your money as well, without being assholes :)