Tuuktuuk
@Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee
A human being from a Finland.
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 23 hours 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 1 week 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. 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and the taste of what’s in moat energy drinks is what’s being sought for here.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 :)
- Comment on Shh 5 weeks ago:
How about people driving those trucks that directly dump mixed waste into the ocean? That's a very common thing to do in South-East Asia. Plus, there are a zillion villages everywhere around there that dump all of their mixed waste into creeks going through them – to be brought "*away*". Into the oceans.
That's where almost half of all microplastic comes from. Then there's the other approximately half that comes from cars' tyres. And then a part of a percent that comes from drinking straws and such. Hooray.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
Could the other galaxy please pull us just the correct distance away from the sun to cancel the effect of global warming?
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 5 weeks ago:
Why just 400 kV?
At least Ukraine has several 750 kV power lines. Decreases the energy loss quite a bit!
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 5 weeks ago:
It is any better.
It's also not okay what DC did, but the transgressions are very different in scale.
Kimmel was faired for saying "MAGA is trying to make it look like the shooter wasn't a MAGA activist", while Felker-Martin got fired for saying "it's a good thing Kirk can no longer take part in podcasts."
I don't think either of those is grounds for firing, but it's not good to bring them to the same level.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn't call it "understanding" if you assume a meaning to a word that doesn't have that meaning.
It's funny in the same way as native Americans saying "ugh". If you're ignorant, you laugh. If you aren't, you facepalm. A joke that just makes its teller look like an ignorant idiot who is happy to trample other cultures is not a joke that should me made.
- Comment on 2 OP 5 weeks ago:
It wouldn't look burnt.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 5 weeks ago:
I do understand it's the entire point.
It's also super annoying when English-speaker make new "languages" which are just English with each word substituted by another.
The joke assumes that Latin is just a dialect of English.So, what I'm trying to hint in a subtle manner between the lines is that the joke is not among the best ones out there. Of course you can go to some meta levels and find something funny about someone being so stupid that they assume that words have 100 % equal meanings across languages. But, meh.
The joke reeks of monolingual ignorance miles away.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 5 weeks ago:
I'll copypaste this thing I wrote under another comment:
This is a bad translation because the English word "to come" has a double meaning (it also means ejaculation or having an orgasm), while in Latin it doesn't. There's a big risk of a misunderstanding, so "I arrived" is a much better translation IMO.
Why do you think "I came" would be better?
🙃 - Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 5 weeks ago:
This is a bad translation because the English word "to come" has a double meaning (it also means ejaculation), while in Latin it doesn't. There's a big risk of a misunderstanding, so "I arrived" is a much better translation IMO.
Why do you think "I came" would be better?
🙃 - Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 5 weeks ago:
"I arrived, I saw, I arrived"?
Why?
- Comment on It takes a brave person to go down on a crust punk. 5 weeks ago:
Wikipedia has a good article about crust punk.
As a music style it's a mix of punk and metal.
As a clothing style it seems to be kind of "casual punk". The clothes are more akin to everyday clothes. Then again, holes in clothes are used more than in "traditional punk costume". Some crust punk people radiate a feeling of being kind of part hipster, part punk.
- Comment on Due to the bystander effect its highly unlikely any stranger would help you if you got attacked in a public space 5 weeks ago:
Most likely not. Only an idiot goes to those.
There are the remaining 95 % of bars to choose from. Leave the rough bars for some idiot lads that like spending their time there. - Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
Some people get them from common colds. Just be happy you do not.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
I'm not using Lemmy. Do I have to leave?
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
I do the same. Whenever I'm ill, I eat a lot of canned fish (no cooking required, and it's not nice cooking in a horrible headache).
I tend to get well very soon even if the illness has felt very bad. And sometimes when I don't do the same, for whatever reason, I remain ill much longer.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 5 weeks ago:
What about him?