sanguinepar
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- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 17 hours ago:
As long as you are not in major target city … you will be fine.
That seems pretty complacent tbh.
First of all even just the top 30 cities in the US are home to about 41 million people. Which seems a lot of folk to simply write off.
Also, the destruction of the major cities would cause huge/complete economic, social, infrastructural and legal collapse for the rest of the country.
Plus, even for those outside the immediate blast radius, there’d be the massive environmental impact of pollution to land and water, not least the potential for a nuclear winter killing off crops, and then animals.
Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked.
Without knowing the size of the bomb, how could you know you would be outside it? Not that blast radius is all that matters anyway.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 17 hours ago:
Come, friendly nukes…
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 1 day ago:
It’s not at all uncommon for major cities to be on or near bodies of water, eg London, LA, NYC, Sydney, Tokyo, Rio, etc. It’s a facilitator to (and outcome of) trade/travel and also can be a source of food and water (for cities on rivers/lakes, obviously).
And it’s also not uncommon for major cities to become capital cities.
Not really surprising that as a country with one coastline, they have their capital so close to the sea.
- Comment on Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"? 1 day ago:
The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.
Agreed, but if I ever spent a 1000 bucks on any product, I’d expect it to be able to sit in a usable position without wobbling.
I’m glad they’re highlighting this - the more the better until phone design is improved to eliminate such a stupid flaw.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 2 days ago:
In the way that this supreme power would exist, there is no way for us to quantify it.
So, dark matter, then?
/jk
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s a place on Earth.
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 2 weeks ago:
Just change it to We Wished You…
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 4 weeks ago:
As a counterpoint to that, after WW2 the UK created the National Health Service, comprehensive education and the rest of the welfare state, while nationalising many huge industries. For the UK that was pretty radical stuff, and it lasted until the 1980s when Thatcher and her mob started tearing it all apart.
Whether you’d call that modern I’m not sure, but it wasn’t traditional either.
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 4 weeks ago:
I agree with this, and yet British politics feels a lot more fragmented now than it used to. The Tories are likely looking at being reduced to a rump at the next GE, and Labour will probably get a kicking too, unless they smarten up their act toot sweet. Meanwhile Reform will likely gain a lot of seats (vomit) and the Greens may start to get towards double digits. And the Lib Dems will likely just keep on Lib Demming along.
I think there’s a very real chance of a proper hung parliament next time with no obvious stqble majority coalition possible:
- Reform perhaps to win the most seats (although I am desperately hoping that their claimed support will not translate into as many seats as they think) and try to partner up with the Tories and maybe some of the Ulster Unionists
- Labour to probably lose half their seats, and be forced to look at possible LD, Green, maybe even SNP partnerships.
And possibly neither side able to put together a working coalition that would last for very long.
In which case, FPTP would have done the opposite of the two party system and led to even more divisions! Fun! 🤪
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
I usually have 50-70 tabs open, spread across 6-8 windows.
Each window is for a particular client, usually with various pages from their website, plus the equivalent CMS editing page, their socials, etc. I’m regularly doing a small job for one client here and other there, and so on, so it’s easier to just leave them open.
I also usually have at least one or two windows with my own stuff - Lemmy, BlueSky, a football ⚽ forum I use, YouTube, BBC News, etc.
It’s messy, but it works on the whole. It’s a pain whenever I need to restart or run updates though, since I need to check every tab to make sure it’s safe to close! 😁
- 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? 2 months ago:
Great tune!
- 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? 2 months ago:
Good shout - OP, this is probably the one.
- Comment on Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
This is a stunningly beautiful extended metaphor.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 2 months ago:
+1 on Ask Dad videos - this is a good channel: youtube.com/@dadhowdoi
Also +1 on everything else you said, especially the never stop learning point.
OP, it’s totally ok not to know things - you can seek them out in advance, or you can discover them along the way, as and when necessary.
You’ll be ok, pretty much everyone muddles through life one way or another. Best of luck 👍
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 months ago:
Naggers?
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
🙂
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
Yugoslavia. Mainly because it’s not there anymore. Would love to go to Croatia again for the first time though.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 months ago:
Nothing wrong with red hair. Mine’s brown now, but was red when I was a kid, and I got bullied for it all the time. Fuck that noise, and fuck the way it’s just accepted as being socially ok to mock people for their hair colour.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
Daaaaaaammmmnnnn. That’s a lot of vinyl. Lovely 😍
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 3 months ago:
For me, they are like saying “bread” and “braid” 😁
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 3 months ago:
It’s a good question. I always wonder the same thing about the US vs UK versions of Craig and Graham.
US - “kregg”, “gram”
UK - “krayg”, “gray-um”
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 3 months ago:
I see you’ve got a rye sense of humour.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 3 months ago:
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 4 months ago:
He listed the items because that’s the rules of the sub.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 4 months ago:
I don’t see anything wrong, or even odd about what he’s wearing. It’s just a jacket and some shorts. If I passed him in the street, I doubt I’d even register his clothes tbh.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 4 months ago:
No worries - the general point still stands though I think 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
True happiness is something that should make you happy in the moment and in the long run.
I’m not sure I agree - why is a long term aspect necessarily for something to constitute true happiness?
If I can’t remember something, does that mean it didn’t make me “truly happy”?
If so, that would mean that a child given a toy they play with for years but eventually lose interest in and forget as they grow older, didn’t experience “true happiness” from that toy, which doesn’t seem right to me.
I don’t think permanence or longevity are factors in whether ones happiness is true or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Agreed - that’s why many people love, say, the Mona Lisa, or Starry Night.