sanguinepar
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 6 days ago:
I’m Mullen over whether to take part in this punathon.
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 6 days ago:
Douglas Adams considered much the same idea…
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.
…and…
on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 6 days ago:
Only if you can at the same time consider that getting a prize should be a universal law.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
Seems very unlikely to me that there’s any real relationship between financial wellbeing and the capacity for empathy. There are wonderful people and shitty people and everything in between, at all levels of society IMO. Better to judge individuals on their actions, than classes on their general characteristics.
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It’s bigger than pocket sized, but if you search for Mini PC, there’s a fair few. They’re about 10-12cm square and about 5 or 6 cm tall, so easily fit in a bag.
Although you’ll still need a screen, mouse, keyboard, etc of course.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 week ago:
I’m choosing to see the green as a puddle instead 😁
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- Comment on How do you get over a breakup with someone who was (and is) also a very close friend? 2 weeks ago:
No worries - take it easy mate 👍
- Comment on How do you get over a breakup with someone who was (and is) also a very close friend? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve had some good advice on here I think, so I’ll not add much other than to say I’m really sorry you’re hurting, and I hope some time and distance away from her (not in a hostile way, just for your own wellbeing) helps you feel better.
Also, the therapy thing - when possible, yeah, talking shit out can really help. If money is an issue, there may still be some free local group counselling sessions you can find. I’ve done that, and I found that in addition to expressing my feeling, the process of listening to and comforting others actually made me feel better too.
away from the eyes away from the heart (dont know if its used in english)
Re that phrase, in English a common way of expressing much the same idea would be “Out of sight, out of mind”
Good luck dude, it gets easier [hug] 👍
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 3 weeks ago:
She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge…
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 3 weeks ago:
Best thing on Reddit, always made me laugh 😁
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
‘Better’ is a subjective judgement - for me the answer is absolutely not, I’ll always prefer a real physical book.
For others the answer will be yes, and for yet others it’ll be maybe or sometimes.
There’s no objectively true answer to the question though.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 4 weeks ago:
Only for travellers with the Mrs Grace L Ferguson Airline (and Storm Door Company)
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 4 weeks ago:
If they pay to power it with sustainable energy then it doesn’t. Simple as that. Energy use is really not a problem.
It is if doing so means taking up existing capacity in sustainable energy.
If they were always adding new sustainable capacity specifically for their data centres, that would be one thing, but if all they do is pay for the use of existing capacity, that potentially just pushes the issue down the road a bit.
If/when there’s enough capacity to supply all homes and businesses then this issue would disappear, but I don’t know how close that is.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 5 weeks ago:
You’re using all 3 of the shells, right?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
True, but they can’t literally stop a law happening until it is written to suit them. Figuratively, maybe through influence, pressure, money, etc - but not as an official, formal thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Given the way the US has been recently, I’m willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.
That’s an argument I’ve often heard, in favour of monarchy - “Would you prefer a President Blair/Johnson/Farage?”
It’s a fair point, but they never have an answer for what would happen with a King Blair/Johnson/Farage.
With a president (or any other democratic system) you can, at least in theory, have a say in who represents the country. As it is we in the UK are stuck with a mind-meltingly wealthy, influential and unaccountable family who have extremely questionable members and histories.
They influence laws to benefit their own ends, they shield abusive behaviour and individuals, and they do it all in the name of maintaining a tradition that fundamentally says that some people are simply “better” than others.
Monarchy is just repugnant to me - and not just the British Monarchy, the whole concept.
- Comment on Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? 2 months ago:
How about Heineken?
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 2 months ago:
And an idea I could absolutely see Musk hoping to copy, turning Twitter into a US version of WeChat.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 2 months ago:
Oooooh, oobidoo!
I wanna be like you-oo-oo!
I wanna walk like you!
Talk like you!
Scoo-doo-bidoo! - Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 2 months ago:
Not sure, but I was once (un?)fortunate enough to witness what happens when a bear was faced with an orangutan.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t really talking about care homes, I was talking about treatment, operations, maternity care, etc.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 2 months ago:
All fair points - but the fundamental point about people getting access to free healthcare has remained so far.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 2 months ago:
Just on the free healthcare thing - in the UK, the NHS is hugely iconic national institution, and politically it’s almost a no-go area in terms of its founding principles.
Which is not to say that privatisation hasn’t been creeping into the NHS for some time - it has, starting in earnest with the Thatcher governments on the 80s.
However, no matter how right wing a party is, it would be almost political suicide to make an all out effort to remove the basic tenet of the NHS - universal care, free at the point of delivery.
Unfortunately, what’s tended to happen since the 80s is (IMO) a managed decline of the NHS, with layers of management brought in and services allowed to decline in quality and availability.
The result is that the public do start to question the model, see the NHS as second rate, and start to lose some of that loyalty towards it.
However, it will take some time to ever get to the point where a government or any stripe is safe to even talk openly about moving away from the NHS model.
And hopefully that point will never come, and instead the NHS will be given renewed commitment and support both from government and the wider public.
It really is one of the very best things about the UK, and were we ever to lose it, it would be a criminal dereliction of duty by those into whose care it has been passed.
