I have a parrot and sometimes he attempts to feed me from his crop storage, it’s gross.

I imagine it’s like a grandma that doesn’t cook well.

I was more referring to the “I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that”-part. Ryan Reynolds isn’t exactly hyping his role in this.

But thanks for the canon info, much appreciated!

EU has been trying to regulate them for years.

Were perhaps finally getting somewhere with this. I’m still afraid it’s too slow though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66708571

#New iPhone, new charger: Apple bends to EU rules

Correct.

And the “back in the day” you’re referring to was barely a hundred years ago, just to give people some reference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1894

And I also don’t think the earlier person realises that evolutionary pressures still apply despite medicine and tech removing some of things that limited us before.

That is to say that because we don’t need to worry about certain things which used to be important, the pool of people now “competing” is larger, meaning that competition between needed traits is higher, making for “more fit” individuals.

In the sense that we don’t need to worry about being physically strong anymore, so we can focus on cognition, and looking at history, the speed at which our intellect (or at least level of tech) has grown — as a species — is pretty fucking insane.

Calling out IDF trolls.

Then they amass, obfuscate the thread with a billion replies, manufacturing “outrage” and then mass report the whole thing and bam I’m banned from world news.

Literally didn’t utter a single insult. But since I was adamant and making the IDF troll feel uncomfortable with the evidence that Israel is willfully slaughtering children, I was “being disrespectful” and they banned me.

And Americans get very triggered when you note that there is literally no evidence against the notion that gun control works. They just jump in with shitty NRA perpetuated fallacies. Never a lick of data to support their bullshit. And there’s a mountain of studies proving gun control works. It works as surely as antibiotics.

Well a “man-made famine” fulfills another part of the genocide definition

Killing members of the group;

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

So it’s important in the sense that it’s one step closer to a definite conviction of a genocide.

It’s definitely ethnic cleansing. But fucking bureaucracy bullshit, so they’re probably following the four-stage strategy

I got banned from world news on lemmy because I argued one of these genocidal Israelis and they ended up spamming and mass reporting me after they obfuscated the thread. The only and worst “personal insult” I used, once, was “IDF troll”, and that wasn’t even bullshit.

I’m so tired of nothing good happening in the world.

You want to start a revolution with me, friend?

That’s another thing, why do you feel the need to reply with silly one word answers when you’re desperately avoiding anything I say?

It would seem to indicate you care about something.

That something seems to be about your ego. You put forth the thought that people aren’t equal, and then don’t refute it when I ask if that’s what you really meant. You don’t care, yet you can’t help but replying.

I’m sure even you now see what I mean with “willfull ignorance”. Or perhaps you’re willfully ignoring that realisation too.

I mean, I’m European, on metric and fully agree with you.

But you’re not right about the units. They’re just the most well known, and used ones.

An inch is 3 barleycorns. A barleycorn is 4 poppyseeds. A poppyseed (2.11mm) is six points. A point, 0.35mm is twenty twips. A twip is 17 micrometers. 0.0176mm, roughly the width of a human hair.

Which makes it even dumber, because it shows it’s from a time in people could measure things in twips, yet those people still chose to make a unit called “a twip” instead of just saying “fuck this we’re going metric”. Nevermind I checked and point and twip are both typographical measurements, so it’s less unreasonable.

With most common and best known ones, the same things still exist in metric, but they’re just minimally confusing, as people know it’s prefix+unit. A milliliter is very common. Deciliter as well, but probably less so (someone once told me their country don’t use it as much despite being on metric, can’t remember the country), but something like a decimeter or a decigram would sound pretty weird. Hectogram however, isn’t too unfamiliar, pretty used in the drug world. I’m sure a lot of people would be confused by the prefix “yotta” or “ronna”, which I was too. Yonna is above zetta, above exa, above peta. I’m sure a lot of people on Lemmy know at least “peta” and probably exa.

Discounting those amazingly big prefixes, even if I use a less used combo like, say, “megasecond”, you don’t need additional information to figure out how long that is. But with seconds it’s annoying to transform them into days and hours and minutes, because you have to also use base 60, but still doable. Here’s a tangentially related example: a nice comparison between millionaires and billionaires; if you earned a dollar a second, you’d be a millionaire in a megasecond, a billionaire in a gigasecond. A megasecond is is 11.57 days. A gigasecond is 32 years.

As I said before, this exact attitude is what confounds me.

You simply don’t care about the massive amount of kids dying from firearm injuries. At least you dont seem to, going out of your way to justify it. “It’s just gang crime.” As if kids dying in gang shootouts don’t have parents left to mourn them. As if they don’t matter.

Why?

It’s as if you were robbed of the ability to see a thing in the world. Or given an ability to ignore whatever makes you uncomfortable. The latter makes more sense.

I know you don’t want to admit to valuing people’s differently, because you know that’s wrong. However, you were very comfortable in implying it, using the excuse of “they have it coming, they chose a life of crime, and thus their lives are worth less.”

You just can’t say any of that out loud.

I wish Insider and Forbes was paying me to share their stories. No such luck. They’re (the Insider stories, not Forbes magazine) just really good, and help to increase understanding of things some people would never be directly exposed to otherwise.

You’re now admitting to exactly what I said in my first comment. You don’t care about the crime and the violence, because the kids dying are over 16 and in gangs.

You use that as your justification for accepting it, and then you judge all gun crime to be gang crime.

A very convenient way to not address the fact that the US is the only developed country in the world where the leading cause of death for children is firearm injuries.

Firearms Now No. 1 Cause Of Death For U.S. Children

Did you watch the video?

I asked “how is one person dying better than another”?

By answering, you are more or less directly saying a ganganger’s life isn’t worth as much, because they “chose” to be involved in a life of crime.

That shows that you think some people are worth more than others. Why?

It also shows very little understanding towards the type of people who often are involved in crime, without having much of a say in it.

Please, watch the video.

It’s really weird as a non-American, seeing Americans think kids dying is nothing to worry about — as long as the kids are 16+ and involved in crime. Not every American does, but a worryingly large amount do.

I hope you realise most of that crime would be non-existent with proper social security.

How The Crips Gang Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider

Probably is.

But how does that make it any better?

And I think it is.

Most low level users are in that group, being so pissed if you ever mention the real name of anything. Before actually good protected comm apps like Wickr, Signal etc, buying drugs was such a hassle. Sometimes two people would meet only to realise that neither of them have drugs, they both want to buy.

I don’t think the execs live in a world where people have to spell out murder if they’re gonna murder someone.

Sorry for the second reply, we’re both avid talkers and I’ve already taken half an ambien.

At some point when murder is being discussed, someone is going to actually have to check "just to be clear, you mean murder, right?

With all respect, I disagree. And I’ve been friends with actual murderers. Well a murderer. I mean, I only knew him after his sentence, dk what he did when he did the murdering. Just that I’ve been in circles with a lot of people’s who’ve done various crimes, and unless theyre referring to their trials or sentences or something, they never mention the crime. It’s all euphemisms.

The actual confirmation bit would be online with an escrow service, after finding s reliable one.

If I were to link a bunch of drug busts, would it make drug markets any smaller?

Like I said, they’re the most unreliable service, but you really don’t have to be that smart to use one responsibly. It’s not like going on Craigslist looking for a guy who thinks he’s hidden himself by using incognito mode.

“rentahitman.com” lol might as well set up a stand called “we sell meth here mister police man”. I hope you do realise the impossibility of me proving just how many successful hit jobs there have been which no-one was ever caught?

No, see they can all talk about this particular person being a problem, in the board room. Without talking about anything criminal, or even thinking about anything criminal towards him.

But later in the night, a few of those execs are getting drunk in a fancy suite, doing blow. They know what they’ve done vis-a-vis the airline jenga. There’s even evidence against them. They would be stressed. Substance abuse is very common in the business world, as are dark triad personality traits and the occasional psychotic behaviour. (CEO psychopathy prevalence is something fierce compared to the average.)

If there’s enough plausible deniability and shared responsibility, those people rarely do. Even when it’s very clear death was indirectly caused by some of the decision of the leaders, they rarely get into trouble.

Ofc conspiracy to murder is a bit different than cooking the books for instance, but when we’re talking about airline safety, they’re not too dissimilar

They might have the mindset required to hire a hitman. But, they don’t have the connections.

Anyone can find a hitman online, all it takes is 15min to get to know how deep web markets work. They’re by far the least reliable service ofc, but it is sold and there are escrow services as well. How well they work in cases like that is a whole other matter, but I, personally, find it rather ludicrous a suggestion that a high-level Boeing boss who manages the complexities of a job like that (especially when simultaneously playing Jenga with airline safety) wouldn’t be able to figure out how to access a black market.

Especially when they could always hire a person to do that for them. Do they trust anyone at all, with any of their criminal shenanigans? Well surely the co-conspirators at least. These massive, systemic changes that made Boeing go from trusted airline to killing whistleblowers weren’t the actions of one man.

And if there was a group of men, then it’s shared responsibility. Even if they conspire to hire a hitman. It doesn’t feel as much like a violent crime when it’s done in white-collars and agreed on in a fancy hotel suite.

I imagine it looked something like this, except Webb’s character wasn’t there

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking about!

QI (Quite interesting BBC show) tweeted: The ‘metal umlaut’, as used in Motörhead or Mötley Crüe, is purely decorative and not intended to affect pronunciation. However, when Mötley Crüe first performed in Germany the crowd didn’t know this and chanted ‘Mutley Cruh! Mutley Cruh!’. Apparently they were drinking Löwenbräu when they named the band.

It was on the show once but I can’t find the clip, and I won’t link to xitter so. You can find Tommy Lee verifying that tweet if you google “qi motley crue quite interesting”

Vowels with umlauts are rarely next to the same vowel without umlauts.

As in you wouldn’t have äa or oö, but you could have oä or öa

But ofc doesn’t apply everywhere but like, generally, writing “bloöd” just seems off