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Carrolade

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  • Bezos return of investment for sucking up to Trump

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  • For example, when body scanners became a thing at airports, it was reported that one of the major contractors in the effort was a personal friend of Barack Obama.

    I can't find anything on this. Can you point me towards a source?

  • What tech/science communicators do you follow that you feel are unbiased?

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  • How do YOU personally determine if someone is a good or bad person?

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  • How do they treat those that are "beneath" them? Customer service workers, pets, kids, etc. Anyone that they should have some sort of authority over.

  • Far-right character’s monologue prompts violent scenes at German theatre

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  • Honestly, no I wouldn't automatically call that person stupid. I'd think they had trouble regulating their emotions, but would not judge their overall intelligence based on just that. There are many things that can lead to inability to handle anger in a healthy way, that have nothing to do with intelligence.

  • Far-right character’s monologue prompts violent scenes at German theatre

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  • Sometimes your tolerance for hearing something becomes saturated. When this occurs, it no longer matters what context you might be hearing it in again, you will dislike hearing it regardless of the context.

    Not to excuse the audience or anything, they should know better. They could have just walked out if they were unhappy. It's a little disingenuous to call their reaction stupidity though, I'm pretty sure they do recognize fiction from reality. They probably just weren't willing to hear that speech, delivered in a fictional or any other context.

    Personally I've encountered this with film before. The movie Django Unchained had enough casual, laid back racism in its plot and dialogue, that I just got fed up and quit watching. I wasn't enjoying myself, so what's the point? It's almost worse when it's casual too, I'd rather watch something like Schindler's List where it gets more gravity.

  • What was your social media path?

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  • What counts and what doesn't is pretty fuzzy. I'm just including everything that could reasonably fit, just to keep it simple.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Carrolade @lemmy.world

    What was your social media path?

  • Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • 25 years is pretty extreme, it's not like we need to wait decades for whole fields of research to occur before we have our own opinions--we're not academics with a responsibility to not spout random bullshit. Being randos on the internet, spouting bullshit is actually one of our primary activities.

    4 years is probably sufficient to keep the volume reasonably balanced.

  • Well, we had a good couple of decades of these types of videos.

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  • When you put it that way, it is kinda sad.

  • Do you think you would survive if you received every injury of your life at once?

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  • Depends if I can get my phone unlocked and call an ambulance or not. Unassisted I'm probably bleeding out, but if I can get to a hospital then I can probably make it. I do wonder how much skin I'll even have left at this point, considering the sheer number of cuts, scrapes and burns I've had, but blood loss should be the only potentially fatal problem needing to be dealt with immediately.

    Big if, though, my hands would be a busted up mess. Operating a touchscreen would be a pretty big ask, and I probably don't have a lot of time fully conscious. I'd also have several broken bones preventing me from going anywhere to find help.

  • How to avoid hating the opposite gender after reading what they write online?

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  • Pretty simple. Resist the urge to see people based on their membership in this or that group, and instead focus on each individual. People are not responsible for the actions of other people that may seem outwardly similar to them, they are only responsible for their own. Life is harder when you remember this, but it's the honest truth.

  • 'Generational' winter storm set to hit U.S. Here's why it's so significant — and dangerous

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  • If you're not used to winter driving conditions, keep your speed to about half of the posted speed limit, AND allow about double the normal distance for any braking you have to do. Give yourself a little over twice the normal amount of time it'd take you to drive somewhere.

    This is generous, and will generally keep you safe on the road even if you're unaccustomed to the conditions. Ice can still cause (sometimes unavoidable) problems even with these extra allowances, but if you're going slowly and giving the extra distance, any accidents will be at low speed and very minor.

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  • Agreed.

    I would also be curious if she has any areas of interest where she is actually very quick and knowledgeable. If not, that might be cause for concern, but for all we know she just hates the humanities and is actually a wizard at higher mathematics. Especially since she's young, there's no real way to gauge whether it's a lack of general intelligence or just a symptom of complete and total disinterest in a particular subject.

    Also let's not forget that pretty people can often get away with more than average looking people can, so they don't have quite the same degree of pressure to perform in areas where they're uninterested. If a quick, dazzling smile can unlock the ability to copy someone else's homework or get the teacher to grant extra time on an assignment, well, school might be a little easier.

  • The more you learn about human biology and childbirths, the more you'd realize how shitty and inferior this form of existence is...

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  • It's a pros and cons thing. The pros in this case are our upright posture with narrower hips that let us cover long distances more efficiently than most of the rest of the animal kingdom. We can even do things like carry food to eat while walking, which something like an antelope would struggle with. Then a second pro is the whole big brain thing. These two factors did let us take over most of the planet over the course thousands of years, pretty quick work, really.

    Then the cons are high mortality in birth, and taking something like 10 years after that risky birth to become even semi-functional at a practical level.

  • You are the dictator of an island nation 900,000 km² in size, 30,000,000 in population, and a random country in the list of top 10 militaries will attack your country in 10 years; what is your plan?

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  • Okay, fair enough.

    I fail to see the distinction. By OPs prompt, we're getting attacked no matter what once his plot armor expires.

  • You are the dictator of an island nation 900,000 km² in size, 30,000,000 in population, and a random country in the list of top 10 militaries will attack your country in 10 years; what is your plan?

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  • Sea levels rise the same everywhere. And not in 10 yrs it won't.

  • You are the dictator of an island nation 900,000 km² in size, 30,000,000 in population, and a random country in the list of top 10 militaries will attack your country in 10 years; what is your plan?

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  • Ooh, I get to choose the location?

    Fairly close to the North Pole. Our people are adapted to it, assuming the island has always been there somehow. Nobody else is, making the logistics of trying to invade an absolute nightmare for anyone on Earth.

    Now we just have to feed ourselves somehow in the event of a naval blockade, so a lot of investment into ballistic missiles and submarines to make a blockade as difficult as possible and hopefully keep our trade open during the summertime. I assume we're fully reliant on imports that can only come in during that seasonal window. Fishing alone probably can't sustain a population that large, and nothing is going to grow up there.

    Assuming an invasion has to occur in 10 years and cannot be delayed, whoever tries is kinda fucked though.

    If North Pole is cheating, then in the middle of the Pacific with the same plan. Probably can't resist something like the US though in that case.

  • Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation

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  • The answer was — and is — not to let that panic us or force a change in policy: to keep calm and carry on.

    When you're dealing with a bully, there are times when you have no good alternative than to just punch them back. We have intelligence services and cyberwarfare departments too, if I'm not mistaken.

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  • Riding your bike is exercise, so I'll give that one a pass as a healthier hobby. Reading just depends on what you're reading I suppose. Going to restaurants is generally looked at as a bad habit in my experience. Waste of money basically.

    Regarding what makes video games special, I will say that they can develop bad personal habits a little easier than a lot of other hobbies. I think they have greater addiction potential than say, reading or bike riding. More on par with sex or gambling. They also create a temptation to oversimplify/misunderstand things about real life in the same way tv/movies do.

    But yeah, overall I don't think its a particularly bad hobby if you don't go overboard with them.

  • New Community: Anno Gaming Community - Lemmy.World

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  • Very nice. I think if we want to grow the Fediverse, these types of communities are among the most important of all. Lots of people use social media to ask questions/find answers/show off about specific games/hobbies.

    Hope you stick with posting content during the slow, early days of starting a new community.