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Dicska

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  • What unofficial / fun names are there for monuments where you live?

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  • I used to go to uni in this city which had the "horse's butt" / "horse butt". It's just a regular horse soldier kind of statue, nothing special about it; however, due to it being right in front of one of the university buildings, among students it (or the surrounding area) was called like that. I doubt the creator had the title "horse's rear" in mind.

  • Win10 custom PC stopped booting

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  • "Your device ran into a problem and needs to rest"

    Me too, little computer, me too.

  • me_irl

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  • Which is a fair point. I'm not an expert by any means, but the change in population growth could have come from various effects: maybe it wasn't the end of socialism, but the start of capitalism; maybe it wasn't the start of capitalism, but a general uncertainty after the old system dissolved; maybe it was coming from a third source (see above); maybe it was a global phenomenon, which has been happening in developed countries ever since; I don't know, maybe it was The Shining coming out in 1980.

  • me_irl

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  • Sorry, the last time I was commenting from the toilet. I've done some looking up:

    France:

    Spain:

    Germany:

    Italy:

    I mean, I know that 5 countries isn't considered reliable statistics, I guess, but most of them are also on the rise in the given time period. Italy and a few other countries seemingly had a dip.

  • me_irl

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  • Ahem. I wonder if non-communist states are any different, or it's just that birth rates dipped before/during a World War, and they were all climbing back up until ~the '80s?

  • Baba Yaga called... from her cellphone

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  • Into the square hole.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • I lost my BT earbuds 2 months ago, have a Type C phone, and just chucked out my ~5 Type C earbuds, because I had never used them since I got the Bluetooth one. I only left a pair of Jack earbuds. Guess where my Type C to Jack adapter went...

  • TIL it takes the average mammal 12 seconds to poop.

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  • speedruns

  • TIL it takes the average mammal 12 seconds to poop.

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  • My name is Low Sleep Stress Coffee Cream Cheese Shit Hubert, and I live in a cave, and take 12 seconds to poop and 11 hours 59 minutes 48 seconds to wipe per working day and I am an outlier and should not be counted in the averaged data.

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • Oh, hierarchy as a concept is a whole can of worms on its own, but the kind of xenophobia I was describing seemed to be independent from the concept of hierarchy: at least by my observation, it's more like a "them"/"us" divide, but indeed with an asymmetric aspect in mind.

    Hierarchy being a "recent" thing (and the potential to leave it behind) sounds hopeful, but while us fucking up the planet is even more recent, we might be able to finish that before even thinking about changing anything.

  • Iranian army shoots down US another F-15

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  • First F-15: "it was friendly fire". Second F-15: "shoots down another F-15".

    Great title, BTW: it shows again that 'US' is somewhere it definitely shouldn't be.

  • Behold.

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  • I'd be willing to give up my habit, but imagine the DECADES of constant confusion, mistakes and accidents because 8 years into the change you need to figure out whether the right number is 4.827 or 4,827 in the document you're looking at... And now you need to investigate the creation date.

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • Because with time, this light is also putting an end to not just itself but every other form of life around it.

    Whether the positives outweigh the negatives doesn't really matter when there's nobody left around. Once we get to the point where the climate disaster is bad enough and irreversible (it might have happened already), it doesn't even matter if humanity suddenly falls back into the middle ages and gets primitive enough to not do any harm anymore: certain processes won't just suddenly stop.

  • Cutting corners left right and centre

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  • Well, cutting corners left, right, and at the World Trade Center.

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  • But if everyone is looking out for everyone else

    I agree with you, but this takes us back to square 1 : ).

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  • I've been in school long enough to tell you that knowing people might not prevent some from being awful.

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  • I wish it was that simple! Turning on/off some sequences (it might not be the correct term) might actually affect other things, as well.

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • Humanity can't be fixed, will always be selfish, greedy, discriminating against other people who differ enough, since a bunch of these things are pretty much hard coded. You might not be, some people you know might not be - but statistically, the majority of humanity will happily watch others get oppressed (or worse) for various reasons. There will always be people who manipulate others for power/wealth, disregarding law, morals or the environment, and there will always be a fuckton of gullible/dumb/mean people who happily buy the propaganda for reasons above.

    Therefore, no matter what kind of society you try to form, with enough time we will get back to where we are now, and humanity will never be able to break out of this downward spiral, due to its inherent fault.

    ...which leads to my main controversial opinion, based on the above: the only cure to the mass extinction and the worsening climate happening today is the eradication of the human species. Yes, it would be such a shame saying goodbye to all the great things we have achieved, dad jokes, poetry, the Backstreet Boys; all this means nothing if everything dies on a scorching/freezing planet. At least if we take out humanity, other forms of life could survive, and life as we know it isn't really found on every other planet.

    Obviously there will be nothing wiping the human race off of the face of the Earth, and if it somehow ever disappears, it will be by its own doing - but chances are that will also take all other forms of life with it.

    Looking at all the awful things humans have been doing to each other, all the pollution, all the ignorance, all the destruction, I wouldn't hesitate a bit if there was a red button in front of me that could magically make them disappear (including me, of course). In the blink of an eye. I would slam down on it as fast as I can.

  • Behold.

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  • Europeans, you say?

    Yeah, I know, it's still less than 1/3 of the total, but it's used in several continents.

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    Unsubscribe from users without blocking them - Is it possible, at all? If so, how?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    I guess I'm joining the protest. Here's my zodiac.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    Youngest actor ever - EDIT: mystery solved, thanks all!

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

    How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online (as their 1st line), provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny?

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
    Dicska @lemmy.world

    I live in the EU area; why is the 'Evanston, IL' community ~half of my feed at LOCAL/Active?