thawed_caveman @ thawed_caveman @lemmy.world

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This is the kind of thing where the worst you can do is be a little cringy. Why not

I've started saying therein, thereto, therewith etc, because i feel like it makes it easier to build a sentence and it's also easier to pronounce than the alternatives.

This is actually an ongoing process starting with the Vietnam War and the war on terror.

I'm only barely old enough to remember how, in the 90's in Europe, everything that came from the US was cool and everything local was lame and embarassing. People older than me probably remember it being even more so before.

Nowadays that's only true for movies. I genuinely think that the US's imperialistic behavior has spoiled the goodwill earned from WWII, in combination with the internet shattering the monoculture that the US used to dominate.

To be fair, if they're deporting US citizens, they can't deport them back into the US can they? Have some sense /s

I've been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don't apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can't.

Normally there's a nebulous sense that this space doesn't belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don't feel a sense of ownership. But when it's being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.

And yes i'm french lmao

I can understand why you wouldn't want to draw this, it's a very room temperature 20th century take; but that doesn't make it okay to use genAI for it, that makes it worse. Now it's also cheap tacky and supports garbage companies.

Yes, the worst thing about this is that it's a shit idea, it doesn't refer to anything specific and there's something annoying about the binary format itself; but it's made way worse, not better, by also using technology developed for profit, through theft, by sillicon valley tech firms, at the cost of an enormous waste of resources, for no purpose other than shareholder value.

It looks like the back of a bolt action merged with the front of a semi-auto. What the fuck is this thing

EDIT: there aren't many rifles that do bolt-action and semi auto, but some of them do. If that's a real gun, then that narrows it down tremendously.

It's at this timestamp in the video, no additional angles, but you do get to see that the bolt opens straight up 90°, and also there's a flash hider. I think this is a drama that takes place in east germany? That narrows it down too.

The front sight really reminds me of an SKS, except not... It's like an 8-shaped peice with three holes that do front sight, barrel, and gas tube.

The rear sight looks like nothing i've ever seen. Doesn't look like the leaf rear sight that i associate with bolties.

The tube under the barrel is not bayonette storage because there's a weird plug at the end of it, it looks like you could rotate it and disassemble the tube.

Regardless if it's a real gun or not, the fact is that someone made this at some point, and i can't guess why they did it this way lol

I speak french and the french article says exactly what the english article says, except the english article has a lot more information.

It even includes the previous cases of kidnappers targeting people they thought might have large crypto holdings.

Move aside, i'm crossing this picket line

It used to be that women couldn't open their own bank accounts. Depending on how far back you go, they couldn't even own property. In this context, women really needed to get married if they wanted to do anything. For this and many other reasons, the bar was lower, men could get married with less effort. Nowadays women can do anything and the only reason for them to want a man is if they want to, so you actually have to put in effort now.

Also, gender roles are changing and there's no clarity as to what being a man is supposed to mean in 2025. If it's not protecting and providing, if it's not dying in war, then the purpose of men is undefined as of now, and there's a tendency to want to return to the older gender roles.

And late capitalism is stressful, and men aren't going to college as much these days. There's lots of reasons but this is what i can remember in five minutes

Further listening material

The first part of the equation seems to make sense, the number of eggs does depend on the number of children, age of the children, and size of the eggs. Makes sense that each of the kids gets two eggs. Not sure why it's the square root of y, but okay.

The (a+d) part i just don't understand at all. Why are the physical properties of the garden relevant?

And yeah, as the other commenter pointed out, i wonder what units they're even using for some of this data

You didn't make this meme

Yeah i don't have that kind of experience, so me troubleshooting parts would drag on forever. And then they could break months down the line.

In my experience, when buying second hand you trade time and effort for the price; being able to fix things means more time and more effort for even more savings. That's what this really is.

I guess there's something to how little i understand computer hardware making me imagine it as more fragile than it is

Oh wow, i wasn't expecting helpful advice for that specific model. Thanks!

The fingerprint scanner never worked properly, i had to register the same finger 3 times to make it kinda usable. Now a few months later it doesn't work at all.

I'm thinking of buying my next set of PC parts used, but i'm scared of the reliability. Which is weird because i buy absolutely everything else scond hand

Samsung A03.

After years of buying the cheapest phones possible, i got really tired of it and spent more money to get a better one, hoping to finally be free of all the bullshit.

It's the worst phone i've ever owned.

Cost me 100€ second hand instead of the ususal 50€. I am so disgusted

I have a passing familiarity with the politics of a couple countries, and they all fit this pattern: their constitutions say nothing of a two-party system, they don't even say anything about parties at all. People just choose to create political parties, and then those parties coalesce into two major parties.

The reason that this happens is because people, from voters to every level of politician, look at the rules of the game and make tactical decisions; their tactical decisions cause a two-party system to emerge.

The USA is a really extreme case of this; in Europe there are more parties, and they even very occasionally come to power. Current french president Macron broke a decades-long streak of two-party governance in his country.

Further viewing material:

What is tactical voting

Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting

The Alternative Vote Explained

My takeaway from this is that there are things that can be done to improve the voting system, as suggested in these videos; but i don't even like representative democracy at all, i think there's better solutions in direct democracy (referendums and such). Representative democracy was designed to put elites in charge, voting was initially reserved for land-owning nobility. Extending voting rights to more people doesn't change what the system is designed to do.

I can't think of a worse place to own a Cybertruck than Seattle, aside of course from areas with unpaved roads or any uneven terrain

I don't know what would happen to your body, but i know these would be the worst meals you'll ever have