https://www.quora.com/Does-the-ISS-use-power-to-heat-or-cool

Only if “Big Freeze” turns out to be more accurate than the “Big Crunch”

Yes. And I’m also the one who jokingly claimed to not understand the very basic English and blender terms around your username.

I believe my generation is considered somewhat technologically literate, see. As is Lemmy. I, however, half-jokingly implied I am not.

How do you have the patience and time for that?

I enjoy writing and it really doesn’t take that long to hit a quick reply on your phone. A large majority of my comments is just very shitty attempts at jokes, but got to work on the material somewhere and there’s not really venues around here.

Millenial cringe

Good job, dear. You really put me in my place about being older than me. I definitely wasn’t being condescending, because I find the idea of even older generations, still comparing ages a bit funny. Great job!

Sure you are honey.

skip the maths

I’m so millenial this is the only part I understood.

I’m with this guy.

Because like it or not, TV sets an example.

Sometimes it can be used for positive things as well.

Developed in Scandinavia over decades starting in the 1920’s, the concept of a designated driver was imported to the United States on a large scale in 1988 through the Harvard Alcohol Project,[2] an initiative by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication, led by Jay Winsten. With heavy involvement by television networks and Hollywood studios, the campaign popularized the concept through public service announcements, as well as the encouragement of drunk driving prevention messages and designated driver references in popular television programs,[2] such as Cheers, L.A. Law, and The Cosby Show. The U.S. Department of Transportation used public affairs commercials with the phrase “friends don’t let friends drive drunk”.

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

Like those super unknown shows like “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother”, “The Big Bang Theory”, etc?

Nvm you were talking about R-rated youngsters not TV-14 rated adults.

What’s the point?

“You better believe we have weapons you can’t defend from, like, at all! We could totally take on NATO, easily. So like, don’t, like, even think about helping Ukraine any more!”

Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) has been doing variations of that to Finland since WWII.

That’s basically why it took us so fucking long to join NATO, because the argument used to be “uuuh, we can’t afford to piss off Russia!”

But since they obviously don’t care about their own capacity for war and invaded Ukraine, we thought, “fuck it, why not”.

So Russia used to have a bit of a buffer with Finland but since we joined, Putler is having even more heatenings.

Thus this sort of saber rattling.

Seeing as we’re on .ml I wouldn’t be surprised if Davel or Dessalines or one of the others just deletes this as some sort of anti-Russian discrimination and bans me.

Oh and just to remind Vanja. Don’t try to come over our Eastern border. #(Unless you’re alone and escaping Putlerism, but you should do that before the remining is done.)*

The Way is Shut!

A bit of a tangent but just today I watched a short about the history of what British colonialist did to the Hijra in India.

Basically they went over there and went “more than two genders? THAT’S ILLEGAL.”

Yet nowadays we have transphobes always reciting how it’s somehow a woke new thing to not have the sexual sensibilities of a Victorian British person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_India#Colonial-era

I did not.

Polytheism can be a useful framework for lots of things without ruining society like monotheism.

Religion isn’t an issue. Dogmatic religion is. And all monotheist religions are dogmatic. Some polytheist ones are as well.

There’s loads of uses for religion which aren’t evil or bad for society

I think you’re confusing a few things.

Was it the west that instigated a change, because they were greed for oil and didn’t give a fuck?

Yes.

But who actually took power? Conservative Muslims.

Fuck all monotheism.

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine

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

I haven’t played anything this year.

Well aside from like the sort of mobile games that ads sometimes have before you can close them.

I’m not sure if it’s depression or a lack of a good GPU. Still running my 1060.

earned through their labor

The people who are on hourly rarely have yachts. Fishing boats, perhaps. Sailboats are more rare, but the random fanatic boatbuilder? I’ve seen it on occasion. But yachts? Nah. That’s some intergenerational wealth going there, inherited something or rich parents back loans which enable the person to start their own company to rip off the labour of others. I know a bunch of them, born with a golden spoon up their arses.

People don’t get rich working hard. They get rich by stealing the profit from the hard work of others. I’m sure you know this.

It is very arbitrary, sure.

I think a main thing is people who describe their boats as yachts usually aren’t going from paycheck to paycheck.

Sure, man. Sure.

Boats are typically considered yachts when they are or exceed 24 meters.

A potential buyer of a superyacht with a net worth of around €25,000,000 might consider that 10-30% of their net worth invested in a used superyacht is something that they can reasonably afford, whereas potential buyers of new yachts might want to have a net worth in excess of €50,000,000 to feel comfortable.

It is estimated that around 130,000 people may have this level of wealth worldwide although experts reckon that only a few thousand individuals are actively involved in owning, building, buying and selling the approximately 8,700 motor and 1,750 sailing superyachts over 24 metres that have been built.

Okay that’s not nothing but 200 000€ / year is hardly top 1% in EU, I think.

This is what slop gave me:

Based on available data on income distribution in Europe, a rough estimate for a gross annual individual salary to be in the top 1% across the EU would likely fall above €200,000.

When I asked how much you’d need to make in a year to be in EU top 1%. Didn’t even mention 200 000.

So yeah upper class but not necessarily top 1%. In Lithuania they’re probably top1% but not on the EU level.

Sorry for being pedantic, you were close enough tho

Yes to the former no the latter.

https://norse-mythology.org/concepts/magic/