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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

If I recall correctly, spinach has a lot of iron in it and it's green. Added bonus, it makes you able to take on a bully!

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The problem with choosing your own reality is that when it doesn't bear any resemblance to actual reality, you will inevitably be forced to face up to it at some point.

Humans generally hate to admit when they are wrong so creating a version of events where you didn't make a mistake is easier.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

I don't get the joke. They are building research reactors not reactors designed to handle high demand. Start small, scale up then start building full scale reactors. Isn't that kinda normal with new tech? They are starting the scaling up phase...

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's why I like the individual toilets as standard. The only thing you out yourself as is someone who needs the toilet. Unfortunately though they require more space so they aren't common .

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I am a fan of those toilets that have a symbol that is half 'male' on the left side half 'female' on the right and are individual rooms that can be used by anyone. Those symbols are essentially defining 'sex' by clothing anyway and making them half and half carries the implication that it doesn't matter where you are on the gender spectrum because both extremes merge into one symbol. They also sidestep the issue of normal people having to share with those nasty bigots. Everyone can shit where they want without consequence and no one needs to be exposed to my farts echoing in the toilet, which for some reason seems to have been designed to amplify the noise of struggle.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Will it stimulate the downturn in shipping demand by making it harder to get work as the USA pushes itself and the rest of the world into recession.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

They can't admit it because it's an echo chamber. Trump tells them what they want to hear. They feel smarter for being validated by the president so they ignore the nagging voice that things aren't going to plan because the only possible explanation is NOT that they were wrong and don't understand these complex issues, but that even though they can't see the full picture, they were right. Then all the other people in the same position agree that 4D chess is being played and they all voted a smart vote and the endorphins flood their brain again

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I have to take him at his word. If he thinks it is going well, that means the chaos is what he wants.

He is either gaming the stock market for profit, or trying to harm the world economy.

The very slim possibility is that he is being told by others with an agenda that things are working as planned.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aside from privacy issues I'm sure running out of storage space on my work laptop all the time will get loads better when I have to find space for all this extra data that has nothing to do with actually getting my job done. I am constantly fighting running out of HD space due to the need to generate a lot of data, video, images etc. Adobe software takes up more than it needs to and complains if you don't have tons of spare space for it whenever you use it.

I can count on one amputated hand the number of times I would have needed this feature.

I only hope my company's IT see the security risk and disable it by default.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is the question.

How improbable is it that he could have made a connection to airport scanners if somebody else told him they were having confusing feelings.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I'm not seeking to defend FPTP, butf the two party system is inevitable, how come the UK has 393 political parties? It's true that one of two parties usually wins, but against that backdrop, the SNP was able to flourish in Scotland. In America you literally have Republican, Democratic parties and Independents. It is not inevitable but it certainly isn't a good system for the modern age.

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The relevance is, when you visit Norway now, you'll have to buy their tourism through the tax, so there won't be any point in buying imported tourism from another country as you'll already have more than enough. Pretty clever really.

Anyway imported tourism is never quite the same as getting it locally. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Democratic political strategy

 

Every decade has its musical style that generally makes it easy to place what decade a song was written in if you haven't heard it before.

40s big band

50s rock and roll

60s essentially has its genre named after the decade or at least I can't think of anything I'd call a genre.

70s punk and beginnings of heavy metal, disco

80s electro synth, rap

90s grunge, dance, R&B, trance

Etc etc. Obviously these don't entirely define the music of the decade but are highly recognisable genres that can more often than not pinned down to a decade.

So my question is, since the 2000s I don't see as much differentiation but that might be because I'm too old (44) and not as exposed to be music as I was in my teens, so help me pretend I'm "hip" and "with it" by giving me some clues. I'm curious to know what you think defines the music of the 2020s, what defines the 2010s and what defines the 2000s. I.e. When someone says they are going to listen to noughties music what do they put on? Etc. Or have we reached a point where music has been explored to the point new genres are much rarer to establish?

 

The Geneva convention was established to minimise atrocities in conflicts. Israeli settlements in Gaza are illegal and violate the Geneva convention. Legality of Israeli settlements Article 51 of the Geneva convention prohibits indiscriminate attacks on civilian population yet Israel attacked hospitals with children inside. Whether you agree or not that Hamas were present, children cannot be viewed as combatants.so when no care was taken to protect them, does this not constitute a violation? According to save the children, 1 in 50 children in Gaza had been killed or injured. This is a very high proportion and does not show care being taken to prevent such casualties and therefore constitutes a violation.

So my question is simply, do supporters of Israel no longer support our believe in the Geneva convention, did you never, or how do you reconcile Israeli breaches of the Geneva convention? For balance I should add "do you not believe such violations are occurring and if so how did you come to this position?"

Answers other than only "they have the right to go after Hamas " please. The issue is how they are going after Hamas, not whether they should or not.

EDIT: Title changed to remove ambiguity about supporting Israel vs supporting their actions

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