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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Your first sentence is completely sensible, the rest is completely toxic and also BS gender roles. Don't project your emotional and social incapacity on me.

If my wife were to tell my kids "wait until your father comes home" a) they'll get off 110% scot-free because they already suffered enough dread and b) she'll get an earful. Ideally, though, of course, you'll date someone emotionally and socially mature enough so that won't be an issue. Someone who can stand up for herself, is actually competent, and doesn't make your kids hate you.

Also please explain: Women are good at emotional stuff but then you need the man to do the emotional resilience thing... what? I know plenty of women who I'm pretty sure could beat you up and work with plenty of brilliant female engineers, and are you accusing me of not caring. Am I just pretending to care about people? Does caring about people not come natural to you? Maybe that's a thing you should mull over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If that’s your take on this thread then you’re just as complicit as the rest of these incels.

It's my take on my own contributions. Note that those didn't include "defending some guy", it really was an exhaustive list. How you managed to get that wrong in a post in which you apologised about getting something wrong is something you'll have to ask your dead horse, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Dadvocate would be a good source for this stuff especially if you don't fancy your watch history to get infested by misogynists. Just a gal who doesn't pull guard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lol, falsely conflating me telling you not to blame POC and women for late stage capitalism with telling you not to cry is pretty hilarious.

I did what?

What injustice are you facing that generations of women and immigrants haven’t been receiving the whole time?

I've been using this thread as an opportunity to talk about a positive example, and that's the marked increase in male childcare workers in Germany. I pointed out some masculine influencers doing good work. I bemoaned that much "X for women/girls" stuff is half-assed feel-good BS, prone to causing more harm than good (because half-assed, because it's done for optics instead of the thing itself).

I've been constructive. I didn't lash out and try to put people down for caring about their issues. I didn't wrap people up in ass-long back and forth threads demanding justification after justification why they care just to find an excuse to pounce, then ride my high horse into the sunset.

Oh, and I also shot the horse of some guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm nowhere close to being an LLM specialist but to actually skew the model itself I think you need a lot of consistent data. Ten thousand alt-right blogs peddling a hundred thousand internally inconsistent and mutually incompatible narratives won't cut it, they'll criss-cross over the gradient landscape and because they don't coincide, won't make a dent in the deep groves trodden by pirating libgen. And training only on the alt-right blogs won't cut it either that's just not enough data which on top of that doesn't sound smart enough to woo anyone, or have any resemblance of a consistent stance. Sure you'll get it to claim ridiculous shit and use lots of slurs but 4chan managed to do that back in 2016 and noone was fooled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oxygen content will differ which can actually make a difference when brewing tea.

I usually don't drain my kettle but when I'm pulling out the yixing pot and good leaves, I'm using all fresh water and set the thermostat so that it'll stop well before boiling.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A European 15 buck plastic kettle will likely also not pull more than 1500W. And probably only hold a litre. And still be overpriced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Edison distributed +-110V DC against neutral, three wires, your AC system was designed to use those exact wires, then you expanded that compromise to the whole continent.

Europe in the beginning also had those small insular installations with odd systems but once it came to actually hooking up whole countries everyone opted for three-phase because it's the most sensible option. Whether or not the distribution network itself uses three conductors (just the phases) or four (plus neutral, or combined earth+neutral) differs quite wildly. Train electricity is still a clusterfuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

my kitchen has 15a outlets which is still 1800W

1800W are not out of the ordinary for water cookers in Europe but that's definitely on the weak side. 3000 to 3200 is usually the maximum, probably because pulling the full 3600W would drastically increase the chances of tripping a fuse. My food processor is 600W and I might want to make a coffee while kneading dough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

...you don't brew your coffee hot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Do microwaves have some magic efficiency trick that lets them produce heat faster from the same exact energy? Like, how do they manage to be more than 100% efficient?

 

Die AfD kann nicht politisch besiegt werden – und genau das ist das Problem. Trotz Skandalen, Verfassungsschutzbeobachtung und offenkundigem Rechtsextremismus wächst die Partei weiter. Warum? Weil sie längst mehr ist als nur eine Partei – sie ist das Zentrum eines radikalisierten Netzwerks aus Propaganda, Sektenstrukturen und ausländischer Einflussnahme. Während Medien und Politik versuchen, mit klassischen Mitteln dagegenzuhalten, spielt die AfD längst nach völlig anderen Regeln. Warum Wahlen, Fakten und Talkshows nichts bringen – und was wirklich helfen würde – erfährst du in diesem Video!

 

Asianometry, 'nuff said.

 

So instead of my usual tube of store-brand I grabbed a tube of Pringles because they had fancy limited edition flavours.

They put the flavour on the wrong side of the crisps. If you put them, as is proper, into your mouth so that they actually fit, right-out embracing your tongue, the spice is on the top side. I don't have taste buds in the roof of my mouth. How can this kind of blatant incompetence exist in the world?

Also I would have expected more heat from something called "Thai Green Curry" but that's a whole another topic.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

 

Not sure whether we want this here but Kraut makes great videos and they're illustrated with polandball so I guess it's worth a try.

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Tariff! (aussie.zone)
 
 

blurb:

Let's talk about the stark differences between Ukraine and Russia's recruitment, drafting, and conscription practices. Who is targeted (primarily) to be drafted for military service, and why? You'll see why the answer really does matter, and how it reveals many other key facts that people often miss.

 

Transmeta was set to revolutionise the CPU market, but the market changed alot while they tried to build their revolution. Despite Transmeta no-longer being a CPU manufacture, they did change at least one thing that's still with us.

 

Albert Camus is one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century, and I get almost endless requests to cover him. I have done so in the past, but on reflection those treatments were inadequate, and a little misleading. So today I thought we would look at Camus from a different angle, and chart his philosophy from its inceptions to its culminations.

00:00 Absurdism and Misconceptions
01:37 The Absurd: A Brief Introduction
09:56 The Absurd Hero: Solitary Beginnings
17:34 Absurdism and Community
25:40 The Trivialization of Albert Camus

 

Blurb:

2024 was an extremely eventful year and not every crisis or war can get the individual follow up videos it might deserve. So to kick off 2025, we are going to zoom out and look at some of the wars and crisis we covered from late 2023 to assess what actors and countries came out as strategic winners (or losers) over the course of 2024.

00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:45 — What Am I Talking About?
00:02:56 — the Brief
00:03:51 — the Axis of Resistance
00:04:41 — Hezbollah
00:09:37 — Syria
00:11:46 — the Houthis
00:15:45 — Iran
00:26:02 — the Counterparties
00:29:52 — the Americas
00:37:03 — Cuba
00:39:39 — DPRK
00:52:59 — Europe
00:53:49 — the Baltics
00:56:59 — France
00:59:31 — Conclusion
01:03:11 — Channel Update

 

blurb:

The cases of maritime sabotage in the Baltic Sea raise questions about the Western strategy against Russian hybrid warfare. We should expect more open confrontations as the war in Ukraine enters its final stages, and the previous approach of simply ignoring Russia's attacks will not work.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Pattern of sabotage
0:55 Hybrid warfare
1:54 The Western strategy so far
3:16 Hybrid attacks will intensify
3:59 Maritime hybrid warfare
6:22 Countermeasures
7:15 Dealing with Russia's shadow fleet
8:26 A new Western strategy

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