Notices by Amikke (amikke@qoto.org)

@icedquinn what did you use previously, ceramic? I had a similar experience switching from ceramic to gas (moving apartaments), suddenly things heat up hella fast.

@freemo this kind of "my vote doesn't matter" logic is a fallacy. It's not the diff votes that made a candidate win, it's also all the other votes that brought them high enough to be those diff votes. Your vote can be considered the first vote, the exact first tie-break vote, the last no longer important vote, it doesn't matter, they aren't in order, what matters is that it was one of the votes that made a candidate win or the ones that made a candidate lose less.

"My vote doesn't matter" defeatism is how elections are lost.

@icedquinn I respect it, Dune's Shields are pretty much one of the only sci-fi shields that make sense - stop dangerous (fast-moving) things, but still allow you to grab things and breathe air.

The lasers thing is a bit of a stretch though lol

@icedquinn sounds like a nightmare, I'd never be able to sleep knowing I probably left my joystick for the night two degrees rear-left.

@icedquinn btw, why would you want that? Genuinely interested.

@icedquinn implying that addictive features don't actively hinder the children's willingness to spend time with their parents instead of being farmed on facebook 20 hours a day. Sure, you can force them to do stuff, but they have free will and generally don't react to being forced to do something by loving it.

@Hyolobrika @icedquinn "crying about conspiracy theories" for a start. Combined with "they don't care about the fake ones" suggests that every conspiracy theory publicly opposed is true, which is ridiculous.

@icedquinn not really tho, there's a lot of conspiracy theories that are both extremely unlikely to be true and harmful enough to be fought against. Off the top of my head because it's a bit of my pet peeve, the holokaust deniers are one of the most retarded conspiracy movements I've seen, and obviously they're being fought because never forgetting what people are capable of doing to other people in a totalitarian enough setting is most of its historical value, not Jewish oppression olympics.

@icedquinn 100 conspiracy theories are created, 50 conspiracy theories are propagated as surely true, 2 of them end up being true, "look guys we were right all along, conspiraciez r realz", the rest is either disproved enough to change the narrative to "uhh we didn't actually believe in them, they were planted by the feds to make us seem insane" or get covered up in embarrassment, or it's not and each stays propagated as surely true until it too collapses into true or disproven enough.

It's like with the Alex Jones was right meme, it's funny but it obviously works on a broken clock basis.

It's unfortunate that the #1 international language ended up being English. With its complete pronunciation anarchy it's impossible to tell someone over writing how to pronounce something, or in some cases even describe a sound, without digging up example words. And even that isn't foolproof since they fail at consistently pronouncing their own language and the same written word can have completely different pronunciation depending on accent.

Every single other European language I know of would be better. Yes, even French, they write 4x what they read, but at least they do it fairly consistently. No "ghoti" situations. No cases where an adult sees a written word and isn't sure how to pronounce it.

In some better timeline the US ended up speaking Spanish and a whole class of worldwide communication problems was avoided.

@icedquinn @frogzone you underestimate how dumb people can get when presented with an opportunity to jump on a hate bandwagon for a popular thing. There's surely some industry-sponsored actors helping them along with sponsored research and the like, but I'd say 95%+ of it is completely organic, nobody even had to tell them to be mad, they were mad by default.

Also I'm not sure helping an entire country of people retain sovereignty, ensuring its, and Finland's alignment, turning the Baltic into a NATO lake, testing out newer weapons and exposing Russia as a paper tiger could be considered a "wasted war", it seems to me like the best thing the US spent tax dollars since the actual moon landings. Usually they just go into helping lobbying monopolists along lol

@icedquinn that's funny. Still a tiny minority compared to the actual percentage of empty housings the lefties love to throw around and blame on Evil Speculators.

@icedquinn you got baited by leftie economic comprehension, in the vast majority of cases it's more worth it even for speculators to lend those houses out. Sure, they may gain value by sitting there, but they can earn more money and degrade not much faster when actually used. The empty housings you hear about are usually in bumfuck nowhere where people are running away from and literally nobody wants to buy them for any reasonable price, nor does anyone want to rent them.

@freemo @trinsec she was an eldritch monstrosity escaping human understanding, with x = x + 1 number of breasts?

@freemo @trinsec she was an eldritch monstrosity escaping human understanding, with x = x+ 1 number of breasts?

@freemo seeing an issue from both sides doesn't mean agreeing with either. I can understand why in the west there's a community of contrarian edgelords cheering for russia in the ru-ua war, doesn't mean it's not fucking stupid.

Meanwhile people creating comics like these take the religious approach "the other side is evil and don't even try to understand them or we'll accuse you of being on their side".

@icedquinn @moffintosh yeah, and they incurred debt that made us unable to build more for further immediate housing needs. You can only make shit buildings for so long until the costs of maintaining them come back to bite you in the ass. We keep having problems with them, we can't just tear them down and build better ones in their place so they're a constant shitty money sink for subpar living space.

@icedquinn @moffintosh don't worry, we run into issues with those buildings being constructed like shit, looking like shit and giving everyone living around them depression much faster than that.

@icedquinn @moffintosh also they were insulated like shit and with the money Poland spent around 1995-2015 to insulate them against cold so that they don't waste insane amounts of energy for heating we could've built another series of actually well constructed buildings.

@freemo I was actually thinking more about my surroundings and the people I got to know or heard about. It may vary between countries a lot. But tbh, if a crushing majority is "not normal" in a certain way, then whatever they are becomes "normal".