Okay, so I watched the Ukraine video and judging only by that, it would seem that NATO and the US are mostly to blame for the war against Ukraine. I do think that the US took big steps in making a lot of places in the world worse (I’ll leave open if intended or accidentally) by installing puppet politicians/leaders and at some point (or from the get-go) just focusing on extracting as much wealth as possible. The one thing that did strike me as super-odd and suspicious was when he said that Putin did try to join NATO and was rejected and the implication of how he’s now butthurt that Ukraine gets a “better chance” at joining NATO. That one I looked up and from my now-understanding it’s that Putin/Russia basically wanted to be invited into joining NATO without needing to go through the formal process of applying for a membership, having lengthy (and important) documented talks about expected policies and ways the country would deal with certain topics, such as diversity/non-heterosexuality. And if that is true, then this is a biiig ommitted point in the Boyboy Ukraine-video.

I’m commenting because I’m also interested in this. I do (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective) agree with a lot the two say, find them pretty likeable and to me it did seem like they were interested in presenting a mostly neutral/open view on any issues. But I also acknowledge that they’re allowed to have complex opinions and that those might sometimes clash with mine. And they’re also not infallible and never claimed to be, so it could also be a lack of research on a particular topic.

I think in the worst case, it’ll be similar to how I view Hassan Piker (spelling?) / the Chinese government: Even if I disagree on very important issues, I might still have some ideas in common. People are complex and stuff.

I’ll say that (pre-)2016 OkCupid still was able to work like a charm without paying for anything. The idealized purpose of dating apps is, or was, to have you find the right partner that you might not otherwise would have found and you might have settled for a partner that you’re ultimately only okay with, because they’re the least-bad option in your area. These apps and websites provide a place where everyone has the expectation that they want to get romantic with each other (opposed to randomly messaging people on their website / social media profile) and also the wide range of the internet, connecting people that would have never met otherwise.

My story of 2016 OkCupid: I had freshly signed up for a week or two and my now-wife just returned from a long hiatus for only a day or so before we found each other with a 99% (at one, short, point even 100%) match But I recognise that even back then it was almost “are you sure you’re not being paid to advertise OkCupid?”-levels of coincidence

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Really? I thought it was mostly solved by regulations that require filters at the industrial sites (and aren’t those used in Diesel cars, too?). Actually, what happens with the gunked-up filter material? Can the captured sulfur and nitrogen be used? I think you can use nitrogen as a fertilizer?

True, i looked up a bit more information on it and apparently it was at its height around the 80s, so I may have misremembered time a little bit.

Acidic rain.

I don’t remember any of the specifics anymore but it boils down to: Trees and plants died in masses, scientists and the general population got together and we changed what caused it.

I wonder what all those Americans think of this, who constantly scream “Europe [yes, the Country™] has no freedom of speech because they arrest you for a social media post [that directly called for violence against other people]”

That’s a very lovely visualisation! I would love to receive (distinguishable-from-background-noise) alien communication some day in my lifetime. It’s basically a certainty that other intelligent life exists. Unfortunately, receiving some communication (let alone anything faster than one message every few dozen years) has become a matter of faith to me, since it’s just that unlikely.

I think we could even be more specific in the sports seperation and let each sport figure out specific physical qualities to group their competitors into. Let me try an example: Runners could be grouped by leg and arm to body ratio (I think it’s pretty uncontroversial to say that long-legged and -armed people have an inherent advantage in running on flat ground) Probably the same for swimmers…and spear throwing…okay, fuck, maybe I don’t know enough about sports to find a differing example or there’s no olympic sport where small and slender people have a natural advantage over talls. Maybe archery? I could imagine that a beefy upper body is more important in archery than having long arms (or at least more important than having long legs)?

I wanted to continue with “have these physical qualities as baseline groupings and allow individuals who over- or underperform despite their physicality jump into a higher/lower grouping”, which I still think is a good idea and I’m not sure if that isn’t already a thing. I’m not a sports people, as you may gather by reading this

Wow that casts a healthy dose of doubt on the entire study. Thank you for pointing it all out so thoroughly!

I just access it via the Firefox browser. Mostly because I’m tired of everything wanting to have its own app which turns out to just be a more colourful container to load the webpage (my tinfoil hat hypothesis is that they do it to bypass adblocks). And the other reason is that I couldn’t find anything I need to do on Lemmy that I’m not just as able to do from the browser.

I can bring in friends who used to work on this architectural project called “The Death Star”

Yes, although I would prefer to update the phrase to “My boss makes ten dollars, I make a dime…” to more accurately reflect today’s reality.

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial: Are we sure this is not something the government planned? Why so secretive about this sudden private sector position and why would Trump care? Hopefully I’m wrong but I think this is the first time that Trump called someone, who apparently garnered his ire and anger, a friend or anything positive. Usually when it’s people that he doesn’t like (anymore) he calls them all kinds of derogatory things.

I believe you meant to say:

Let’s double-click on this; it feels more like a parallel trajectory than a direct-impact lever.

(kindly corpofied by Kagi Translate)

The difference is that we’re way past being able to say “it’s just a political difference, we can still be friends” A neglectable political difference would be not agreeing on whether tax money should be spent on repairing neglected rural roads or upgrading public transit. Or whether you want a military draft or not. Or what food safety standards should be pursued. If you’re supporting MAGA, it means you either believe that certain groups of people do not deserve human rights and can be kidnapped/killed on a whim or you don’t care that your party is doing that. It doesnt matter that we both love Star Wars and the same video games and can talk about them for hours, if you think that people who are important to me should vanish.

Those are the same words (but different language) I introe’d the long call with to tell my father that I’ll go low-low contact with him. I gave him my saved YT politics playlist so he can watch it to see a lot of how I came to my conclusions (it’s about 650 vids consisting of shorts, essays and anything in between) and give counter-evidence if he has any, but other than that I only want to be called in an emergency.

Thanks for correcting me. I was almost certain that I read something a while ago about the new Selbstbestimmungsgesetz but couldn’t remember if I had just imagined it. Yay, Germany. We’re making progress. It might be very slow and the AfD is growing at a worrying pace but at least, for the moment, we’re still progressing (unless our politicians are bribed by the automobile industry again)

You can tell your friend yourself that it is actually much rarer in the EU to have non-binary options for official documents than I thought. And those that do only have it for citizens or permanent residents. In Germany, for example, you have the option to put Diverse on your ID and other national official documents, but only if you have a medical certificate that confirms yourself as being intersex. So transgender people or other non-binaries are not included and do not have this option.

Good point I haven’t thought about. I have a Fairphone 4 and that is pretty much on the brink of what’s still okay/comfortable to use one-handed. (I also looked up the FP6 dimensions, dreading the size increase, but I just found that it’s actually slightly smaller than my current phone, yay)