[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, racism in europe is largely stereotypes directed at whole groups that are rooted in truth but grossly overblown, eg "black people just want to commit crime", "arabs want to install sharia", "east asians want to eat your dog", "indians want to outgrow the native population" and other nonsense.

If you ask the huge majority of the people who are saying these things if they interact with people in these groups, they'll say "yes, but they're some of the good ones" not realising it's only a tiny fraction who aren't, but also accepting that race doesn't automatically make you anything.

Comparing that to the US where (from what I'm aware of) there's both "I refuse to even speak to members of xyz race because they're subhuman" and "xyz race needs all the help they can get because they have such a tough time" it seems so hard for individuals to just live a normal life in the US?

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago

European racism is casual compared to even everyday American racism, even considering the likes of AfD

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

What?

Britain for most of the 20th century wasn't even trying to home grow food any more, it came in canned from across the world as it's a lot easier to ration and stockpile food which lasts forever, hence the reputation for awful food... It's only comparatively recently that we've been rediscovering historical British food

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 month ago

woe is me, a news source that wants to remain independent of outside interests is taking steps to avoid having to get funded by big businesses or the government who'll want to set an agenda...

I'd be more concerned about reading something free and not ad-supported (and like it or not, untargeted ads are next to worthless), as the money has to be coming from somewhere

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Planes don't fly great circle routes though, there's overfly fees, weather, mountains, ETOPS and just plain politics... This route looks ordinary compared to some international routes, eg Helsinki to Singapore where you dodge Russia and Ukraine for politics, taking you way below the great circle route, then Turkey for overfly fees and Iran for politics, taking you almost back up to the great circle route, before dipping down again to avoid the Himalayas

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[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thing is, the message has to be passed along either by an intercom or by the person moving to the next room passing it on... Either way or travels at fastest at the speed of light, so you'll have people in the corridors moving to the next room for an infinite amount of time purely from the time it takes to propagate.

Given you're therefore committing to (at least on average) at least one person being without a room for the rest of time, why not just tell the chap in the first room to keep walking until he finds an available room? In terms of overall inconvenience (overall time spent without a room per person), it's the same as the original as both are infinite, but for the average person it goes from the time to walk from one room to the next to 0

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 6 months ago

spooky month 👻

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 9 months ago

-30C is a normal temperature in many countries, doesn't make it any less miserable

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 year ago

I had to call the electricity company to resolve a fucking clusterfuck of their making the other day (long story short my electricity meter is faulty), and after 3-4 calls I got to someone who said "jesus christ" after I explained my situation and how they'd made it worse trying to resolve it...

She didn't fix it, it's still not fully fixed after a further 4 days including 29 hours without power, but gee did I feel like I was speaking to a fellow human who was trying to help in that conversation above all others I had with them

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 years ago

Green peppers are unripe and so the seeds generally don't grow into anything

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[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 91 points 2 years ago

As much as Meta shouldn't be relied on for news, Canada creating legislation which stops Meta showing news then crying when Meta doesn't show news is frankly laughable and I don't know how their government didn't see it coming

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[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 124 points 2 years ago

The best way to never go extinct is to be usable by humans

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Meta exist to make a profit, however they're never going to be able to advertise to most people in the fediverse, who also happen to be some of the most knowledgeable people in some fields. If they accept that they're never going to be able to advertise to those people, they go for the next best thing: monetising their content. Some here may rightfully have an issue with a corporation monetising their content, however by federating with the fediverse and being the first company able to monetise the content within it, Meta have a vested interest in not extinguishing the fediverse.

Complain about their privacy violations or them monetising content they don't generate as much as you want, but remember they're smart & money hungry, and the smartest thing they can do in their position is to make money out of people they otherwise wouldn't be able to.

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