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

Issue is that people like to categorise other people into groups, and so even if you only believe the plausible or even provably true parts of it, if you try and propagate it you'll lose credibility in a lot of people's eyes

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

I mean Booths aren't that small, they're just exclusively north-western & fill the same niche as Waitrose, who have virtually no stores in the north west as a result

That means their customer base is pretty much a perfect intersection of people who won't want to use a self-checkout - older people & people who are friendlier to strangers

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

Solid in the same way the designers heads are solid bone I guess...

A 3.5mm adapter is not an answer as it causes wear on the USB C port in ways it's not designed for (but 3.5mm is as it's circular so the cable rotates and breaks before the port), and it's hard to get a good dac that isolates the power noise when using a multiple charging/listening adapter that's also that small

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

Yeah nah

It looks just as similar to pretty much any desktop interface of the past 40 years, and openwindows isn't even the first thing with that design

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

Floods, generally

Generally the houses are old enough that they're from before we forgot that building on floodplains is a bad and that entrances should be perpendicular to the slope, and when every few years we'll get a day with 200mm of rainfall these houses are generally fine even if some roads get ripped up and swept away, but the new houses that get designed by people hundreds of miles away who think the 1500mm of annual rain they get is as much as anywhere could possibly get (try twice to quadruple that...) often get absolutely destroyed

People also generally have 4x4s as you will need something raised to get through roads sometimes, or to pull people who don't out

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

Especially with swipe typing - the only times I find I'm typing in a whole word is if swipe typing repeatedly doesn't get it (eg have when I'm trying to type gave), or when I'm typing a word that isn't in the dictionary. That means the vast majority of the time autocorrect would kick in it would be unwelcome anyway

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

Nah, I get spam for my personal website where I host projects etc and also use as a convenience domain... It's pretty clear that I don't actively want to be indexed (if they wanna do it then sure but I'm not sure what they're searching for) and yet they're still talking about how they can get me more sales for my... Open source tokeniser and instruction set I guess?

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

I don't envy you...

Anything over 20° is just uncomfortable

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

This, among many other reasons, is why you have switches per-plug rather than having to either risk electrocution or knock all your sockets offline while you unplug this

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

It'd be good to add an "official warning" (which potentially expires) to Lemmy so that people know what they did was against the rules, but forgivable, and if they do it again they're banned

Of course some things warrant a ban straight up but equating them with a heated but essentially harmless debate is harsh

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

Oh no I see the point, but I'm hardly going to believe a point that's surrounded by obvious mistakes or embellishments

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

Yes pretty much really using the right definitions, however there's different types of colonialism - the type where you make your own cities and push out the natives (eg Australia, most of the Americas) is gone, as is the type where you find a (nearly?) uninhabited area/island and use it to expand your influence in the area (eg. Mauritius and Singapore with 0 and 150 population at colonisation respectively) leaving only the type where you take over and control the administration of the existing population, eg in India, most of Africa, the USSR in Central Asia (among other places) and in neocolonialism

It's also hard to group them all together as "evil colonialism" too though as the 1st and 3rd are of course pretty evil, there's not a whole lot wrong with the 2nd

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