New business idea: fortune cookie text but on tampon wrappers.

Self-plagiarizing:

Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Poland, where Poland has by far the highest rate of trust in US and Chinese tech companies. Seems therefore like the five other countries might not be a representative sample of Europeans, even though total Polish trust of US tech companies still only amounts to 38% compared to ~15% in runner-up Italy.

Coincidentally™, Polish trust nearly triples over more “Western” countries, which shows that this clearly isn’t a representative sample of Europeans – definitely not enough to claim “8 in 10 Europeans”. (Politico actually changed the headline from earlier which didn’t claim this.)

Damn, I totally disagree with your argument and think Telegram is extremely culpable for advertising as E2EE without it enabled by default or in groups, but that’s such a power trip.

I think Lemmy.World (justifiably) defederated from Hexbear a long time ago, so it’d be hard for me these days.

Provably so!

You already have been banned from other communities for vote manipulation

I don’t know which those are. I was banned over a year ago(?) by this carnivore-diet nutjob because I downvoted the posts in his propaganda communities for spreading provably harmful health disinformation, but that downvoting was expressly limited to my account.

And 1-2 minutes would be a reasonable time frame for switching VPN location, logging into an account, locating this and voting.

Oh, cool! That’s something I’d totally do *checks notes* approximately eight times over the course of 15 minutes. I can’t prove a negative here, but I like to think I respect myself more than wasting my life injecting bullshit upvotes into my comments. If I somehow decided my life had sunken to the pathetic depths of botting small social media communities, it would be to downvote unsubstantiated nonsense like this, not to inflate arguments that I think can stand on their own merits.

Edit: I’d like to add that my original comment has been up for ~40 minutes now. It’s 17:1 (possibly your downvote). While an initial high upvote ratio can psychologically influence people to upvote too, no amount of botting can control other people’s downvotes. Surely if I’d botted my comment, it’d be reflected in an influx of downvotes afterward because my “botted” ratio was completely artificial? Even just a few? Did you even check the other comment to see the rate it was being upvoted at as a control? I don’t really know why I’m arguing against this unfalsifiable claim, but this whole thing just seems ridiculous to me.

I don’t bot. We can get the Lemmy.World administration involved if you want to confirm that I don’t (be a bit fucking weird if I only did it here, yeah?). The fact that you’re resorting to calling a pretty normal-seeming pattern of voting “botting” illustrates how little evidence you actually need to fall into conspiratorial nonsense. My only regret is that I have but one downvote to give your bullshit post.

Starting 3 minutes in is extremely normal for Lemmy (for some reason, but that’s nevertheless been my experience). What exactly is the significance to you behind “3 minutes”? Did I need to give the “bots” time to warm up or something? Of course the real answer is that there is none and you’re just throwing spaghetti at the wall because your argument is paper-thin and full of obvious holes you were too fucking stupid to consider.

“Removed” implies they were there before, and threads for this have zero evidence showing they were there before (and a lot of people claiming they weren’t). This whole thing got started because somebody posted about it on Twitter – and they claimed “South Lebanon” which has apparently metastasized/telephoned into people claiming it was all of Lebanon.

All you show here is a link to Apple Maps, and yeah, they aren’t there. This is a thread from 6 years ago claiming Apple’s coverage was so egregiously bad that they couldn’t plan a route near Beirut. Apple Maps has always been the laughingstock of the major maps services, including even OpenStreetMap whom they (IIRC) sometimes pull data from. No change on Bing or GMaps either, and why the fuck would Apple delete basically all of Lebanon? What mustache-twirling plan did they have to aid Israel’s invasion compared to the fucking PR disaster once it was inevitably proven? (And what part does leaving Tyre – which they call “Tyr” for some godforsaken reason – when it’s functionally abandoned play in this maniacal scheme?)

If you have evidence that it wasn’t like this before, then cool. If not, maybe posting your original “research” to a world news comm isn’t justified.

It’s “if I can’t have it, nobody can!” In other words, Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist toddler. More at 11.

Point two cents per kWh? Holy hell; that’s 75 times less than the US average. Were you feeding a ton of rooftop solar back into the grid or something?

Yeah, I mention those at the top, but doesn’t work for people who need/want to wear glasses. Plus, at least to me, putting on swim goggles dry pulls on my hair and is uncomfortable. Lab goggles are the more generalized – and arguably comfortable – solution, and realistically, there’s no issue with the lab goggles’ seal (the mistake I made one time was because I was being an idiot and wouldn’t have been prevented by swim goggles).

Presoaking and making the cut slightly more dangerous seems like a silly solution when you have a pair of goggles in a drawer unless you’re waiting for your soon-to-be-only pair of goggles in the mail. Especially because all you’re likely to be doing is kind of watering down the droplets, making it less bad.

This is true. (re: droplets; study also rejects the popular chilling method). People in my experience don’t understand how much safer a sharp knife is until you put one in their hands and get them to just try it.

Otherwise, though, the “fume hood” approach seems extremely excessive when a cheap, comfortable, unobstructive pair of goggles is likely to work more consistently and with less thought. I merrily chop with my cutting board wherever I want and standing however I want.

A sharp knife is something you should be using regardless, but these other methods like meticulous posture, fume hoods, pre-soaking, etc. all seem more convoluted and varying degrees of less effective than grabbing some goggles from a drawer and putting them on your face.

[insert modified justification from Vegan Bingo here]

You know what? If that carrot were in the wild, it’d be way worse off. Imagine being gnawed on for hours by a rabbit; I’m giving it a quick, painless™ death. You moralizing nihilivores are obnoxious.

We vegans kind of slide everything over, so slaughtering animals becomes unthinkable, and butchering vegetables becomes sad.

A Metal Gear villain in the making.

Oh, with a denim apron and lab goggles, I look like a bootleg Jesse Pinkman. But that kind of makes things a bit more fun in its own way.

I think so?? Some of it depends, I think, on the variety of onion (e.g. I’ve always found sweet onions to be gentler compared to white onions). I don’t always cry without them per se, but it still feels noxious.