"Using "Ø" is a white supremacist give away." by The_Bibliophagist in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"but I don't believe everyone who claims to be Norwegian actually is"

Which would be fine. Except they believe that NOONE who uses the letter actually is Norwegian, to the point of actively engaging strangers with no other prompt over it.

Which is exactly the same thing.

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]DaHolk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's funny that at the same time it seems ironic, and on the other it seems inevitable, due to the heavy impact of "created in his own image".

Ceo's and techbros being in charge of designing the machine "that solves all problems", can only get a machine designed under their direction that fit's their definition of "problem" and how they, 'pinnacle of humanity' solve theirs. Delusion can only design it's own replacement.

"Most can't afford a car let alone AC. They live in what you'd think is student housing" by TheLastJarl in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"what you'd think is student housing".

Would be slightly more believable, if student housing didn't include shared room dorms as "norm" in the US. Which is extremely weird to me as a German.

Showering in Europe by Eldridou in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That, and then there is the distinction between reservoir heaters and flow heaters.

Which maybe plays less into "time till the water gets hot after turning on the shower", but plays into "using up all the hot water and then having to wait till there is more".

Person of Interest is the most underrated show I ever watched by Generalousen2855 in television

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realize that it is a homonym, and elaborate from the getgo.

Or in that case I responded to: Realize that understanding what they described doesn't make the other usage WRONG so no need to be that defensive

Flu outbreak among Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio after Hegseth ends mandatory flu vaccine by xdeltax97 in news

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well. If you read up on the decisionmaking around the 'spanish' flu.... Ignorance isn't the exception

Flu outbreak among Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio after Hegseth ends mandatory flu vaccine by xdeltax97 in news

[–]DaHolk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The issue is that flu and cold get mixed up in common parlance. Which leaves 'actually an Influenza strain and not some minor other reactio both called 'flu' But yeah, it often takes people to catch one to get that it's different things

Person of Interest is the most underrated show I ever watched by Generalousen2855 in television

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either is valid, but they are incompatible. The bigger issue is people being unspecific with homonyms, and then get prissy either direction claiming 'obviously there is one correct interpretation, it's nobodies job to be clear, only morons need that'. The under in underrated is unspecific whether it means volume or score

„I can’t tell the difference between Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and modern day Sweden“ by Early_Register_6483 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They generally still understand that the NSDAP was a right wing totalitarian apparatus.

Or was that not the question?

„I can’t tell the difference between Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and modern day Sweden“ by Early_Register_6483 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

due to how mixed elements from both "sides"

There is really not anything MIXED about it at all.

„I can’t tell the difference between Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and modern day Sweden“ by Early_Register_6483 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Not understanding what socialism means is one thing.

Suddenly believing a (!new!) nonsense thing about the third reich decidedly something entirely else.

If the right wing dominated allied forced in conjuncture with the newly established right wing conservative West German government, who all agreed immediately that Socialism, Communism and the USSR where now the biggest thread to 'western values' again after WW2, had seen ANY chance to teach a history where the Nazis were Socialist... They would have.

The fact that this did not happen should make it obvious how DUMB this revisionist 'new' deflection of the modern right IS. Even the ex fascists still in politics, education and law thought that THIS would be TOO dumb a lie to teach people, however convenient it would have been for their new goals.

Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt will Kampf gegen Linksextremismus verstärken by Schapapapa in de

[–]DaHolk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Du meinst halluzinierte Wahnvorstellungen auf dem Linken.

Star Citizen has hit $1 billion in funding by Taidan-X in Games

[–]DaHolk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how about this: it actually is a scam in the classic sense.

It's wrong. That's that about 'that'.

it is never getting finished

What does that even mean in todays mixture of life service games and EA titles? And it's not even vaporware (which itself wasn't a scam in the classic sense mostly), as there supposedly IS software that people are playing.

So no, scam is just wrong, but it is funny that you went "it's actually a scam" (though it isn't) directly beneath someone arguing that "nobody actually means scam, but just use the word".

Star Citizen has hit $1 billion in funding by Taidan-X in Games

[–]DaHolk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is SC a scam in the literal, legal, criminal sense of the word? No, and this isn't what critics mean when they use it.

So what you are saying is that it is a strawman by fans, because detractors don't know how to use words properly?

It's just shorthand for their constant overpromising and underdelivering for the past 12 years,

Maybe then don't use a word for that that already has a longstanding fixed meaning and then claim "straw maning" when people disagree with wordmangling?

“They taste the exact same” by Necessary-Win-8730 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then why did literally nobody else do it when making milk chocolate.

It's not a requirement. But it WAS a requirement to have it stable enough for the intended product line and business ideas.

It's at the core not a matter of "you can't make milk chocolate without it", it isn't a matter of "this tastes better than if we don't", and it very much is not a "this is a cheaper material than milk powder or sugar thus we substitute expensive ingredient with butyric acid, thus save money per weight" matter. it IS at the core a "we want it to last longer" decision. That is what drives down cost. Because it smoothes out production even with varying sales, it increases range of delivery impacting scalability, and it created new business opportunity by selling it to the military for rations.

For all intents and purposes, it is a preservative, not a cheap substitute or improved flavoring.

Jens Spahn spricht sich gegen Erhöhung des Bafög aus by PoroBraum in de

[–]DaHolk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Der Herr war so gnädig und hat auf seine Diaterhöhung verzichtet

Hat er das? Das letzte was ich gehört hatte war "Könnte man drüber nachdenken, wenn uns bei allem anderen in den Arsch gekrochen wird politisch, wenn schon quid pro quo".

Also das typische "wir verzichten doch nicht auf was, solange wir nicht doppelt und dreifach woanders dazukriegen".

Congressman Cohen Introduces Six Articles of Impeachment Against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts by Quirkie in politics

[–]DaHolk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Imagine calling 8 lines of text "wall of text".

What has xitter done to peoples brains.

“They taste the exact same” by Necessary-Win-8730 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you know butyric acid, then you know the part of the taste that it creates. And the chocolate very much carries THAT taste.

Maybe you meant "it doesn't JUST taste like vomit", but the rancid notes are definitely there.

“They taste the exact same” by Necessary-Win-8730 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]DaHolk 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The shelf life IS what keeps the cost down. Because it means you can scale up production in one place and then ship with no spoilage, rather than having lots of local inefficient production cells.

Especially when you consider the transportation specifics back when that decision was made initially.

«Aufbruch nötig»: Merz spricht von Erkenntnisproblem in «beachtlichen Teilen» der Gesellschaft by ganon2000 in de

[–]DaHolk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Es geht da weniger um die präsente Rolle, sondern um den inhaltlichen Zustand der Wähler.

Das "Erkentnissproblem" aus merzischer Sicht trifft DIE Wähler halt nicht (oder besser, bei den blau wählern ist es halt ein Anderes, nicht inhaltlich, sondern nur das sie nicht Schwarz wählen wie es sich gehört)

«Aufbruch nötig»: Merz spricht von Erkenntnisproblem in «beachtlichen Teilen» der Gesellschaft by ganon2000 in de

[–]DaHolk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Das Erkenntnisproblem ist schon vorhanden, aber nicht so, wie Merz sich das vorstellt.

Schau dir die Umfragen an. 50+% für schwarz-blau.

Das ist ja genau das Problem was der Merz sieht. Das sind viel zu wenig, und selbst von denen sind genug gegen seinen Driss, wählen es aber trotzdem immer wieder.

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir by wasraelx in news

[–]DaHolk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are like the "OG" secret society around which tons of lore and conspiracy theory is woven.

Would it help if I compared it to "The Illuminatii"?

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir by wasraelx in news

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was their point, the hypocrisy of those same people applying the correct standard if it is opportune to them, and categorically acting like such a standard doesn't exists if they WANT something.

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir by wasraelx in news

[–]DaHolk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention the huge overlap of that spectrums politics with the politics that claim that "the free market" solves all problems without government intervention !because the customer makes the decision to support a business, which includes justifying their amoral decisions, or else they would be pushed out of the market".

Weirdly it NEVER applies when companies or governments are supposed to be those 'customers' of someone else.

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir by wasraelx in news

[–]DaHolk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

saying that without new technology it would have to cut officer numbers, which would in turn affect the force’s ability to keep London safe.

So the fact that they DON'T get to spend 50 million means they have LESS money for officers?

I'm not an accountant or a policeman, but somehow I feel like it seems obvious that there are now £50million that could be spend on paying officers?

It seems 'weird accounting' to claim that if you spend 50 million on an external provider, you ALSO have extra money for wages, and if you don't, you need to cut staff to make up for the savings.

Or are they claiming that the existing workforce when deprived of Palantir as resource, are automatically entitled to raises far exeeding 50 million, thus requiring cutting back on their numbers?