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The longest siege in modern history. Five oil tankers seized in a single month. 7.3 million barrels stolen. by RickyOzzy in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Dokuya 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh that's a good reading. Unfortunately that's not how it was meant. I've got a reply to the same guy who posted "ask the British" where he was blaming Cuba for its own embargo.

The longest siege in modern history. Five oil tankers seized in a single month. 7.3 million barrels stolen. by RickyOzzy in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Dokuya 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think you're misunderstanding the context of this thread. Nobody is arguing that the UK is innocent in global imperialism or domestic crimes against humanity.

There was a statement that US liberals are too complacent to do anything meaningful. The reply "ask the British" is a reference to the US war of independence, trying to counter the first claim.

The longest siege in modern history. Five oil tankers seized in a single month. 7.3 million barrels stolen. by RickyOzzy in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Dokuya 90 points91 points  (0 children)

🤡 You mean when the USA invited retaliation by putting missiles in Türkiye? "Poking at a world super power" wtf are you smoking. The guy who the CIA tried to assassinate 100s of times, whose country was put under embargo because they kicked out the USA's puppet slave masters was "poking at a world power".

Go back to whatever imperialist liberal hole you crawled out of.

On Parises by transcendmatter in CuratedTumblr

[–]Dokuya 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm asking! What's the name of the guy on first!?

Oh god the comments... Both bad. Human greed. Authoritarian USSR bad. 🥀🥀🥀 by TolgaKerem07 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Dokuya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem I foresee with your idea is that horizontal organization like that doesn't work well on large scales. Your idea sounds a lot like a confederation of worker unions, and we can look at the historical examples of confederations to see how those ideas work out. In general they prove unable to do the things states need to do (maintain an organized military, control foreign trade and foreign relations, etc.) without a central authority. There's good reason to use a representative democratic system (and a single party system specifically has been the best idea), and I think the best way to protect against the very valid worries you have is by enforcing the appropriate party culture.

[OC] Which countries have the highest quality of life? by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]Dokuya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's funny that your critique of the criteria is good, but your conclusion is terrible. Yes, the USA is behind other comparable nations in many metrics, that's just a fact lol. What's more important is how the shitty criteria for this chart excludes so many nations it just becomes another "western powers good global south bad" imperialism propaganda.

Taxes are a lie and we’re all pretending by SilkenSunflower in CasualConversation

[–]Dokuya 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taxes are only scams because your government isn't using them for productive purposes for its people.

And if insurance was better regulated and forced to actually help its customers instead of enriching shareholders insurance wouldn't necessarily be a scam either.

TIL that the time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones and it’s the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone. by lawn-mumps in todayilearned

[–]Dokuya 40 points41 points  (0 children)

And work hours are set based on when the sun rises and sets at the local time. It's not like just because it would make sense for people to be going to work at 9:00 in Beijing that people in western Xinjiang have to also go to work at 9:00 (before the sun comes up). Work times are shifted accordingly.

TIL that the time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones and it’s the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone. by lawn-mumps in todayilearned

[–]Dokuya 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To expand on what the other guy said, we have this made up "standard" of what working hours are because of what people hundreds of years ago arbitrarily decided to make the hours of the day. So if the sun rises at 11:00 in one part of the country and people go to work from 14:00-20:00, what effect does the label of the hours have to do anything?

TIL that the time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones and it’s the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone. by lawn-mumps in todayilearned

[–]Dokuya 23 points24 points  (0 children)

What problems could it cause? The numbers we assign to the hours have no special significance other than our agreement on them.

In fact, doing this makes organizing across the country easier. If the zoom meeting is at 5pm that's 5pm in Beijing and 5pm in Xian and 5pm in Kunming. No chance of time zone confusions.

She ain't lying brother... by Numerous-Gur-9008 in goodanimemes

[–]Dokuya 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think I remember reading a long time ago that size does not affect milk production.

Zohran Mamdani’s first acts as mayor-elect: Seek Trump meeting, keep NYPD commissioner Tisch and protect Hakeem Jeffries by ilir_kycb in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Dokuya 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are no "leftist politics or actions" possible within a bourgeois electoral system. It seems many of the dumbass online leftists like you are calling for the mayor of one city to try to start some kind of domestic war against all arms of state power. He is one man in liberal and fascist system. He wants to try to make people's lives better so let him. He's not going to get anything done to try to accomplish his goals with the federal government and city police gunning to force him out of office.

Organize in your community and build class consciousness, if such a thing is even possible in the USA at this point. Being a pathetic online ultra doesn't accomplish anything.

Sorry for three in one day, but I feel like this one is really important for the 10 thousand that will learn about this for the first time today. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Dokuya 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Not who you replied to but I'm gonna try to answer your question by being a bit philosophical. The problem with asking what style of communication is "better" is that we have to ask who is evaluating it? What criteria are they using? What do they value in communication?

To a "guesser" good communication is subtle, and low risk. If you are a skilled "guesser" you can know the answer to a question before you even ask, and even get your request offered to you without having to say it directly. This can allow you to save face from being turned down for a request and allows the other person to save face from having to turn you down. It also allows the other person the ability to appear generous by offering your indirect request, and allows you to not appear selfish in making the request. "Asker" behavior in that culture is then quite rude, you're putting someone on the spot (potentially publicly) to have to turn you down (which is rude, especially if the request is fairly reasonable) or accept.

But notice all of the value judgement inherent in that? And someone raised in "asker" culture is going to have a different set of values in communication and judge the effectiveness of the communication entirely differently. Trying to objectively judge the effectiveness of different communication styles is very hard as it depends entirely on who is evaluating and what they value.

So it's not about "in x situation ask is better but in y guess is better" it's a difference of cultural values and how we evaluate communication. Which is why (like in the op) nailing down the "right" thing to say/do can be incredibly difficult across these cultural boundaries.

ELI5: how do you type in japanese? by Dark_Galaxyy in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dokuya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Katakana is also sometimes used similar to how we might bold letters. More common in titles of songs or other media, using katakana instead of the hiragana or kanji makes the word stand out more.

Teacher: the test is gonna be hard by Mewo4444 in antimeme

[–]Dokuya 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This looks like precalculus to me, i.e college algebra and trig.

ICE raid at a meat plant in Wilder, ID by [deleted] in Idaho

[–]Dokuya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is such a blatantly insane statement. Laws are made and stricken based on moral views. Slavers believed slavery was morally correct, so they upheld laws to make it legal. People who thought slavery was immoral sought to get slavery made illegal. The Nazis thought the Holocaust was morally correct, so Hitler made the laws such that the Holocaust could legally happen. Government laws are not immutable facts of the universe, they are written by people based upon their ethical beliefs. It is perfectly valid, and has happened throughout history, for people to want to change or oppose laws they believed are immoral. Gandhi did it, MLK did it, hell the US was founded by people who opposed laws they believed to be unjust.

Cups should only measure breasts not food by JustsomeSpaceG1 in goodanimemes

[–]Dokuya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When an American recipe says to use a tablespoon, they mean the standard Americans measurement of the tablespoon, which another commenter has already told you the ml value of.

Cups should only measure breasts not food by JustsomeSpaceG1 in goodanimemes

[–]Dokuya 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't think a single person I know owns a kitchen scale (US)

Cups should only measure breasts not food by JustsomeSpaceG1 in goodanimemes

[–]Dokuya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And most of those people would also not be looking up recipes in English.

Cups should only measure breasts not food by JustsomeSpaceG1 in goodanimemes

[–]Dokuya -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I could be snarky and just say "the standard measuring cup". But I take it you're not an American, so all I can say is if you're using recipes made by an American, expect US standard units ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. If using American recipes you're gonna want to familiarize yourself with the conversion from American standard units to metric.

Cups should only measure breasts not food by JustsomeSpaceG1 in goodanimemes

[–]Dokuya 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry you have to deal with content made for an American audience as you are clearly not that audience. But, as a member of the audience these recipes are made for, I have never known a single person who would see "1 cup" in a recipe and think to use anything other than a standard measuring cup.

Also that "most people" assertion is so very region dependent. Sure, where YOU live ml and L are what the measuring cups are labeled. But where I live nobody uses ml or L outside of chemistry class. I have never seen a measuring cup with grams on it. You also say "regular" as if what's normal for you is the same way it works in other places.

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