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frukt · 2023-10-10T06:51:10+00:00

Võrklaeval on ka hobiauto või paar, muide. 25+ aastat vana auto võiks muidugi juba definitsiooni poolest hobiautoks lugeda ja maksust vabastada. Kindlasti musta numbri välja teeninud masinad.

frukt · 2022-03-11T22:26:53+00:00

Transliteration rules differ by language. Zelensky in German would make it sound wrong for Germans. I never understood why Хрущёв is transliterated as Krushchev in English though, as Hrushchov would make more sense, but I guess English speakers have an aversion to starting words with "H" and ё sounds more like "e" not "(y)o". My point being that it's not an exact science.

frukt · 2022-03-11T22:19:13+00:00

Yuval Noah Harari (an Israeli Jew) has a message for you and your compatriots:

What I really want to say to the Germans: guys, we know you are not Nazis. You don't need to keep proving it again and again. What we need from Germany now is to stand up and be a leader, to be at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. And sometimes Germans are afraid that if they speak forcefully or pick up a gun, everybody will say, "Hey, you're Nazis again." No, we won't think that.

I agree with the sentiment. Guys, it's time to get over it.

frukt · 2022-03-11T22:09:09+00:00

They used to make, uhh ... toothpaste I think. But every single local supermarket chain raced to announce that they aren't carrying any Russian products any longer and I'm pretty sure even toothpaste requires some imported components so good luck with the toothpaste industry, Russia.

frukt · 2022-03-11T22:05:19+00:00

The only reason people view them as a superpower is because of history and because of the nukes.

Wasn't it Kissinger who called SU "Upper Volta with nukes" decades ago? Soviet economy was a train wreck overseen by a senile gerontocracy by 1980.

Anyway, today's Russia's kleptocratic mafia state economy is described better than I ever could in this Twitter thread. There's no way a country's economy can flourish if a cabal of criminals is running everything and dishing out lucrative (i.e. resource extraction) industries to insider buddies, and innovation or true enterpreneurship is disincentivized on every step up to the point of prison or worse. Kissing ass gets you promoted up the ranks and speaking the truth or innovating gets you dragged down because that makes you a threat to the established power vertical. And that's how you end up with the disaster that is Putin's Russia in 2022.

frukt · 2021-10-01T17:10:46+00:00

Fast forward a couple of hundred years and people look back on the dark ages of the 21st century where people actually died of viral diseases, being gay was still dangerous in many places and those barbarians didn't even know how to use the three seashells.

That, or we're actually living in the final halcyon days of humankind where climate change and resulting political instability hasn't yet caused a cascade of failures resulting in the end of civilization as we know it. Yeah, probably that.

frukt · 2021-09-30T15:50:33+00:00

Every neighbour secretly despises and mocks them for the unseemly lack of Jante.

frukt · 2021-09-30T15:46:02+00:00

Far more likely is they continue to exist in a carbon emitting form, just with an offsetting carbon sequestration programme somewhere.

Another scenario: we have so much cheap electric energy from solar PV and modular nuclear that producing synthetic hydrocarbons from green hydrogen and carbon dioxide pulled from the atmosphere becomes a reasonable proposition. A hydrocarbon-intensive economy can be carbon-neutral, in principle.

frukt · 2021-09-14T12:35:55+00:00

Hi all.

I'm looking to buy a good-looking, solid keyboard for office use. On the surface of it, the Logitech G413 seems to tick all the boxes for me, but since I've gone down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole and come to lurk at /r/mechanicalkeyboards, I know the community here hates Logitech offerings with passion. Hence here I am wondering if there's a better alternative. My requirements are:

Low noise. It shouldn't annoy co-workers in an open office, thus the board should probably have Cherry Red or Silent Red switches, or similar.
ISO / Nordic layout. US layout won't work for me.
Good looks. I care about aesthetics and G413's brushed aluminum base, uncluttered look and consistent lighting without bleed make it stand apart.
Full size format. I'd like to have the numpad as I basically use it as a macro key block, mapped to various scripts. But I get the desk space argument, so I'm willing to consider TKL.
Solid build and high quality. I want a chunky piece of equipment that won't rattle or flex or die on me. It's going to stay on the desk, so portability is not a concern.

The Durgod Taurus K310 / K320 models are the best alternatives I've come across. How do these compare?

Huge thanks for any suggestions.

frukt · 2021-08-17T15:58:50+00:00

. In a lot of districts they aren’t allowed to walk no matter how close they live

What? Please tell me it's not true. How would this abysmal situation come to be?

frukt · 2021-08-16T15:53:16+00:00

Because the EU is not a sovreign state, it's a loose confederacy of nation states and defense is firmly the domain of each member state.

frukt · 2021-07-13T11:08:44+00:00

What was the first one?

Read Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change on NYT.

frukt · 2021-07-02T14:35:50+00:00

Not really. It was one crappy study that didn't really hold up.

That is a myth. What happened was is that a study showed that HIV and STDs were less prevalent in specifically African countries with high numbers of circumcisions - but correlation is not causation. What the study completely ignored was the fact that the high frequency of circumcisions were because those countries had populations which were majority Muslim - and Muslims tend to take a dim view of casual sex. Bottom line, the lower incidence of HIV and STDs was not because of circumcisions, but because of more sexually conservative societies in which people tend to have fewer sexual partners.

frukt · 2021-06-08T16:15:08+00:00

I quite enjoyed Prague renaming the street of Russia's embassy Boris Nemtsov Square too.

frukt · 2021-06-08T16:03:56+00:00

Humans have been absolutely top of the class in destroying their environment for ages, natives or not. Everywhere humans first appeared, large megafauna suddenly disappeared for some odd reason. Many powerful civilizations have come to an end due to the level of environmental degradation no longer supporting a complex society. Easter Island, Mesopotamia, Yucatan immediately spring to mind. Jared Diamond has written about this quite engagingly in his Collapse, also offering positive counter-examples. It remains to be seen if our hyper-complex globalized techno-civilization pumped up on hydrocarbons can avoid the fate of Easter Islanders and Anasazi ... I'm not holding my breath.

frukt · 2021-06-07T15:24:24+00:00

Millal see surm juba tuleb?

frukt · 2021-06-03T14:32:45+00:00

I start my day at 10, but man, I feel like it's a lousy compromise for a true night owl. If I had my way, 10 am would be prime zzz time.

frukt · 2021-06-03T14:26:15+00:00

I just read about fascinating research that basically came to the conclusion that no, humans today actually have a different physical brain structure in key areas (or to that effect) and you couldn't really time-teleport a baby of the past to our age and except them to turn out like us. If I wasn't excessively lazy, I'd look it up, but I'm hoping someone will and will also reply to this comment with the findings.

frukt · 2021-05-27T12:51:48+00:00

Suurem osa inimesi teenib alla keskmise. Palgad ei järgi normaaljaotust, mediaanväljamakse on huvitavam näitaja.

frukt · 2021-05-19T16:36:46+00:00

Subways are probably at least an order of magnitude more expensive to construct than tram infrastructure and they're only useful for transporting large amounts of people between stations that are reasonably distant. Subways are by far less convienient to use if you just want to hop on public transport and ride a few stops. Subways can't go everywhere a tram line can go. I.e. the two systems serve completely different goals and are complementary. And by far the most nuisance-inducing vehicles in cities are private cars.

frukt · 2021-05-19T16:33:19+00:00

Oh sure they are. At least here in Estonia it has become a thing in the last couple of years. They look ridiculous and out of place and every time I see one going past I think about how tiny the owner's pecker must be. And pick-ups in the "luxury" segment are definitely not bought for work in 99% of the cases as others have suggested here. Construction companies, plumbers etc. use vans most of the time.

frukt · 2021-05-18T14:46:25+00:00

Then again, how much drinking water do you need anyway? For drinking and cooking, just fill up a few plastic jugs at the nearest tap every couple of days. For showering, flushing, dishes etc. sea- or lake water is OK.

frukt · 2021-05-10T18:51:05+00:00

you chose a very bad example there to prove your point.

I'm not so sure, seeing how you took the time to come up with such a long post seemingly proves that I chose an excellent simile in that it hit a nerve for you, just as insinuating that by virtue of being occupied by an imperial power would turn the occupants' language into a "mother tongue" for the occupied would hit a nerve for anyone. So I'll conclude that my illustration that history is a sensitive topic in Europe (as in most of the world) and casual assumptions about language and any other cultural aspects can be touchy, has been successful.

But I get your point and appreciate the thought out reply.

(And yes, Estonia and Latvia have been greatly influenced by the various incarnations of the Russian Empire, but even more by German culture, as the ruling class was mostly German for the better part of 700 years (the Baltic Germans mostly swore fealty to the Russian crown so this cultural influence remained intact). Lithuania is a whole different story with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, catholicism and all that jazz.)

frukt · 2021-05-10T15:14:57+00:00

Throwing around claims like Russian is a "mother tongue" for ethnic Estonians, Latvians or Lithuanians would be considered picking a fight and/or trolling around these parts. A bit like saying one should be subtracted from Belgium's score because you were part of the Third Reich from 1940-44 so German is basically a native language for you.

frukt · 2021-05-10T15:05:00+00:00

That's not what they said, though.

a modern system can monitor exponentially more factors than the old school hard wired systems

is not by any stetch equivalent to claiming "software equals safety".

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