medem

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[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago

Because they are such a tiny AND unprotected minority, they are fairly easy targets for othering / discrimination.

[ I am not condoning, just informing ]

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 6 points 3 days ago

I hate the fact that they made 'The Descent 2'. Totally (and unnecessarily) killed the ambiguous ending of the original.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I seriously doubt that it would count as 'shitty', but it wasn't very well received and is not widely known either, for me rather a kind of comfort movie I'll defend till the edges of the earth: the Cohen brothers' 'A Serious Man'

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 days ago

So you see...up to a certain point it's kind of our own fault too

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to, but I can't. Colonialism's 'Divide and conquer' rule is only applicable and effective if the targets are either willingly in the game (i.e., corrupt enough to collaborate) already relatively divided (i.e. Already fragmented enough), or stupid enough not to realise what's being done to them.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't want to be that person either, but I really don't think that Sykes is personally to blame for Britain's shitty policies in and for the Middle East, the consequences of which still play a major role in the mess the region still is. Point being that, besides Gringoland, Britain should also be held accountable for the role they have played around the world in everything from ethnic cleansing all the way to supporting brutal, even murderous, dictatorships.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 4 points 4 days ago

My thoughts exactly. I really hope they don't mess that up.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf -5 points 5 days ago

Can you explain why you find the suggestion so outrageous ? I'm not advocating a 35 year old woman dating a 15 year old boy. I'm only saying that biology matters.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Regarding the last part of your comment, a dude called Christopher Simon Sykes, whose last name you might recognise, wrote a book called 'The man who created the middle East'. It's a biography of his grandfather, and an attempt to vindicate him.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can argue all you want about TPM and its 'security'. I ALWAYS thought that forcing users to use TPM 2+ hardware is planned obsolescence and nothing/no one will convince me otherwise.

The only thing affected users can and should do is to leave that PoS of an 'operating system'.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 days ago

Yea. That is THE one reason why I'd never touch GrapheneOS as long as it only runs on Pixel hardware.

 

The prequel to the 'A Quiet Place' saga got me thinking.

spoiler alert!

There is a scene in which many humans march towards a safety point. Each individual human would have been relatively quiet, but because there are a lot of them (potentially hundreds), they end up being, as a whole, loud enough to alert the monsters so they get all killed.

This would suggest that many sources of noise which are near to each other and generate more or less the same amount of noise end up adding up so that the end result in dB is more or less the sum of the individual dB levels.

But then again, it's fiction.

Back to reality, I work in a room full of different servers which have also very different levels of noise. I have noticed that from my standpoint, the noise of the quietest server seems to disappear whenever the loudest is running, so it kind of does blow my mind how our perception of noise works...

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