Well to be fair it probably is pessimism. That doesn't make you a pessimist in the same way that me expecting to wake up every morning doesn't make me an optimist.

I think that flu thing is an old wives tale. You usually get flu because you breathed it in. The association with cold is because during cold weather people spend more time in poorly ventilated areas.

Same. Often finish the can with a feeling of disappointment and thirst.

Happy to oblige.

Basically the North is a totalitarian state in which one family has retained absolute control of the state and its population. They have prioritised military programmes and their nuclear ambitions above the needs of their people and thus they have one of the worst economies and their people are often starving and diseased.

Recently they have also been arming Russia to help with their war of aggression against the innocent people of Ukraine.

All of this is in contrast to South Korea which is a democratic country with one of the world's strongest economies which provides for a very good standard of living for its population.

There is much more, I'm sure, but these are the first things that pop to mind and the reason why the North is not the best Korea, and infact the South should be considered the Best Korea.

What makes you hate it?

I think if you reflect a little, you know the answer really. Take a look at what happened during the pandemic

Although the 1% is really the 0.1%. So it's much, much worse.

That sounds sensible on first thought...but it's easy to find slurs that are for non-oppressed people's.

The French, for example.

Oh yeah I forgot about the whole "choosing your candidate" piece. You wouldn't want other parties messing with that....we just vote for a party and the party chooses its leader and can change it whenever they want.

Why do they ask? That seems so weird to me. I have never been asked (by the government) what party I support, and would be outraged if I ever was.

You have to register your political affiliation when getting a driving license?

Ummmm you might care to remember that the USSR also "bailed out" Europe.

You know....in the sense that you were dragged into a war you had no intention of joining, by a foe that had already gone 11 rounds with the UK and Russia.

The UK spent an entire empire "bailing out" europe. Twice. But we don't hark on about it.

But you're right about one thing - no one is coming to bail you out. You've made it abundantly clear you will only act unilaterally. Europe will stay in its lane, quietly hope that Trump has a stroke, but ready to stand on its own for a 3rd time.

I find it odd that the three candidates you mentioned were all elected. What's your point again?

Use that to empower you to do the things you want to do. You don't know how much time you have, regardless of age.

Also use your 30s to build habits that will help keep you active into your 80s. Resistance training, cardio, and eating right. I struggled with this until my late 30s and while I'm making great strides now, it's a much harder fight in your 40s and 50s.

Sure if that works for you.

There are very few people in my field who can compete with me when it comes to capability and productivity - and that's in a highly developed country with some of the world's best educational institutions and companies to gain experience with.

I was unaware of that when I posted this.

Both seem to work.

I'm not naive to that fact, I just don't like it.

I'm not gas lighting you and I didn't know that was the intended acronym of .ml

If that's true then I will be moving instance.

BTW I've not been blocked (to my knowledge) by anyone- I've just had a couple of instances where I've been in discussion with someone and when they turn to ad hominem attacks they've called me a tankie or some such. Regardless of what was being discussed or my views.

This sentiment is exactly what I'm talking about.

I'm not associated with the moderators anymore than your average user of .world is associated with their's.

My point is, yes I can choose to change instance but why should I? Lemmy is meant to embody the best of us - and yet some of us are creating "us and them" situations.

This sentiment makes me sad.

I chose .ml because it was smaller than .world (and that seemed to be the point of federation) but was also generic (my interests are very varied) and had great uptime, and didn't de-federate or had been de-federated by many instances. Now people say stuff like this and I feel the need to change instances because I don't want people to tar me with that brush (and I have been accused directly multiple times just because of my instances) but I feel conflicted because the whole point of this while thing was that we could be on any instance we liked and it shouldn't impact our "social standing". I'm disappointed in people that they can't judge a person by the content of their character rather than the instance they are on. And alas - I feel it's only a matter of time before I'm forced to change instance because of other people's prejudice.

Dishwashers don't fill up - they just have a well at the bottom (below the height of the door) and they spray water over the dishes to rinse of the dirt.

Washing machines need to fill up and soak the clothes so that they get everywhere, not just the outer layer.

Yes. Not intentionally of course. But yes.

I don't see how your way is any more predictable or consistent than using UTC. What even is "local time"? Are you assuming they haven't changed timezone since they created the data? Say....DST happened, or they drove over a border...?

Storing and manipulating in UTC is the most predictable and consistent because it is universal and unchanging. You only need to worry about "local time" at the point of displaying it.

Thanks

You got me.

It took me until your comment to realise I had skimmed over the word "half" in the OP. Now this whole thing makes sense.

A person of culture I see. Thank you kind person.

You know you're pronouncing egg wrong when you have to spell it some other way.

Pretty sure the person in a straitjacket shouldn't be complaining about tied hands.

That's a sad statement to make about a few hundred million voters.

But....it also perfectly aligns with their history.

Last time they de-throned a fascist who threatened global peace and stability it required the ill-judged intervention of a 3rd party...who ironically thought crippling the US Pacific Fleet would do the opposite.

I'd vote for a mountain over a fascist every day of the week. And twice on Sundays.

So many things would be fucked by a TZ change that it very rarely makes sense to consider it.

You're making a calendar app? Fuck it...some folks are gonna get confused...solved by simply emailing your users and telling them to reschedule shit because there's kind of a big event going on that everyone knows about and has been planning for for years. Hell in all liklihood this is probably easily solved by simply doing a mass migration of events scheduled before the TZ change.

You're coding for nuclear weapons? Maybe consider it. But probably not.

That is to say: there are ways to solve problems without resorting to writing the most complicated bullshit code ever seen. Unless of course you work on my team - in which case you'd be right at home.

Maybe they're planning on dying before then? In which case they're fine.

Your comment is a full throated endorsement of just working in UTC up until the presentation layer. Whether you intended that or not is another question.

There are no gay people in Russia.

Looks like night in the meme?

Pretty sure our right wing is left of your left wing. So no you can't have it because you don't have a system that supports anything other than the right-wing hellscape you got now.

Exactly how heavy is the accent? And are we talking parisian or quebecois?

Yeah...imagine actually getting in a gun fight and getting shot in the hand/arm only to then be completely useless.

Get training that lefty (or righty if you are a lefty!)

Nah was just a shitpost tbh, I wouldn't read much into it.

I don't know why but I feel like anything in water would spoil faster....but I have no evidence or even a theory as to why this might be. Perhaps you, keeper of the water carrots, could enlighten me as to why they keep longer?