kidney_stone

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[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Interestingly, today I have seen a video pop up in which a guy (Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen) claims he is being persecuted by Islamic investors because he is refusing to talk about there being Muslim Vikings. Is it maybe related to this? Is this some new discovery that there were Muslim Vikings?

Just as a side note- this is a genuine question, and I have my skepticism towards Bull-Hansen that he is pretty much a right-wing reactionary judging by his videos during the last few years, but I am just wondering are these somehow connected.

[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

To be honest, I don't think any aid will reach anyone. I think this is a move that puts Israel in a position to either let them through (unlikely) or violently intercept them and do something bad enough that the western governments whose members are on those ships are actually forced to care by the public.

[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Loved this one, I thought it is simple at the start, changed my mind 2 minutes in lmao

[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not entirely sure, I think it's just the way some influential people started talking and now everyone is replicating it. The origins in why people talk like this is probably partly rooted in a mix of virtually 'yelling' and old people writing in all caps because they can't see the small letters.

[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, I am no medical professional, but do studies also show which negative conditions do diabetes medications influence? Because there is no way they come without some bad effects.

[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I kinda agree with you. Very often people with strong moral convictions (a good thing, in my opinion) believe that evangelizing alone is the only 'valid' approach, while popularity and convenience are seen as somehow 'dirty'. But it is impossible to ignore the reality of how much people in their everyday lives want and need convenience. And when it comes to social media, popularity is inherently important, because people want to hang out where their real life friends hang out too. So convenience and popularity are a material necessity if a cause is not to be a losing cause.

[–] kidney_stone@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

My boss is literally convinced we can now basically make programs that take rockets to mars, and that it's literally clicks away. For the life of me, it is impossible to convince him that this is, in fact, not the case. Whoever fired developers because 'AI could do it' is going to regret it.