Djehngo

u/Djehngo@lemmy.world
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on Why Should I... · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 15h

Yes, however the joke originated with American military stationed in the UK in wwII and hasn't been accurate probably since the 50s

on Hey Lois · c/shitposting · 2 pts · 2d

Because how can you say you love firearms when you chose your children's lives over them? Firearms safety is what weekend warriors care about and they could never risk being mistaken for someone like that 🙄

They love shit like this because it's tangible, everything else they worry about is either statistically insignificant to the point most people will never see it or completely fabricated so the best they have is bottle caps.

A difficult time, but so worth it because after the reign of terror they had a... millitary coup which installed and emperor/first-consul who... invaded dozens of European and middle eastern countries. Oh

on Pizzacake · c/pizzacake · 3 pts · 22d

It's wild reading political articles from 2019

Pre COVID, pre-ukraine war, pre Israel/hamas war+genocide+wider middle east war. Everything was so different

on Not Enough Hate · c/lemmyshitpost · 10 pts · 26d

The "no bad tactics, only bad targets" mentality on display is always gross to see.

There are many reasons to dislike clavicular, but focus on the harms he causes rather than taking lazy shots about his looks, especially if there are trans people down range.

Every so often leave positive reviews about customer service staff interactions, either serving staff in brick and mortar stores or phone support. Since I know how demotivating jobs are where you have to interact with members of the public who are often inpatient/rude/abusive.

I don't know how many of these feed back to either the staff themselves or factor into raise/promotion/retention decisions, but I hope some of it helps.

on Anon institutes the draft · c/greentext · 22 pts · 39d

Given that it's not uncommon for kids to injure themselves jumping from high places using a sheet as a parachute, I don't think we need to be assuming malice here.

I hate this so much,

Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don't support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.

And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it's debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.

on 2026-07-06 · c/cyanideandhappiness · 13 pts · 65d

Report spam on everything they send you.

The more people do this the harder it is for them to send out emails.

on cheese · c/onehundredninetysix · 9 pts · 69d

Except Kraft (who emigrated to the US from Canada) patented sodium citrate stabilised cheese in 1916. This was done for logistical reasons since it didn't need refrigerated storage rather than being explicitly designed as a burger condiment. Kraft was a cheese wholesaler before he was a cheese maker.

American cheese took off in part because was used in rations for ww1 being energy dense and shelf stable.

It was also used as rations in ww2 which was due to a quirk of history before operation paperclip, which was predominantly done out of cold war paranoia.

I get that it's fun to dunk on America, but it should be possible to do so without resorting to a purely fictitious history.

on me irl · c/me_irl · 1 pts · 114d

I'm not convinced it does, corporation tax is charged on gross profit, usually if a corporation makes a charitable donation this reduces their profit and therefore their tax liability (but not more than the cost of the donation)

If you round up 20c then the cooperation makes 20c revenue and loses 20c when they donate leaving their profit unaffected and therefore their cooperation tax is unaffected.

There might be some financial magic I am missing but nothing I have seen in this thread explains exactly how this is could be advantageous tax wise.

on me irl · c/me_irl · 3 pts · 115d

Surely the revenue the report from your donation counteracts the loss they get from their donation to charity?

Unless there is some accounting magic I am missing?

Internal combustion engines are very picky about how fast they spin, since they get their power from burning fuel the rate at which fuel enters the cylinders to burn correlates strongly to the power they have available. And since each cycle of a cylinder burns about the same amount of fuel the faster the engine spins the more power it generates.

This is why internal combustion engine vehicles have gearboxes (transmission in the US?) to ensure that you can spin the engine fast even while the wheels are slow) or stopped) so you have enough power to start the car.

Electric motors by contrast generate power through the strength of their electromagnetic fields, which is just how much current gets pushed through the electromagnets. How fast the motor spins just changes how fast the electronics have to "move" the generated field without changing the strength, so you get similar power even at slow speeds.

So electric motors have enough torque at low speed that you can start your car without needing a gearbox.

Note: this post is a gross simplification and probably mis-uses some terminology but it should give a general understanding of why the transmissions are different.

on sponsors, ads · c/comicstrips · 1 pts · 115d

I bought a Henson razor and that has been relatively good, everything else in sponsored segments that I have been tempted by seems to be poorly reviewed elsewher however.

I like the black knight from the same work.

None of it is earned. It is handed to them, and this offends me.”

“You asked me what I want,” Black said. “This once, just this once, I want us to win.”

The smile across his face was a cutting, vicious thing.

“To spit in the eyes of the Hashmallim. To trample the pride of all those glorious, righteous princes. To scatter their wizards and make their oracles liars. Just to prove that it can be done.”

There was something his eyes burning like coals and embers.

“So that five hundred years from now, a band of heroes shiver in the dark of night. Because they know that no matter how powerful their sword or righteous their cause, there was once a time it wasn’t enough. That even victories ordained by the Heavens can broken by the will of men.”