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Cake day: January 5th, 2024
  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK the four rules of firearm safety
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    5 days ago

    If you’re talking about the illegal settlements in the west bank, you’re damn right they should stop. It’s been a point of contention within Israel since it began, and I think it should be stopped, and should never have started to begin with.

    If you’re talking about the entire country of Israel, kindly fuck off. This is an old nuanced and complex issue, your reductionism of is only making it impossible to talk about it realistically. No, the entire Jewish population of Israel is not going to just leave the only country they’ve ever lived in.

    I do believe it is possible, in the far future, for us to coexist peacefully here. Sadly everything seems to be going in the opposite direction.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK the four rules of firearm safety
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    6 days ago

    Terror attacks. Every now and then someone tries stabbing people with a knife or running over people with a car. Sometimes they are successful. Most incidents like this end with the terrorist getting shot, usually by a nearby police officer or soldier (on- or off-duty at the time). But occasionally it’s a civilian with a weapon.

    Political shit

    Of course, I was talking about terror attacks by arabs against jews, but there’s no shortage of terror attacks by jews against arabs. These, “naturally”, usually end with no charges. Yeah, this place is fucked.

    This asymmetry is obvious enough that it’s even brought up and criticized often in mainstream media. But with the current administration it’s unlikely anything will change, and who know what the hell is going to happen in the upcoming elections. Cult-followers outnumber sensible people.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK the four rules of firearm safety
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    6 days ago

    Which country are you from?

    I live in Israel, where there’s actually valid reasons to own a gun for defense, and I still hardly ever see one except on soldiers or police. I can only recall a single time I saw a civilian’s pistol, which they only showed me because we were having a conversation on the topic.

    Granted, soldiers with guns is an everyday occurrence on pubic transport, so maybe you have a point. But still, gun safety/violence is not even remotely as big an issue as it is in USA.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•base 10
    271·
    1 month ago

    Two possible solutions to this:

    1. Always use a single digit for the base. Examples: binary is base 2, decimal is base A (because A=10 in bases higher than decimal), hexadecimal is base G.
    2. Use the highest digit plus one. Examples: binary is base 1+1, decimal is base 9+1, hexadecimal is base F+1.

    … or we just continue to agree that bases are always written in base 10 decimal unless specified otherwise. By the way, how does the alien speak English?

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.detoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•what happens when you cut something?
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    1 month ago

    I’m pretty sure that generally some particles break off from either side whenever you cut something in half. When I cut paper with scissors I get a distinct smell, that’s clearly paper particles that have escaped into the air. Under the right conditions you may even see some dust.

    When using a saw it is very explicitly removing material to create a gap between the two sides. You can see this clearly in a lot of woodworking videos on YouTube. For other tools like a knife, it’s not as obvious, but I still think some material will inevitably be lost no matter what you do.

    Maybe some extremely specialized nano-scale methods can cut things without losing material, but I doubt that’s something you can do on an everyday life scale.

    Disclaimer: I’m not an expert and I did 0 research, just giving my opinion and personal knowledge (which may be wrong).