skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 13 hours ago

If you’re talking about animals it doesn’t matter.

Not even that it doesn't matter, it's almost entirely the point. The reason why using 'females' as a noun to refer to women is dehumanizing is because it's a noun we use for animals.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 13 hours ago

Reminder that after setting the political stage for the Khmer Rouge to take power with the carpet-bombing of Cambodia, the US Government continued to recognize Pol Pot as its rightful ruler all the way through to the early 1990s, simply because the actual Cambodian government of the 80s was installed with Vietnam's help.

The USA seems to be on an never-ending quest to fuck Indochina over for no fucking reason.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

The horrible cruelty regarding Cambodia is that the reason they have such a high trade deficit is that most Cambodians are too poor to be able to begin to afford anything that America has to offer.

It's one of the poorest countries in Asia, they could cut their tariffs to 0% and the net effect would be less than the measurable rounding error on total American exports.

Trump is going to tank the economy of an already poverty-stricken country and plunge it into exactly the kind of instability that destroyed it once already just because "fuck you, give me more".

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Bees live less than two months, so if only 80% of bees died in the last 8 months that would suggest a sharp recent population increase. And even if you take it as read that it means bees dying and not being replaced, 8 months is still a terrible timeframe to use because it's literally saying "there are 80% fewer bees now, at the tail end of winter, than there were at the height of bee season".

I'm not saying there isn't a bee crisis, just that this factoid is very badly worded.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Simple, all you need is a 6 ohm resistor and a 0.18457216 ohm resistor in series.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"As of 2024, the Adolph Coors Foundation is the only one of the three organizations still publicly disclosing support for the conservative group."

The fucking WHAT Coors Foundation?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been paying for Office365 home for years. Recently I started a business and signed up for 365 Business for the company email address.

Outlook stopped working, because the 365 Business account - which I specifically signed up in order to do email - doesn't include local Outlook, and my existing home-licensed one throws a hissy fit if I try connecting it to my business account.

Microsoft sucks.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's sickening how they genuinely think they're bailing Europe out and deserve compensation for it, when they themselves are a big part of why there's so much instability in the region to begin with.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’ve noticed a significant drop in people using the phrase “America bad” as a mocking jibe, since it no longer really works as a hyperbolic statement.