batushka3 (u/batushka3)

batushka3 commented on McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting wsj.com/articles/mckinsey... · Posted by u/impish9208

squigz · 2 years ago

Would you mind elaborating on what "catastrophe" my country is facing?

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Open gangwars, people shot at home "mistakenly", grenade explosion, rapes - mate are you from sweden even?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/sweden-gang-vi...https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/28/3-killed-in-shootings-an...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...https://www.statista.com/statistics/1177271/number-of-report...

batushka3 commented on Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness afterbabel.com/p/phone-ba... · Posted by u/throwup238

spxneo · 2 years ago

When we was teenagers we had unrestricted broadband access to the internet but what was missing was the constant comparison hellhole like Instagram that is causing mental illness.

WaReZ, KaZaA, Ogrish, CD-Keys, drugs, weapon making tutorials, Mail-order-drugs. This was the wild west days of the internet. You could literally put up anything you could sell anything and everything. Classmates were downloading roms, porn, warez, emulators and selling it on CDs. One kid would hack for hire. A black market of sorts was born out of the basketball court. No verification and adults didnt know how to handle it other than installing spyware which we quickly knew how to disable at school.

We would play basketball after middle school and talk about all the crazy stuff we found on the internet. The most disturbing memories were of my classmates talking about snuff films coming out of the second Chechen War (1999), beheadings, crazy stuff . We would always try to out do one another.

Some of us even successfully manipulated our parents to watch porn ("dad i think i like boys i think i need to watch straight porn")

I turned out just fi

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Internet would be like this 80% if you used PC and avoid social media scrollholes. The infinite scroll of phone app is the adictive cancer. Internet usage with PC is like slow food.

batushka3 commented on What John von Neumann did at Los Alamos (2020) 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksd... · Posted by u/fanf2

reddog · 2 years ago

von Neumann also advocated for an immediate, surprise U.S. nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union: “If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o’clock, I say why not one o’clock?”. According to game theory you see, it was only rational.

The genius's genius.

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Living in once soviet ocupied country, I would rather taken nukes. The Great chance to erase the malignance missed.

batushka3 commented on Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap lumafield.com/article/hei... · Posted by u/viasfo

lp4vn · 2 years ago

Very nice. I live alone and often I'm baffled by the sheer amount of garbage that my urban lifestyle generates. I was not alive in the 80's but I was told that people used to use more environment-friendly packaging like glass bottles. Sometimes I wonder why this massive change to everything-should-be-packed-in-plastic happened.

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Plastic is a superior packaging material. It delivers superb cleanlines and posibility to use packaging gas(Nitrogen) in automated lines. Cleanliness is essential for shelf life, and many products have it now unheard compared to 80s paper packaging - only due to package. Amount of food spoilage prevented by plastic packaging is enormous, it is very sad to see this no plastic hysteria. Like seing dark ages returning.

batushka3 commented on Why are shopping carts always broken? cnn.com/2024/02/17/busine... · Posted by u/sys_64738

batushka3 · 2 years ago

As non american, I can't relate to this article. Such a niche problem. All our cart's are with coins - can't remember when I got broken.

batushka3 commented on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood? cbc.ca/news/canada/cousin... · Posted by u/thunderbong

conradludgate · 2 years ago

Why are people so obsessed about it I have children? I'm married and we've decided we don't want to have kids. It really bothers me when people say "oh you're missing out, that's such a shame". Please think about what you are saying.

It doesn't matter if I'm gay, infertile, poor, depressed, or just don't want them. Please keep your judgements to yourself or even just stop judging others.

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Whats the point of marriage then if being able you refuse kids? It's designed as a secure hub to build greater things like children bearing family. Why to subject yourself to lonely elderly life, tied to aging partner? Be like gay/bachelor people and enjoy hundreds of partners, why try to mimic family being afraid for full experience?

batushka3 commented on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood? cbc.ca/news/canada/cousin... · Posted by u/thunderbong

ako · 2 years ago

That was also concluded by Hans Rosling: the higher the education of people, the fewer kids they have. Best way to address overpopulation is by increasing education worldwide. https://www.teesche.com/bookshelf/hans_rosling_factfulness

batushka3 · 2 years ago

And some muslim comunities deliberately prohibid female education as a support for this theory.

batushka3 commented on Australia to ban engineered stone abc.net.au/news/2023-12-1... · Posted by u/bobnamob

bjt · 2 years ago

There are more options than just "ban" and "don't ban".

You could pass a law imposing strict liability all the way up the supply chain, up to and including the importers.

If a worker gets sick, they could sue for damages, maybe even punitive damages, from their employer, any middlemen, and the importer.

If you align the incentives right, companies will figure out how to enforce PPE usage.

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Thats one of reasons why LLC (Limited Liability Company) was invented.

batushka3 commented on To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us... · Posted by u/mikhael

batushka3 · 2 years ago

Try to invite Xi Zhinpin, he cleaned San Francisco streets in just a few days.

batushka3 commented on Deep in the wilderness, the largest beaver dam endures e360.yale.edu/features/wo... · Posted by u/geox

Roark66 · 2 years ago

Have you ever lived next to a place with beavers? I don't recommended it.

First, if you have a pond beavers will come over at night and dig holes the width of a basketball about a meter from the edge of the pond into the water (vertically down, then sideways). They camouflage these holes or they simply overgrow, good luck to an unsuspecting human that had his/her leg fall into such a deep hole.

Then, they dig such holes and passages into earthworks designed as flood defenses. Huge amount of money goes into fixing such earthworks.

Finally, if you(or anyone nearby) happen to have drainage channels or small rivers, these will be blocked by beavers to the point of flooding the surrounding area. Various compensation schemes exist, but not everyone has documentation to use them.

Fibally,a braver can be a very dangerous animal when startled/provoked/cornered. Around here every person is told in their youth, "don't approach beavers" or if they bite you in the leg (usually groin area) you'll bled out in 20s.

No, beavers are not nice... If course they shouldn't be eradicated, but they should be managed properly, not enjoy 100% protection as they do here in Poland, for example.

batushka3 · 2 years ago

You also you need to wrap trees with metal net to save them from beavers. At least they have great fur(looks superb trimmed a bit) and taste good.