Aceticon

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I vaguelly remember reading how SUVs are 70% more deadly in collisions with pedestrians than conventional cars.

(Because their front is flatter and taller, so pedestrians are less likelly to roll over the hood and instead tend to be projected away)

I believe those kinds of cars started taking off back then.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Also the fraction of Israelis who descend from Holocaust survivors is minuscule since the origin of the vast majority of those who immigrated to Israel is Russia.

Unlike the image they try and push with things like their "Western Values" talk, Western Europe and North America are the origin of only a small fraction of Israelis.

You can see the numbers here

In Israel the Holocaust is little more than a tool for nationalistic propaganda.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In my experience AAA games from around 2000s and early 2010s often have problems running in Linux, especially if they have DRM.

In some cases a pirated version will run just fine whilst the official one won't.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It has been my general experience over the years that with just about all electronics devices with "everything and the kitchen sink" in them, you're actually better off buying functional elements separatelly as discrete devices.

For example, you're better of with a "dumb" fridge plus a good tablet and something to hang it on the fridge door. Another example is how a "dumb" TV and a TV Media Box separatelly are a better choice than a Smart TV.

This is because those things usually have different technology life-cycles (i.e. the time period were a tablet is expected to remain useful and performant is much less than for a fridge) and some parts are useful on their own and hence are more flexible to use if they're separate (i.e. a standalone tablet has many more uses than one integrated in a Smart Fridge).

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's a way of showing one's wealth (and peak dunnig-krugger status when it comes to technology) to visits?!

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

An alarm that beeps when the door is left open more than X minutes (say, 5 minutes) only requires a stupidly simple circuit and about $5 in parts.

No smarts needed (though it's probably cheaper to make it with a microcontroller than have the timer circuit be done with discrete parts).

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Receives a letter at home from Panasonic containing a message, a color printed sheet and a fridge magnet.

Message reads: "Dear costumer, please use enclosed fridge magnet to hang provided advert sheet on your Panasonic refrigerator"

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I lived in Britain for over a decade and every single government during that time had policies to prop up realestate prices.

Frankly I'm surprised it's only 44% of average wages.

I bet the picture is far worse if you look at the norm of wages (i.e. the value around which most wages are) rather than the average.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The average wage were I am - Portugal - is €1,741 before tax, whilst the average rent is €1,220 (for a 2-bedroom appartment)

Specifically for a 1-bedroom appartment it's between €1500 in Lisbon and about €600 in the cheapest possible city.

So the average rent (for a 2-bedroom) is over 2/3 of average wage, whilst for a 1-bedroom it's between 86% of a single average wage in Lisbon and 34% in the cheapest city.

Mind you, it has long been the case that, for example, to live near Lisbon in average both members of an university educated middle class couple must work full time, otherwise they can't afford it.

Oh, and minimum wage in Portugal is €870, which means that for example a couple both earning minimum wage in Lisbon can only afford a 1-bedroom appartment if they don't actually eat for most of the month.

Unsurprisingly birth rates in Portugal are some of the worst in the World.

The really entertaining thing is how successive governments have done all they can to push house prices up (same in Britain by the way: I lived there for over a decade and there too it was always government policy to prop-up the realestate market) so house prices in Portugal went up 17% just this year, and house prices going up invariably drag rents up.

(But hey, at least our Realestate Investor Prime Minister - who owns 54 properties - is 17% richer just this year).

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Por que no los dos?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Which specific ethnicities are deemed untermenschen and which are deemed ubermenschen isn't what determines or not if somebody has a Nazi mindset. The ethnicities deemed to be in those categories are only important when talking about historically very specific groups of people with a Nazi mindset.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

The floor is the natural environment for babies, hence why they learn to craw before they learn to walk /s

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