helmet91

joined 1 year ago
[–] helmet91 29 points 8 months ago

I don't understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks.

It's easy: Houthi terrorists are backed by Iranian terrorists and Muscovy terrorists, and all they want is more chaos in the world. That's what terrorists do.

[–] helmet91 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

And do Israeli people actually approve of this genocide?

[–] helmet91 15 points 9 months ago

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[–] helmet91 5 points 9 months ago

Nope, Orcban is still blocking it.

[–] helmet91 6 points 9 months ago

I respect everyone's wrong opinion.

[–] helmet91 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather pick that, than starve to death.

[–] helmet91 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I can't imagine stopping to work. If I retire, I'll have no money. I cannot count on pension either.

But I have an IT job, it's just sitting in front of the computer all day; it's not like a physical job I wouldn't be able to do at old age.

[–] helmet91 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For most people it's obvious, but in case there's anyone who lets themselves be influenced by trolls, even the slightest: this article (and many others since the war started) is a good sign that Ukraine is heading in the right direction by going after corrupt people and uncovering corruption.

This is the way how a once corrupted country evolves, and this is a long way, maybe a decades long process. But definitely the right way.

For example in Muscovy, China, Hungary, and other countries that are corrupted to the bone, you'll never see this, unless a capable government takes the lead (but in those countries it may never happen in centuries, maybe ever).

[–] helmet91 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Water; yes.

[–] helmet91 22 points 9 months ago

1000 Terabytes (TB) = 1 Petabyte (PB).

Or: 1024 Tebibytes (TiB) = 1 Pebibyte (PiB)

Or: 1024 Terabytes (TB) = 1.024 Petabytes (PB)

Or: 1024 Terabytes (TB) = 1 Petabyte (TB), 24 Terabytes (TB)

But: 1024 Terabytes (TB) != 1 Petabyte (PB)

[–] helmet91 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

End of the day, nothing you can do will change what's happening half way across the world, so why let it change you?

I beg to differ. Here are a few things you can do. I agree these won't make an impact, but if enough people are willing to do these, it could work:

  • Donate money if you can afford it. (Just carefully check where you're exactly donating to.)
  • Promote non-propaganda, factual information. Muscovy spreads disinformation through social media and propaganda websites using their trolls. So why can't ordinary people step up and upvote, share, publish, and promote factual information? Sure, the algorithms of social media platforms favor the disinformation, but again, if enough people are willing to overcome what's happening, I believe, it could make a change.
  • Promote education. Only stupid people can be influenced by the far right propaganda. Unfortunately there are way too many stupid people.
  • Just do what you're good at. If your profession is irrelevant, that's fine. But if you happen to be a hacker, or want to become one, go ahead, and fight online scammers and trolls. Are you a software developer? Wanna be a web developer? Create something that has an impact if you have the free time and interest. Make it open source. Encourage others to join. Again, if you have no affinity for this kind of stuff, it's totally fine.
  • Do your research and vote on elections.

In my opinion, this kind of mindset of "you cannot do anything, get used to it" is a very demotivating and harmful piece of advice. Because that's what's been going on all this time; everyone being ignorant, while evil people never stop doing what they're doing.

[–] helmet91 2 points 10 months ago

Hmm that's unfortunate. Wherever I worked so far, ThinkPads didn't break, even after the warranty expired.

Well, I wish you better luck with your Framework laptop(s) then.

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