TheBigMike

joined 1 year ago
[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw the video about Python from Life Of Boris and thought it looked fun, so I just decided to learn programming.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago (36 children)

Good meme! (I have no clue what any of it means other than the dates)

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

My first distrobution was the good old Ubuntu for a laptop that I used for school. I stuck with that for 2-3 years. During that time I really, really wanted to try out new distros, but I didn't want to lose my files and such, so I just stuck with it. During this time I also changed my desktop's os to Ubuntu, but I am not sure when I did it.

After I got a Laptop due to the previous being old and broken, I tried out Arch Linux and grew to love it more than Ubuntu, so I changed out my desktop's os to that as well when I got a new ssd and was migrating to it. I used Arch for another year or two, before my laptop had a disk failure and I had to reinstall. I installed Debian onto it, since I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go through the mess of installing Arch again. And then later I also installed Windows on it with dualboot for games that didn't want to work with Proton.

So basically I now use Arch on the desktop and Debian/Windows on laptop.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah... it is what it is I guess...

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you elaborate, since I have absolutely no clue what connections significant enough you are making to say this.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Let's hope we have better luck next time I guess.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Oh damn, an article containing a topic about Russia and Cuba. I hope this post will contain a civil conversation about the topic without it derailing into a giant fighting pit about the United States.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Refer to point one

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes I did say that.

Firstly. The main cause of concern with depleted uranium is that according to some research it can linger around the area where they were used, and give people depleted uranium poisoning. Note that there hasn't yet been any concrete evidence to prove this is the case.

Secondly. Ukraine themselves asked for these weapons, so they have most likely gone over the risks of using depleted uranium ammunition and have deemed their usefulness to outweigh the potential health down sides that comes from using depleted uranium.

Thirdly. The rounds given to Ukraine are armor piercing rounds, so the chances of them being fired at buildings are minimal, thus minimizing the possibility of them affecting people if they really were as dangerous as some research tells us.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So what's the difference between lead, tungsten, and depleted uranium? They all cause cancer and other symptoms, and both tungsten and depleted uranium must be decontaminated if the tank carrying them is destroyed.

And from what I've read you will die of the toxicity before you will die of the radiation.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the follow follow up report they said that the risks of the DU dust causing any harm are minimal.

[–] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds plausible, but wouldn't it cause the same types of effects in Bosnia if that were the case?

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