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danhakimi

@ danhakimi @kbin.social

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  • Whats your such opinion

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  • insurance is part of health plans. There is a deductible and an out-of-pocket max, which are both designed to protect you from those catastrophic risks. But because those catastrophic risks are best addressed by preventative care, and regular checkups, and freakin' gym memberships, so the economics of insuring health becomes the economics of health incentivization, fucking around to figure out what it takes to get people to take care of themselves in advance rather than waiting but not getting people to go to doctors for frivolous issues.

  • Whats your such opinion

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  • health insurance isn't really insurance either.

    it's like a health services subscription plan with a million convoluted rules.

  • What opened your eyes to what's happening in Palestine?

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  • Hamas's goal is not to make you think they're the good guys, their goal is to eradicate Israel and the Jewish people, and/or to die trying. They've been turning sentiment in their favor.

  • What opened your eyes to what's happening in Palestine?

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  • Plenty of people argue that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

    Israel is relatively popular in the US, but younger Americans and many circles within academia are rabid antizionists, as I think you've seen. Many are calling to "globalize the intifada."

    Hamas has not succeeded in making the average westerner think terrorism is good, but they have succeeded in normalizing terrorism, making more people think that "terrorism" is an Islamophobic term, making more people think that Israel does not have the right to exist, and emboldening antisemites on the right and left. Younger generations are more and more aggressively antizionist as time goes on.

    Settler expansion is a problem that's more complicated and less exciting to people than the war. It makes sense that antizionists want us to focus on the war and just use settler expansion for color.

    This study from the GWU Program on Extremism is an important read on the topic of Hamas's presence in the US over time.

  • Why do dentists always recommend to brush 2 times for 2-3 minutes?

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  • My electric toothbrush works in four 30-second increments. Each 30 seconds is plenty of time for me to cover a quadrant. I slowly go over the outside, inside, top/bottom, gums in each quadrant. Maybe if I was meticulously brushing each tooth one by one, I could see the issue, but that's not necessary, is it?

  • Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

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  • What are your favorite non-tech communities?

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  • oh hey there, I recognize you

  • Potato Fritters, smoked Sockeye Salmon, Sour Creme with Dill and a tiny cucumber salad on the side

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  • They seemed like not-quite-right latkes, which is part of the reason I bothered to comment. Maybe a proper latke recipe would help OP see potato fritters from a new perspective, and it does seem like he would enjoy an ashkenazi recipe here.

  • Potato Fritters, smoked Sockeye Salmon, Sour Creme with Dill and a tiny cucumber salad on the side

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  • I had no idea about the eastern-european origin and the particular relevance of potato fritters / latkes in jewish Hanukkah cuisine. Very interesting, thank you for the hint! Is having them with salmon and dill-sour-creme a particularly jewish way to serve them? I also very much like the name “lox” fo salmon because it sounds almost like the german word for salmon “Lachs”, so I would guess it is from Yiddish.

    We usually serve these types of latkes with either sour cream or removed sauce, and dill in general is common—either we put dill on our lox, or sour cream, or we make dill pickles... I'm Mizrahi (a Persian Jew), my family does plain yogurt with dill a lot.

    I think "lox" and "lachs" and "gravlax" share the same root, but they're all technically a little different.

    I'm not sure if they are all Yiddish, I don't speak Yiddish, but they're either that or more direct loan words from some other European language.

  • Potato Fritters, smoked Sockeye Salmon, Sour Creme with Dill and a tiny cucumber salad on the side

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  • What are your tricks for crispy fritters?

    First, start calling them latkes. You're serving them with lox and dill, let's be real here.

  • Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?

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  • Hasn't Batman also, in some media, gone blow for blow with Superman-level opponents without dying? Like, he's not as strong as them, and superhuman strength isn't technically a superpower he has, but...

    No. Even if you could match the current fictional character's tech and computing power and budget and incoherent physical strength, those really are not what make Batman Batman. It's the intellect, the iron will, the sheer level of badassery that can only be achieved in fiction where an author has him appear behind the villain just to show what an impossible nightmare Batman truly is.

    Being able to pretend that he's Bruce Wayne sometimes certainly helps, though. He's a good actor.

  • Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?

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  • I don't think any secret agent could rival any of those fictional characters. They have incredible plot armor, depending on the scenario. James Bond is an idiot who fucks every woman who moves, even when he knows they're there to trap him, but has a magic dick that hypnotizes them onto his side.

    Batman with prep time is an unstoppable force who could take down every army in the world at once if he really needed to.

    No, no human can compare to these characters.

  • Free Internet Non-Believers

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  • I love software freedom, federated networks, proper encrytption, and all of that too.

    But I'm not kidding myself into thinking that it's worth losing friends over. Do facebook and IG suck? yeah. But that's where the social network is. The product isn't the software, it's the network.

    That's kind of the point of the fediverse, that we can expand to achieve a large-scale network that creates the same positive network effects as a social network like... well, more like reddit or twitter, primarily due to the norm of anonymity, probably not a replacement for facebook, but...

    Anyway... I think that, depending on the specifics, it might actually be a good idea to federate with Threads, just to expand the network, gain mainstream appeal, normalize the fediverse, and drive engagement here.

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  • Pizza with pineremoved, night drive, Singing in the shower, a bit too much sweetness (but I’m thin) poor comedy or something like that?

    something like that. I like "singing in the shower," it's cute and not too common and there's really nothing wrong with it.

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  • How do you stroke a giraffe’s head?

    Is that what you meant?

    I like metal, rock, Glukhovsky’s books and shrek (I gave up writing about sci-fi and r&m to sound more normal)

    I think "Glukhovsky" just sounds like a much, much more obscure way of saying "sci-fi." And I think Shrek kind of sounds... both like something everybody likes, and like a childish thing to focus on. Like, I like Shrek, but it is a children's movie series that came out in 2001, so how about...

    I like metal, rock, sci-fi literature (I'm a big fan of Glukhovsky), and (something else, maybe something more abstract, like "ordering dessert" or "the sound my cat makes when I pet it" or "comfy sweaters" or "food that's just a little bit too spicy or something).

    then...

    Looking for my next ex (joke)

    ... nope. I understand the joke. You do not want to make a joke that takes people to a negative place. Also, this particular joke is a cliche, so it's not even funny anymore.

  • Can your feet get ... smaller??

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  • I'm so confused as to how people say sandals aren't shoes. they're open-toed shoes. what is your definition of "shoe," people?

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  • Your photos matter way, way more, but a reasonably good bio:

    I like reading (name a few books you like), music (mostly rock), and sci-fi.

    looking for (something, this could be a joke, idk)

    School 'yr (maybe also mention your major if you feel like it)

  • What do you all think of LBRY/odysee

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  • In any case, shouldn’t the Internet be a relatively free place to share and have opinions?

    Sure. I draw the line well before crypto scams and Nazi shit and extreme antivax conspiracy theories, though. No, I don't particularly think that we need to protect peoples' "freedom" to use public social media servers with gigabytes of free storage when they're using that "freedom" to upload videos calling for my death on the basis of my ethnicity, and the "freedom" to reach and indoctrinate others on that platform into wanting to kill me too. I don't see why anybody would offer them a platform, and I certainly don't see why any decent person would want to use such a platform. I don't think odyssee has the "freedom" to compel us to want to use it knowing what a shit show it is.

  • What do you all think of LBRY/odysee

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  • alright. I remember running into a lot of pro-Russia, pro-China, pro-Iran bullshit on lemmy.ml, which is part of the reason I dropped my account there and moved to kbin, but I'm subscribed to a bunch of lemmy.world communities now (and clearly this lemmy.ml community, at least), and... I mean, there are still definitely tankies, particularly on the political communities, but I have mostly been avoiding those communities...

  • What do you all think of LBRY/odysee

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  • Is it better now? I feel like I'm still running into a lot of tankies...