We’ve only had a few truly catastrophic wildfires and only 23,000 homes burned down since 2017, let’s wait until those numbers come up before we start wasting money on things like “replacing 100 year old infrastructure that was built to last 70.” If we replaced every little thing, how would we pay the executives and shareholders?
Not really. But it’s always good to get confirmation of our theories. And it’s usually even more exiting to find an error in a well established theory.
And then you’ve got to consider that at least mathematically a black whole doesn’t have any volume, so what could actually spin in something that’s infinitely small? This more or less confirms that this is bullshit.
I mean the majority of black holes spin… It’s kinda fundamental to their existance as most things in the universe have motion and when you super compress those things into a black hole, that motion has to go somewhere.
Nationalise utilities. But the GOP would just attack them when they are in power. Fucken hate the clown show. Maintenance is bad all over this fucking country cause everyone gets so butthurt they can’t pinch those pennies into their own accounts. Its fucken maddening I hope the whole bitch falls apart just so I can rub the ashes in their faces.
You’re a pizza delivery person, and you know there are some routes you can take to save you more than 20 min for some deliveries, but you’re going the wrong way in one way roads.
One day you get caught, and you get fined 20 cents. You make an extra 5 bucks per delivery. Will you stop going the wrong way to save you 20 min each time you have to do those deliveries?
Well, this is the fundamental problem with fines. They are stupidly, gargantually disproportionate to what they’re trying to achieve.
Which means that companies make more money paying the fine whenever they get caught, than just not doing whatever illegal thing they’re doing.
Yeah, fines need to be calculated on an exponential scale based on the income and value of the target. The richer they are, the more painful the penalty. One wrong move and the billionaire is reduced to a meth addicted hobo living under a bridge.
Valve won’t break the law for other publisher’s profits. Steam is just a store front, they were geo blocking on behalf of other publishers.
Valve also doesn’t take a cut from steam key sales not bought directly through their storefront, so the geoblocking keys isn’t something that will impact them. More likely, this will result in citizens of poorer EU countries getting screwed over by having to pay higher prices for games, since they can’t stop EU citizens from taking advantage of buying the game from the poorest EU country.
Yes, this will just mean that game publishers will set one price for the whole EU which will be based on the income in the richest countries. They can still geoblock countries outside of the EU, just not within it.
Progress isn’t linear and it sure as hell doesn’t come when we say the problem isn’t worth even addressing because our current tools aren’t big enough for its scale.
I can see this being an on-again/off-again situation for a long time. When Rs are in power they’ll remove it, and when Ds are in power they’ll restore it. We need something like this to be enshrined in the law of the land, but more and more it feels like that isn’t ever going to be possible as everything will be open to re-interpretation forever.
It's unfortunately a valid "defeatist" point that I hate finding myself falling back into over and over on so many issues. It shouldn't be so hard to say 'yo can you stop taking advantage of me for personal financial gain in every possible scenario'?
We need something like this to be enshrined in the law of the land
I suspect that if we taught our people to value education, and made it easily available to them, we wouldn’t need to enshrine this particular issue (or many others for that matter) in law.
Christians are the majority in the USA, would you rather they enshrine into law you must believe in Jesus?
What you most likely mean is that you want to force other people to follow your point of view, which is a dangerous power when granted to everybody, not just the people you agree with.
I’m not saying I disagree with you on this issue, just that the method of enacting change should adapt to be one where the people changing want to change, and consent to it, because you’ve convinced them - not because you’ve forced them, whether physically or situationally.
The ending phrase “this is one of those instances” implies they aren’t arguing the point to the same degree you are.
edit: also, the example you provide isn’t really a concern because freedom of religion is currently a guaranteed constitutional right, and if republicans want to repeal that then guns are also entirely on the table. A better example would be gay marriage, where the majority told the conservative minority to stick it and get over it.
My experience with American Christianity teaches me that there are three main types (of course, subtypes exist within each type).
(1) the true Christian. S/he would happily talk to you about his/her faith, if prompted, though s/he will never push you to it. This is a two-way conversation, where s/he is as excited to share his/her faith with you, as s/he is to learn about yours. This Christian is more likely to categorize him/herself as a ‘Christ-follower’ than a ‘Christian’, due to the stigma created by the other two types of Christians, but won’t take offense when s/he is called a Christian, and s/he would often call him/herself ‘Christian’ when in conversation with others, for the sake of simplicity that it provides to others. This Christian celebrates ‘Christmas’ as the birth of his/her savior. Though s/he tries to go to church, s/he finds communion with her/his savior anywhere. S/he understands that communion and church are different, and s/he strives for a relationship with his/her god. While there are more of them than the other two types, this Christian is respectful of others, and won’t trump others’ rights, which often makes them quieter than the masses. This Christian tends to respect your right to believe in whatever you want, though s/he would love it if you, too, started believing.
(2) the media Christian. S/he would happily, and often forcefully, talk to you about his/her religion. Whether or not this person holds the faith is irrelevant, as their followings are surrounding religion, instead of faith (though faith may exist). Because of this, this conversation is one-sided, as s/he talks at you, instead of with you, and the goal of this “conversation” is to convert you to his/her side. Whether this is by choice or by force, is irrelevant. S/he is part of the remnants of the Crusader-types. While there are fewer of them than the other two types, they tend to be the loudest. They celebrate ‘Christmas’ as a holiday. S/he goes to church and generally shuns those who don’t. A communion with his/her god is not the goal of attending church. If you find yourself in a “conversation” with this Christian about his/her religion, you will also find yourself being forcefully pushed into their way of thinking. More often than not, this will become a heated argument.
(3) the non-Christian Christian. S/he was raised in an extreme household of one of the two other types (more often than not, type 2), but is not sure whether s/he believes in the faith or religion, or are just going through the motions. S/he would rather not talk about his/her faith nor his/her religion, because s/he isn’t sure what they believe and s/he would rather not dredge up (often negative) memories of his/her parents pushing their religion onto him/her. S/he generally celebrates ‘X-mas’ as a time to spend with family and friends, and as a break from the humdrum of work/standard daily life. S/he may go to church, but it’s a chore, and s/he will eventually cease going. This Christian is 50:50 loud:quiet, depending on how his/her upbringing ended up affecting his/her personality. More often than not, this Christian is against religion, as a whole, but respects your right to believe in whatever you want.
Haha! I did that first, but didn’t want to offend anyone, and redid. So, instead, apparently, I went with s/he, her/his… not sure that’s better hahahaha
as an expert^1^ I can affirm that singular usage of they/them is absolutely acceptable in polite conversation with people who may be non-binary or with people whom you don’t wish to assume what gender they identify as.
1 - Why am I claiming I am an expert? I’m nonbinary and trans myself; and I moderated /r/genderqueer for a long time; so I do see trends.
You mean say, “they is”? I can’t do that. As an early ESL student, “they are” was hammered into me, and using plural noun as a singular noun, or vice versa, physically hurts me (as in, it actually causes me anxiety to say it). I don’t mind hearing it, though. If this is not what you meant, would you mind elaborating?
The article is dated 2023, which kind of adds to it’s modern validity, so thank you for that. It does mention the use of “they are” referring to a singular person, as early as 1375. Looking into that further (off article), its use was generally only accepted when the gender of the person/animal was unknown. Regardless, I don’t have an issue saying “they are” when referring to an individual (a Trans, for example). The hella annoying physical reaction is when I try to use “they is”. So, follow-up question: “they are my friend” when referring to a Trans is fine? I mean, I don’t have to use “they is my friend”?
It’s all very generalized. I was hoping that was clear. How is it biased calling someone who falls fully into cat1 a True Christian? I’m seriously asking. I’m not starting a fight. I’m genuinely curious how I messed it up.
God the religion vs. faith thing, I’m glad to see someone articulate it. It’s bizarre to me how many people are seemingly super hardcore into their religion as a social club, but if you observe them closely they come across like “believing it” is just a game they play for the sake of staying in.
“Only” 13 days of battery plus no eink display. It might be good but it’s still no pebble. This is more akin to an amazfit bip or any of those existing cheap smart watches
I vaguely remember a TV movie from like… 2006 where some kind of solar storm /coronal mass ejection thing happens right as some hacker was trying to “HEY EVERYONE THIS SYSTEM IS VULNERABLE AND YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BEFORE A BAD GUY TAKES CONTROL” type hack of the electrical grid, and the combination of the hack and solar radiation causing most of the US power grid to shut down
I haven’t seen anything in real life to convince me the power gris isn’t a prince ruperts drop that only works because it’s never been shut down all at once before, and once it does that tail shatters and takes the rest with it.
In fact, living near a power substation that supplies a couple major things for a nearby city, I’m convinced the only reason there hasn’t been a massive attack against it is because people just assume it’s well protected.
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