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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well that’s the thing, it wouldn’t be possible so the entire idea of “let us sane people come” is flawed from the start unless they truly believe that there should be a purity test and that they would pass it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t worry, there aren’t that many sane people in the US. A lot of them are under the impression that they’re sane because they take the “balanced” position, though, which is to say that they just choose whatever’s in between fascism and barely progressive policy while they call themselves intelligent.

Frankly I’m not sure I’d want a bunch of people who cannot take accountability and who have such main-character energy they think that they would be allowed in while “bad” people wouldn’t be. We have enough problems with similar mindsets here in Canada and I really don’t want more of that except now they’re making it even harder to get away from our useless, conservative, Liberal(capital L) party.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not if you stayed, then it’s an investment. Money doesn’t just disappear when goes to poor people, they use it to buy things like food and stuff. It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.

The North American mind cannot comprehend the benefits of supporting the poor.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ah ok cool cool. “Asking questions” is always a dicey game that needs incredibly clear intent these days.

I don’t have the background nevessary to answer your question, but if I understand it correctly you’re asking about when the eggs are created and, if they’re technically made before birth, does it then not count. I’m not sure any one definition would really help nail it down. It’s a question that can probably not be answered within a strict binary which I imagine is part of the point you were trying to make, that said strict binary isn’t something we should be wasting too much time trying to force in the first place.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re trying to define being a woman as being a female by “asking questions” which, in this context, are stupid ones then sure. Unfortunately for that line of thinking it’s only possible if you’re aggressively ignorant so I’m hoping that I’m misunderstanding something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The one where the first several hundred metres is just water.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I suppose so? But there are things we can do right now that give us far more than a sliver of a chance. Unfortunately those things are “boring” and not as fashionable, like doing actual research and trusting real experts so it’s rough out there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And not only that, but if you taxed them at 99% they’d still have silly amounts of money and ungodly financial security while even 20% off a poor person being paid by a less rich local business is just hurting the both of them. Taxes are a good thing but like you say they are horrendously unbalanced.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The last space race was a government funded effort, not personal projects meant to enrich and entertain rich people who view morality as a defect. These projects aren’t meant to advance science and research, and humanity’s well-being is the last thing they give a shit about.

You’re either not being serious or you aren’t smart enough to understand anything below headline-level detail.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Because those things were based on the real world and we are very bad at learning from the ever-growing list of mistakes we can’t stop making.

Cyberpunk 2077 is not a good world and does not have a good ending. That world is a horrid, capitalist dystopia. Maybe you should watch Edgerunners if you still can’t figure it out from the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The existence of billionaires is a policy failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’re just outing yourself as a piece of garbage. I would pay my fucking employees, and if I somehow did it myself ethically it would be winning a lottery and I would share it amongst my friends and family.

I already do stuff like this. I own a sports car and I fight for pedestrianizing our streets, including the main one near where I live. I ride public transit and take the bike share service to get places. A guy once asked me to sign a petition to get rid of paid parking and I told I literally do not care and that it’s only fair that I personally pay to park my personal vehicle on publically funded infrastructure given how many people on that street don’y own cars and still have to pay for them.

You’re just an asshole who has already been visited by the sins of greed and pride and you’re just pissy that you don’t have the resources to act on those feelings. Be a better person, and quit this projecting bullshit; I don’t want any part of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s also, I think, the weird fucky option were 75% sorta works because the 25% applies to choosing 50% and 50% applies to choosing 25% which means that as long as you don’t choose 0% you’re good?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salary negotiations are going well 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“You tell us what your salary expectations are.” really just means “low-ball yourself because you’re scared and we know damn well it’s hard to communicate with other candidates.

Tell me what you’re willing to pay and we can go from there. Tell your employees what that position pays, and have that be available. There is ZERO reason not to unless you’re actively trying to hide something from the people you’re exploiting.

And a message to anyone who thinks it’s ok and isn’t even benefitting from it: Shove a hot poker up your ass, idiot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Is the answer 3?”

Ai taking a drag from a cigarette: “Sure thing kid, why not?”

“Wow, so smart.”

I genuinely do hate AI, this is joke about it constantly validating everything asked of it instead of actually being useful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for future fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ok? Yea dude, bugs exist. You’re gunna be ok. We survived just fine without windows or doors for how long but a single house centipede or spider shows and we’re like “not in MY house” like, brother chill.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for future fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It still helps. And they might not travel far but they do travel so it’s good to have a destination.

The best part is that even if it doesn’t work the entire point is that you aren’t doing extra work. Literally just do nothing and at worst nothing will happen but at best you’ll start seeing more and more improvement, if slowly at first.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In Montréal all our major parks have washroom facilities and if they for some reason don’t there’s still gunna be a port-o-potty nearby. There should definitely be two near the beach but the point still stands that you can definitely have nice things, or at least something stopping the majority of public urination. And hell, I’m sure that we have issues with them here, too, but it’s a small price to pay to have a civilized city so whatever.

Longer term the city just needs to adopt any of the myriad studied ways homeless and poverty has been reduced in other places which will also reduce the danger to these things getting broken.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I get that(enough, anyway, I just need to watch some videos on them to be honest) but it’s still super wild to say out loud.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s always wild to me that 100% heating efficiency is actually kinda not great. Also the fact that we can use the heat from air that is colder than what we want in order to generate more heat I mean that’s just witchcraft.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Renting is important to have available but it absolutely does not need to be at the level its at. The amount of people paying for someone else’s investment while wishing they could own something of their own is crazy and it’s insane that we’ve normalized that. And all the while they’re just hoping nothing goes wrong because it seems like even the “good” landlords are hit-or-miss when it comes to getting them to do literally anything. Mine’s usually pretty good but right now there’s a fucking hole in the foundation and getting them to properly address it is a hurdle I shouldn’t have to go through. In order for these buildings to be profitable the tenants need to not only pay for those issues you mentioned but now they’re also paying for someone else’s salary AND in the end that person gets to sell the building and keep all that money, too.

The reason the housing market is fucked in the US and Canada is becauss there are very few rent controls and a lot of the power sides with the landlords. In Montréal you have to be worried about going taking them to court because future landlords can just look up if you’ve ever done anything and deny you a place to live even if the problem was your current landlord is dogshit. Oh, and there’s a new law that’s around landlords being able to use necessary renovations as excuses to raise your rent! They have all the power and it doesn’t matter if they’re big or small, it’s a “business” that attracts the kind of people who don’t mind making easy money off of making you pay for their stuff.

Your landlord(probably) isn’t going to let you hit it because you’re glazing them on Lemmy. Stand up for yourself and others, even if you got lucky with a landlord who is considered good because they don’t throw a hissy fit when you ask them to do their fucking job.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t love pineapple on pizza, personally, but you’re ao right that this is just a pineapple hater thibking that the people who do love it would actually give a fuck like they do.

“I hate you and so you must hate me! Let’s hate this new thing together!”

“Umm…no I just think you’re weird and ignore you.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beans 🫘⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’d die for a bean yaknowwhatI’msaying

Pythagoras what a weird dude.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Plastic Mr. Fantastic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wait wait, they’re not even using cartons?! What the fuck?!

I switched to oat millk a long time ago for the vast majority of my consumption(cereal, mostly) because it keeps way longer than regular milk and, as a bonus, the packaging is at least trying to be better for the environment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Plastic Mr. Fantastic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Being responsible off the chop would be nice. I just recently stopped buying a very popular brand of cookies because, for some fucking reason, they switched from cardboard to plastic packaging.

We’re constantly reacting to problems that we create(corporations, in this case) and it’s just getting so tiresome. We can just not do these things in the first place and we wouldn’t have nearly the same numeous, shitty problems we have right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
LA is a bottleneck if you assume every single line and dot is perfectly equal. If we’re already imaging a well built system then that green line would have a higher frequency of train to accommodate what you’re talking about and it’s station(s) would be large enough to handle the fact that it would absolutely be a major hub.

Efficiency is not always about perfection for every single trip. Cars(in a car-centric hellhole, at least) will take you from your driveway to your destination parking lot but they are vastly inferior to the overall efficiency of a metro that you walk five minutes to and is then five minutes from your destination. This is highspeed rail, there’s not much extra time being taken if you don’t go direct direct, it’ll be fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I know readong is difficult, but I literally just said that it wouldn’t be any fun if we allowed for that level of globalization. Every single slice has a sushi restaurant somewhere, they all have burgers and mexican food somewhere.

I live in Montreal, my guy, I am well aware of what is available if we decided to complete ignore the entire premise of the post.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You need to hit major centres to be efficient. You’re talking about the most efficient per station but most efficient per passenger is going to look different. This image doesn’t see too bad and can still have branching lines.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s D and it’s not even a little close. I’d be sad to lose burritos and jerk chicken, and not be able to try more African food, but yea D 10000%, no regrets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The only way this map is any fun at all is culturally. I’m in Canada, and it’s great, but tortiere and poutine and simpler stuff(we’ll exclude a good portion of stuff that’s just modified foreign foods like North American style chinese food) just wouldn’t cut it. And hea there are foods from the indigineous population but sorry if pemican doesn’t get me going like Southeast Asian food.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“Oh my god having a lawn isn’t murder you’re being dramatic!” - some small-minded buffoon who doesn’t understand analogies.

They probably couldn’t even explain why they like it, and about the only truly valid reason that isn’t just social conditioning is “I like do yardwork” but then wouldn’t a big nice garden be 1000x bettee for that? Oh, right, you can’t just sit on a big lawnmower and pretend like you’re doing real work.