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- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 days ago:
Me resisting the urge to explain how modern medieval historians consider feudalism to have never existed:
But yeah he's right. Or well something will give before that, but that's the end state we're looking at.
- Comment on Probably accurate 3 days ago:
I think they'd be horrified women and black people can vote if anything.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 5 days ago:
But the vast majority of Christians (again, in Western countries) don't do that, and I strongly doubt OOP's girlfriend is the exception. So my point is: That ship has kind of sailed.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
Christians also aren't supposed to engage in fornication, so you know. Expecting Christians in Western countries (don't know about elsewhere) to follow their religion is generally futile.
- Comment on Good for him. 1 week ago:
Reality isn't continuous according to quantum mechanics (at least with boundary conditions; for example the energy of a free particle/wave is continuous), but it is according to relativity (for example there's nothing quantized about redshifting due to gravity or the expansion of the universe). Also what happens at a Planck scale is that quantum mechanics stop being able to model reality, but it doesn't predict a quantum of distance or anything like that. There's nothing preventing a particle from moving one meter+one Planck length. Really what happens at these scales is anyone's guess, but whatever model succeeds the ones we use today will likely have to accommodate some continuity in order to model relativistic effects.
- Comment on Good for him. 1 week ago:
I don't think that makes sense mathematically speaking. To turn the state of a group of atoms into numbers that can be represented by a random experiment, one would need to use continuous (i.e. non-quantized) variables. A continuous variable can take an uncountably infinite number of values, so it can't be modeled by a countably infinite arrangement like the one you've described. It's kind of like how you can choose real numbers at random for all eternity and never get the number 7.
- Comment on Good for him. 1 week ago:
If I'm understanding them right, it's more like this: Imagine flipping a coin and recording the result an infinite number of times. Then your record will include any finite sequence of flips, because any event with a nonzero probability no matter how unlikely will happen if given infinite opportunities. For example you'll get a sequence where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is written in binary with heads as 1 and tails as 0 and vice versa. By an easy corollary of this, any finite sequence of flips will be repeated an infinite number of times. What this person is saying is that they believe the universe is like this; if you decide the location and energy of every electon, neutron and proton in a section of the universe with the same mass as the solar system there's a nonzero chance it'll contain an exact replica of the Earth and everything on it, hence in an infinite homogeneous universe there will be an infinite number of such replicas. Now I don't think this makes sense, because the chance of getting such a replica probably is zero (in the same way that the probability of choosing a random real number and getting 7 is zero), but this is the logic I think.
- Comment on Amen 1 week ago:
Quality shitpost.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not 100% an answer to your question, but I was able to start reading reading Japanese fantasy novels around mid-B2 while using a dictionary and likely could've started earlier at the cost of more pain (and it was already plenty painful). Neither other languages I speak are even remotely close to Japanese, so you can put lower B2 as an upper bound. With that in mind I could see upper B1 if the languages are close like in your example and the subject matter is on the simpler side, but A2 ain't happening. At that point you'll struggle too much to understand the grammatical expressions in the text to comprehend the subject matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Wow, West-Germanic language family strikes again.
- Comment on what are the recruiters recruiting me for😰 1 week ago:
Gardener, of course, what else did you think?
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
Y'all need to sleep better.
- Comment on It’s Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek 2 weeks ago:
In most places there's no four day workweek party. That's half the reason Western countries are in this mess.
- Comment on Then a drone collapses the waveform 2 weeks ago:
I mean to be fair, do you know how hard it is to get an oil tanker to constructively interfere with itself?
- Comment on Think before speak 2 weeks ago:
Finally someone gets it! It's terrifying knowing if I get to know someone I might wake up the next morning and find out that an old friend became Brazilian. This crippling fear has been an important
excusereason I'm not making new friends. Will someone save us from the Brazilification curse‽ - Comment on Think before speak 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but according to math if only 1% of people are transgender then if you know at most 99 people none of them will be transgender, it's just math. On the other hand though if you reach 100 people one of them will become transgender. One must not abuse their power lest the Jewish space lasers make one transgender.
- Comment on Think before speak 2 weeks ago:
Well akshually only 1% of the population is transgender so it's fine as long as I know fewer than 100 people. Checkmate atheists. Brazilians are 2.5% so that's cutting it close, but it's possible with determination not to know any Brazillians.
- Comment on Truth 2 weeks ago:
As someone who only learned to cook as an adult, my experience has been that if you're careful it's nearly impossible to ruin a meal. Even if you mess up the spices it's probably salvageable, and with a timer having food burn is really not a concern.
- Comment on Example of bi-eraser on reddit the title said soul mate dont mean lover. Like bloody fucking hell they were indeed lovers. Freddie Mercury was Bisexual 5 weeks ago:
Yeah the "mate" in "soulmate" refers to a checkmate, as in chess.
- Comment on Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party 1 month ago:
Not very related but I hate the XINO label and similar ideas. No, they're not "Democrats/Labor/whatever in name only" that's just how your (royal you) favorite influence laundering machine for the capitalist class works.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
Potato potato, the point still stands: It's impossible to come up with a new, say, car engine design without centuries' worth of thermodynamics and assorted physics, millennia's worth of metallurgy and the labor of hundreds if not thousands of people providing the food, water, electricity, manufactured goods, etc to make the act of innovation possible, and all those people have a claim to a piece of the pie.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
why shouldn't I get to profit from that idea?
Why should you exclusively get to profit from that idea? In any case all innovation stands on the shoulders of giants supported by society at large. The idea of owning an idea in the first place is absurd, but setting that aside if someone will assert exclusive rights to an idea they should first repay society for all its indirect contributions to that idea, from past innovators to the workers whose labor makes it all possible. Or course this is impossible, meaning owning an idea automatically becomes absurd. And this is before we get to how pretty much all parents are based on publicly funded research.
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 month ago:
Yes I know the cliche saying of “every president is war criminal” blah blah blah. But last president atleast were attacked or provoked by recognized threat.
And there you are. What you're now doing for Obama, Bush and Biden the establishment is willing to do for Trump. Either they're all terrorists or none are. For the record I believe "terrorist" as a label does more harm than good; I prefer terms like "fascist," "imperialist" and "war criminal," but also half the things you just listed have nothing to do with terrorism and the other half has clear equivalents for past presidents.
No other president has caused this much global terror in the modern era.
Uh... ever heard of the War on Terror?
- Comment on Not all heroes wear capes 1 month ago:
I mean things can get damaged in transit or go bad or anything else, so not really. Maybe if everyone in the MCD did so (since 10 to 11 is a ~9% reduction in sales), but if it's only this guy it'd easily go unnoticed.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 month ago:
Even with everything going on in America right now, it definitely doesn't suppress free speech more than Germany or Britain. I mean the Palestine Action thing is still happening (while Reform gets to yap all day long, mind you).
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 1 month ago:
I mean, the free speech folks have been seriously vindicated by Zionist crackdown on Palestinian solidarity in post-Oct 2023 Europe, Germany and Britain being the most famous culprits. And it's not like the far right in either of those countries has been meaningfully impeded by hate speech laws, so why even bother?
- Comment on Zack Polanski declares two-party politics dead after Hackney mayoral win 2 months ago:
I mean even in the best case scenario it's just gonna be a two party system with Greens vs Reform instead of Labour vs Tories. Also damn that's some terrible turnout.
- Comment on What a world 2 months ago:
No, but hipsters to have hips, meaning hips are hipstersters.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 2 months ago:
Okay not to your extent but having been thrown into the deep end in a foreign country with zero survival skills I can relate. First yeah I don't think most people have this kind of trouble. The key I've found is to beeline towards the thing closest to instructions (written or verbal) you can find. While getting panicky probably isn't normal (no judgement though, fuck normalcy), not knowing how to do things is perfectly normal and there's 99.9% going to be someone or something easy to find for people who have no idea what they're doing. Well, in the developed world anyway, but you don't exactly give me "I'mma go to Mozambique" vibes so you should be fine. Anyway yeah, I for one can say that help desks and clear signage absolutely hard-carried me through my first (and second, and third...) time at the airport; just don't be afraid to ask for help and pay attention to signs and you'll be fine.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 2 months ago:
Phew.