NoneOfUrBusiness
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- Comment on Literally nobody 1 day ago:
I mean first theocracy implies rule by the clergy, which isn't the case in America even de facto. The only theocracies in the world are Iran and the Vatican. That aside, 66% of EU citizens are Christian. The "our Christian way of life is under attack" rhetoric isn't in any way unique to America.
- Comment on Literally nobody 2 days ago:
Yeah it's not like the majority of people in the wealthiest and most powerful part of the world (and a plurality elsewhere) literally worship the guy.
- Comment on what in the 2 days ago:
Nope, these are all popular rightwing/centrist (sorry for repeating myself) causes. The UK national flag is (British) nationalism, the Star of David is Zionism, the right likes pre-revolution Iran for being an anti-communist secular Western ally not tarnished by filthy Muslims and I have no clue what the flag on the right is.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 2 days ago:
I'm a proud America hater, but this is more of a European tradition. Terrorism charges in America (all state-level or local; no federal terrorism charge exists) only exist as addons to other crimes, so this isn't something that could've happened there.
- Comment on Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform? 4 days ago:
However, here's what confuses me: almost every single one of the anti-Trump members—outside of me and maybe two other people—was extremely homophobic and transphobic. They were also all strongly pro-life. They hated abortion and viewed it as "murder." One kid in the church literally said, "Gay people deserve to be hurt."
I mean, for starters have you tried asking? As for my guess, probably because they have other political positions that push them towards democrats. Sticking to social issues, "fuck racism and the gays" is a coherent position one can take, and if they hate racism more than they hate people then they'll lean democrat. And then you have economic issues; supporting better social welfare, environmental regulation or public transport automatically will essentially lock them with the DNC. There are more variables affecting someone's political affiliation than how they feel about gay people.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 6 days ago:
Well that's a fundamental misunderstanding of science if I've ever seen one.
- Comment on How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe? 6 days ago:
The Empire in the West basically shattered all Roman forms of social organization, turning everyone into Roman citizens/subjects. This didn't happen in the East, so they protected local language and culture from being subsumed by Greek (not Latin, as other comments have said). I'm only parroting this from when I asked the sam question so don't ask me why this happened.
- Comment on How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe? 6 days ago:
*Most Egyptian elites? I'm not well-informed on this, but I find it hard to believe that your average Egyptian peasant could speak Greek.
- Comment on How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe? 6 days ago:
or the conquerors weren't enough (or not brutal enough) to enforce the spread of their own language; e.g. the Franks conquered Vulgar Latin-speaking France, but they adopted the Latin-based language instead of making everyone else speak a Germanic language.
You're forgetting an important aspect: It was cool to be Roman back then. The people who conquered the Western Empire were people who wanted to be part of Roman citizens but were refused by the xenophobia of the late Western Empire (not to mention the whole christianization thing), and would essentially larp as Roman for a bit, so it's not like they were in a rush to assert ethnic dominance. "Barbarian" peoples conquering centers of civilization and assimilating into them rather than vice versa is a pretty common thing in history, see: the Mongols. This as opposed to early Muslim Arabs, who rode their own religion and culture to regional dominance and would have them spread across their conquered territories instead.
while the middle east was almost fully (muslimized? islamized? there's got to be a word for that).
"Islamized" is the word.
- Comment on How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe? 6 days ago:
There are other (minor) Romance languages, like Provencal, Catalan and then the various Italian languages like Venetian, but most speakers of these also speak one of the six big ones so the overall number shouldn't change much.
- Comment on Centrist and Establishment Democrats when they see Zorhan and AOC coming up with profound and capacitating strategies on world issues: 1 week ago:
Can we drop the childish nicknames for MAGA? If you want to mock them while you're at it MAGAts works perfectly fine while not sounding like something you'd see in a primary school fight.
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I mean to be fair people having parasocial relationships with AI is absolutely a thing. The post could be lying, but it's well within the realm of reality.
- Comment on he did live in a pineapple… 1 week ago:
Even "fair use" is on the borderline.
- Comment on Spherical Bastard 1 week ago:
I'd say it describes spherical bastards in the absence of an extrenal bastardness field.
- Comment on lust vs love 1 week ago:
Bombing Yugoslavia was one of the small handful of good things NATO ever did, but the other person is talking about the civilian casualties here. One would presume the people involved in murder and rape don't count towards those number.
- Comment on Feels like someone's podcasts are being heavily promoted 1 week ago:
It's the (what you consider to be) "inane shit" part that's the problem here, not the medium. I personally enjoy history podcasts, but more generally there's no shortage of non-inane podcasts out there.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 2 weeks ago:
True, I guess the implication is more "traditional cuisine that can be made and/or substituted with local ingredients." It also helps that a lot of the unique regional stuff (like galangal) is spices that can be done without in a pinch. Not to lessen the importance ot using the right spices, but even in the worst case virtually everything will taste good with appropriate use of salt, black pepper and (sometimes) vinegar.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 2 weeks ago:
Ow, admittedly I hadn't considered allergies. In that case I suspect you'd find something like pasta with bechamel (100 grams of chicken stir fried, 100mL of bechamel sauce, served with pasta) to be similarly affordable.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. The best way to learn traditional cuisine from somewhere is probably to have someone from there who can cook recommend recipes.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 2 weeks ago:
Okay I don't live in America but I routinely make healthy meals for the local equivalent of under 5 bucks, which should be equivalent to about 10 in America according to a quick Google. And for the record I mean proper meals, not beans and rice. For example Walmart sells a pound of lentils online for two bucks, an onion for about one buck and half a dozen carrots (actual carrots, not six carrots) for less than three bucks, or about 50 cents per carrot. A pound of lentils, an onion and a carrot will make enough lentil soup for five days*, or about a $0.75 per dinner. For the full experience you can add half a disk of pita bread for $0.5 per meal, or you can substitute with tortillas for less than 15 cents per meal. We're still a full order of magnitude below the ten bucks limit. And this isn't poverty food; where I'm from people actually eat this because they want to. That said this does need a food processor (cheapest I could find was 6 bucks on Amazon but I didn't look very hard).
Point being: Maybe I'm missing something, but even with recent price increases there's plenty of good food one could have without getting any close to the 10 bucks limit.
*There's no need to make the five days' worth all at once; lentils will last for months outside the fridge.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 2 weeks ago:
Unless your local prices are seriously outrageous, most traditional cuisine from anywhere will fit that bill.
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 2 weeks ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
I think they'd be horrified women and black people can vote if anything.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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.