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- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 1 week ago:
Hundreds and hundreds. Stop drop and roll
- Comment on Omg 1 week ago:
That feel when you order 5 burgers alone and they ask “to go?” and you nonchalantly say “naw”
- Comment on Can i safely turn the power on on this open outlet? if not, how do i solve this? 2 weeks ago:
In a situation like this I just cap all the wires. Some say the exposed ground is okay, but it’s even more okay if it’s capped
- Comment on America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny 2 weeks ago:
The penny works but people no longer use it for rounding and just wind up with more and more pennies. Back in the day cashier would ask for something ending in an 8 so you hand over dollars and 3 extra pennies, change winds up on a 5, get a nickel instead of 2 more pennies. That is why the penny exists, not to buy things with pennies but to round to the next useful coin
- Comment on Final Fantasy Creator Reveals Which Entry He Thinks Is 'Most Complete', and It's Not Final Fantasy 7 2 weeks ago:
They basically made a synopsis of this article like the vultures they are. RIP journalism. Anywho this is worth a read but doesn’t expound much on the ‘why’, aside from him explaining that the core of a good game is the general congruency between the events in the story and the world in which the story occurs
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 weeks ago:
MAGA terrorists have assaulted newspeople, destroyed cameras, whole 9 yards. Might be some of that mixed in with everything else. Fear of retaliation or whatnot. Most of these people have public-facing jobs with little to no security detail and Trump’s supporters range from civil to psychotic
- Comment on What does dying from all causes mean? 3 weeks ago:
“All-cause mortality” simply means death from all (or any) causes.
So for smokers, you got a buttload of people with this thing in common, and rather than look specifically at something like deaths from lung cancer, you take a step back and look at deaths from anything. And then go in and try to find correlations and help to understand those correlations.
It’s kind of a chicken and egg scenario, because some of those causes might not be from smoking, but from a person’s proclivity to smoke.
For example, smokers might possibly be more impulsive than non-smokers (generally speaking) and there might be a higher risk of motor vehicle fatalities in the smoker group, but the cause wouldn’t be smoking, it’d be underlying behavioral differences that would make someone more likely to smoke.
It’s basically looking at mortality from a distance as opposed to looking at very specific things up close (but with the data it lets people zoom in on everything)
- Comment on Community solves homelessness... By paying cops over 3 million dollars 3 weeks ago:
Enacts a bunch of draconian bullshit that cause homeless to move 10 miles away
“We fixed homelessness!”
- Comment on Second-Largest Diamond Ever Found Is Discovered in Botswana 3 weeks ago:
It’d be cool if they used kilograms but it’s ~.5kg, or a 1 cornish game hen for the Americans
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
With Lemmy you can make an account on one instance and set default sort to the top posts for the past hour, make an account on a different instance and set default sort on that account to top posts in the last 12 hours or Hot or whatever, bookmark them both, and have a neverending stream of new content.
People already noted other reasons that I agree with but my current setup being 2 accounts with default sort set up like that, I vastly prefer this to Reddit’s layout
- Comment on pseudomonas 5 weeks ago:
Also grapes on occassion
- Comment on Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4 1 month ago:
True, but at the same time his base has spent the past 5 years hyperfocusing on Biden’s age and gaffes. I even know a Trump voter that’s going for Kamala this time because she apparently looks like she’d be tougher on crime, and Vance wears makeup (lol). What a time to be alive
- Comment on Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4 1 month ago:
Trump’s whole schtick is to latch onto a red herring and run off deep into left field with it and make that the focal point, but the thing is that he’s lately been doing that kind of thing in a really bizarre manner (Hannibal Lector? wtf), so the more he talks, the better for Kamala. He’s starting to push it so far it’s all falling off the table and instead of just alienating undecides he’s starting to alienate moderate supporters
- Comment on Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4 1 month ago:
It’s an emotionally stunted narcissist that loves to talk vs a prosecutor. He’ll go over time, Kamala will wave her hand a little as if it’s cool, she’ll get the mic and seek clarification, and when Trump is talking on her time the camera will pan over to her while she’s looking through it as if she’s on the Office while he spends 2 minutes trying to re-explain ‘Black Jobs’
- Comment on Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4 1 month ago:
Same reason death row inmates get to pick their last supper, I presume