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- Comment on I'm sick of bad news and contention. comment things that you love about the UK. 1 week ago:
Standing on top of a mountain, with a sea view, watching the clouds roll in, swathing the coast. Driving through a temperate rainforest so green and vivid you can -somehow- feel at one with nature while gearshifting. The most rewarding hikes I’ve ever been on. Rain on slate. Warm, welcoming pubs. Enough land to get lost in alone and yet enough people to make new friends with later, all in the same 10-mile radius. Wales is fucking amazing.
(No, I don’t work for the Wales tourist board, I just live nearby.)
- Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 1 week ago:
I chose a simple standard candle for a quick explanation, but yes, these are all independently verified by other methods, which in turn verify each other etc. Parallax is a good one: at one side of the earth’s orbit and the other, you measure the relative position of the thing you want to know the distance to, which is just like closing one eye then the other. Distant objects move less in your vision than close objects do.
- Comment on I’m doing my part! 1 week ago:
Thank you, digital workers, for your dutiful work which allows me to not log in to Reddit, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and still stay in the loop.
Your payment shall be in upvotes and well-written comments.
o7 - Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 1 week ago:
We make the following assumptions:
- We are not in a privileged or special place in the universe.
1a. Therefore the universe should look the same from where we are as from almost anywhere else. - Supernovae emit a very reliable amount of light.
2a. Therefore we can accurately tell how far away a supernova is by its light signature. - We can tell how far away distant galaxies are when a supernova goes off in them.
Therefore, we can map out and count the galaxies in our local area, and, using assumption 1, we know that the number of galaxies in our volume of space is the same as in every volume of space. Multiply the one by the other and you’ve got your answer.
- We are not in a privileged or special place in the universe.
- Comment on [Video] Woman assaulted after heckling Nigel Farage at his conference 2 weeks ago:
The good news, if you can call it that, is that he is having a very bad week.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 weeks ago:
So it translates to “Prenag”? I love it.
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 4 weeks ago:
Exactly this. If the infrastructure is good, you get a well educated, productive, reliable workforce. The rich need to be taxed, for their own good. Many of them realise this and welcome it, because they can’t do it for themselves. The government has a duty to do it.
Personally I’m for the transfer of ownership of the means of production to the working class, but even neoliberals should be on board with a wealth tax, regardless of the fact that a side effect is a more enjoyable life for the riffraff. - Comment on Me attending "AI University" at work today 4 weeks ago:
Copilot is useless. I’ve yet to take less time explaining what I want from it than it would take to do it myself. Very big, one off repetitive tasks -you know, the exact type you want to quickly automate- are never properly understood or executed, and smaller ones need so much refinement that it’s not worth the time. Productivity gain < 0
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 5 weeks ago:
I think you have your answer. The bias towards Israel, and the transphobia are writ large in this thread as reasons.
These have been well documented, and on their own render opposition to BBC news reporting a perfectly reasonable position to hold. - Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That is why empiricism relies on sensory information.
So you don’t need axioms for empiricism, just to be clear. Your saying “actually” could make it look like you’re disagreeing, when you’re actually not. - Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
We don’t need axioms for empiricism. That’s the entire point. We ask reality questions and infer limited and verifiable knowledge from the results, without ever stating that anything has been proven.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There’s no evidence for the Copenhagen interpretation either, it’s just the most conservative.
- Comment on [Video] The use of a microphone could lead to an arrest under the UK terrorism act 1 month ago:
It’s important, yes. Imgur is not accessible in the UK anymore.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Seeing things counts as something hitting you: photons.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Momentum is conserved when passing through a portal. In the reference frame of the out portal, the object has no momentum, so it plops out.
- Comment on Musk: Many British people are living in lovely small towns. They are just like Hobbits. Until one day, people show up and start raping their kids 2 months ago:
Moron has obviously had no “exposure” to Hertfordshire if he thinks it’s like the Shire Image
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You’re not making any sense. Have a word with yourself, maybe?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You’re twisting words here.
Being glad because someone who was actively, demonstrably harmful on an enormous scale is dead, is not the same as “celebrating someone you don’t like dying”.
And neither has anything whatsoever to do with Zionism. - Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
They are. For reasons I outlined.
- Comment on Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest 2 months ago:
~~“Gender critical” “Father Ted creator” ~~ Transphobic lunatic Graham Linehan
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
They’re taxable is what they are
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
You think money is imaginary. Ain’t no sane person listening to you.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
You don’t understand how any of this works.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
Billionaires make money on those unrealised gains. Therefore they are an asset, and must be taxed.
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 2 months ago:
I remember my English teacher telling me the word “set” was the worst example of this, with over 200 definitions in the unabridged Oxford dictionary.
- Comment on UK state threats bill could pull British journalists into terror prosecutions, experts say 2 months ago:
- Comment on I am el french 2 months ago:
God yes. Especially with an advent that makes the-ant into two syllables.
shudders - Comment on I am el french 2 months ago:
Totally different R sound in English crucifix and French croissant.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 3 months ago:
A single word: “abstain”/“forgo” , although these don’t express personal dislike. “Eschew” describes the shunning of something so might be more suitable. Since you’re using only one word, you might get some follow up questions:
“I eschew gnome”.
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Dude wtf does “eschew” mean and why are you such a poser?Oh really? Why’s that then?” - Comment on UK weather: Amber extreme heat warning issued as 35C heatwave approaches 3 months ago:
All great advice. Can I just add two details?
- Install the foil on the outside of the windows if possible. The sun will still heat the air between your window and the foil, raising the temperature in your room, if you install on the inside.
- Kitchen foil works just as well. Harder to install, but cheaper. I crafted some sun blinds with tinfoil and cardboard that I use every year.
I can’t stress enough how much is a difference the foil blinds make. Goes from unbearable to comfortable almost immediately.
