mirshafie
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- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 1 day ago:
It’s the mythical Double Dick of Norway and Sweden with the mighty Finland Ballsack at the ready. Double Dick is more than twice as good as just puny Single dick.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 2 days ago:
Yeah but we’ve still got a quarter of Sweden to go from the route I mapped bro. This isn’t even my final form!!
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 2 days ago:
You mean like Dubuque, pop. 60k?
The path I drew for Sweden takes you via about 7 million people, with 100k+ littered cities along the way. If I were to guess the route likely has a similar population density along it as the Germany route, while being longer.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 2 days ago:
Well:
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 4 days ago:
Yes, 30 minutes is a bit too short even if you have a good restaurant nearby. In Sweden we get 42 minutes but in most workplaces nobody’s really clocking you.
I always used to prep for the reasons you said. I feel really lucky now that my workplace has a reasonably good restaurant on site, and there’s no issue taking proper lunch breaks.
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 5 days ago:
A peanut butter sandwich is a snack or a dessert, it’s not real food. You need a way more varied diet.
I’m saying this out of concern, it really isn’t my intention to be rude.
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 5 days ago:
Well I didn’t say fast food. I said restaurant. You know, a place where you could just fill up on salad every day and probably be fine nutrition-wise.
No I am not in the US.
- Comment on Over half of workers regularly skip lunch on the job due to high food costs, increasing job pressure 5 days ago:
Packing a lunch costs time, and it’s probably not going to be as healthy as what you could get at a restaurant.
I’m pretty thankful that my workplace has a restaurant with cheap but good food.
- Comment on Indeed 5 days ago:
The solution is paid overtime. In Sweden there are a couple of overtime categories. If you’re scheduled to work on Sundays, you get like 20% extra. This stacks with working nights which gives you like 20% extra again.
Holidays count as Sunday.
- Comment on They all look like this 1 week ago:
In general, making things look like something it’s not just feels wrong. Unironically painting plaster walls to look like stone or brick comes to mind - you’re ruining the plaster.
- Comment on No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password 1 week ago:
I make up a sentence and then I write it out. Why limit yourself to 12 characters?
Like the actual phrase
Why limit yourself to 12 characters?
Is a very strong password, easy to remember, fast to type and has the added benefit of not containing any adjectives.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been the weird environmentally conscious kid for more than 30 years. People’s attitudes haven’t changed. The arguments haven’t changed. You’ll still find people who immediately get excited about global warming, because they like warm weather.
Some people are just astonishingly stupid, and yet, they walk around and talk and have jobs and can appear to be normal. That’s because they are normal. It is normal to be stupid.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 2 weeks ago:
This really bothered me when I visited the USA (East coast). In retrospect I feel like I had the right to the highway, as long as I was driving. But no town square with a bench where I could just sit, no park where I could lean against a tree, no parcel of nature where I could just go for a walk. Cafés and restaurants were expensive and uncomfortable, clearly designed to push you out once the nominal transaction was complete. No wonder people eat in their car, alone.
I’m sure I missed a lot of good places during my visit, but I felt like the pattern was very quite obvious. Highway, Walmart, highway, Walmart, highway, Walmart. The forests aren’t wild parts of nature, they’re closed-off as-yet undeveloped land, awaiting their appointment with the axe. The town centers now have fewer options to linger than a classic mall. The suburbs are endless rows of freestanding houses, with no padding - no library, no shop, no playground, no outdoor gym, no football field. Maybe some pro-social resident set up a box for exchanging books between neighbors. That’s it.
Not saying the rest of the world is perfect by any means. But in Sweden where I live, I feel like the I’m seeing positive changes over time, with new third spaces being added every year. In my town the city center is now car-free during summer time to make space for outdoor furniture, and the nearby cafés and bars thrive. They’re adding grills for cooking to parks, making nature trails more accessible, and peppering the place with playgrounds and outdoor gyms. There’s a long way to go to perfect but at least it’s moving in the right direction.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a colony on Venus would be an even more exciting challenge than Mars?
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 2 weeks ago:
You are severely underestimating the effort that it takes to send people to Mars, unless you want them to expire there quickly. So yes, sending people to Mars really does compete with other efforts. Therefore we have to weigh the utility of such an undertaking against its benefits. It is true that sometimes “crazy” projects like this does reveal findings that you weren’t actively looking for. But that is the best argument for this crazy idea - that maybe it will turn up something unexpectedly cool! And I don’t see why we would divert a significant amount of resources to something like that when we have so many other fields that desperately need attention, where we know that we will find good and useful stuff without endangering the lives of people.
You mentioned soil research as one avenue for why going to Mars might help. Why do we need Mars to practice growing food without soil? What is it about Mars that provides a significant advantage for that type of research? None, you say? Then I say, let’s do it on Earth or in orbit.
I am also confused as why you keep referring to Earth’s moon as “Luna”. In my experience that’s mostly practiced when we’re comparing solar systems to each other, and in that context the Earth would be named “Tellus”. Although I think it’s rare to call them anything except “Earth” and “the Moon” in practice, at least it was when I did my physics degree.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
Haha okay, I’m the misanthropic one for pointing out the normal course for allocating resources for scientofic efforts? I want science to continue to be directed toward tangible goals, with an emphasis on things that help people. That’s how it’s normally done. It has worked very well in the past and I see no evidence that we need some tween boy fantasy to improve upon a proven concept.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
Lol okay no, there’s no reason to continue this exchange any further. You’d have a billion people holed up on a dead planet flr what, “science”? Get the fuck out of here.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
The Moon and Mars are not interchangeable. They’re vastly different. The Moon is in Earth’s orbit. That’s why we went to the Moon in 1959 and haven’t even tried to go to Mars in 2026.
All interesting research can be done on Earth, the Moon or space telescopes. Mars is not interesting except for taking samples, and robots can do that.
Mars does not help with developing farming technologies without soil. You’re thinking of low-gravity environments I take it?
You’re describing Mars being a barren wasteland as a good challenge to try to solve. Fuck that. Start by solving the challenges we have on Earth. Show me you can fix a broken arm before insisting that you’re going to do brain surgery. Hence why you should terraform the Sahara before talking about building a civilization on a dusty hellscape that is a six month journey away from everything we need to live.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
Bro. The Sahara desert is over 9 million square kilometers. Let’s say our wildest dreams could be realized and we managed to re-green half of the Sahara, it would still leave an area larger than all of India for your highly specialized mice and lizards. They’d be fine.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t say we can’t have goals. I just don’t think that going to Mars is a good goal, and I think that the argument that we need a stupid goal to achieve good science is, well, stupid.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
Let’s say that if the nutrients of the Sahara were consumed by plants and animals in the Sahara, then the Amazon would be deprived. Let’s say the Amazon would disappear.
In turn, we’d get a forest in the Sahara that would be about 30% bigger than the Amazon. So a net win I guess?
Anyway, it’s not the point. I’m just saying it’s moronic to belive that we can terraform fucking Mars.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
It’s what plants crave.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
Bye-bye is probably a bit of an overstatement. Yes plants need phosphorous but the Amazon wouldn’t disappear without it. Change - sure, probably - but there’s still plenty of nutrients and water for vast forests to continue existing there.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
For the most part, the resources that we need to survive are renewable if we use them responsibly. And the things that aren’t renewable we can be quite economical about using and should last centuries if not millennia into the future, when hopefully we have better technology to give us alternatives.
We do not need to terraform the Sahara to save Earth. The point is that if you’re so gung-ho about terraforming things, how about you start with a smaller challenge that’s closer to supply lines and labor?
Going to Mars is just a bad plan, period. There’s nothing on Mars for us. Going to the Moon, fine, the low gravity and the Helium-3 and the short distance I can definitely see an argument being made for it. But Mars? There’s no reason whatsoever to go there.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
That’s just funding research with extra steps.
Science on the aggregate gives excellent return on investment. Unfortunately politicians want an extravagant excuse for funding it, but it would be much more efficient not to do the gimmicks, just do the science and not allow public sentiment to dictate what’s viable.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
We must terraform Mars and live like kings!
How about you start by terraforming the Sahara desert or shut the fuck up, Elon.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
If you liked Breaking Bad, I think you should give Better Call Saul a chance. It’s slower but well-written and the direction is very high level.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
It’s conpletely US-centered with a couple of British shows sprinkled on top. Even if your focus was just the anglosphere, UK TV punches way above its weight.
- Comment on Sacre blu 3 weeks ago:
No it really isn’t, what the actual fuck.
Try some high-fat (38%+) on a grilled cheese sandwich some time. You’ll get a real cheese that doesn’t melt in the first 4 seconds that the bread is being toasted, and once it is melted it will fuse with the bread and make you forget all about Jessica.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 3 weeks ago:
Yeah so historically PlayStation has had a lot of exclusives (Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, The Last of Us) that would be the deciding factor for a lot of players. So Microsoft wanted to ensure that Xbox/PC could synergize and compete against Sony by buying a stake in a ton of game studios. But between bitcoin, AI and enshittification the gaming industry is in shambles so they’re cutting overhead.
