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- Comment on Logical 1 day ago:
Collecting all the Infinity Stones just seems like too much effort. How many do I need to just be able to alter people’s sexual orientation as a prank or act of vengeance?
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 day ago:
Think you responded to the wrong person.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 day ago:
I would argue HRT changes your sex.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 day ago:
Frankly I prefer that to the wishy washy language around gender.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 day ago:
You don’t know the meaning of the word.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 2 days ago:
Frankly, as a trans person, I’m not a fan of the term. I didn’t get treatment to “affirm my gender.” I changed my sex. I literally changed my sex. I didn’t get “gender affirming treatment” or whatever the new entry on the euphemism treadmill is we’re supposed to use this year.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 2 days ago:
This has big “only trans people have gender identity” energy.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 1 week ago:
That’s not what he’s promising though. He’s promising to have a stimulus check passed through Congress. He’s not promising to personally write checks out of his own bank account.
This isn’t that complicated. The federal government has provided direct cash benefits across a myriad of times and circumstances. (Temporary assistance to needy families, farm subsidies, stimulus checks in several administrations, social security payments, etc.) These are all perfectly legal. And it’s perfectly legal to run for office promising to enact or expand such programs.
Plenty of what Trump does is illegal. This isn’t one of those time. It’s perfectly legal to run for office or campaign for your party saying, “I think people need money. If our side wins, we’ll give everyone a check.” Whether it’s good policy or not is another question. But the legality of it isn’t even debatable.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say you have a kitchen faucet with a high flow rate of 2 gallons per minute. And let’s imagine you need to run the sink for a long time, say a full minute. So perhaps you lose 2 gallons of cold water to flush the lines. (Assuming you don’t do anything with that water, which you can certainly choose to do so.) Some searching suggests the average cost of water in the US is $5-8 per 1000 gallons. Let’s make it a round $10 per 1000 gallons, or a penny per gallon.
So, even with generous assumptions, it costs you 2 cents in wasted cold water as you flush the lines every time you run the dishwasher. If you run the dishwasher every single day, that comes to $3.65 in wasted cold water. If the fancier dishwasher with the better heating element costs only a hundred dollars extra, it will still take 27 years for the extra cost to be paid back via saved water.
In practice, these numbers were chosen to be generous, and the payback period is likely over a century. Your dishwasher will not last 27 years, let alone a hundred. Plus the time value of money. In short, the fancier heating element will never come close to paying for itself. You’re paying for a convenience, not saving money.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Reading news requires some reasonable extrapolation and reading between the lines. When a president says, “I’ll give everyone $5000,” you would have to be pretty dense to not realize that they’re just using that as a shorthand for, “I’ll use all my power and influence to help pass a law through Congress to give everyone $5000 stimulus checks, or I’ll find a way to direct existing appropriations for it.” If Trump just says, “I’ll give everyone $5,000,” what reasonable conclusion can you possibly reach other than it’s him proposing an act of Congress? He’s certainly not going to pay for it out of his pocket.
They don’t say that entire thing because that would be insane. Real people don’t talk that way; you can summarize and speak in shorthand. You don’t need to spell everything out in excruciating detail.
Presidents always run for office promising this or that. They rarely take the time to spell out the entire legislative process.
For example, consider this article from 2008 and the following Obama quote:
“I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country,” Obama told a conference of Families USA, a health care advocacy group.
By your logic, this was a felony. He wants to establish universal healthcare, a benefit to every American. And he just said he would like to do it. He made no mention of specific laws. So by your logic, this was a bribe.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t an enforcement problem. What Trump is doing isn’t illegal and it shouldn’t be illegal. There’s nothing wrong with running for office promising to pass legislation establishing a government program if your side wins. You’re arguing for a standard that would have made it impossible to create Medicare, Social Security, or any other government program. Those all started as promises of, “if my side wins, we’ll pass a law giving people money.”
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
No. It’s just moronic to argue that this is or should be illegal. For fuck’s sake, people in this thread are arguing it should be illegal for politicians for run for office promising to establish new government programs or give people money. They’re letting their campist impulses cloud their judgment.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I agree. There’s a lot of campist motivated reasoning in these threads.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
A little reading comprehension would indicate that the current discussion is clearly talking about cases where Democrats also control the presidency. Your whole comment is a non sequitur.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
You’re just judging people based on your imagined stereotypes.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
How many people do you know making $60k per year that maintain two homes in cities a thousand miles apart,and frequently travel between them?
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, if it was built right, that would be the perfect type of bathroom. Imagine a bathroom where all the surfaces are water proof. Then, when it’s time to clean the bathroom, you just hose everything down the floor drain!
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 5 weeks ago:
So is every utility in the country. What’s your point?
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
What is the color of a carbon atom?
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
“Don’t breathe air, it has sharks in it! BLUE HAS SHARKS IN IT
???
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
The same is true for all colors. Tell me the color of a single atom.
Yes, air can be colors other than blue at unusual light conditions, like sunset. But the same is true for any material.
You’re stuck on the urge to explain. You call “the air is blue” incomplete. But all answers are incomplete. When someone asks what color an object is, they mean under ordinary distances and conditions. Air is blue even in an ordinary room. It just takes miles worth of air for its slight blue color to be noticeable.
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
They never got the update.
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
As is purple rain.
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
Deeper, I would simply say that the sky is blue because air is blue. You cite Rayleigh scattering, but you’re just describing how light interacts with air. The only reason any material has any color is because how it interacts with light.
Air is blue. You can explain its blueness just like you can the physics origin of any other object’s color. But ultimately the sky is blue because air is blue.
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on That's just science 5 weeks ago:
I liked a version of this (I believe) XKCD said once.
A perfectly valid response to the question, “why is the sky blue?” is simply, “because air is blue.”
Yes, you can give a lot of explanation about refractive index and Rayleigh scattering. But all this does is provide details of how light interacts with air. And the same reason anything is the color that it is is due to the way it reflects, transmits, or absorbs light. You’re citing real scientific principles, but you’re ultimately just explaining why air is blue.
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 1 month ago:
[CITATION NEEDED.]
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 month ago:
I just cover my entire car with flexible screens and cameras. The image from one side of the car is displayed on the images of the other side of the car. Can’t track a car if you can’t even tell a car is there at all! I’m sure this will have absolutely no downsides whatsoever.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 month ago:
If nothing else, how about just the increased risk of car accidents that comes from more people being sleep-deprived after being woken up in the middle of the night by a warning siren?
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 1 month ago:
The main purity test right now in the Republican party is simply whether an elected leader is willing to be completely subservient to Trump.