pacology
@pacology@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Of course. He is only a chatting predator or pedofile.
/s btw. I don’t know anything about the situation
- Comment on I feel betrayed... 1 week ago:
Here is the salient point on the Wikipedia page that explains why horses don’t produce 1 HP:
Watt judged that the horse could pull with a force of 180 pounds-force (800 N)
Basically, Watts made up HP to sell his steam engine to mines and likely made up a number to make the new technology seem better.
Some things never change.
- Comment on The future shines like gold 4 weeks ago:
This has nothing to do with education. It’s commentary on the academic job market and how professors expect post docs to work for “exposure.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 4 months ago:
Will 2024 be old people?
- Comment on Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ? 4 months ago:
If we want to believe the evil alien theory, viruses might actually fit the bill better than plants, with fungi as a possible unlikely second.
- Comment on The kiwi fruit sold as "red kiwi" 6 months ago:
Was it 80% off by any chance?
- Comment on What if the Gaza Strip declared independence? 8 months ago:
I’m not an expert in middle eastern politics.
My uninformed take is that if the Gaza Strip was to self organize as a state, they will implicitly recognize Israel as a state as they will have to decide on borders.
Being unrecognized allows the Palestinian authority to claim all the former Palestinian land as their own.
- Comment on If Phone Game Ads Were Allowed Elsewhere 8 months ago:
Alexa, why am I seeing ads on lemmy??
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 10 months ago:
In real general terms, communism is about people/state’s ownership of the means of production. Under this system, most private property is nationalized.
Socialism allows for private property and sees the role of the state to redistribute power and wealth among its citizens through some sort of state program.