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- Comment on Important life choices 1 week ago:
nah its not whoever’s putting the bags in, it’s either management deciding it’s too inefficient to deal with two streams, or the people using the bins weren’t capable of separating so just threw it wherever and so it all ended up mixed anyway
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
In Portuguese (as spoken in Portugal, Brazil, USA, Japan, Ghana, wherever) they’re an americano/a but in English (as spoken in USA, UK, Brazil, Portugal, Nepal, wherever) they’re Latin American and South American but not American because it’s a linguistic difference rather than a geographical/cultural one
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
Because they’re the only country with America in their name whereas United States is shared by Mexico
Also in English there’s a distinction between North and South America, with the supercontinent being referred to as “The Americas”, so America isn’t really ambiguous, they’re also geologically and environmentally distinct enough that “The Americas” isn’t used so much and “New World” is often more relevant to include Australia as another somewhat culturally similar sparsely populated former colonial area.
- Comment on Trumps all 4 weeks ago:
Exactly, money card trumps everything, with fame card a close second; you really think Obama or Oprah are getting trumped in much of anything by a white family from detroit who are living below the poverty line?
- Comment on Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA? 1 month ago:
spooky month 👻
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2 months ago:
For mammals we are, sure, but there’s loads of things that’d kill humans that other animals chow down on perfectly happily, especially when it comes to microorganisms, mushrooms and the rotting things they’re often found in/around
I don’t think scavenging is right also given that, humans used to mainly pick fresh fruits and persistence hunt, both of which are very fresh food which is not overlooked or left by others
- Comment on A loaded God Complex 2 months ago:
I figured it was “in a merry-go-round” but hey I guess that fits too
- Comment on Effort require Effort 2 months ago:
Dominance over the food chain; dominance over the environment; dominance over where other species (and their own) are even allowed to live; dominance over the genetics of other species, etc.
- Comment on Infinity 2 months ago:
you can change the relative size of things with zoom
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And yet (at least from an outsider perspective) libertarians are closer to democrats than republicans
Republicans seem all about telling you what you can and can’t do (can’t get hrt, can’t get an abortion, can’t smoke weed, must marry and have children etc.) whereas both democrats and libertarians are largely “just live your life” but that could just be because all the american parties seem so financially right wing that they’re basically the same in that respect
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
pure water at mean atmosphere pressure at sea level if we’re getting technical, but frankly human body temperature varies from 35.5C (95.9F) to 37.5C (99.5F) anyway, and that’s before considering when people are ill, so if we go down that route it falls apart quickly enough that the definition of 100 given above is clearly just as arbitrary
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
How is 0F 100% cold though, most places will never get that cold, so it surely makes more sense to have 0F at freezing point of water and 100F at 38C?
- Comment on "Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these... 3 months ago:
- Comment on How is it possible for the IT experts to recover data that was erased from a hard drive when the storage of said hard drive appears empty? 3 months ago:
Storage forensics can look into variations in charge to suggest “this used to be a 1” or “this used to be a 0”
To store more data that way, it’d have to be analog data in reality, as otherwise data loss due to charge decay would be immense so you’d need so much error checking you’d lose most of the storage savings
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 4 months ago:
As a follow up, to get a third (and more) term would it be possible to run for vp and have a contract with someone who agrees to resign immediately after inauguration, or is there a law against that?
- Comment on You don't say 4 months ago:
more science facts, if you were to put earth as close as you could to saturn without them destroying each other, they would orbit each other as a binary planet rather than earth being a satellite of saturn
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
Outside of Continental Europe
Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
They didn’t want France getting wind of their cheese and declaring war on Norway for having the audacity to have non-french cheese
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
Or just bring an empty bottle through and fill it up at the tap/water fountain?
- Comment on Technically Correct 4 months ago:
I mean sure, but it theoretically stops people arguing and threatening to try and bring stuff they shouldn’t really be bringing through, as being able to point at that will end a lot of arguments… Equally though, it makes a lot of sense as otherwise you’d have “ah yes this bomb isn’t banned because I’ve switched out a molecule in the explosive for an analogue”
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 4 months ago:
Liberalism is just letting people do what they want so long as it doesn’t interfere with letting people doing what they want
Support gay marriage? That’s liberal Support corporations paying people 30¢ per hour? That’s liberal
Support people having access to HRT? That’s liberal
Support people owning guns? That’s liberal
Support unrestricted immigration and trade? That’s liberalThe problem is it doesn’t fit in with the US definition of “left” and “right” - it’s economically far right but socially far left, and most Americans just cannot understand that
- Comment on First-time buyers spending 40% of pay on mortgages 4 months ago:
Yeah either you live in London so are paying at a minimum 1600/month or 20k/year for a 350k mortgage, or if you live in the north or less desirable parts of the south you’re gonna be paying 750/month or 9000/year for a 175k mortgage, either way if that’s 40%, once you consider bills, heating, food, transport (because no way can you afford to live within walking distance of work as a first time buyer) and whatever else you frankly don’t have a whole load left all in
- Comment on Twitter 4 months ago:
what like “Tommy Robinson, Whose Real Name Is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon”, where you have to use the full name at all times
- Comment on And why your brother is your father and the father of your child😂 4 months ago:
Apart from tigers and a few others which went through even worse bottlenecks
- Comment on Mario for president 4 months ago:
The Democrats stood behind a zombie for way longer than they should have… I think the politicians in the party are just as small brain
- Comment on Choose your fighter! 5 months ago:
Fellow shorts and music guy (but long sleeves in summer to avoid sunburn so I actually have more clothing coverage on in summer than winter)… But country can be great and agreeable background noise in a way that not much else can… Sure punk rock and edm and more “fun” stuff (and yes, to an extent, screamo) are great if you’re driving or gyming or cycling or whatever but that’s not all the time
- Comment on Why do people stupidly pay for Whatsapp business instead of using free Telegram API? 5 months ago:
Why do supermarkets stupidly pay rent in Manhattan, London, LA or Singapore when they could pay next to nothing to have a store in the Outback or Siberia?
- Comment on Have fun with this one 5 months ago:
“Lucky cucumber” is as close as I can get but needs some mispronouncing of cucumber
- Comment on Train cancellations up 9% in a year despite soaring fares and bonuses 5 months ago:
Cronyism is a symptom of any (not even the) class system, not capitalism. Those with power (ie those charged with administration/lawmaking under communism, those is power/with sufficient capital) abuse their power to give more power to their friends and those like them. The only cure is openness and transparency in book-keeping and policy-making, but that’s not an economic ideology but a political one.
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t if I were you they’re the scariest of the lot
