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- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 4 days ago:
That’s without considering the time to pack up your bags etc - ie there’s a fixed cost as well as the cost per room moved
To minimise the total societal cost, only one person has to leave their room, and by that (or any) one person not making the sacrifice, the average suffering increases across all of median, mean and mode…
It’s the opposite situation from where one person can get huge gains to the detriment of many others - eusocially it makes sense to do what’s best for the average person
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 4 days ago:
Theoretically, I guess… But my argument came when introducing the laws of physics into the world of the infinite hotel, but there comes a point where the movement is small enough that the electron orbits are unaffected when the nuclei move therefore there’s functionally no movement.
You’re not a criminal who goes around breaking the laws of physics like the rest of those “mathematician” types are you?
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 4 days ago:
Thing is, the message has to be passed along either by an intercom or by the person moving to the next room passing it on… Either way or travels at fastest at the speed of light, so you’ll have people in the corridors moving to the next room for an infinite amount of time purely from the time it takes to propagate.
Given you’re therefore committing to (at least on average) at least being without a room for the rest of time, why not just tell the chap in the first room to keep walking until he finds an available room? In terms of overall inconvenience (overall time spent without a room per person), it’s the same as the original as both are infinite, but for the average person it goes from the time to walk from one room to the next to 0
- Comment on I did my best… 1 week ago:
Wheres the part that starts off as a perfect half bagel at one side but is barely atoms thick by the time you get to the other?
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 week ago:
By good morals I mean it came up about the time that people were moving from tribes where they knew everyone personally to settlements where it was impossible to… it sounds weird now but “don’t steal from strangers”, “don’t kill strangers”, “share your harvest with strangers in need” etc. were actually pretty novel ideas which needed to be taught and helped a bunch with ensuring people could co-exist with more people than they had relationships with
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 week ago:
Nah, it was originally about making sure your population had good morals, then about controlling your population more generally, then about making money, then about banning fun for some reason, then about making money again
It’s been quite the wild ride
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 weeks ago:
Product placement is advertising, and as such saying “no ads” while not blurring out product placement would be misselling the service
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 weeks ago:
The Italian economy always used to be on par with UK, France, Germany, but look at it now…
- Comment on Fucking hell 2 weeks ago:
Better a muzzled monarchy than a power vacuum every time, it’s worked in the UK, Spain, (um… probably elsewhere but it worked well enough in those two places after their autocratic dictators kicked the bucket, and look where it left Russia and to an extent Italy - mafia, economy stagnating etc)
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 3 weeks ago:
No - there’s fuses in the plugs themselves, the switch is largely for convenience and safety - if you want to unplug something broken and potentially live, it’s much safer to switch it off at the wall than risk a shock
- Comment on Feelin free 4 weeks ago:
The lack of rich people doesn’t imply freedom - people who are forced to hunt, gather, fish or farm for subsistence only with no reward beyond that are enslaved to the need to produce food and find shelter, but that differs from a society where there’s sufficient food and shelter, it’s just hoarded by those who have too much
Additionally the presence of rich people doesn’t imply a lack of freedom - you could have a “safety net” system where everyone is guaranteed housing and enough grains and beans/similar to survive, and if they want more they can work for it (some of the taxes from this go towards compensating farmers and builders), giving people the freedom to not have to worry about survival, while also allowing for people to earn lots of money and buy nice things if they want and/or can
- Comment on Sainsbury’s to cut 3,000 jobs as it shuts hot food counters and cafes 4 weeks ago:
This looks to be completely political, their profits are huge and from the article it seems like the closures are largely just reshuffles, with the real job losses coming in management… I really wouldn’t be surprised if they end up refilling the positions though and just wanted to make a point that they don’t like being taxed on their huge profits
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s a really valid point, my recent experience of terminally online radical left wingers has been lemmygrad, .ml, hexbear etc. whereas my experience of terminally online radical right wingers has been… I guess a few people in piracy/libertarian communities? which aren’t even the authoritarian right wing groups - I think it’s not unreasonable to say liberals are likely to be more reasonable than authoritarians, so if I’m coming across vocal liberal right wingers and vocal authoritarian left wingers (with the liberal left wingers being ignored/less vocal as they’re in the majority) then of course the right wingers are going to seem most reasonable
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Tankies when someone who defends any western action appears: fucking right wing nutjob
Other instances when someone who is traditionally considered left wing appears: fucking right wing nutjob
Right wingers when someone left of centre appears: I don’t think you’re right but you make valid points on xyz
Now which way are people going to drift based on those interractions?
You can’t complain about how splintered the political landscape is without ditching the “us vs them” mentality and finding common ground (of course with the caveat that fuck people who make discrimination a key part of their personality and people who celebrate oppression as clearly they aren’t reasonable people)
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 1 month ago:
Even better, my location history proves I regularly go on 5 hour drives in the middle of the night so it’s not at all out of character that I drove to the middle of the woods where the body was found at 3am
- Comment on Could every monarchy and authoritarian/tyrannical societies have been the result of child abuse? 1 month ago:
You’re jumping over points here a lot… Yes children who were raised to be a piece of shit will probably raise their children to be a piece of shit, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be the ruling family.
There’s examples of hereditary rule where the ruler is a great and largely fair leader, such as Pedro II and Elizabeth I, as well as the opposite, such as Kim Jong Un and Ferdinand VII, as well as great and tyrannical elected leaders, and great and tyrannical leaders who came to power militarily.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s a lack of creativity - our brains try to turn all sorts into faces and monsters and whatever else as it’s evolutionary beneficial to turn that shadow into a lion because there’s a small chance it could be, or that rock into a face because it could be a friend or foe, even down to looking at a mouse gripping something while eating and thinking “it’s like us”… When you consider that, of course aliens are going to look somewhat familiar as we’ve learnt to identify human traits better than nonhuman traits
- Comment on Important life choices 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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? 3 months ago:
spooky month 👻
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 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 4 months ago:
I figured it was “in a merry-go-round” but hey I guess that fits too
- Comment on Effort require Effort 4 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 4 months ago:
you can change the relative size of things with zoom
- Comment on [deleted] 5 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 5 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 5 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... 5 months ago:
