marcos
@marcos@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 5 days ago:
If this is about the US, notice that they used to have intra-party elections as a strong cultural requirement before going into the main election. They only stopped requiring that very recently.
- Comment on Is there really nothing the EU or NATO can do to stop Russian vessels cutting energy and communication cables at the Baltic sea? 4 weeks ago:
The EU doesn’t want to be at war with Russia.
Russia also should really not want to be at war with the EU, but as you noticed, they don’t seem to care much about what they should do. If they fuck around enough, they may find out, but they are betting they won’t.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 4 weeks ago:
You expect people to take their money from stocks and put into what exactly?
Putting it in “someplace safe like our pockets” is neither safe, nor something people can do in large numbers. They can put it in bank accounts in large numbers, how safer than stocks do you think those are?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
What does “done” mean to you, and how possibly can it be final?
- Comment on Why don't movies look like *movies* anymore? 5 weeks ago:
Well, maybe not making everything with any set amount of lighting is better…
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 5 weeks ago:
Does he never turn back into energy and flow back into the rings? I always assumed he just does that, but I’m not sure what is actually on those cartoons.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 weeks ago:
It’s easy to check in Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge:
The planet Earth has a rather slight equatorial bulge; its equatorial diameter is about 43 km (27 mi) greater than its polar diameter, with a difference of about 1⁄298 of the equatorial diameter.
It’s not something so outwordly small that people couldn’t do better, but it’s better than bearing balls or a spherographic pen tip. It’s way, way smaller than any deformation you will find in a game ball.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 weeks ago:
Oh, let’s be fair here…
He had to hire a guy to count lots and lots of steps too.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 weeks ago:
Unless you go in an advanced metrology laboratory, or look at Jupiter with a telescope, it’s the most spherical object you will ever see.
- Comment on Doppler 5 weeks ago:
Well, when that finally happens the car will be fine, far away from Earth.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 5 weeks ago:
If you eat only a couple of crumbs, that checks out. The OP didn’t say how much of bread he’s eating.
- Comment on Nice try guy 5 weeks ago:
Refuse the call for once. Keeping it ringing won’t help you in any way.
And add the number to some kind of “refuse” list for the time you don’t want to receive the calls.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 5 weeks ago:
Most of the energy does not come from fusion.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 5 weeks ago:
The majority of the energy comes from nuclear fission
Yes, from an extremely inefficient fission reaction that can be improved by an order of magnitude by doing it slowly in a reactor.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 5 weeks ago:
You either spend a truckload of resources during decades to make a bomb that explodes releasing the same energy humanity spends in two months, or you spend a truckload of resources doing the end task at a slower pace for decades.
The later is guaranteed to require a smaller truckload.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 month ago:
“Nuclear explosions are inherently unsafe”
Well, he warns about it.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 month ago:
Keep in mind that Greenland and Canada are both members of NATO, and thus the US would be forced to intervene…
Oh, well…
You mean seriously? Who knows? Both sides have nuclear weapons, don’t they? This is not something that ever happened. Would the US armed forces go along with the plan or will there be a coup? Will everybody keep their heads leveled and avoid exchange nuclear explosions even with people dying at home / on the front? Will somebody just put a bullet on Trump’s head and stop the madness?
But the thing I can tall is that if you are expecting country lines and military treaties to be immutable, that’s not how they work.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 month ago:
Well, I’m sure controlled slow-paced mining is more energy efficient and will emit less carbon to create…
But I’m not stopping that guy. Go on. I’ll just watch from a safe distance.
- Comment on Lost in translation 1 month ago:
Yes, assholes are common in lots of places.
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sadge 1 month ago:
Oh, do that’s its supervillain moto!
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 1 month ago:
Oh, IT adjacent areas are still full of math.
If you ever get curious, electrical engineering has lots and lots of convoluted procedures one can learn to avoid even more math… And civil engineering has a very cool “I can beat math with brute force and linear approximations all day long!” philosophy that could improve the lives of most people.
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 1 month ago:
Oh, another engineer…
Hi.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 1 month ago:
Democratic socialism without the support of capitalism is truly and completely unheard of.
Capitalism is a tool, use it and beat it back into submission when it fails.
- Comment on this time it'll be different 1 month ago:
The web interface sets a maximum height for the images (what’s not even very useful, because they are not expanded by default).
I have no idea why the devs choose that behavior. But you can view them without CSS if you open the image in a new tab.
- Comment on Elon's understanding of science. 1 month ago:
Looks like somebody asked an LLM to generate a bullshit graph…
What may be its optimal application!
- Comment on spidey senses 1 month ago:
No spiders… yet!
- Comment on If Walmart operates in Canada and takes all the profit back to the US, is that reflected in the trade balance? 1 month ago:
No. The trade balance is specifically about trade.
The name for the thing that includes every money exchange is the payments balance… But it’s always balanced anyway, so nobody talks about it.
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 1 month ago:
Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China.
Have you noticed that since Trump declared he’ll invade the EU, China’s foreign policy has turned a lot against Russia?
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 1 month ago:
They offering eggs to Canada.
What? Did you think anybody bothers to talk with the US right now?
