Buffalox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it really matter if she likes you because she is genetically or socially preconditioned to think you’re handsome?
  Or she is randomly attracted to your pheromones?
  Or you randomly share an interest?
  Or whatever other random thing causes it?

  Or that she likes you because you want her to?

  Instinctively I agree that yes it matters, but I find it less easy to argue the point rationally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with Pop OS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I prefer rolling releases, because apart from being generally more up to date having all the newest features, I also like to generally only have to fix 1 problem at a time. Where a dist-upgrade for a non rolling release sometimes have more problems at once.
  I feel like I have fewer problems on average with rolling releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with Pop OS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice explanation. One minor detail though:

  Endeavour doesn’t market itself as stable

  Endeavour OS is per normal Linux developer definition unstable.
  But that doesn’t mean what some people think it means. It only means it’s not feature freezed because it’s a rolling distro.
  It doesn’t mean that it has more bugs, it can in theory have more bug fixes than new bugs are added, because it runs on newer versions of software.

  What it means is that some features may change, and that can cause problems in a production environment. So often professionals prefer stable, because features are frozen and do not change, which guarantees that production is not affected by changes that were not prepared for.

  Many people believe stable means more reliable and fewer bugs, but that is not always the case. In my experience Arch derivatives are often more “reliable”, than a “stable” OS like Ubuntu.

  I haven’t tried Endeavour, but I used the older Antergos that Endeavour replaces, and Antergos was amazing IMO.

  One thing that makes a rolling release sometimes more reliable, is that it has newer drivers, and newer drivers often have bug fixes.
  Especially for games newer drivers are less likely to lack features a game may need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time ~25% faster now?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The limit of speed of light is a property of space-time, not a property of light.
  Another way to understand it is that it is the maximum speed of causality.
  The reason only light can achieve this speed is that it is massless. Because if light had mass, it would have infinite energy, and take infinite energy to achieve the speed of light.
  There are numerous explanations for how 2 objects moving at the speed of light still only approach each other at the speed of light.
  Take a look at Youtube, there are many good videos explaining relativity in general and speed of light in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time ~25% faster now?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As Einstein said, time is relative. But that only means it is relative to different circumstances.
  Moving at light speed time stands still, and the theory is that inside a black hole time also stands still.
  So being at a stationary position in non gravity space is the fastest time will go.
  But lets make it simple, and consider weather time is a constant on earth, at least within a margin we are not able to perceive.
  And to that question the answer is that yes time is constants, because changes in the speed of time are universal and affect everything equally.
  Meaning that the relative time we perceive is constant.

  BUT on the other hand, time is different to a satellite that orbits the earth, because the faster movement slows down time, but the lower gravity accelerates it. Which makes it necessary for GPS satellites to compensate for that to make accurate positions possible.
  Anecdotally the GPS system was originally financed and implemented by the US military. And the generals did not believe this, so they claimed the system to compensate was unnecessary, which of course it turned out the scientists were right, so they had implemented the system to compensate anyway, and could turn it on, when they had proved to the generals that it indeed was necessary.

  gpsworld.com/inside-the-box-gps-and-relativity/

  The net effect: A GPS satellite clock will gain about 38 microseconds per day over a clock at rest at mean sea level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time ~25% faster now?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If time was faster or slower, you wouldn’t notice anything. Because time is an expression of causality, and if causality is either faster or slower, it would go for everything, including you, your phone, your watch and everything else.
  If time was slower or faster, there would be no way to detect it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long can someone last with the Death Note in real life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How long could Huey, Dewey and Louie remain children in real life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people really lack civic sense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To bad smoking isn’t allowed, I could find good use for a cigarette there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alcohol is bad, but smoking is worse.
  Smoking is both way more addictive and it is a bigger health risk.
  It’s rare to be a moderate smoker, generally you either don’t smoke at all, or if you do you are a smoker, with numerous health risks.
  With alcohol moderate use is the norm, and only excessive use will make you an alcoholic, resulting in numerous health risks.

  AFAIK it has only lately become known that even moderate alcohol use is still a health risk. AFAIK mostly causing intestine cancer.
  So instead we have campaigns warning against drinking to much, which was also how it started with cigarettes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fallout New Vegas considered a very transy game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirmation bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You need to install an extension to reject cookies in websites that use Google Analytics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My gosh, it’s so rare I have a chance to use my printer, thanks for sharing. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I kill a buterfly?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK where you live, but here we could never be annoyed by butterflies, we actually plant bushes in our garden that attract them.
  If you computer is black butterflies shouldn’t be particularly attracted, if it’s not get one that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the US headed to a Plutacracy? Like Plato predicted would take place after the fall of a Democracy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USA was never a functioning democracy, but at least as much a plutocracy all along.
  What USA is headed for is fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way this egg peels in infuriating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always do that, but if the eggs are fresh, they will still tend to stick to the shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way this egg peels in infuriating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this happens usually with very fresh eggs

  Exactly, I came to mention that too. So he/she should enjoy the egg being fresh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes the story is sad all the way, the woman died shortly after. Some times life sucks, we were very good friends.
  At least the new neighbors also seem nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK then you are more progressed than we are here in Denmark.

  But our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely. My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

  So here you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, even when 2 families were ready to adopt it.
  Her reason for doing it was that she didn’t want the dog to miss her after she died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to keep convincing the vet it was a danger to have. It wasn’t an easy process.

  If it wasn’t your dog, you are not the one to decide, obviously your dad having dementia means he isn’t fit to make the decision. You did well in this case. And I think the doctor was acting according to regulation.

  But when you actually are the owner, it’s a very different story, and our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely.
  My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

  So yes you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, you don’t even have to give a reason. They also do it at rescue shelters all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for fucks sake, it is not allowed to be the decision of others, only the person that wants it, and only under certain circumstances, like being terminally ill and in pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anymore

  Exactly, and when you could, it was also allowed to beat them to death, as long as they didn’t die immediately, but it took a day or two. Those are the rules of the bible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot put a person down for being sick. Even in countries where euthanasia is allowed, the person has to ask for it, under formal circumstances following formal rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually way worse, because you can have a dog put down that is perfectly healthy, even when other people want to adopt the dog.
  If you have a dog you literally own it, and the only regulation that protects the dog are rules against animal cruelty.
  You cannot own a human being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird that in one photo the stop marking is in negative, and the next photo the stop marking is white?
  Seems to me like the photos aren’t trustworthy. Which again cast doubt on the whole story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  6 months of the year, homeless people would freeze to death

  True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finland has actually tried to do something about it, contrary to USA where homelessness is borderline illegal, and the main policy against it is harassment to make them go somewhere else. Finland is a civilized society, USA is a sociopathic society.

  That said, homelessness is a challenge, but Finland has a program they call “housing first” to help prevent it, that has turned out to work better than what most countries do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stand your ground, 3 times and you’re out, non livable wages, enormous wealth disparity, racism, death penalty.
  All these feed violence, and all these are extreme right wing policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,

  I have no idea what your problem is, I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
  I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.
  I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?