Balthazar
@Balthazar@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change 3 weeks ago:
Because the date of the election is known in the US, the entire 18 months leading up to the election is all about the election. You don’t want the political exhaustion that goes with that.
- Comment on Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately 3 weeks ago:
But it sounds like, as the Democrats in America, they have trouble bringing attention to their successes?
- Comment on fake it til you make it 3 weeks ago:
Thus demonstrating the post title.
- Comment on Back to the grind. 3 weeks ago:
This guy datas.
- Comment on Back to the grind. 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I maintain that processing data that is full of (known) systematic problems or data that is known to be insufficiently sensitive to detect the goal is a drain on limited resources.
- Comment on Back to the grind. 3 weeks ago:
No data is better than bad data.
- Comment on fake it til you make it 4 weeks ago:
If you’re not a big fish, find a small pond.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 4 weeks ago:
Being a cartoon freed him from any physical constraints and allowed him to go wild.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 4 weeks ago:
Under Christianity, I think children were instructed to hold their hands together in order to discourage fidgeting. I’m not aware of any Biblical reason to clasp hands. In fact, I think in the Old Testament hands were often raised in prayer.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 5 weeks ago:
“Love” in the scriptures is typically a verb, e.g., “God so loved the world…” It describes an action that God does, not a feeling. God’s love is his acting in a loving way towards undeserving people.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 5 weeks ago:
Christian theologians believe in the impassibility of God, which means that God does not have emotions as humans do. Then biblical texts where emotions are attributed to God are explained as anthropomorphism - God using human language to communicate his nature and actions.
- Comment on Merry Christmas, you filthy animals! 5 weeks ago:
“Get down on your knees and tell me you love me!”
- Comment on If someone rubs their pennies on you, is it considered a centual massage? 5 weeks ago:
Light it on fire first.
- Comment on So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"? 5 weeks ago:
Mostly both
- Comment on How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective? 1 month ago:
Surely any roadblocks you put in place quickly by one party in power can be removed quickly by the other party in power. Again, I think what’s going to matter is those few people in the administration with standards and allegiance to the country over party, and loud outcries from the people when they touch something important.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
The British Empire was always a result of the British monarch ruling India, making the British monarch a King/Queen over other kings. When India gained independence from the British monarch after WW2, Britain could no longer claim to be an empire.
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 2 months ago:
Party on, Wayne.
- Comment on Know DEEZ NUTS 2 months ago:
Donald Trump Traitorus maxima
- Comment on The Magic Words 2 months ago:
And “we need to fix this” usually means “someone else needs to fix this”.
- Comment on The Magic Words 2 months ago:
When scientists want to publish their results, the paper first goes to one or more referees (usually anonymous), who advise the editor about the quality of the paper. It is common for referees to ask why the original author(s) did not consider a particular question as part of their work. The reply in the cartoon is commonly used by the author to defuse that question, essentially saying we didn’t consider that question because it’s too much work, and just publish what I’ve done already, dammit.
- Comment on Worker Slams Boss For Telling Colleague With Dying Mom To 'Man Up': 'Now His Mom Is Sick And He's Falling Apart' 3 months ago:
Everyone drink!
- Comment on Phonebooks 4 months ago:
And didn’t you have to pay to not be listed?
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 4 months ago:
Good to finally see the important words, “conservation of angular momentum”.
- Comment on Platypuses 4 months ago:
Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.
- Comment on Birds and the bees 4 months ago:
Didn’t pay for the DLC.
- Comment on Anon is a good samaritan 4 months ago:
And Incredaboy!
- Comment on What's everyone favourite Nic Cage movie, and what do you think is his biggest hidden gem? 5 months ago:
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 6 months ago:
Without being in-your-face woke: as many as are appropriate to the context.
Without “them” calling the story woke: none.
- Comment on Iocane 7 months ago:
It comes from Australia.
- Comment on For free for 11.99$ 7 months ago:
Didn’t it used to be that at the grocery store, if an item is advertised on the shelf for a different price than what it scans for, they give you something like half the difference? But there’s no code of ethics like that on the interweb.