[-] bric@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok, but how did the perimeter go from 4 to 24??

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[-] bric@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second best time is today. We can't let what we should have done stop us from doing what should be done.

And for other sources, wind and solar are great sources of energy that should be a supplement, but sometimes the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, and we don't currently have the battery technology to store energy on the scale to handle those fluctuations. We need a stable backup, and nuclear is by far the best clean and stable energy source.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

And that's bad. Can we agree that making a dress compulsory and making a dress banned are both bad, because they both restrict choice?

[-] bric@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Is it so insane to think there could be a school with both religious and areligious people at the same time? A secular school that doesn't support a religion, but allows students to express themselves how they choose? When did that become a radical idea?

[-] bric@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

This. The whole point of freedom is that every person gets to choose for themselves, and the government should be preserving that choice and limiting elements that take choice away. It's morally reprehensible to support choice only when it's choices that you agree with, that's how state religions became a thing in the first place.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, ordinary people did rise up and risk their lives, against the US and NATO. It wasn't just that their military failed them, this wasn't some battlefield loss, or a powerful regime keeping an iron hold on the populace, the military and the people just decided to side with the Taliban, it's what they voted for in the most primal and basic election that exists.

That doesn't mean that I'm not sympathetic to the plight of a lot of people that are suffering, there are a lot of people in westernized cities that have lost their freedom and their way of life because of what the rest of their country chose, but that also doesn't mean that it's right to cause even more blood and death to override that choice, just because we identify with the oppressed more than the Taliban. That type of mentality is exactly what made the US and NATO so hated in the region, and frankly, I have no reason to think that if we did it again it wouldn't end with exactly the same result

[-] bric@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

They're saying that someone that makes $250,000 today lives the lifestyle that would have been considered middle class 20 years ago, not that that salary is at all a median

[-] bric@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Terf stands for "Trans exclusionary Radical feminist", which is a type of feminist that pushes for women's rights, but doesn't support transgender rights, and thinks MtF transgender people don't count as women.

A lot of people have boycotted Hogwarts legacy because of her political views. Personally, I think it's a bit extreme to boycott a great game made by a studio and developers that have nothing to do with her views just because she gets royalties on it, but that's a matter of personal opinion

[-] bric@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Being an actor requires pointing guns at people, it's just part of the job. You can't apply gun safety to things that are supposed to be harmless props. That's why it really isn't his fault for pointing a prop at someone and pulling the trigger, it's the fault of the armouror for handing him something that wasn't a prop.

Granted, he hired an under qualified armouror, didn't take safety seriously, and allowed the stage gyns to be used with real ammo, and that's all on Alex the producer from a civil liability standpoint. But it's not a slight against Alex the actor

[-] bric@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Now I kind of want to know what that tastes like. Like a big part of what we consider "spicy" is that it triggers the "very hot" sensors in our mouth without triggering the "warm" sensors that are usually triggered with it, so you end up with a combination that's usually impossible. Mint+ chilli powder would be like the next level of that, triggering both hot and cold at the same time

[-] bric@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The part they're misremembering is that if you used 39 digits of pi as pi (not 45), it would be enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe with a forward error of less than the width of a hydrogen atom (not the distance between 3)

[-] bric@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

Not any reason though, the case didn't change any of the protected classes like sex, religion, or sexual orientation. It just made it so a company can choose what "expressive work" they want to do, especially websites. So it's legal to say you don't want to make someone a custom website if you disagree with the contents of the website (ie a website that supports gay marriage), but it's still illegal to refuse to make someone a website because the customer is gay. You can choose what you make, but you can't choose who you sell it to

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