Brainsploosh @ Brainsploosh @lemmy.world

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But you could also do a mean time analysis on specific tasks and have it cut off at a standard deviation or two (90-98% of task times covered), and have a checkbox or something for when the user expects longer times.

You could probably even make this adaptive, with a cutoff at 2x the standard time, and updating the median estimate after each run.

By that standard the only countries not monstrous are those too feeble to ally with.

Plenty of countries on all continents have sided with oppressive regimes, and conveniently ignored atrocities as long as they're aimed at someone else. In anything from the Korea or Pakistani wars, to genocides in Central America, to slave trading within the African continent.

The West is due some criticism, but this approach is useless.

To be fair, the USAmericans also have a few notable occasions of standing up against oppressive rulers.

True, but how did they get those?

By collective action.

(and a lot of blood)

You are right that things would still look like we're accelerating away from us, even if we were actually contracting.

Interesting hypothesis! How do we investigate?

What could we expect from a large central gravitational point? We should have other signs of the gravity well:

We would expect a point that we contract towards (and that seems ill fitting, as we see the expansion moves as the observer (including earth) moves), we would expect some kind of mass or similar effect, which would also have a size to fit it in (we know that gravity works different when you're inside the mass, and we would be able to see it, much like black holes or dark matter), we would expect things to orbit the gravity well (which we know that at least our galaxy doesn't orbit us).

You might want to actually check on these things to make sure they apply and are true, but at least at first glance it seems the expansion is better explained without a central gravity.

No, that's not at all what redshift is.

And neither redshift nor dopplershift would have that much effect on light at the speeds we're talking about.

Besides the sun's color on earth it's not a shift of wavelengths, it's a subtraction of wavelengths, as you easily can see in a spectrogram.

Sorry for the late reply, but I've now watched the two seasons of Strange New Worlds and just can't agree with you.

Strange New Worlds works at establishing plot lines, in the first season telling you a central character plot point and a few episodes later doing an episode around it. Until the J'Gal character plot there aren't even any twists.

What I mean with plot weaving would be something like the Vulcan Archeological Medicine fellowships being a secret Romulan plot (established through the multiple glimpses into what they're studying), or having reconstructed Pike after his premonition so that he can escape it.

And this totally makes sense, Strange New Worlds is a TOS tribute, and those are notorious for being very episodal, with almost no links between episodes outside the main characters.

Either we have different interpretations of plot weaving, or it's extremely subtle that I cant detect it after a rewatch.

Maybe the last bit is disgusting, much like certain earth beverages, and the cup is to protect you from the dregs?

But the question is not what is simplest for the company. Arguably it would be even simpler for the company not to pay Bob, or anyone for that matter, they could also simplify a lot with not bothering with doing anything beside extracting money from people, slavery and robbery are very simple.

If we change the viewpoint from people living to serve companies, we might arrive at different conclusions, and maybe even a society better suited for humans, rather than companies.

Why? Bob has higher costs and longer preparation time for work.

In economic theory, the job is worth less to Bob, and he should be compensated more for taking it.

Is it fair that Bob should subsidise the company's labor costs?

Bob's labor also incurs greater costs on the communal infrastructure (roads, pollution, gas, etc), why should the company not also have a higher burden (higher tax) to compensate the commons for that?

Wheatgrass doesn't seem to be a thing here yet, only powder form that I can find.

I did find a pet store that buys whole oat seed in bulk and sells by the kilo, next time I'm gonna bring a container to fill, but for now I have a bag with enough seed for another month or two ;)

I'll have a go at that, thank you!

Edit with update: A fistful of outside grass seems to have been appreciated, but they are grazing less than usual, might be because it's harder than the oats they usually get, or just because they haven't gotten used to it yet. It seems to have done enough for them though, thanks for the tip!

Wow, mine will happily graze it down all the way.

But in several countries it is legally abuse to withhold emotional safety from a dependant, including withholding the right to privacy.

I know, as I teach this to youth organisations who have a reporting duty against that law.

As for the health benefits, I'd urge you to read a basic textbook on child developmental psychology. The keywords used in most models are autonomy, privacy and keeping secrets, as important parts of social (and cognitive) development from about the second year, and only get more important with age.

A lot of the niche subs died over time as well, it's rare to see activity in any of the subs you googled to find