InputZero @ InputZero @lemmy.ml

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As a foreigner who's spent a lot of time in America, this may actually be good for Trump. I am not 100% sure how elections work in the US, but at most this will keep his name off a ballot Trump would never win and at best it will ensure his name has to be on every ballot. Assuming the SCOTUS overturns it, it sets a precedent that the POTUS is not an officer and therefore isn't included in any legal language that concerns officers. Which opens up expansion of the powers of the executive. Still assuming that the SCOTUS overturns it it could play right into the Project 2025 playbook.

Part of me thinks half of the reason Stargate did so well was because of the culture of the post-9/11 world. Westerners and Americans in particular got to watch SG1 fight people who looked what they thought terrorists looked like. Admittedly they're not Muslims they're more akin to Ancient Egyptians aliens. Insofar as Western culture in the early 2000s the early season villains are Muslim adjacent. I don't think it was intentional, the movie came out long before 9/11. It was just in the right place at the right time. The show got a lot better once the Gua'uld and the Jaffa weren't the villains of the week.

Keeping that tidbit in my head rent free. That's a big brain move if I've ever seen one.

You think dihydrogen monoxide is bad HOH is right there beside it. On average globally around 1000 people a day die as a direct result of HOH exposure. It's estimated to be a contributing factor in around 7% of all deaths. HOH is also impossible to get away from, it's used to make tires, soap, explosives, I couldn't possibly name everything it's in. It's even worse for kids, HOH kills more children than adults per capita. Regulators aren't even talking about it, because it's so ubiquitous it would crush our economy removing it entirely. So we just accept that it kills 320,000 people a year.

Alongside a medical bill to put the thing in. This isn't charity, it's America. You'll be responsible for paying for the surgery and the rental fee of the courts chip. You don't own that chip we forced you to put in your brain, you're just renting it for the rest of your life.

Or you could, you know, stop giving your time and money to a giga-corperation and just stop using YouTube. Just some food for thought.

You are not wrong. So I am not an expert in this area. My understanding is that we get different answers depending on what branch of math/physics you're using. Relativity theory says it is infinite, quantum theory says it isn't. The consensus of most experts in this field is that the center of a black hole isn't infinite, but that's based more on intuition than actual evidence. So the real answer is we don't know, but the educated guess is that it is not infinite.

Nobody who's informed believes that the center is infinite, the general public on the other hand has been told the center of a black hole is a point of infinite density by 'experts' for nearing a century. It's the same mistranslation that happens when a lot of science is published in media, it's easy to just say what an expert knows but it's a lot harder to explain it well. The expert knows TONS of nuance on their subject while the rest of us don't have nearly enough time to become as informed as they are.

Yeah I've had a few but exactly that happens. I've had one or two where I got full control. Mostly either I noticed and the dream hits superspeed or I am aware long enough to only nudge my dream before I forget again. That's whenever I remember my dreams at all, usually I don't.

You're right, but that's the 'paradox'. Given our most pessimistic estimates for the chances of life we should have seen at least something that was a huge give away by now. Maybe better telescopes and observation methods will find them, we can get a spectrum from exoplanets. That's incredible; but so far all we see with our telescopes is more lifeless space. That doesn't mean they're not out there, it means our estimates are wrong. It probably means that we just don't understand what factors are required to create life very well and advanced life is incredibly rare.

I read a study long time ago, I can't find it, it's old, and I have not kept up with new publications so take all this with a huge grain of salt. The study found that not only does a public transit system need to be available and dependable, it needs a certain amount of people too. Once a critical number of commuters used public transit it passed a tipping point where even more people began to use it. The study concluded that people seeing people take public transit will increase the likelihood that they will choose public transit next time compared to people who saw deserted public transit. It's a chicken and egg problem on top of everything else. Keep in mind I am not an expert and I am not current with the topic.

Is that how it's supposed to be? I have had many customers drag me out to breakfast claiming to have the best biscuits and gravy, and it's always the same tasteless crap. My family in America have too. Are they all just THAT basic?

Because the chocolate industry like many others could not grow without child and slave labour. And because the big industry players we have now built their empires on the backs of the easily exploitable they can't stop doing it without losing wayyyy more than they're comfortable with.

My cousin has a pickup and I won't lie, it's very handy to have one truck you can use in the family. He's made ramps that fit his truck perfectly, makes loading and unloading furniture from it a breeze. He's added hooks for snatch blocks, I swear he can tie down literally anything. We wouldn't have that if we rented because the truck would be different every time. He's probably moving someone in the extended family once a month. Granted he owns his own contracting company so he uses it daily. That all said there is value in a few generous people having trucks around. Emphasis on the few, especially in urban areas.

Eh, talking about Isreal/Hamas/Palestine has been a sensitive topic for as long as I can remember. I wouldn't be surprised if an argument broke out between two Catholics in a church on Sunday if they were talking about it. It's an extremely devicive issue.

Totally agree, it's not about the quantity of conversations here. It's the quality. Here I can engage in an Isreal/Palestine conversation with only a moderate level of outrage in the thread, I wouldn't even dare read such a thread on Reddit. I don't want to read all that hate and lust for violence.

All of that radiation cooling is just entropy cooling in the end.

Honestly, some people I know are just fish in a barrel compared to some of these mobile game ads. I used to think it was a character flaw, and for most it is. For them I don't have much sympathy. For a small few, those dopamine casinos are irresistible. It's a compulsion to play, just like a gambling addiction. These are "The Whales" mobile game companies talk about. They're the fish in a barrel.