IrateAnteater @ IrateAnteater @sh.itjust.works

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All you have to do is come up with a new name for it. It's not like any of them have a clue about what socialism actually entails.

If I were more conspiracy-minded, I'd say they were purposely being counterproductive and driving away the only people who could conceivably be converted to their cause.

In reality, some people are just assholes.

Without diving into the data behind this, I'm willing to bet that there's a plateau around the $1 million mark, caused by simply owning a detached home in certain markets.

At this point, I think it's too late for that. It's time to start looking at French history for inspiration.

HDD read rates are way faster than media playback rates, and seek times are just about irrelevant in that use case. Spinning rust is fine for media storage. It's boot drives, VM/container storage, etc, that you would want to have on an SSD instead of the big HDD.

Isn't the second part of this meme supposed to be something that is not true?

I'm learning to hate it right now too. For some reason, its refusing to upload a local image from my laptop, and the alarm that comes up tells me exactly nothing useful.

A counter example that came to my mind is rabies. Look up how that progresses. There's absolutely zero chance that I would be putting myself through that if I were diagnosed with it and it was too late for the vaccine. Assisted dying just ensures that nobody has to go through the trauma of finding my body.

I never really understood why people self censor their comments at all. I can't think of any major social media site that gives a shit. The YouTube algorithm cares, but that's just for the videos themselves.

Yes, and in that exact order.

The water argument gets brought up all the time because it's the only argument present on on either side.

After that, you are simply arguing about which number you would rather see, which is a pointless argument to have. You like 0 to 100, I like negative numbers, so I would rather use -18 to 38. Arguing one or the other is like arguing if grey or beige is the "better" colour.

Basing a unit of measure on a purely subjective and variable thing like "it feels hot/cold" is a terrible idea. The metric system specifically tries to avoid that.

Plus, whether it feels hot/cold is going to be equally easy in metric and imperial, since nobody's personal preference falls in the same place. At least with metric, there's an additional point of reference for worrying about ice.

Basing a unit of measure on a purely subjective and variable thing like "it feels hot/cold" is a terrible idea. The metric system specifically tries to avoid that.

Plus, whether it feels hot/cold is going to be equally easy in metric and imperial, since nobody's personal preference falls in the same place. At least with metric, there's an additional point of reference for worrying about ice.

Pretty sure the comparison here is between McDonald's and Burger King, so good food is already out of the question before the conversation even started.

You've never had a stomach bug and trusted a fart you shouldn't have?

I get mad at Windows features occupying ports, even when that feature isn't in use.

Canada has a similar chart, with some fun modifications. For example, distance could be feet/inches, millimeters/meters/kilometers, or minutes/hours, depending on what you are measuring.

Lays makes good chips. It's too bad that they're really only good for the data center market, since you can't have just one.

I'm confused. Are you saying that the gravy seals have any hint of a chance against the US army?

To be fair, this isn't really a "gun control" type situation. A single, targeted, killing, would have been just a successful if it were done with a knife instead. The gun control arguments are more applicable to spree killings.