Libra00 @ Libra @lemmy.ml

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If the virus originated in a wide area around Yunnan/Hubei (the latter of which is where Wuhan is) then it seems pretty unlikely that it came from a single source within Wuhan, right? I agree that the headline might be a bit ambiguous, but it's like saying 'It came from all over Texas' vs 'It came specifically from El Paso.' But I haven't read the study myself.

Well I'm not sure which was the biggest shock, discovering that I have a partner or discovering that we're having a baby. Both, as you might imagine, came as quite a surprise to an asexual man in his 50s who has never had a girlfriend. ;)

Do they need to? I don't think they do. They exist to make money so I get that they want to, and they're pretty good at it, but they could try not exploiting people for profit. But the idea that 'it exists therefore anything is justified in order to make a profit' is absurd.

You don't need to be a billionaire to eat the rich, but it definitely helps to insulate you from the legal ramifications thereof.

I would build housing for the homeless. Simple rule, no muss no fuss: need a place to live? Get a place to live. Live there for free until you can get clean and/or find a job and get back on your feet. Maybe throw in some job training too, or some kind of work-study program where they can get (paid, ofc) experience while they learn a new trade to help cover gaps in their work history and such. I'm imagining apartment complexes built around some kind of combination trade school/recovery program that teaches people to be plumbers, welders, electricians, etc while helping to get and keep them clean, offer group support for reintegrating into society, the full package.

I could help a lot of people that way with $5 billion. I'd show up in places like NY/LA with large homeless populations with a greyhound bus that said 'free apartment and a good job this way' on the side or something too, and just bus 'em in as new housing became available.

I'll give that a shot, thanks.

I dunno the UAE's energy situation, maybe they installed a shitload of solar in the desert and are practically giving away electricity, but it still seems stupid to build anything water-intensive in a desert. I lived in Albuquerque, NM in the late 90s/early 2000s and they had a big Intel fabrication plant out there, in the desert, using so much goddamned water that they were depleting the water table. But they don't care as long as it's cheap today and probably cheap tomorrow. Expensive eventually because of resource depletion is a problem for future quarterly reports.

And if it takes just as much time to back in as it does to back out, I get why some people would rather spend that time before going in than after coming out. There is backing up involved in parking in a parking lot one way or the other, and if you've somehow only ever gotten stuck behind people who are backing in and not people who are backing out then I'd call that extraordinarily lucky, not evidence of the efficiency of backing out instead.

But yeah there are shit drivers everywhere, even ones who don't back in.

Hm, yeah, let's build a giant datacenter that needs a ton of power and water in the desert, that's a great plan.

I don't drive, but the way I've always heard it is because people care more about leaving quickly than arriving quickly.

Aside from what others have pointed out about solubility, sink drains, as I understand it, have a narrower pipe than toilet drains do, though once it gets out of the house it all goes through the same pipe either way, but I think that's a larger pipe than what's in the house.

I knew a girl named Miracle when I was in grade school, but Iamamiracle is ridiculous.

Wondering the same. Heck I don't even use bookmarks for most things, I just remember/autocomplete the address, or search it up, or remember how I found it before.

There are only 2 things that can't be lawyered out of existence:

1. Buy the land and refuse to sell under any circumstances, but you might get eminent domained (or your local equivalent).
2. Blow up whatever gets built, but then you won't be around to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Basically the only real answer is to be so rich you can out-buy or out-lawyer anyone else.

These fuckin' questions, no doubt.

Good, driving music. I have a big list of liked songs on Spotify that I listen to while I'm exercising, but I'm slowly creating another playlist called 'Energy' that I add suitable songs to, with the intention of ultimately building a playlist full of such songs. It's kinda weird though, sometimes I feel like the music gets stale and repetitive, even with 800+ songs on shuffle, and that affects my motivation to exercise.

Conservatives don't have an ideology beyond 'I am a good person', not as a value judgement, but as an assertion of objective truth. It is inherently selfish.

• I am a good person so the things that I want are definitionally good and the things I don't want are definitionally bad.
• If I didn't want something yesterday but do today it was bad then but it's not now because I want it.
• If I wanted something yesterday and don't want it today it was good then because I wanted it and bad now because I don't.
• I am a good person so the good things that happen to me are deserved and the bad are injustices.
• If you don't agree with me you are a bad person and the bad things that happen to you are deserved and the good are injustices.
• Winning is all that matters because it puts the good people who want the right things (because I am good and I want them too) in power instead of the bad people who want the wrong things (because I don't want them.)

sqrt(-1).

It was 5 different posts, but either way it was to make a point that repetition is dumb.

Yeah I was gonna say, there's a whole-ass rental car industry exactly for that kind of purpose. But this isn't the sort of thing you buy because it 'makes sense', you buy it because it's cool and you have fuck-you money so that's enough of a reason.