PetDinosaurs @ PetDinosaurs @lemmy.world

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If a Republican politician were taken out, it would be open season on Democrats.

Because humans are notorious for not being able to estimate area and volume. Pretty much anything but length. People can visualize an Olympic swimming pool. They cannot visualize an acre or hectare.

But mostly, it's because units are about communicating. They need to provide understanding to the user. That's why feet and inches are so useful as units. They're real to everyone.

Let me give you an example.

DC fast chargers operate at 250 kW. I can do all kinds of physics with that number. How long it would take to boil a cubic meter of water. How fast can that accelerate a rock. All the things.

That's not very helpful though. It doesn't tell me anything real in my life.

Now, I'll tell you that that number will trip the main breaker of 5 typical houses. That's better, but I don't really know how much a house is.

What I do know is how hot an oven is when running on full blast.

250 kW is more than 80 ovens running on full blast.

That's about as good an intuitive understanding of that number as I can get.

It is for some people. I currently need to take 100k iu/week in order to be on the low end of normal.

I was on 150k iu, but I had to switch doctors. The new idiot didn't believe me and just told me take an OTC pill a day.

I left that guy. The next time I got checked, I was in the single digits. The new one didn't really believe me either. Each winter visit I've been low and she just keeps adding another pill. I suspect I'll be back up to 150k then.

Honestly. This place is way more toxic than Reddit.

I didn't interpret your comment as being mean.

This thread is not talking about that. This thread is talking about this action's effects on illegal immigration.

Ah. So, same old, same old. D's being the only ones doing anything about illegal immigration.

Edit: can the people down voting the person I replied up please explain? I didn't read the whole document, but I read enough to agree with them.

I mean. That can't possibly be right.

Their voters will never hear about this.

I'm kinda surprised I heard about this.

My old company started a collaboration with a Chinese government subsidiary to get market access. When they announced it at a company meeting they almost literally said, "yes, we know they are trying to steal our IP"

So..what if they decide their duties are brain surgery?

Like the nonsense a peer post to yours is spewing. From a person who's handle is "communist".

They could have reasonable points, but if your philosophy suggests that brain surgeons can get told what to do by janitors, that's a problem. I wouldn't call that "totalitarian". I would call that sane.

Now, what do we do about brain surgeons and the cost of healthcare (which is and will always be phenomenal, no matter who is paying and how it is being paid for)?

What does a "workplace democracy" mean?

I'm envisioning that's the janitor having a vote in where the brain surgeon makes the next cut.

That's a possible interpretation of "the people control the means of production", but that's just ridiculous.

They have qualifications. Or relatives. Or something of value to offer.

If you have a PhD or MD (additionally, you know, just straight money), you can emigrate to a lot of places. Probably most places.

I swear. This place is way more toxic than Reddit.

I can't imagine someone being so condescending there on a topic like this.

Please read the Wikipedia article. We don't have to agree that Wikipedia is an ultimate source of truth, but it is a pretty good article.

I don't think I'll be able to communicate anything more to someone who tells me to "read more slowly".

Wtf is wrong with you?

Why on earth is what I said any more Nazi than the OP's "most people suck at communicating"?

No one is saying anything remotely like what you're proposing.

Unless you're proposing some brave new world dystopia, some people will achieve more than others.

Are you seriously trying to compare that statement to Nazi ideology?

Yes. I think that great artists and scientists and chefs and authors and teachers and those that work hard contribute more to society than others.

The Nobel prizes are being announced this week.

The work of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman saved millions. Most people are not capable of that.

It's actually not even that. The Wikipedia page talks about free and mixed market in socialism.

That's capitalism.

It uses the word literally.

You got me interested. I know what you mean, but I needed to look it up.

Seems like contra bono would be the correct form.

It's a bit buried because they seem to be talking about for a fee rather than against the good of the people.

Provided there is an appropriate amount of technocracy (decisions made by experts rather than politicians), it'd be hard for me to think of a better form of government.

Anyway, this was largely the US until Regan. Social safety net could've been stronger, but that had to evolve. Same as in Europe.

Except , racism. Addressing that is not a part of any definition of socialism that I'm aware of. Equality is certainly going along with the spirit of this definition of "socialism"

Words, used in non technical contexts, mean what people mean when they use them.

Descriptive. Not proscriptive.