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A local store just upgraded the deposit machine, so instead of depositing one single can at a time, I now empty an entire bag of hundreds of cans into the machine and let it sort it out. It's great, saves lots of time and makes everything easier. Instead of bringing a shopping bag with 20 cans everytime I shop I can take an entire sack of 200 cans every month or so.

Unfortunately... the same kind of people who used to cause queues with their 200 can garbage bags at the usual refund machines also figured this out, so now they're causing a queue at the new machine with trailer loads of garbage bags full of thousands of cans.

I have no idea where they get all those cans.

video of the machine

The Milky Way is in a sort of orbit around the center of the Local Group which is the name for the local group of galaxies. It's not a clean circular orbit and it's not possible to calculate the rotation time, because the pull from other galaxies is stronger than their collective centre of point of gravity, but sure, it rotates overall on that scale too.

The next levels are different. The Local Group is part of a larger supercluster of galaxies that do not seem to rotate. It's more like flows of galaxy clusters. Depending on the point and scale we look at, it may be shrinking or expanding. Perhaps there is some rotation to it, but the scale of both distance and time is so incredibly large that it's meaningless.

104 comments on how to memorize starboard and port as right and left.

I have an even better way to know : Just fucking remember it.

It's not that difficult.

Tartare is cut from inner muscles, less likely to have any infections etc.

It's also sold separately from ordinary minced meat.

It's called "popliteal" in English, sometimes but uncommonly shortened to "poplit".

Ausfahrt must be the biggest city in Germany.

It's a sort of marshmallows, shaped as bananas and coloured yellow. They're somewhat more firm - not as gooey and sticky as regular marshmallows.

Yelling is idiotic.

Like all aggression, resorting to yelling is an act of impotence.

When someone is attacked by aggression they will defend themselves. They will counter attack whatever it is you're yelling about and make up reasoning to justify their own stance. Even if it's wrong, because in their mind the actual topic is less relevant than fighting your aggression.

Yelling is only useful if you are trying to prevent an accident and you're unsure if they can hear you.

public shaming is s powerful tool - which could lead to reflection

Have you ever seen this happen? In my experience, the idiot is more likely to double down.

Finland has not been communitarian in the coloured areas since the end of the 1800s. Perhaps the native Sami people further north, but not elsewhere.

In my experience, the entire continent have nuclear families except for parts of Italy and Greece.

The correct sentence is "what does it mean?"

As far as I know, Russian doesn't use the auxillary verb "do/does".

In many languages, the "do" is often a included in the case itself, meaning that it will be part of the word "mean", as also suggested by the usage of "means" instead of "does mean".

I suppose another construction could be "It means what?"

Shit dissolves better. Food (generally) has more fats and oils that will stick and clog the pipes..

It's the same pipe.

To be fair.. most of those sights are piles of mud with sign posts.

For tourists I'd rather recommend the cold war museum, the original Lego land, the beaches on the west coast, hiking along the east coast fjords, the lakes at Silkeborg, the desert at Skagen, the ruins at Kalø, the various nature reserves.

There's plenty of stuff to see. May, June and August are the best times to visit. The rest of the year has unpredictable weather.

Exactly how big've deal is it?

It was also Windows 98.

I don't think free will can be dismissed just because the framework that it runs on is deterministic.

Let's say you program a text editor. A computer runs the program, but the computer has no influence on what text the user is going to write.

I think that consciousness is a user like that. It runs on deterministic hardware but it's not necessarily deterministic due to that. It might be for other reasons, but the laws of physics isn't it, because physics doesn't prohibit free will from existing.

Consciousness is wildly complex. It's a self illusion and we really have no good idea about where decisions even come from.

If it is deterministic, it would have to involve every single atom in the universe that in one way or another have influenced the person. Wings of a butterfly and light from distant stars etc. Attempting to predict it would require a simulation of everything. That leads to other questions. If a simulation is a 1:1 replica of the real thing, which one is then real and what happens if we run it backwards, can we see what caused the big bang, etc.

So, even if this is about free will, the enquiry falls short on trying to figure out what even causes anything to happen at all.

If we are happy with accepting that the universe was caused by something before or outside the universe, then it's really easy to point in that direction and say that free will also comes from there - somewhere outside the deterministic physics.

Of course the actual universe and the laws of physics are really not separate as data and functions. The data itself contains the instructions. Any system that can contain itself that way is incomplete as proved by Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Truths do exist that can't be proven so perhaps the concept of free will is an example of such a thing, or maybe it's not. The point is that we can't rule it out, just because it exists in a deterministic system.

Personally I don't think it matters all that much. Similarly to how we can only ever experience things that exists inside of the universe,or see the light that hits our eye, we can also only ever hope to experience free will on the level of our own consciousness, even if we acknowledge that it is influenced by all kinds of other things from all levels from atoms to the big bang.

Yes, it won't make much difference to a shirt, but it's necessary for a blazer or outerwear, where the fabric is thicker and the button is getting pulled a lot more.

It's the same method.

The distance between the sun and 12 is divided by two, because the clock face only shows half the day.

If we had a clock with 24 hours in the circle and used the same method, it'd be the same as pointing at the sun and saying: South is where the sun will be at noon.

It's fixed. Thanks.