daddyjones @ daddyjones @lemmy.world

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As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly

This is not necessarily true. There are ways to fall asleep and never wake up. Not instant, but painless.

Bombs mostly and they were always illegal.

I don't know about the racism thing, but I doubt it. As far as the other thing, it doesn't have to be a choice between no guns or no restrictions. In the UK we have a ban on handguns and some hoops you have to jump through to own a rifle. Nothing too onerous I believe (though I've never tried to own a gun.)

I'm not afraid of our government becoming tyrannical. If it did, though, and guns are really the only reliable way to deal with them (I'm not convinced but anyway) then we still have plenty going around.

We do do the same and we do have the same problems, but it's not so bad. We have at least 4 parties in parliament who have a voice and a number of others who are at least represented. It's not good, but you have it worse

Or, since we're getting philosophical anyway, are you some sort of spiritual entity inhabiting your body and experiencing the physical world through it?

BTW - if that's the case then the transporter in the original question is definitely a death machine.

I was fairly conservative as a teenager (mostly because I was fairly ignorant and my parents were low key conservatives. I bucked the (apparent) trend by moving left. Happily call myself a socialist now.

No - being a monopoly makes it a monopoly...

Isn't AC quite effective at spreading germs though?

Well, of course! It's a good way to escape the heat - as long as you don't go too deep.

I'm from the UK and didn't learn till I was about twelve. To be fair, that was really unusual though.

I absolutely would. If it were a realistic option I'd mine my family to somewhere like Scotland, Iceland, Norway or Canada to get away from the unpleasantly hot summers we have here (relatively speaking - most people would probably not find it that hot.)

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure my wife would happily move to the Mediterranean for more heat...

Oh yeah - rationally I know I've got it backwards. It's definitely the size.

I definitely prefer parliamentary. As a Brit, though, I might be biased.

The power of the president largely lies in their support in the legislature anyway. If they have good support then they are too powerful (imho), if they don't then they're too weak.

The parliamentary system also has problems, of course, but, on balance, I much prefer it. I think the President tends to get far too much media focus as well; which, in turn, gives the impression that they're more powerful/influential than they are.

I have a FP3 and I've been hugely disappointed with it. The fact that it's repairable is only useful if the specs of the hardware are good enough to also last several years at a reasonable level of performance.

Also, some of the parts are rubbish - the prime example being the fingerprint sensor which always requires several attempts and then fails as often as not.

I knew I was getting a "budget" phone and I do still use it, but I had hoped it would be a better than it is. I feel like their business model is a huge missed opportunity in terms of upgrades and modularity. In theory, if they were doing it properly, why would they ever release a new model?

This is the strange thing about Australia. If I ever went there I wouldn't be at all concerned about meeting a black widow or those ones with the red stripe on their backs. In fact, if be interested. Respectful and careful, but interested.

If I meet one of these, however, if run screaming. And if I encountered that nest is have to burn the house down!

I'm beginning to see that the "developers" incident wasn't just a one off...

Absolutely nothing. ☹️

Vegetables. And fruit. They're obviously very healthy - essential even. I have them in almost every meal, but I hate the taste of all of them. Apart from potatoes I suppose, but all the others.

I thought all the Samsung ones had a screen that covered the whole of the inside section? This one only had a screen on the top.

I think I could hear it (am native English speaker from the UK), but it's definitely not how I speak. Both words sound exactly the same when I pronounce them.