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  • If it's all a truly random selection, which I believe it was, then half of all people would cease to exist, leaving half of their gut biomes behind, still alive (albeit briefly). I guess the end result would be the snapped people leaving behind a mist of gross intestinal bacteria which would itself mostly die out without a host. Meaning much more than half of all gut biome bacteria would be killed as a result.

    Of course it would make more sense to consider a person and their gut flora as one being, but the joke is about how stupid the initial conception of Thanos' plan is, not creating an academically rigorous argument.

  • For conversation about various subjects with broad appeal and a left wing slant, sure.

    For tech support or info on niche topics, not at all. Lemmy is not big enough, old enough, or easily indexed by search engines.

    The porn is also pretty mid tbh

  • You're not going to hear from men who actually do this because they don't have a good reason and aren't typically comfortable with the kind of introspection the question demands.

    Some people are exclusionary pricks who look for excuses to judge others. They don't have or need a reason. It's bullying.

  • So the Republicans get a lot of fast food from a lot of places, while the Democrats seem to avoid major chains altogether, and when they do get fast food they go for restaurants that (in my opinion) are the most extremely overpriced and worst value (chipotle, panera).

    The Republicans also seem to have a particular fixation in chick fil a, which is not surprising given that they campaign more in the south, CFA is typically a bit cheaper than other fast food, and it's not maligned by Republicans like it still is by many progressives.

  • If I ask you to turn around to the right, are you going to ask me what side of you I’m referencing?

    No, because humans have a pretty clear forward direction. Screws don't. You say turn a screw to the right, do you mean make the top of the screw move right or the bottom move right?

    Most people assume the top, but not all, and the language is ambiguous.

  • If you're looking head on to the screw/nut/whatever then we're talking about the top of the screw/but/whatever.

    You can also imagine if the nut was actually a wheel. Which way would you spin it to make it roll left or right.

    Confused the hell out of me at a young age. That's how I came around to thinking of it

  • He's currently in the process of having all his assets auctioned off to pay a small fraction of what he owes. Unfortunately the most valuable thing he has is his audience, and he couldn't auction them away if he wanted to.

    He'll be in enormous, inescapable debt for the rest of his life, but he'll always have thousands of people willing to listen to him.

  • It is very much state pride as well, and force of habit; most Americans don't travel out of country much (for a few reasons) so we don't often have to tell people where we're from who don't already have a good grasp of American geography.

    Also, frankly, people can usually tell we're American before we tell them, for better or worse. Might as well give you a bit more specificity.