m0darn @ m0darn @lemmy.ca

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A man's gotta sleep

Also, if he doesn't prosecute anyone for it, then it nobody has standing to challenge it.

Yeah, I'm not used to this emotion either.

Yeah, I comment more and longer. Because I'm more confident it will be seen.

Canadians each own about $750 of that pipeline.

Put another way we each own about 0.03m of its length (that's about 1-1/4").

$750 for 1-1/4" of pipe to help oil companies more profitably murder the planet.

Oh the injustice of people opting for a different meme template!

Aren't Gen X-ers basically managerial age right now? Like they're the ones making the decision for capital that's owned by the boomers right?

The generation that came of age in the peak of the "greed is good" era?

Yes and no, they will help their own children indenture themselves to the housing market.

Super interesting! I had no idea this was on the table.

One of the really interesting things about reading this thread is noticing how these places clearly mean different things to different people.

Like one person says how "can somebody not want a pub in their neighborhood?" A pub and a bar might not mean the same thing to everyone. To some people a bar might mean something much closer to a night club and a pub something much closer to a restaurant.

Gas station doesn't mean convenience store to me AT ALL. To me it's only a place for buying gas. I would never go to one unless I was buying gas at the same time.

Is what I call a green grocer/fruit market what other people call a grocery store?

The questions abound...

40% do not think an elementary school should be within a 15 minute walk?!?!? (16 not sure 24 no)

That's wild.

Thanks!

I haven't been following the specifics of ai image generation.

How much does it cost to do this? I thought Dall-e was unrelated to chat gpt, did you link them somehow?

That's an interesting point about radio emissions leaving the heated space.

Hey mate, too much hyperbole rots your brain.

Please be better informed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations?wprov=sfla1

Yeah the inconsistencies are interesting.

Is it because of the "than"? Do we just not like saying "fewer than"? Because it wouldn't offend my ear to hear "we need less than 5 chairs", but "we need less chairs" is outrageous to me, (for less than however many chairs it takes for them to become dequantized) [I did it again there, did you notice?]

Or maybe it's to do with the minutes being a quantization of something continuous, whereas usually we deal with the transition the other way.

"couches vs. furniture" couches are discrete, furniture is discrete things as a collective.

"time vs minutes" time is continuous, minutes are a quantization of it. That is a difference compared to couches/ furniture. How do we talk about other quantizations of continuous?

Distance: how far is it? Less than 5 miles. Maybe it's an acknowledgement of the fact that we talk about miles but inherently understand that distance isn't countable.

Oops that used "than" again. Uhhh... "the battery in my electric car is degraded so I get 10 less miles per charge". Hmm I'm not sure if that sounds right....

They absolutely will rally around this to 'prove' they aren't homophobes.

think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

(...Except trauma to teach to their kids)

Exactly!

Hey I love this meme everytime I see it, but I want to point out that that point about growing up in "similar circumstances that nurture their skill' is contingent upon working musicians being able to afford to raise children. Children that will also need to work.

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think there is a comparable proportion of the population that are working musicians, that earn enough money to support children, but not so much that the children don't have to learn a trade, as there were in "Enlightenment" Europe where if a person wanted to hear music they had to make it themselves, or pay someone to make it, and every rich asshole had a chamber orchestra following him around.

Also parents don't teach children their trades the way they used to, and they aren't expected to support their parent's businesses the way they used to. (I'm not lamenting this). There used to be a lot of pressure on children to contribute economically. Mozart, and his siblings probably faced what we'd consider child abuse if he didn't practice. He was certainly exploited.

Michael Jackson is a Mozart of the 20th century. He was put to work at a young age to support his parents and siblings, that were also working musicians.

As much as I love Weird Al (and I do) I don't think he was groomed and exploited the same way MJ/WM were. Kudos to his parents for that I guess.