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peto (he/him) @ peto @lemm.ee
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  • Generally I find the wait times aren't really longer. The perceived time maybe, as I can ring ahead and then go pick it up, but for me it's just the usual calculus of what could I alternatively spend the time doing and is it worth the added cost. It's the same as do I call a tradesperson or fix something myself. Replace a washer on a tap? Sure I will do that. Install a new toilet? Nah, get a plumber.

    If money is tight and I've got the time then I'm going to cook myself. If both are tight then there's always ramen.

  • Yeah, I don't mean my own clothes, (though I do quite often hear them). I mean everyone's. I've also spent quite a bit of time living in a building where you could hear the rats moving about rather clearly (through a combination of a rat problem and some poor construction decisions.) Yes it goes from a 'what was that?' alert to a 'oh it's the rats' but you still notice. It's very different to continuous background noises like AC or traffic.

    Loving one's life as if always at a loud party is exactly the thing I'm seeing as the problem. Yes you can actively focus on something specific, but always having to do that is going to be unpleasant. Never mind all the stuff you are going to overhear that you don't want to overhear.

  • Time travel would have to imply teleportation as well. If teleportation is actually instant or ftl, it would also be at least some level of time travel as you would be able to move outside your causal envelope.

  • On top of that you need to account for the fact that the earth's surface is moving at different speeds depending on latitude and elevation. Even if you can do the calculations to hit your mark, there is most likely to be some energy mismatch that needs to be accounted for.

  • A lot of them assuming you don't get the required secondary powers.

    Super speed, if your perceptions aren't heightened it rapidly becomes impractical, if they are things are going to get painfully boring real quick. Even thinking at double speed means you are going to be waiting for the world to catch up a lot. Never mind what even relatively low G-forces can do to someone.

    Super-hearing. Imagine if you really could hear conversations a block away, it can be hard enough discerning one conversation in a crowded room, imagine it being like that everywhere. All the rats and insects you will be hearing, the sound of people's clothes rubbing together. Even if normally loud things aren't deafening just focusing on one thing will be taxing.

    If you don't get secondary powers then super strength is going to suck. The human body is already capable of injuring itself with its own strength. How many fastball pitchers get arm or shoulder injuries just from throwing something really fast, or power-lifters who have something break or burst. Modern sporting records are starting to push up against the structural limits of the human body.

  • I'm not saying you are wrong, but its: A) not necessarily a matter of expense, but one motivated at least in part by ideology (can't let the union win) And B) mainly about perceptions. If people believe their job and possibly future employment opportunities are at risk, they are more likely to break. Scabs aren't necessarily unskilled, they are just people who have decided the cash is more important than solidarity.

    In an ideal world employers would realise a content, healthy, and properly compensated employee is better for the business and the economy in general. In reality they are going to keep cutting corners until the whole thing falls apart because line goes up.

  • Hasn't ever been a problem before. They can hire scabs, and some people won't have the fortidude, you don't need to convince everyone to cross the picket line to break a strike.

    I'm not saying that illegal strikes can't work, in fact I think the correct response to making strikes illegal is to strike illegally. It does however require people to be much more firmly committed to the cause.

  • Off the top of my head, if a strike is declared illegal then the workers don't get the usual protections, so the employer is free to retaliate as they see fit (generally dismissal). The state doesn't have to actually do anything.

  • Personally I think the whole 'life/humanity begins at conception' thing is a smoke screen. Life began a long, long time ago, and the cell line you belong to became human deep in prehistory.

    The actual question is "does the state have the right to use one person's living body to support the life of another?" It applies to organ transplants as much as it applies to the unborn.

  • So it looks like it's already been formatted to allow you to just get the whole thing in one go (the megamanga). It would be just a case of making sure everything is saved in some meaningful order. Are the alternate universe things ever more than one link deep or are they more of a bonus panel?

    It's a bit left-field for this community but you might actually get some reasonable milage out of contacting the artist and asking for their help in archiving it. This isn't corporate art-product as far as I can tell so something might be arranged that is more efficient than just sending a scraper out to lift it.

  • You might get some milage out of looking at the camping end of the market. You can get double walled mugs without lids (or with simple ones) and you are still drastically cutting heat loss even if it isn't sealed.

    You could also get a more traditional flask, just fill it up then pour out into a smaller cup as you need it. You should still be able to get ones with glass inner walls.

  • A plastic ice scraper will help get the bulk off, then you can get a variety of solvents for removing any residue. If it is metal then it should be fine with most solvents but check the instructions and do a test patch somewhere discreet to be sure.

  • The specifics can be argued, (and have been, and will be). The Buddha said that evil action is rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion. He said he understood this when he saw the true nature of reality.

    Kant said "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." And says this is evident if you reason through things.

    Moses had a great big list of rules that he said the creator of the universe told to him.

    Governments establish laws based on the interests of those in power, they say to obey the law is right and to disobey is wrong and they will use violence to punish those that disobey.

    These are just some examples, there are loads more including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, various other religions and customary systems.

  • To maximise staying under the radar, probably fabricate. You'd not be amazingly rich, but you could establish a decent living with a lot of free time. If you want to be amazingly rich and you squint hard enough at fabricate and what tool proficiency count mean in the modern world you can probably make some bank with a bit of study of chemistry or engineering. Being able to magically create complex drugs or something is going to draw attention though.

  • If you do it randomly they will all understand that the problem is 'world leaders' if you do it based on a ranking system you will have ones who think they are one of the 'good ones' and so safe.