comfortable
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comfortable
1yr ago
I will sign your petition, and I'd like to also petition for some way to disable emojis site-wide, if that's somehow a possibility.
comfortable
1yr ago
Running plates at parking lots to find someone with a suspended license and then arresting them
I don't see the problem with arresting someone for driving with a suspended license. Is there something else to this that bothers you?
comfortable
1yr ago
I'm okay with it being a user-specific setting. Ideally, there would be an option to have me see text equivalents wherever there would be an emoji.
comfortable
1yr ago
Moreover, life imprisonment lets us pretend that we'll fix the false positives later on, even though I see little evidence we actually will.
Basically for this reason. You can let an innocent out of prison, you can't bring them back to life.
comfortable
19d ago
Isn't conscription itself evidence that there is a fairly significant portion of people who don't want to fight?
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3mo ago
Those are neat videos. I then got recommended https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Nr1AgIfajI, which is from the same channel about an 18th century ship of the line.
I was able to understand most of how these vehicles worked thanks to these videos, but I definitely didn't realize before just how much had to be considered and engineered for these things to work as they did (do).
comfortable
1yr ago
What would happen to all the meat animals if we stopped eating them? I'm not a biologist, but I'm pretty sure prey animals (like pretty much everything humans eat) either get eaten by something, or overpopulate and regularly starve to death.
Like, do we release all the cows into the wild, and then import a lot of predators to keep them in check? I just don't think that's necessarily a better life than humane ranching. Is the idea that we just stop letting them breed until they go extinct (which doesn't seem cool to me, but some ethical systems do prioritize "lack of suffering" over "some suffering, but life").
comfortable
1yr ago
There's a motte logo? Is it the weird liquid metal-esque image at the top of this site?
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6mo ago
I can't recall many of the "good" guys ever resorting to them, if at all.
I mean, in the last book there was the protagonist casually using the torture spell on someone for the crime of spitting on an old lady he liked.
comfortable
1yr ago
My personal experience also matches this take.
I can enjoy media related to my favorite IPs that are objectively mediocre or even bad in various ways, as long as the IP itself is treated well by the media.
comfortable
1yr ago
You've probably tried it, but how about The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan? I recommend this because I like it, and I also liked Malazan, The Black Company, Mother of Learning, and the Magician series, so it's possible that you might also like the series.
comfortable
1yr ago
It probably depends on your color theme. In the default light(?) theme, I think it colors new comments with this grey background (that doesn't go well with black text).
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1mo ago
The expectation that everyone cleans the dryer lint before using the dryer is one where someone else not doing it means nothing to you (just fluffier lint, I guess).
In my experience with dryers, fluffier lint is even easier to clean out, so I don't even care if other people aren't doing it.
comfortable
1yr ago
Have audiences become so fatigued by underdog stories that they will pay to see the Bad News Bears lose to the Yankees?
About a month ago, I re-watched Top Gun. One of the subplots in the movie is the pilots of the Top Gun program competing to be the best pilot. The protagonist, Maverick, was his commanding officer's second choice to be sent to the program. When he gets there we are introduced to Iceman, the clear favorite to win the prize. Maverick is the clear underdog here.
Maverick does not win, and in fact nearly drops out of the program altogether.
So, yeah, a good story is a good story, regardless of whether the underdog wins in the end.
comfortable
1yr ago
By "right wing" do you mean conservative? If so, the whole thing about conservatism is being wary/pessimistic about new things.
If by "right wing" you mean "small government/pro business", then I'm not sure I see that group as being particularly against new technology.
comfortable
1yr ago
I'm not sure if you are deliberately hinting at something or not.
Is this about religion?
It's not baffling to me. If a 30yo dating a 20yo becomes taboo, it is essentially put in the same category as a 30yo dating someone even younger.
It's already there in some ways with the taboo on admitting attraction to literally anyone younger than 18. Both a person attracted to a 16yo and a person attracted to a 6yo are called pedophiles.
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10mo ago
Except there is zero evidence aside from the memories. She's not decades older than she should be, she came back to Earth exactly the same age and exactly the same time that she left, wearing the same clothes that she entered Narnia wearing.
Basically the only evidence she might possibly have is her skill with a bow, I think? With a situation like that, I can see her accepting and internalizing the idea that Narnia is a made-up game she played with her siblings to help them cope with the war.
comfortable
1yr ago
Presumably, large companies have a contract with their ISP to obtain access to a certain amount of network bandwidth. If an ISP wants to renegotiation that contract when it expires, that's perfectly reasonable. Otherwise, how are they justified in attempting to charge the company more than the contract requires?
I believe the anti-ISP side here is that the ISPs are overselling bandwidth, and then when a customer actually uses all of the bandwidth they bought, the ISP is in trouble. They need to upgrade the infrastructure to actually accommodate the bandwidth usage, and they are attempting to pass this cost on to a customer without re-negotiation of contracts.
Now, I'm a bit anti-ISP by habit, so can someone give the pro-ISP argument here?
comfortable
1yr ago
The Wheel of Time (books) also does this. A lot of readers like to try and pattern match the various nations to various real-world nationalities, but it's pretty clear that Robert Jordan intentionally designed a lot of them to not match any we know in particular.
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1yr ago
I mean, the dwarves responded by sewing his mouth shut, so...?
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1yr ago
Ring Fit Adventure for the Switch was the next big thing, I think. It was very hard to acquire for quite some time. Being released right before 2020 probably helped a lot with its continued popularity, but I think I remember it getting a lot of attention when in launched in late 2019.
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1mo ago
I assumed it was some kind of reference that I just didn't get.
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1yr ago
Are train derailments just pretty common?
Here's one in Houston this morning, also containing hazardous chemicals.
Here's one in South Carolina, also this morning (no note of hazardous chemicals).
I'm going to be honest, I'm not a fan of "who care's if it's real, it started a conversation, which is the important part", no matter what it's applied to.
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