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24 hours agoYes I’m considering buying a high power laser so I can send the energy back into space instead of paying the power companies for the privilege of giving them electricity.
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4·1 day agoI really like it. It makes me feel in a way that I can’t really explain.
51·2 days agoPart of the problem with BMI is that since it’s squared it over-reports overweight in tall people and under-reports overweight in short people. I’m 189 cm or so and if I were to reach the bottom of the “healthy” weight I would look like a concentration camp victim. 😄
0·3 days agoNot yet, but I think there may be something to clean up if you keep wearing that uniform…
My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it’s way better than WebEx.
Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.
2·7 days agoNo, “on record” means a year that we have recorded. The year 700 BCE is not “on record”, but 1970 CE is.
While the author of the comment was trying to imply that it could get worse, actually they are correct in the other direction. Meaning that if the weather turns cooler (like from a volcanic eruption which releases a lot of particles into the upper atmosphere), then it will no longer be the hottest year.
3·7 days agoI think that your history is a bit off. The tribes that overturned the western Roman empire were not from Gaul.
8·11 days agoA new twist on a classic:
10·11 days agoIf you ask Americans about socialist policies without mentioning parties or ideology, then they overwhelmingly support them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Almost every Dutch person does speak English, but if you get outside of the cities it’s often not very good Dutch.
I spent a few years feeling like shit because of my terrible Dutch, until my sister came to visit. My partner had a birthday party during the visit, so lots of the people I had known for years but only spoke Dutch with had to switch to English to chat with my sister. Imagine my surprise to discover that my ridiculous Dutch was better than their English!
This is pretty much how The Handmaiden’s Tale book goes. “Terrorists” nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.
There is an interesting question as to what happens if he dies before being sworn in. It’s not clear what succession looks like then, I think…
3·13 days agoYeah in Holland the average work week is less than 30 hours.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country
Voting by mail is inferior to having a voting booth. The women secretly voting for Kamela have a much lower chance of being able to vote as they want by mail-in ballots. Indeed anyone in an unequal power relationship has the same problem.
There’s a reason we have voting booths, and it’s still important.
So you think that Kamala is destined to be President?
53·14 days agoThe “cannot serve two masters” argument was used as a reason not to elect the first Catholic US President, JFK. I find it to be pretty uncompelling.
The important thing is that the US not recognize any titles.
Both Reagan and Bush Sr. got knighted.
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113·14 days agoIf your goal is to act as a deterrent then harsher sentences do not work, at least according to research.
At this point, we think it is fair to say that we know of no reputable criminologist who has looked carefully at the overall body of research literature on “deterrence through sentencing” who believes that crime rates will be reduced, through deterrence, by raising the severity of sentences handed down in criminal courts.
The article summary and the article both say “sold out”?