JayDee

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, mostly. I understand they were politically very different. My main lense I was looking through in this case was progressive policy vs regressive policy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Could trump be our hoover/Reagan and Walz end up being our Roosevelt/Gore?

History rhymes, but I'm not saying we're gonna see ground breaking changes that bring the federal government back from the brink. Walz just seems like a possible candidate for garnering mass approval across the board and potentially unopposed enough to social programs to maybe implement some.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

I mean, yes, that's how it would work if there were an infinite number of atoms in the piece. There's a finite amount, though, so eventually there will be a point when all the atoms have completely decayed.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Frat boys are college guys who are apart of a fraternity.

Bears are gay men that are fat and/or hairy. (Wikipedia's words, not mine)

Raves are a type of party with light shows, glow sticks, etc, to produce a certain aesthetic.

Burning Man is a specific week-long party that happens out in the desert. Many camps are erected and it becomes a caravan city, essentially.

The comic is saying that the character who keeps get bad vibes from the bears formerly went to Goth parties and likely had bad experiences from frat boys at those parties.

In this case, though, because burning Man costs a ticket fee and alot of other things to go to, and because all the bears are gonna flirt with every guy and anyone who is even slightly homophobic is gonna get uncomfortable and leave, there are only bears around in the place they're at.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I've heard certain clients or servers are able to spot crossposts and reposts, and mark them as crossposts/reposts. I definitely know that the app I use does not.

I think it's doable. It'd likely require hashing posts so that Lemmy apps can keep track of those hashes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Also, smaller servers means that it's easier to spot criminal communities and boot their asses. Also individual servers can be cracked down on for hosting evil content, without all of Lemmy being destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Which is why he ~~prevented~~ delayed a high speed train in the US. To my knowledge, they are still constructing it.

Just checked: it's still underway. 119 miles currently under construction. From Bakersfield to Madera, with most of the rail near Madera completed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Sign Language Interpreter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Careful with the noble savage fallacy. Europe was constantly ravaged by disease due to animal domestication, in ways the Americas were not. Many Native American civilizations created insane mathematical, ecological, and civil wonders during their existences. They 100% would have used double-blind studies if they had any major reason to advance medicine prior to Europeans bringing plagues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

The title is the punchline. Magnets move things with their fields, the magnet itself doesn't need to apply force on the things it moves. 'work' is a physics term for applying a force over a distance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I think that spring still leaves ambiguity. A very thick, powerful spring like that in an ejection seat could probably get the bowling ball airborne, but wouldn't actually impart anywhere near the same amount of energy on the marble.

A small elastic band like that used in a slingshot on the other hand would have difficulty getting the bowling ball to fly at all but could turn the marble into a bullet.

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