ShranTheWaterPoloFan

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The strangeness of the Fine Structure Constant isn't it's value, it's that we don't know what it is.

Other constants have units that explain what they are doing. Like converting miles to meters we multiply by meters/miles. But this is just a number that is needed. That's so strange I can't think of another example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it is the question.

OP wants to know if fairphone will last 10 years. The retort is that even if you can have a phone that is supported for 10 years, you won't want to use it that long.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What profession is willing to pay for social media recruitment?

What prejudice do you want to have confirmed?

What product do you wish to advertise?

What media product do you wish to advertise?

Can you believe this obvious lie?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think they dyed all their margaritas black in mourning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm confident that on my deathbed my biggest regret will be being bored while stuck in an airport for a day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Easy, just be rich already!

You know how much labor a landlord does? None! Even if you consider things like picking up checks telling people you won't fix stuff is labor there are services that will do that for you!

Stocks? If you are rich you can stack the deck and never lose!

Rich people literally cannot give money away fast enough to be poor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

People under the age of 25 tend to be really bad at the Internet. The number of times high schoolers or college kids are mystified by how I'm able to get information quickly from search engines is beyond me.

I'm not surprised they can't tell what's real, they can't search for tiny details like "transmission time to Mars" or "gravity on mercury".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Most of those equations are full of things that can make sense, and then there is a fine structure constant.

It's all over particles, but we don't know what it is. It has no units. It's just a number that is needed for physics to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hexbear is so afraid of introspection and thoughtful consideration of their beliefs they lash out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Real bad faith framing of your opponents argument there; be better than that.

Like trying to reframe my argument as "rich country good, poor country bad"?

I've mentioned statistics, I've mentioned a human angle and I've been upfront about what ways Cuba is better than the US. You've tried to dismiss my argument by misrepresenting it. This level of insecurity shows how shallow your beliefs are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No, it's that saying one place is worse doesn't make it so.

Human development index and quality of life studies put the US ahead of Cuba. Cuba isn't a hellhole that many people make it out to be, but that doesn't automatically make it better than the US.

Cuba has better healthcare and lower cost of living, but Americans aren't on rafts to Cuba.

One of the problems with enacting good and lasting change in the western world is that life is pretty darn good on the whole. It could be a lot better, but just shouting that the US is bad is mindless propagada. Be better than that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Notice how when confronted with facts the hexbear has no real argument but assumes being obnoxious is the same as making a coherent argument.

Cuban refugees carry a higher level of risk than other countries, and yet they still come. Ignoring facts doesn't make a country better. You wouldn't let a fact like that slide from the US. Hexbears lack intellectual honesty.

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