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

Sometimes the units are given cute names like "wiggly waggly units" to make physicists cringe. Acknowledging a unit with cute names when the unit is not important is entertaining.

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

Perhaps poverty and a living wage are different. I often get caught up in the difference between one million and $75k.

What's fifty grand to a


like me, can you please remind me?

(A lot. That's... a life-changing amount of money for normal people)

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

Banning ownership becomes a game of catch. Use whatever you have: 7.62x51mm, arrows, rocks, ect.

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

Roast pumpkin puree can be added as filler to sauces. Bottom right option seems fine too. Why kink shame?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The $75k figure is from 2010. The article seems to be https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1011492107.

You acknowledge $75k as a living wage in 2010. How would research from 2010 be used for wage suppression today? Was it wage suppression in 2010?

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

The vote is worthless outside of swing states. May as well vote your conscience when fptp and Electoral College enshrine disenfranchisement.

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

Agreed. Voting shouldn't be the only activism we are involved in. My comment was about solidarity against the oligarchs that can decide to make life harder for people they deem icky.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Two weeks is short. Six weeks seems more reasonable since that's when child care will take infants.

As far as expectations of being a parent to a newborn: you will be tired, emotionally drained and fatigued to memory loss. You can actively be involved in easing and sharing this burden with paternity leave.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Republicans and Democrats were unable to stop legislation from the Judiciary with Roe v. Wade and later Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Super PAC's donate multiple lifetimes of dollars to Presidential candidates in a quid pro quo system protected by the first amendment under Citizens United v. FEC. Americans outside the oligarchy will never exhibit their influence.

If oligarchs find your existence icky, they have the power to remove your "right" to exist. You lack the power to prevent it. Instead of thanking anyone, I suggest we take the power back. Punch up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I can agree that the current usage imparts more effort during conversation to establish a consensus of definitions. My hypothesis is that the effort for that establishment scales non-polynomially.

I wonder if there is research on how many people can walk away from a conversation with consensus of definitions. My guess is less than 20.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Is it the wealth inequality that makes it bad for democracy? Normal people are not allowed to influence the political class like the wealthy? Who should democracy work for?

Fire, fire... Beavis impression

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Liberal being a dog whistle is equivalent to Anarchy being a dog whistle. If words lack meaning there is nothing to discuss.

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