How am I supposed to decide who to vote for in local elections?
HandwovenConsensus
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When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person?
What's a piece of classical music that everyone knows but most people don't know they know?
Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices?
Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?
Ask The World - A non-regional community for asking questions about other countries and cultures
Matrix? That's the open source and federated equivalent to discord. And it's end-to-end encrypted.
Also, it's not uncommon to call a creation after it's creator ("that painting is a Van Gogh"), so calling him "a Frankenstein" works too.
No, 9 months community service.
I see, so the idea is that they're responding to external pressure from governments and financial institutions? I guess I could see that, though it shouldn't be hard to prove by pointing to specific policies and loan conditions.
But also, some of these companies own those buildings. If they’re not in use, their value in the market drops.
How does that work? Why would a buyer care if the seller was using the building? If anything, I would think using them would depreciate their value due to wear and tear.
Lemmy is part of the same Fediverse as Mastodon, right? So how do I interact with Mastodon instances from Lemmy?
If only that was still true. Internet users used to be a niche counter-culture. Now they're just normal people.
There's one aspect of it that I didn't expect, and that's its exclusivity. Seems like this is a small, but vibrant, community of geeks, just like the whole internet was in the 90s and 2000s.
I'm not 100% sure it'll be able to replace reddit in the area of getting advice on niche topics, but I do believe I'll enjoy being here.
Also not a psychologist, but I would say that's only true if the fear keeps them from enjoying life
As adults, we design our living spaces to be comfortable to us. We don't intentionally make them scary so we can overcome.
Because society and our parents themselves gaslight us into thinking they're perfect. It kind of annoys me that not seeing one's parents as flawed human beings is treated as a failure of the child. I knew my parents made some bad decisions. It wasn't my idea to give them absolute power over every aspect of my life.Yeah, they're flawed human beings like me, but I'm the one who suffered because they wouldn't admit to their flaws and reconsider their decisions. It wasn't me who couldn't tell they weren't perfect.
Ah, alright. Might have to check it out. Thanks!
Am I the only one who's having trouble processing the fact that Leela and Nibbler casually murdered someone early in the episode? I mean Futurama has always shown a lot of dark or mean humor, but that really threw me. Especially when they followed it up with such a sentimental story. I don't like it when shows try to mix the two. Either I'm watching the show with the mindset that nothing matters, or I'm getting invested in the characters and their arcs. I don't know about other people, but I can't do both at once.
Fair. I didn't understand what OP was getting at, so I took them literally. It seemed strange to ignore that white people in the early 20th loved depictions of smiling black people in servant roles.
As for ads targeted at black consumers... now I'm curious. I know there were newspapers targeted at black readers. I wonder if they had ads.
Agreed, and along the same lines, pointing out bad logic or factual errors used to support a point you actually agree with.
unless you were an actual celebrity
That didn't matter, because without video there was no easy way to prove it.
Ah, hm... I guess that makes sense. Bringing people to the office raises the value of surrounding retail, which in turn raises the value of the office. Thanks, that explanation clears it up.
I've heard too much humidity is a bigger problem. Keeps your body from being able to cool itself down with sweat, making you likely to overheat. With desert heat you're probably fine if you have water and shelter from the sun.
I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.
I'm going to say outdoor.
The "door" part doesn't really have any significance. No one would say camping under the open sky is an indoor activity, even if there's a fence with a door around the campsite.
I think it makes more sense for the deciding factor be whether you're in a controlled or uncontrolled environment. And while part of the cave might be controlled if there's an artificial entryway or home, that's not what you're there to see.
Interesting you hear the Skyrim quote that way, because I would interpret the character who says the quote to be more like a conservative nationalist.
By the way, there is a Daystrom Institute: https://startrek.website/c/daystrominstitute
I liked that it at least gave a few nods to the idea that living in a patriarchy isn't necessarily great for all men either. Not all men have power, and even the ones that do aren't necessarily happier for it and find themselves competing with other men and restricting their own self-expression. That's a nuance that's lost in a lot of pop feminist messaging.
Well, we have a source of input that AIs don't for the moment, and that's our actual experiences in the world. Once we turn that into art or text or whatever, the AIs can train on it, but we're like the photosynthesizing plants at the bottom of the content food chain.
I work at an office suite, and a lot of people say hi to me with my name. I know none of their names. I'm also really terrible at recognizing faces (prosopagnosia). People probably think I'm extremely cold and aloof, but really I'm doing my best.
Haha, fair. But, even just based on the quote, I don't think leftists are very known for caring what their ancestors think.
Ok, so it's about responding to local government incentives? I feel like that's an important piece of the puzzle that's overlooked when people say it's about real estate prices.
Mother 3?
Buying something to create artificial demand usually isn't a good investment strategy. A "pump-and-dump" can work if you can set off a buying frenzy and sell before it wears off, but it's not a long-term strategy.
Besides, if that was the plan, leaving the buildings vacant would be just as effective as using them.
Neat! Can you do it the other way around?
You could say "you lot" like our British friends.
Having skimmed the original paper about the trolley problem, I think what the author was trying to illustrate was the difference between direct and indirect harm.
If you redirect the trolley, you're not trying to kill the man on the other track. You're trying to save the five on the first track by directing the trolley away from them. While the other man may die because of this, there's always the possibility he'll escape on his own.
Whereas if the judge sentences an innocent man to death, that is choosing to kill him. The innocent man MUST die for the outcome the judge intends. So there's culpability that doesn't exist in the trolley scenario.
In one case you're accepting a bad outcome for one person as a side effect, in the other you're pursuing it as a necessary step.
No, but it should be.
That makes sense.
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I always wondered if they changed it so that the plural isn't pms.
What I can find all say seem to say more or less the same things about every candidate.
Does it work now? I think I forgot to add the instance.
Sorry about that. I tried to follow the instructions given in the sticky.
Boy, that's a blast from the past. I felt the same way about Star Wars Galaxies.
Definitely Notion. I love how I can subdivide things and make lists of lists and stuff like that. I use it for all sorts of things.
Outrage bait. Too much of reddit was stories and videos of people acting badly.