If I were world dictator I would just make advertising illegal. It's the perfect dictator move. Simple policy that's hard to enforce which will almost certainly have unintended consequences. But God damn do I hate advertising.

We've been warning about dangerous infrastructure for years now. It'll only get worse until we start building for the next millennium.

First rule of propaganda: the enemy is both terrifying and weak.

Splitting helium requires energy. Go for Radon or something.

They still got the frame completely wrong, unless there's a different radio segment I didn't hear. The one I heard was mostly from an expert I had never heard from before who made it seem like "the developers" were mad because they had to pay. They included a single throwaway line from Chris. (I think that's the Apollo dev's name.) No mention they the pricing was clearly intended to be unreasonable.

You vastly over estimate the willingness of people to learn how a computer works.

I've bounced off GitHub more than once trying to figure out how to download the .exe file that I assumed must be somewhere. Honestly I still don't understand the interface and I've submitted bug reports for Jeroba on there. I might have even used GitHub for a project once? Every time I look at it it's overwhelming and confusing and none of it is self-explanatory. But, that's fairly true for a lot of stuff in programming.

Ahh! Oh no! Who could have ever foreseen these consequences??

That's it! I'm getting shit-faced!

While I get the feeling that, at this point, the suggestion "talk to a therapist that specializes in gender identity" would be met with a bunch of trepidation, that's probably going to be the most conclusive action you could take.

In the mean time, I would suggest reading some memoirs written by trans people to see how much you identify with their pre-transition experiences. She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan is a classic one, but there are many you could read.

Everything you've said so far are hints that you might be trans, but as an internet stranger I'm not qualified to "diagnose" you. You could be something only halfway to trans (whatever that means) and an actual licensed therapist is going to be best equipped to help you figure it out.

In either case, have fun figuring out who you really want to be! Nothing is better than being allowed to be comfortable as yourself!

When talking in a clinical sense, I think we need to standardize on a numerical standard, like body fat percentage or BMI. It's my understanding that people want to get away from BMI because it's crude, and I agree, but communicating in numbers will make things less confusing. Healthy body fat ranges depend on race, gender, and age, but it would still be better than using words the public has coopted to become unclear.

Programming languages are build around the standard keyboard. Keyboards had most of the symbols you're thinking of from their typewriter days. You can see most of the special characters in these small typewriters from the mid 1900s.

https://dealdashreviewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/typerwriter.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gdj1kOXgkTY/UqYxNGAxBBI/AAAAAAAA8T0/DTeg3C_ydXM/s1600/71-6zsvcleL._SL1500_.jpg

With things like electric Wheel Writer typewriters, adding extra keys and symbols were less of a complexity issue and you started to see a few more extra symbols.

https://www.imagine41.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ibm_wheelwriter_2500_002_1.jpg

Recognize that there never has been a hard standard for layouts and symbols, just the industry copying and converging on systems that became popular.

Being rich literally makes you delusional.

https://youtu.be/IP2EKTCngiM

If you still have an account and want to do some good with r/place your can join the effort to advertise r/EndFPTP

https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/154kix3/rplace_returns_in_5_hours_we_must_create_a_spot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

Kinda interesting that somehow because it's across a gender line people find it icky, but I've never heard of anyone being scared they'll get a kidney that's the wrong gender.

While the strike is important, if we can get recognition that these subcontractors are just a way for corporations to dodge employment laws, that would be fucking HUGE.

I've been idly trying to come up with a framework that discourages this kind of behavior, and I haven't come up with anything good. Got any ideas? Everything I come up with either wouldn't work or would never get implemented.

Honestly, if we could stop this cultural race war for like two seconds we'd have a way better society. I just went healthcare end high speed rail.

Honestly? Even though Trump fans don't give a shit about rational arguments, it's nice to know they can't pretend there's no recent precident for charging a president's family with crimes.

I have been wanting one of these things for so fucking long. I can't wait!

I dunno, all boots taste of leather.

The black king returns from vacation and sits down at the negotiation table with the pawns.

Yeah, I agree. It's not hard to build infrastructure that lasts forever, it's just no one wants to pay for it.

We really do need to just straight-up ban pesticides, antibiotics, and synthetic fertilizers in agriculture.

If there was a way for legislate that all farms needed to be mixed use, I'd go for immediately.

..... Why? How is this a better choice than a door?

That statement isn't true, copyright doesn't work that way.

However, someone was trying to claim they owned the copyright to that song and finally in 2015 someone refused to settle with them when they sued. They went through the full court battle and the courts decided that person did not own the copyright to that song.

I don't remember enough of the details of their claim to explain their reasoning, but the claim was good enough (and court battles are expensive enough) that everyone would just settle.

Anyway, copyright doesn't work that way, you can sing any damn song you want.

God, the 21st century must be an operational security nightmare. Maybe don't post videos of your ammo cache? That's useful information to the enemy.

I couldn't find any information as to why, but playing around with other symbols suggests it only does it with symbols where they assume the space isn't supposed to be there. E.G. Colon, ending parenthesis, equals sign, etc. Digging around in the settings I couldn't find any option to disable this functionality.

Folks elsewhere suggested switching to the Swype keyboard, but I don't have personal experience with it in a very long time so I don't know anything about the settings and automatic behavior.

There's a few places that didn't get cars until later and "no thank you" was a very common reaction. We really ought to just ban private ownership.

Why do you want to join Beehaw

I just want to feel something. Even the pain of a thousand Cowbee stings. Anything. Let me in. Hurt me.

I mean, honestly? Yeah. People forget that their widespread support and cooperation is ultimately the source of other people's power. Your boss might be able to fire you, but they can't fire everybody.

Perhaps I want clear. If you split helium, you lose energy. You have to go above iron if want to release energy from fission (mostly).

God damn people are generous.

I don't use computers, so I'm not eligible, but I just want to say thanks for doing this! I'm sure people are going to love their new games!

Yes correct, sorry if that was confusing.

I thought Arch was notorious for breaking all the time? Is that a specific version of Arch?

Yeah, I'm aware of the Haber-Bosch process.

I'd honestly have to do the math, but I suspect we'd be able to get rid of synthetic fertilizers if we actually wanted to. Afterall, what do you think happens to the nitrogen after we eat it? We pee and poop it out, for the most part. Yes, there are losses to the air when you till the soil, but a proper farm that focuses on soil health has ways to deal with that problem.

Right now we use the system we have because it's cheap and easy to do so on an individual level. Growers want to simplify their workflow; they don't want to actually manage the health of the land they work. It's too much effort.

Plus, there's a bunch of government policy that encourages bad farming practices and discourages good ones. Corn subsidies, banning the use of treated sewage for fertilizer, blatant blind-eye enforcement of labor laws, price-dropping policy instead of price-stabilizing policy, etc.

It's not that we would starve, not in a properly structured system, anyway. It's that food would become more expensive and some of us would transition to careers in agriculture. The pay would become seductive when the farms become desperate for labor. A farm that actually takes care of the land and the animals is absolutely more labor-intensive, and that's why very few modern farms do it.

Edit: I should also say that the plants and animals we have today are not the same as the ones we had when the Haber process was invented. We wouldn't be going back to the yields of the early 1900s. Even if we did everything exactly the same as they did back then, we'd still get better returns and a have more robust food delivery system. Hell, they didn't even have refrigeration back then.

BMI is useful for historical population comparisons because you can calculate it using just height and weight and it's already been in use for a very long time. It's so crude as to be very misleading when applied to individuals, especially if you decide to turn your brain off when deciding how to evaluate the information.

The origins of the calculation are immaterial. It's value is in comparative studies, not direct judgement. The actual judgement of "good" vs "bad" BMI numbers is dumb(ish) but it is good for comparing populations across both time and space.

Cross your fingers!!!!

I can't verify their censorship, but they also run Lemmygrad. If you take a look around there you'll find literal propaganda. The solution is to not interact with lemmy.ml at least that's the solution in my opinion.

Well shit, sign me up!

Remember, Elon Musk is CEO of FOUR companies. It's not a particularly demanding job.

While race is mostly a social construct, it's easier to use race as shorthand for "populations with long-term historical ancestry in a loosely defined geographical area, accepting that population mixing has been occurring since the dawn of time and will continue to do so into the future" than it is to say that whole thing every time

BUT, it's my understanding that, for example, Pacific Islanders are generally healthy at a higher body fat percentage than other groups of humans.