joostjakob

@joostjakob@lemmy.world
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If you use median, removing or not of 1000 people from a pool of millions indeed has zero impact. My guess is that they worded it like that because they assume people don't knownwhat a median is, so they describe the practical effect

They are not excluded, it's just the the number of people is used, not the amount of money

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Bolivians don't need CIA approval to plot a coup

For Harris, yes. For Biden: just "not anymore". Which can happen when you have geriatric folks doing this kind of job.

No matter how much we fuck it up, this rock will always be more liveable than anything we can realistically find elsewhere. This planet is our spaceship, we better start treating it like one.

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...any economic system that does not take externalised costs into account. This is not unique to capitalism.

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And we are still increasing the rate at which we are making it worse...

Buffalo weren't eaten to almost extinction. And they don't give birth to 10 calves at a time.

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As pointed out above, if you hate plants, you should eat as much meat as possible. Every kilo of meat represents at least ten kilos of plants eaten by the animal.

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"Made unusable": that's not how it works. Even with occasional vandalism, there's so much more people positively contributing, that overall the map just keeps on getting better and better.

That's just paid leave. You get as many sick days...as you are, you know, sick.

Well, to be honest, there are some limits in place for long term sickness

NDA, not BJP, got 293 seats

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Ironically, De Croo was also criticised here in Belgium for that speech being way too soft.

It is a non issue. It is also not unlikely for Trump to go completely nuclear over this, hopefully showing a few more folks what a moron he is.

I don't know, there's lots of things I would risk doing at home that I wouldn't try on a spaceship. It's also a metaphore that can hopefully speak to the kind of people who think a fresh planet would be the solution.

Third parties make little sense as long as you have a first passed the post system. Change to proportional representation and you'll get more choice automatically.

I get the reasoning, but not a single country has ever been kicked out of the UN for having crazy/terrorist/genocidal leaders. So why should having a palatable government be a criterium to join? And anyway, I thought Hamas only controls Gaza. The West Bank is larger, and has a slightly larger population, and it is controlled by Fatah (AFAIK). So the seat would likely end up under Fatah control, no?

That's just convenient defeatism. People are part of societies and are sensitive to choices others make. It does not save the sharks if you stop eating shark fin soup. But when there was a campaign against shark fin soup in China, and people actually chose to eat less of it, then that does have an impact on the shark population. Things can change surprisingly fast. It's just a drop in the bucket, but we're several billion people dripping into it. The collective impact of significantly reducing animal product consumption is important enough to try for it.

In general, drop the "this is a nonsense solution, we should do this other thing instead". We need to do all the things to survive this. Focus on making others with the same goal stronger, convincing them to do this other thing too, instead of ridiculing their efforts.

Their system automatically makes a winner of the biggest party. In any country that uses that system, it automatically leads to two main parties alternating in power. The advantage is that you don't need "messy" and "unstable" coalitions, but can have strong leadership with a solid base instead. Except that perhaps string leadership is a dangerous thing to have in many cases, and except that if the balance tends towards 50/50, you can easily have problems getting anything done.

It won't, but at least you're not part of the problem anymore. You might inspire other people to. And every person who goes plantbased makes it more politically viable to enact policies to encourage plant based over the most destructive other foods. Try to avoid discouraging people who try to do the right thing, help them make a bigger impact instead.

Depends on the molecule. The ones used in vaccines are nit dangerous. See for example https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202100244467/

Electric cars do charge when braking. Obviously the energy recuperated is less then waht was needed to drive that fast in the first place. Using driving wind would just increase the energy needed to drive that speed and would be net negative.

I'm pretty sure they'll do increasingly farcical votes for some time after.

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I tip my hat to you

And here I am with 35 days, which we're expected to take.

Connect can just blur or not show any NSFW post, if that helps

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Didn't they have 3% economic growth last year?

Amazing things are being created at some workplaces as well

So the hiding function in Connect should work for you, without having to do all the blocking.