candybrie

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candybrie,

Were you around in March of 2020?

candybrie,

Hong Kong and Macau are weird in that they’re part of China but have a different government and separate economic system. They’re both former European colonies that were “given” back relatively recently. I don’t see the main part of China on the graph, but maybe I just missed it.

candybrie,

No. If you have hair, it needs to be covered. If you don’t cover it, then you ought to shave it. But women shouldn’t shave their heads. So they should wear hats. But if you don’t have hair, you shouldn’t wear a hat.

candybrie,

You can do ivf without that. It would just be very costly, very time consuming, and very frustrating. You just make one embryo at a time. Implant it without testing its viability. If it doesn’t take, do it again. One at a time. It’s an absolutely idiotic way to do it. But it is possible.

candybrie,

Don’t worry. You likely wouldn’t remember even if you were taught. 5280 feet/mile is just not worth the brain space. Neither is 8 pints/gallon. I don’t think you would convert between the two often enough to make it useful information to just know.

And I do have to look up those prefixes for the less used ones. It’s exa then peta or peta then exa and what’s bigger than them? What’s smaller than nano? I don’t remember because it rarely comes up. But I’m in tech, so it’s starting to more.

candybrie,

If we abolish DST, I think we should tweak some of our timezones. With dst, where I’m at the sun is currently rising before 5. If we kept standard time, it would be up before 4. Sun rise at 3 something and sunset at 7 something is really out of whack with how most people want sun allocated to their day.

candybrie, (edited )

I think it depends on where you are in your timezone if you prefer DST or standard time. But most people seem to not like changing the clock. It just turns into a fight if we should stay on DST or standard time year round.

Of those 62% that indicated they would like to get rid of the practice of changing the clocks entirely, exactly half of them prefer the option of later sunrises and sunsets, as in year-round daylight-saving time, compared with 31% preferring year-round standard time.

businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-polling-…

candybrie,

I’d honestly rather the switching than ending up on standard time year round.

candybrie,

The power to select the speaker of the house. They really did make a mess of that. Twice.

candybrie,

If everyone stopped eating meat, would there still be slaughter houses in 5 years?

candybrie,

He was not found guilty of an attempted fascist takeover. This is the falsified business records case. It’s the most trivial case against him. Going after the jurors who convicted him in this case is going to be chilling on the juries for the cases that matter so much more.

candybrie,

But if you truly believe in the religion, what does that change?

Like I can absolutely abhor some of the things people have done in the name of medicine and often are still doing, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop going to doctors when I’m sick. Because I fundamentally believe in medical science and that I’m more likely to die without them. If you are raised catholic, there’s a good chance you fundamentally believe your eternal life is better if you continue to follow the religion. Sure, I probably have more proof, but their belief is just as strong.

candybrie,

Also chicken pox sucks. If they made a vaccine for hand, foot, and mouth, I’d get my kids vaccinated and that’s mild compared to chicken pox.

candybrie,

What makes you think that? Trump voters love him. Between the economy and Israel’s actions, Biden voters are pretty damn disaffected at this point. It was close last time (he won the tipping point state by a mere 0.6%), so it doesn’t take too many people staying home to result in Trump winning.

candybrie,

No one is going to vote for Trump over Gaza. They’re just not gonna vote. And you must live in some kind of bubble if you think Trump supporters have changed their minds over the last 4 years. Some of them have since 2016. But if they supported him in 2020, they’re supporting him now. Trump doesn’t need anyone new to vote for him, just for a small percentage of people who showed up for the record turn out election in 2020 to not this time around.

candybrie,

They don’t have to be the majority. They just have to show up to vote in some swing states where Biden voters don’t bother. President isn’t based on who has the majority. It’s based on a) turn out and b) electoral college. It doesn’t matter if everyone and their mom turn out to vote democratic in California. It matters if about 20,000 people in Wisconsin who voted Biden last year decide it isn’t worth the trouble this year.

candybrie,

With how unpopular Trump and Biden are, it’s probably easier to lose as the sitting president. I don’t know anyone happy with the state of the country, and that’s generally blamed on the president.

candybrie,

Do you happen to personally know a bunch of 2020 Trump voters who are voting Biden this time around? I have no idea where you’re getting this confidence from.

candybrie,

Maryland is blue and doesn’t matter. Similarly, Nebraska went for the republican candidate by more than a 20 point margin in 2020.

If you want to use that argument, how many people voted for “noncommitted” in the Michigan democratic primary? People don’t even have another option but are going out to vote “not Biden” in an actual swing state.

candybrie,

MI went for Trump in 2016 and broke for Biden by less than 3% in 2020. If those “noncommitted” voters didn’t show up, it would be a problem for Biden. Whereas if the Haley voters didn’t show up in Nebraska and Maryland, it would not be a problem for Trump.

candybrie,

From a blogpost i found there are aparently some 70-ish pizzerias per person in NYC, whereas there are 400+ per person in sweden

There are more pizzerias than people? Or is it 70 people to each pizzeria in NYC and 400 people to each in Sweden? Or like 70 pizzerias to 1000 people?

candybrie,

Sure, but more pizza places than people doesn’t seem feasible. It would require something like everyone in NYC works multiple pizzerias by themselves.

candybrie,

Girl Scouts are secular. They’re completely different organizations rather than two branches of the same organization.

candybrie,

The Girl Scouts absolutely do not accept cis boys.

candybrie,

They accept trans boys, trans girls, and nonbinay kids. So they do allow some boys. Just not cis boys.

I think they allow male leaders because it’s hard to get people to volunteer for that position without even limiting to one gender.

candybrie,

Alcohol and tobacco are specifically not scheduled. They don’t even fall under the same regulatory agency. They get their own special one with firearms of all things.

candybrie,

Sometimes, I confuse cramps and hunger pangs. There’s also cravings that can be associated with periods.

candybrie,

That other countries do it doesn’t make it not horrifying. Almost all your examples are horrifying.

Only the last one isn’t. Being held pending trial if you threaten to flee the country? That makes sense.

candybrie, (edited )

North America and South America are 2 continents in a lot of models. What definition are you using that has them as one? I’m always pretty skeptical of the ones that have Europe and Asia but then just America.

candybrie,

If we’re shooting for the stars, for election reform, I think we might need proportional representation. First-past-the-post is only one problem in our first-past-the-post, winner-take-all voting system.

candybrie,

I think that’s always going to be the case. I’m not sure how to fix that beyond direct democracy, and even then, you generally still have to have some group drafting the laws and most people only get to decide yes or no. Trying to govern a large group of people on a large number of issues is just a hard problem.

candybrie,

Don’t forget about the settlement funds most people need to have.

candybrie,

Sturgies was talking about the person confusing the two. Shou was talking about the person staring into the void. Confusion ensues

candybrie, (edited )

Generally, how DNA tests work is by selecting points in the DNA and comparing the two samples. The more points you compare, the more likely you have a true match. If you don’t compare enough points, or pick places in the DNA that are unlikely to have much variability across the population, you’ll get all matches on those points and say it’s a match. For paternity testing, you’re looking for ~50% matches.

Though, in this case, it does look like they were just making stuff up:

Richot said she was coached to ask women seeking prenatal paternity test kits about times in their menstrual cycles and the dates they had intercourse with different men — information that is useless for a DNA test.

Staff put the dates into an online ovulation calendar to narrow down the possible biological father, she said. Richot then entered the information into a form that went to Tenenbaum for signoff.

“[Tenenbaum] would always make a comment like: ‘It’s definitely this one [the biological father]. It’s this one, it’s got to be this one,’” said Richot.

candybrie,

And it’s not like we don’t love other fungus. Any yeasty bread contains fungus (yeasty breads include most nonquick beads or flat breads and like cinnamon rolls or pizza crust).

candybrie,

“Also” doesn’t make sense in context.

I think this miscommunication is more on you for taking it as an attack towards yourself when it was pretty clearly suspicious towards at&t, not you. In the future, I suggest trying to read things as charitably as possible. It will make forums a much more pleasant place if you don’t immediately assume aggression based on pretty innocuous words.

candybrie,

At&t lost a bunch of people’s SSNs

Why do they even have SSNs to lose?

To check for terrorism

(Also/but) that doesn’t mean they need to store it.

Be honest. Which word actually makes sense?

candybrie,

How?

candybrie,

The problem with your analogy is either the people of the religion need to view it as botulism or the vast majority of society needs to view those people as botulism.

The people of the religion are at best going to see it as tobacco. I hate tobacco; smoking isn’t pleasurable, it just makes me feel sick. But there are people who love it. You and I may see their religion as devoid of anything good, but to them it’s good. They are often born into it and want their religion with the negatives you and I see. It has nothing to do with liberal Christians.

And it is not liberal Christians that make it so we don’t reach the threshold of the vast majority of society not tolerating the bad Christians. The bad Christians are a sizeable enough part of society on their own to guarantee that. And as a society, we’re fairly geographically sorted. So even if they were only 5% of the population, they’d still often be surrounded by like-minded individuals and be able to wield political power. Plus, they’re still people. Even the most evil people generally have some redeeming qualities.

candybrie,

I’m not sure how we fry this fish without fixing our voting system. There’s no real incentive for anyone to do better in the current system.

candybrie,

Just electing someone who isn’t a christofacist isn’t a solution. You need the choice to stop being between X and christfacism every election. X is going to lose an election at some point. People are going to stop believing that this is the most important election and of our lives, and we need to overlook anything wrong with X.

candybrie,

I didn’t say waste your vote on 3rd parties. I said to get out of this christofacist death spiral, we probably need to fix our voting system. Obviously, that isn’t going to happen in one election cycle. But we need to be pushing that reform. Because the next election cycle isn’t going to magically be any better than this one without it.

candybrie,

1TB is good for an SSD. But the main reason anyone gets a HDD is to get storage sizes that they can’t really afford in SSDs currently.

candybrie,

It’s usually not “To residents in California” but “…contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause…” So they’re just referencing the list California keeps. Which may be different than anyone else’s list.

candybrie,

Prices usually don’t fall. Falling prices are generally seen as really bad. Prices instead stop going up so fast.

candybrie,

Damn those visual people. Remembering what things look like rather than what they’re called. Bunch of idiots.

candybrie,

Every comment they made in their original thread was complaining about the mean response. Even to the really nice ones.

candybrie,

They’re not making fun of him for his request. They’re making fun of him for being so upset about someone telling him he types wrong that he needs to bring it up in every response and even make a meme about it.

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