[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

Cursed cat... hands? Paws? Somewhere in between?

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

Especially when Equifax leaked nearly half of all Americans' names, social security numbers, addresses, birthdays, and driver license number in 2017. That info is just out there and we can never remove it.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee -4 points 6 months ago

The difference is that it's the same "you have to make the safe choice now and you'll get to make things better later" every single cycle. Many of us see it all as a facade that will never end, and watch the Democratic Party actively work against our interests in the meantime.

But we can't ever dare express discontent online without vitriol from people who can't seem to handle the fact that others might not be convinced by "I'm not a Republican" anymore.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

This seems like a fun game, but I have absolutely no clue what this one is. Seems like no one else does either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Planck scale units aren't known or typically assumed to be minimum units. They're just the units that come out of combining some fundamental constants and are thought to represent a scale where the effects of quantum gravity have too much effect to be ignored. They just represent a theoretical limit to the validity of our current models.

Human knowledge will continue to push these boundaries as long as humans still exist, but it's arrogant to think our current human limitation is a universal limitation.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

You can call it whatever you want, as long as it equals 1/2 it's the same number.

So yes, multiplying by 2/2 to make it more intuitively obvious is perfectly valid and a good way to think about it. Most arithmetic tricks are ultimately multiplying by 1 or adding 0 just to make the problem easier to handle.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Seriously, why is basic arithmetic worthy of so much discussion?

Just... do the math. It's not complicated math.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 41 points 6 months ago

Well, it is canon that the Abrahamic god kills children en masse sometimes. He does love a good genocide.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Choosing not to prop Trump up as a pied piper during the primaries would also have been a good step. And putting anyone but one of the most unelectable politicians against him would also have been a good idea.

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Agnostic atheist: Doesn't believe in any gods, claims the existence or nonexistence of gods is fundamentally unknowable

Gnostic atheist: Doesn't believe in any gods, claims to know no gods exist

Agnostic theist: Believes in god(s), claims the existence or nonexistence of gods is fundamentally unknowable

Gnostic theist: Believes in god(s), claims to know that those god(s) exist

I think all four types of people exist in decent numbers, but personally I, as an agnostic atheist, think either version of agnosticism is the only logically sound position. Gnosticism just feels disingenuous to me. Unfortunately I get the feeling that Christianity in the US is slipping further and further towards gnostic theism, and with that comes very dogmatic and oppressive rhetoric and actions.

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