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Carrolade

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    Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • 25 years is pretty extreme, it's not like we need to wait decades for whole fields of research to occur before we have our own opinions--we're not academics with a responsibility to not spout random bullshit. Being randos on the internet, spouting bullshit is actually one of our primary activities.

    4 years is probably sufficient to keep the volume reasonably balanced.

  • Well, we had a good couple of decades of these types of videos.

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  • When you put it that way, it is kinda sad.

  • Do you think you would survive if you received every injury of your life at once?

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  • Depends if I can get my phone unlocked and call an ambulance or not. Unassisted I'm probably bleeding out, but if I can get to a hospital then I can probably make it. I do wonder how much skin I'll even have left at this point, considering the sheer number of cuts, scrapes and burns I've had, but blood loss should be the only potentially fatal problem needing to be dealt with immediately.

    Big if, though, my hands would be a busted up mess. Operating a touchscreen would be a pretty big ask, and I probably don't have a lot of time fully conscious. I'd also have several broken bones preventing me from going anywhere to find help.

  • How to avoid hating the opposite gender after reading what they write online?

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  • Pretty simple. Resist the urge to see people based on their membership in this or that group, and instead focus on each individual. People are not responsible for the actions of other people that may seem outwardly similar to them, they are only responsible for their own. Life is harder when you remember this, but it's the honest truth.

  • 'Generational' winter storm set to hit U.S. Here's why it's so significant — and dangerous

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  • If you're not used to winter driving conditions, keep your speed to about half of the posted speed limit, AND allow about double the normal distance for any braking you have to do. Give yourself a little over twice the normal amount of time it'd take you to drive somewhere.

    This is generous, and will generally keep you safe on the road even if you're unaccustomed to the conditions. Ice can still cause (sometimes unavoidable) problems even with these extra allowances, but if you're going slowly and giving the extra distance, any accidents will be at low speed and very minor.

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  • Agreed.

    I would also be curious if she has any areas of interest where she is actually very quick and knowledgeable. If not, that might be cause for concern, but for all we know she just hates the humanities and is actually a wizard at higher mathematics. Especially since she's young, there's no real way to gauge whether it's a lack of general intelligence or just a symptom of complete and total disinterest in a particular subject.

    Also let's not forget that pretty people can often get away with more than average looking people can, so they don't have quite the same degree of pressure to perform in areas where they're uninterested. If a quick, dazzling smile can unlock the ability to copy someone else's homework or get the teacher to grant extra time on an assignment, well, school might be a little easier.

  • The more you learn about human biology and childbirths, the more you'd realize how shitty and inferior this form of existence is...

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  • It's a pros and cons thing. The pros in this case are our upright posture with narrower hips that let us cover long distances more efficiently than most of the rest of the animal kingdom. We can even do things like carry food to eat while walking, which something like an antelope would struggle with. Then a second pro is the whole big brain thing. These two factors did let us take over most of the planet over the course thousands of years, pretty quick work, really.

    Then the cons are high mortality in birth, and taking something like 10 years after that risky birth to become even semi-functional at a practical level.

  • You are the dictator of an island nation 900,000 km² in size, 30,000,000 in population, and a random country in the list of top 10 militaries will attack your country in 10 years; what is your plan?

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  • Okay, fair enough.

    I fail to see the distinction. By OPs prompt, we're getting attacked no matter what once his plot armor expires.

  • You are the dictator of an island nation 900,000 km² in size, 30,000,000 in population, and a random country in the list of top 10 militaries will attack your country in 10 years; what is your plan?

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  • Sea levels rise the same everywhere. And not in 10 yrs it won't.

  • You are the dictator of an island nation 900,000 km² in size, 30,000,000 in population, and a random country in the list of top 10 militaries will attack your country in 10 years; what is your plan?

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  • Ooh, I get to choose the location?

    Fairly close to the North Pole. Our people are adapted to it, assuming the island has always been there somehow. Nobody else is, making the logistics of trying to invade an absolute nightmare for anyone on Earth.

    Now we just have to feed ourselves somehow in the event of a naval blockade, so a lot of investment into ballistic missiles and submarines to make a blockade as difficult as possible and hopefully keep our trade open during the summertime. I assume we're fully reliant on imports that can only come in during that seasonal window. Fishing alone probably can't sustain a population that large, and nothing is going to grow up there.

    Assuming an invasion has to occur in 10 years and cannot be delayed, whoever tries is kinda fucked though.

    If North Pole is cheating, then in the middle of the Pacific with the same plan. Probably can't resist something like the US though in that case.

  • Putin smiles when your wifi fails: he’s waging a war of irritation

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  • The answer was — and is — not to let that panic us or force a change in policy: to keep calm and carry on.

    When you're dealing with a bully, there are times when you have no good alternative than to just punch them back. We have intelligence services and cyberwarfare departments too, if I'm not mistaken.

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  • Riding your bike is exercise, so I'll give that one a pass as a healthier hobby. Reading just depends on what you're reading I suppose. Going to restaurants is generally looked at as a bad habit in my experience. Waste of money basically.

    Regarding what makes video games special, I will say that they can develop bad personal habits a little easier than a lot of other hobbies. I think they have greater addiction potential than say, reading or bike riding. More on par with sex or gambling. They also create a temptation to oversimplify/misunderstand things about real life in the same way tv/movies do.

    But yeah, overall I don't think its a particularly bad hobby if you don't go overboard with them.

  • New Community: Anno Gaming Community - Lemmy.World

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  • Very nice. I think if we want to grow the Fediverse, these types of communities are among the most important of all. Lots of people use social media to ask questions/find answers/show off about specific games/hobbies.

    Hope you stick with posting content during the slow, early days of starting a new community.

  • What fandom or community is the hardest to please?

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  • Just imagine if you ordered a jack and coke, and you had no way of knowing if they're actually going to give you watered-down diet coke and the mildest single malt scotch they could find, or cherry coke and a really intense rye, or anything in between. And at every new place, it's just a gamble what you'll get.

    That's kinda what its like.

  • What fandom or community is the hardest to please?

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  • IPA wackos, I can’t stand this places IPAs because they don’t put a whole roasted chicken in the cup with the beer.

    ... yea okay, that's fair.

    Still though, IPAs run a huge gamut for some reason. I feel like the degree of variety you find in the IPA category is really strangely big. Like, if I order a stout or a porter I know about what I'm going to get, flavor-wise. But with an IPA it can run from fairly mild to way-past-grapefruit-juice.

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    How good does the sex have to be for you to deal with your partners bullshit?

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  • Depends on what type of bullshit.

    On one end, if the bullshit is just "my partner wants me to give a fuck about them", and you don't want to have to do that, then decent sex might be enough to make you consider changing your mind, if you're also compatible in other ways.

    On the other end, if the bullshit is "my partner has psychotic breaks and chases me around the house with a chainsaw", I don't think any quality of sex would really merit consideration in the bigger picture, given how short your lifespan might become.

    So, there's something of a scale there, and it partly comes down to what you personally consider bullshit to be. People won't agree on that, it's a personal thing.

  • ‘We are Russia’s next target’, warns Nato chief on Berlin visit – Europe live

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  • They're headed in that direction, but not yet. Their pop is 143 mil roughly, and the Ukrainian estimates are a little over 1 mil Russian casualties last I heard.

  • ‘We are Russia’s next target’, warns Nato chief on Berlin visit – Europe live

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  • They could roll in with tanks, if enough pro-Russian parties came into power in the EU. The Baltic countries are not very big. Creating a situation where an Article 5 is called by a small country, but not answered, would be the ideal result.

    Let's also not forget that Putin has only done a very limited amount of mobilization so far.

  • Community outraged after California high schoolers form a human swastika

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  • attributed the incident in part to a lack of proper Holocaust education and historical context on hate symbols, such as the swastika. “We have absolute faith that if the district takes actual measures to teach students the right lessons about being inclusive and anti-hate, that Jews are a minority that deserve compassion and understanding and deserve to be equal to everyone else in this education system, then that would be a huge step towards tomorrow’s society,” she said.

    No, I'm afraid not. They've likely been preemptively inoculated against lessons by anti-intellectual sentiment, lessons will not cut it. They won't trust anything that might be attributable to a "deep state".

    You need a more natural, more grounded style of communication if you want to have a chance.