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3% annual raise isn’t a raise. When someone gets a 3% raise after a year they are literally making exactly what they started at if inflation is 3% annually.

Noooo it’s broken!

Germany did not change after WWII, Nazi higher ups got positions in West German government and as leaders in NATO.

Harry, it’s an inanimate fucking object.

But this way gives credit to Josh for the joke

My first calculus class was in 2018 or 2019 and before they taught us any of the derivative rules they showed us the first principles derivation, so the fact that they just skipped right to the shortcuts for you is wack. For us it was more of “this is how you find the equation for the slope of a line at any point. But guess what, here’s some rules so you don’t have to do this squeeze formula every time!”

That last part.

Is there such a thing as unhinged benevolence? That’s awesome

“I unno” isn’t all that rare to see typed out

This is true, all Americans are going to hell /s

My parents are constantly pushing me to own a car.

I have a license because it is a convenient all-in-one piece of ID. I abstain from car ownership because cars fucking suck. They’re expensive to buy, expensive to insure, expensive to maintain, expensive to run, expensive to drive, and you can’t even use your phone* while going places. Car ownership is just overall a bad deal. I’m much happier taking public transit, even if it sucks ass and is twice as slow to get anywhere.

*If you unironically counter this point you should be prevented from ever getting behind a wheel for the rest of your life. Fuck you for putting my and other people’s lives in danger for your own convenience.

It’s not too expensive, it’s just more expensive than getting hydrogen from fossil fuels, so the only reason you’d electrolyze hydrogen from water right now is if you’re trying to be green.

Hydro-LOx (read: water) is one of the most efficient conventional fuels, and it’s in use in NASA’s Space Launch System powering the Artemis program.

Even if you assume somehow all the fresh water has disappeared, there’s still solar-powered electrolysis to create hydrolox from sea water.

Taking a natural language question and providing a foothold on a subject by giving you the vocabulary so that you can research a topic on your own.

“What is it called when xyz.”

And thus we see why UBI will never be a solution. You need an overwhelming political movement by the people outside the electoral system. And if you can force through UBI, why would you, when the people could actually take the reins.

Also there is no “point of no return.” Every extra kilogram of CO2 is an extra small increase in temperature. The more we emit, the worse it gets. It’s not on-off.

Love how when someone has issues with Linux but not Windows somehow it’s pebkac. Classic annoying Linux user response.

Telsa

In uni they told us part of the purpose of lab coats was to be able to take it off quickly without second thoughts about sentimental value in case of e.g. fire.

You want to leave large swaths of our own land uninhabitable without lengthy and expensive cleanup that, even after “cleaned up” can still maim and kill people decades after the last shot is fired?

Landmines just straight up suck

Americans don’t get it