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overcast5348

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  • Burning Up

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  • Lmao are you a penguin or something? Please tell me that you're exaggerating to make a point and aren't seriously saying that you're capable of staying warm at -10°C (14°F) "without an additional heat source."

  • Burning Up

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  • Fahrenheit: let's use "really cold weather" as zero and really hot weather as 100.

    I don't really have a horse in this race but this logic doesn't seem legit to me.

    How is -17°C really cold weather AND 37°C really hot weather?

    One is actively trying to kill you if weren't already dead by the time the weather got that bad. The other just makes your nuts stick to your thighs -- if you're in a humid place.

    I'd agree with the logic if 100F was equal to something like 65°C. 🤷‍♂️

  • Can anyone name some mysteries in stories where the answer ended up delivering and was better than the mystery itself?

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  • And whatever you do, don't watch the sequel. It's quality is the exact opposite of the first movie.

  • i will never understand scientific fraud

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  • Could an American please prove me wrong?

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  • I said "Oooooh right" before you. What now, buddy?

  • Could an American please prove me wrong?

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  • Oooooh right

  • Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people.

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  • What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

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  • What about contamination in disaster sites like Chernobyl or Fukushima? Is that also mainly radioactive substances that we're spread around the area by air/water making the whole place dangerous to live or are other previously-non-radioactive objects radioactive now?

  • What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?

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  • "I shouldn't give them money because drugs"

    I have a roof over my head, eat thrice a day, and have a loving family. Yet there are days when I want to drown myself in alcohol or weed. Who am I to judge a homeless person if they choose to do drugs and forget their suffering for a little while?

    I always give money, if anything, to the few of them in my neighborhood. Whether it's food , clothes, drugs or something else - they know what they need better than I know it.

  • What's Some Tech That Was Better Than It Is Now?

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  • The new ones can do what you want too though. Just press the "clean" button on the roomba twice. Or the "clean everywhere" option in the app, if you've set it up.

    In both cases, it goes wherever it can and returns to the starting point.

  • Why spend money on ChatGPT?

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  • Lemmunity is a great portmanteau of lemmy + community.

  • Junior dev VS FAANMG dev

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  • Is it a positive to have pathogens that cause dengue/malaria in your blood? Yet we still say that someone tested positive for dengue if they have the virus.

    Static analysis tools don't test for all known issues either, no?

    It's all just semantics dude. :)

  • Junior dev VS FAANMG dev

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  • You could say "A static analysis tool is testing for the for the presence of defects" or "a medical test is testing if your body is free of diseases that it can detect" to change how you're looking at either of the tests in the previous comment.

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?

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  • At this point, I'm not sure if I should interpret that as "very recyclable" or "barely recyclable".

  • I want to play with the leopards

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  • pearl clutching

    blue haired

    In my experience these have been two pretty distinct groups with almost zero intersection.

  • Facts

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  • I'm not from the US so correct me if I'm wrong - didn't the governments of US and Canada give away land in what was essentially "bumfuck nowhere"? Isn't land still cheap in comparable locations?

    If only people who live on the property are allowed to own it then prices might go down a bit. Say 50%, a number that I'm pulling out of my ass. I genuinely don't believe that demand in cities will let prices go down by even that much. But even with a 50% crash, a shit ton of people would never get to live in a city (someone who just moved out of their parents' home, someone who is recovering from a loss due to a bad business, someone who just immigrated etc.)

    So what would be the solution to those people? Live in a few hundred kms away from the city and commute every day?

    As much as I'd like to own property in the city that I live in, I don't think banning landlords will lower prices enough for me to buy a house here. So, I'd rather rent and live in the city than go live in some village.

  • Facts

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  • Okay, ignore race, consider only religion.

    People are born into a religion and are free to leave it or embraced a different religion. It is completely in their choice.

    Similarly, people can be born into a family that owns zero to two properties, are free to acquire more or sell what they have. It is completely in their choice.

    Why is it okay to judge one group by the actions of "a few bad apples" and not the other?

  • Facts

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  • No, I'm saying that it's unfair to criticize an entire group of people for the actions of some people who happen to belong to the same group while the rest are perfectly fine contributors to society.

    On the other hand, if the sole purpose of the group is to spread hate/cause unrest/violence then I'd be okay with hating the entire group.

    Hating landlord-ism as a concept makes sense to a certain extent, but I'm yet to see a realistic alternative provided by anyone. Hating landlords is something that I don't agree with. --> this seems to be a controversial stance.

    Along the same lines, I hate religion but I don't hate all religious people. --> this isn't that controversial a stance. They're both essentially the same to me.

  • Facts

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  • I'm a renter, and my parents have never owned a house, so I've dealt with landlords all my life. I don't agree with "landlord bad". Are there shitty landlords? Yes. But it's a leap to go from that to "all landlords are bad".

    Can you imagine the backlash from the same left-leaning group that goes "landlord bad" if you applied the same logic to a racial or religious group?

    Landlords serve an important purpose in the marketplace and any uncontrolled rampant exploitation is a failure of the government and not the entire group of people who sell the service.