PoopingCough @ PoopingCough @lemmy.world

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You're not wrong with your sentiment but i think it's pretty safe to say that if we find life on Mars it's gonna be trapped in ice somehow or deep below the surface. Besides having next to no atmosphere, it also has no magnetosphere which means it takes the full blast from solar radiation. Nothing living on Earth could survive outside on the surface of Mars.

Um, I'd start with the current Supreme Court and their striking down of Roe v Wade?

One of the best parts of that movie Don't Look Up is that at the very end the super wealthy people made it to a distamt planet and were just immediately eaten by aliens because they had no idea what was going to be on the planet.

This is very interesting but dang that Wikipedia page is kind of a mess compared to what I'm used to seeing

Is there video of it? I didn't see any in the article and usually video isn't allowed in a courtroom no?

Private companies are allowed to have many failures before they succeed, unlike NASA who lose public goodwill and therefore potentially lose funding when they fail. SpaceX blew up a ton of rockets before they succeeded in having the first reusable rocket. It's much faster to iterate this way but also more expensive, so NASA cant really operate this way. Although on the other hand all the private aerospace companies seem to rely on government subsidies so it's pretty crappy we cant just fund NASA more.

Yeah i think the problem is when you just let them talk they will quickly change the subject and start up the gish gallop so interrupting is the only way to actually stay on topic. Otherwise you're just giving them a platform to spew a hundred lies without having a chance to refute anything.

What do you mean? From that wiki page it looks like personal income tax is more than 5 times what is brought in from corporations

I got an undergrad degree in economics. I was not a great student, pretty middle of the road really, but negative externalities is one thing that really stuck with me because it pretty much instantly shuts down libertarians/free market capitalists. And when that happens the mask usually comes off and you find out they're actually just Republicans looking to downplay their racism/fascism.

There is literally no way to be upfront about communicating 'I have no interest in what you are saying and wish you would stop talking' without coming off like an asshole and/or hurting their feelings most of the time.

But it wouldn't help really at all? Seems like a waste of political capital when mail in ballots/mutliple voting days would actually help something.

But a federal holiday doesn't really help though right? People working at Wendy's don't get existing federal holidays off so it wouldn't change for the majority of people who can't get to the polling stations because of what job they have.

But if it were like he's suggesting, people would complain that those characters final(ish) actions were out of character and it would make no sense for them to do those things. Just because you can see something coming doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable to watch. If you saw two trains heading towards each other on one track you wouldn't look away simply because the you see the outcome coming. There's a difference between foreshadowing and being predictable and imo it's not good criticism.

Don't apple products require you to sign in with an apple id to use them together?

Got a source for this?

Did he tho? I've cooked and dealt with customers and I've packed boxes and packing boxes feels wayyyyy easier to me

I disagree; to me it sounds like they're talking about crimes of passion like gunning down a spouse etc. These are the majority of gun homicides but you don't hear about them much because one or two people killed isn't 'newsworthy' on it's own anymore. True mass shootings are infrequent comparatively but because of that and by their nature they're what we hear about. True we shouldn't be regulating based on relatively infrequent tragedies but they can draw attention to firearm homicides as a whole which are a serious issue and not always related to mental health issues in the same way.

Mass shootings account for only 0.1% of firearm homicides.

If you're interested in this game at all at a pro level check out T90 on twitch. He streams pretty much all tournaments and is just genuinely a good dude.

This is such a weird "america bad" take; having universal healthcare has nothing to do with wanting to hold corporations accountable for their shitty behavior.