It doesn't work for me

Not European, but from a country that also uses the metric system. We give out our height in meters, as you said. Saying it in cm would be okey for medical reasons I suppose. Also there isn't much difference in what unit you use, you just have to multiply/divide by 100, which is easily done in your head

There's really no debate about it.

The golden rule of the internet. Anything hated at release has a high chance of becoming beloved once those who grew up with become adults.
Truly bad stuff at release simply ends up forgotten.
Nostalgia is way more powerful than rage

We discarded Descartes

Think of a ball pit filled with balls of different colours. After a session of intense playing in it, presumably all the balls will have been mixed up. It's now in a state of high entropy, where all of the balls are evenly distributed across the pit. But now, what if I wanted to enter the pit and sort the balls by colour? We would then have a corner of blue balls, a corner of red ball, etc. we have invested energy in the system and sorted the balls by colour, they are now 'ordered', and in a low entropy state. We know this state won't last long though, once we get it and play the balls are gonna end up inevitably mixed up once again, the balls are going to end up in a high entropy equilibrium again.

It's not a 'scary cosmic horror', it's not even a force. It's a principle, a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. In any isolated system, its energy will always strive towards balance, (eg, in a isolated room where one corner is hot and another cold, the temperature eventually will balance in a equilibrium). From this process of homogenization is where we derive the term entropy. Any homogeneous system has high entropy, for instance, as it is the tendency in any system for its components to be uniform. As a descriptor, one can measure in any system its level of entropy.
In regards to your question, entropy doesn't have a will of its own, so it wouldn't have set out to stop the formation of the solar system. But eventually, the solar system WILL reach a state of high entropy, once the sun (the one providing the energy that keeps the solar system going) runs out of fuel and goes supernovae

In Córdoba Argentina weather has been getting crazy these last few years. We've been constantly getting 40°C+ temperatures in summer, an even in winter we've hit the 40°C mark (in the middle of July, mind you). Last year we only had like two days in the whole year where we managed to get minus 0°C temperatures

Who cares about the environment when we could be hoarding more money. Can anybody please think about those poor CEOs? :(

You gotta honor the cock

We really need to set up those niche communities here in Lemmy like they have on the other place. I really need one here for dimension20's and dropout's content

Hair dye DID exist in medieval times tho, and in fact, even ancient Egyptians dyed their hair

The editor's choice to not include apple movies because it's a 'tech company' is bizarre, and really makes me doubt the article's integrity and motives

I was taken aback by his performance in Foundation (given that he plays several versions of the character as each iteration of Cleon and they all feel distinct). Such a good actor!

That's what happens when the people running your government are paid by Russia

Lee Page supremacy

Watching from an outside of the U.S. perspective, it leaves me speechless seeing how staggering the transition was from 'bastion of democracy and the free world' to 'increasingly malfunctioning society with russian-like values'

Bureaucracy is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

These are photographs, actually

Everybody knows feelings are stored in the heart, the same as pee being stored in the balls