CarbonIceDragon @ CarbonIceDragon @pawb.social

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What's the dark twist that these usually have? That they've accidentally introduced a foreign spider that will become an invasive species? That the ship goes abandoned, implying they were all killed in battle and can't return to the ship? Or are they all just afraid of spiders and fleeing the ship rather than charging to attack?

I have to eat really quick on workdays, so I don't always get anything, but usually cereal, or I'll spread applesauce and cinnamon on homemade bread if I've prepared some the last few days. Or recently pan dulce if I happen to have bought any recently because there's a bakery nearby that ive discovered sells it fresh for quite cheap.

Spheres in a vacuum? Physicists must love this.

This is why, for all that getting up at 5 in the morning sucks, I'm glad my job has an early schedule. Having a closing shift effectively erases all the free time that exists that day

To my understanding, elements smaller than iron can produce energy in nuclear fusion reactions (like in stars and such), but bigger elements require a net energy input to make them fuse. Meanwhile, bigger elements eventually decay into smaller ones (though many take an extremely long time). So, given a sufficient not quite eternity of time for everything lighter to get fused together and everything bigger to decay, iron is the midpoint everything ends up as.

I wonder what sailors eat these days. Id guess probably just whatever sort of food exists where they come from, but maybe skewed towards things that keep well for awhile?

C. I'd miss Mexican food but Greek is my favorite and getting Italian food along with seems like a good combo. Unless it isn't just "traditional" foods and you can get everything by just including a country with lots of immigrant groups. (Though, in the latter case, I'd imagine all or most of the slices have at least some people making any given cuisine style given that migration still exists in even not particularly immigrant heavy places.)

Do any birds have horns? (Rather than just horn shaped tufts of feathers)

Not quite in that form, but targeting restrictions on ammunition moreso than the guns themselves is part of my view on that issue. The country is full of guns already, they last practically forever with maintenance, and at the end of the day they're basically just a sturdy tube with some hardware to set the bullet off, and as such it would be difficult to stop illicit manufacturing (3d printed guns and zip guns come to mind). Bullets are at least consumable, require explosive chemicals to make and a gun won't fire without them. If you make it difficult to acquire large amounts at once, then it doesn't matter as much if a gun is modified to be fully automatic either.

On the other hand, drawing pockets somewhere because you just realized that the way you drew the arm means the hands wont reach the pants, and you really don't feel like trying to draw a hand, is something a human might do.

thatd be if it was the british getting opium surely?

Ive long found something amusing about Seveneves's opening line being "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason".

As someone pretty new to linux, what's wrong with snaps? I've seen a lot of memes dunking on them but haven't run into any issues with the couple that ive tried (even had a problem with a flatpack version of a program that the snap version fixed, though I think it may have been related to an intentional feature of flatpacks rather than a bug).

To my understanding, liberalism does value things like that (or at least personal rights and freedoms to some extent, which can include stuff like that). The problem as I see it is that it also includes an overly strong emphasis on personal property rights (for example, one would not expect a liberal government to do something like forcibly nationalize a company, especially without simply buying the shares at market price, because that would be seen as impinging on the rights of the company's owners).

Now, I don't object to all personal property, like a person owning the home they live in or something, but if some people own overwhelmingly more than others, that in itself limits the effective rights of others. For example, a person with more money to spend on lawyers is less likely to face justice for crimes than someone else, a person with enough money to buy ads political lobbyists or even entire media platforms has their speech go much further than someone of average wealth, and even for property rights itself, there's only so much wealth generation to go around and if someone owns a large percentage of it that can't be owned by someone else, those others people's work will end up going to enrich that one owner.

That's why I find liberalism problematic: it's generally well intentioned I think but by failing to ensure a relatively even distribution of wealth, the other values it tries to promote are subverted and slip away, until eventually a few people have enough power to seize authoritarian control.

I tend to think that any system can theoretically be transformed into any other system via a finite number of reforms, if you can exert enough power to force it (which a revolution also requires), thus, I don't see these as a mutually exclusive axis. As far as I see it, the thing about liberalism isn't that they just want to reform the system, it's that they don't want the system to be changed at all by any means, or at least not those aspects of the system that lead to it's being dominated by a small handful of people.

If this is really the first, then pigs are pretty late to the flying barnyard animals game. The bird ones have flown for a long time obviously, but sheep flew as early as 1783

It's sometimes surprising to learn how many of the plants around are edible. Like so often I'll see some common wild plant, wonder what it is, look it up, and discover that some random bit of it is technically edible even though I'd never heard of anyone eating it before.

Kinda reminds me of Vladimir Putin when he was younger

Saying that the lesser evil is less evil has nothing to do with liberalism or any other ideology, it's a tautology, it simply must be true by definition but doesn't actually add any new meaning. The trouble in the scenario presented isn't a voter's attempt to take the least bad option (since taking the other would just get you to the same place but faster), it's having a system that creates only two viable options in the first place, such that "not evil" either isn't even on the ballot or may as well not be.

Ive found Lemmy much less stressful to use since I just turned off vote count visibility. Less urge to check on how my comments are doing despite it not really mattering.