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What are some small things that grind your gears?
  • When people use "different" with a preposition other than "from". (Different to, different than)

    I know it's not technically wrong, but it just feels so wrong.

    Also, when people add a phantom R between two words. "I'm a big fan of cinema 'r' and video games."

    Both stem from me not being a native English speaker, I think.

  • South Carolina to execute Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors: ‘Grant him mercy’
  • And on top of that.

    If you must have the death penalty (and really I'd challenge that but for the sake of argument let's say they must).

    Then injections are one of the worst ways you can do it. Hanging and beheading are much more humane ways to end someone's life.

  • Why are so many Pro-Palestine (I am pro-Palestine and anti-genocide) Americans refusing to vote for Harris due to her stance on Israel?
  • In a ranked choice system or other better voting system, yes.

    In the current system, voting for anyone but the least bad choice among the two that stand a chance is almost like giving your vote to the one that has the best chances, regardless of your preferences.

    Look up the spoiler effect in elections.

    Or, CGP Grey has an excellent explanation of the whole thing.

    https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom

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    Discovering new communities

    One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.

    On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.

    Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

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    Can you safely heat people with microwaves?

    Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.

    That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.

    Could we safely do that with people?

    I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.

    Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?

    Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?

    Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?

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    ELI5: Why is high frequency trading allowed?

    I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.

    My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.

    There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.

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