GreyEyedGhost @ GreyEyedGhost @lemmy.ca

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How does this explain relaxing penalties for having sex with minors or reducing the age they can marry?

If you haven't had Old Dutch's Mexican Chili you haven't really lived.

My wife has a friend from childhood who isn't as well off as we are (and I wouldn't say we're particularly well off). My wife regularly invites her to dine out, and her friend often says she can't afford to. So she offers to pay. Sometime her friend accepts, sometimes not, because who wants to feel like a mooch? Oftentimes, if she can't afford to dine out, my wife will just go visit her instead. Why? Because we don't think money is a defining part of our lives, and spending time together is what friends do.

And also, we have no efficient way to produce hydrogen...that doesn't start with hydrocarbons. Storage is also an issue. At that point it isn't any better than batteries, and allows us to "transition" from fossil fuels with this intermediate step, like with methane.

I blame it on the editor. What, you don't have one? Neither does the paper, apparently.

The real answer is it's a quote. It may be an inaccurate quote, but it's still a quote. And people used to expect better from professionals, even professional lawmakers, like the ones in this story.

FYI "endemic" and "on its way out" do not mean the same thing.

My wife and a friend were planning on going to the Mall of America before Trump gained power. We said Fuck that and they went to West Edmonton Mall. Similar vibes, got to go on rides, etc., and not in America!

We are also taught to be more fearful through media and our politicians, because scared people are more than willing to give up all kinds of rights. In spite of violent crime and car deaths going down, people are more worried about those things than before. The same holds true for child abductions. The rate of stranger abductions has gone down, but the fear of it happening has gone up.

I'm not saying these things aren't problems or shouldn't be addressed, but they are still less of a risk than previously.

Obligatory.

I'm not sure which how-to's you've come across, but my wanderings led me to this guy, who seems to have a very comprehensive video.

That's who I sent my email to.

There is a difference between confidence and expectation and faith. The scientific method has 5 steps.

1. Question
2. Research
3. Hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Conclusion

Yes, as a general rule, scientists believe a certain outcome will occur. This isn't faith, though, this is an expectation based on their knowledge and the research they've done to design the experiment. They then go on to ignore their beliefs and test it anyway. They do this because they don't operate on faith, they operate on proof. And if the outcome isn't something they expect, which has certainly happened, they then try to find out why, design new experiments, and perform further studies until they have confidence that they have a good understanding of what they're studying.

If they were operating on faith, they could skip all those steps and just go on what they believe, like with Aristotle believing women had fewer teeth. This leads into other related components of the scientific method: verification and repeatability. A good experiment can be repeated by another scientist and get the same results. And why would they repeat the test? Certainly not due to faith!

I think what he said about startups is more pr less true. Of course, with startups you're putting in a lot of work to break into or create a new market, and you get a percentage of that company, too. It certainly isn't for everyone, and most people don't want to do it for their whole career. And expecting that kind of attitude from a regular employee is simply ridiculous.

So stick it up in the post!

That still doesn't answer whether a universal basic cocaine subsidy would solve the problem.

This was more than i expected in this community. Thank you for sharing it.

I was bringing a counterpoint on why spoilers can be good, but (incorrectly) edited it based on another comment saying it was inaccurate. Now, i would have read the spoiler anyway...

I was told I should watch the show, now I really want to watch the show. Even if what you they said is wrong.

If you're going to allow marriage below the age of majority, emancipation should be included. It makes a terrible idea just slightly better.

The hat needs to be more pointy and more straight.