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  • That isn't the limitation though, it's the consequence. The phrasing of the tweet is extremely memable, but thinking about it for 5 seconds should make you realize that negative prices mean they REALLY need to get rid of it. Because having too much energy in the grid is a problem.

  • Tiny fish found to have sophisticated self-awareness only ever seen in some humans
  • That just depends on what you consider the default state to be. Claiming that humans have self awareness, but other animals do not, implies a relationship between species and capability for self awareness. The null hypothesis would imply a lack thereof.

    It would be correct and good to acknowledge that we simply don't know whether a given species is self-aware unless evidence points to one or the other direction. And that is very relevant for moral philosophy.

  • Tiny fish found to have sophisticated self-awareness only ever seen in some humans
  • I've always found that assumption very weird and figure it's rooted in human exceptionalism. Like we must be super special somehow. The more natural assumption to me seems that other animals, given their similar biological makeup, think rather similarly to humans.

  • How serious are you guys when you talk about punching nazis?
  • If they're being violent themselves, or actively advocating for it (as in: in a way that could reasonably cause others to be violent). I'm also not gonna try to stop anyone for punching someone throwing out slurs, though I don't think it's a great response. If it's just "i know this person is a nazi for whatever reason but they act like a normal person" I'm clearly against it and think the punching person is also in the wrong (to be clear, both are). Advocating violence against a group for their beliefs is just something I never consider okay, even if I think those beliefs make them the scum of the earth.

    And even with all that I'd probably still press the magic button that makes all nazis drop dead, but mainly because I believe that would probably improve society quite a bit rather than because I think it is justified against them (since I would argue that really isn't any different from genocide even if it doesn't quite fit the definiton). That might make me a bit of a hypocrite, but it's not like that button will ever exist.

  • WA prisons sent 100 staffers to Norway. The goal: A humane system
  • A video chat cannot accomplish meaningful change in a system where the ones in power are heavily entrenched in their attitude. On top of iy just being more convincing to see in person, the article mentions surprise at small things like officers closing doors softly, which would never even get mentioned in a vifeo call because it is completely natural to the norwegians who would never consider doing anything else.

  • Harald Lesch: Wir haben es beim Klimawandel verkackt
  • Ich glaube, das ist auch weniger gemeint als "ja es ist zu spät" und mehr als "wir hätten was dagegen tun können, denn wir wussten davon, und habens trotzdem nicht. Also komplett unsere Schuld."

    Er macht ja auch hoffnungsvolle Reportagen, der ist kein doomer.

  • Keeping the aliens away
  • It might be per household vs. people with a firearm registered to them personally? (Note i have no idea how firearm registration works in thr US but it's the first explanation that comes to mind since your source is specifically "adults living in a household with at least one firearm")

  • Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread
  • Honestly if you approach genshins probabilities for 5* with anything other than "50% i get at max pity, 100% at 2x max pity" you're doing it wrong so I'd argue in that sense it's dead simple. 4* being less guaranteed feels like a problem though, you're not that much more likely to get the 4* you want from a banner than the 5*, and there's no guarantee you'll ever get it at all. And ime a LOT of people don't realize that (though I still don't think getting a rough idea of that is particularly complicated).

    Having outright "if you spend x in game currency, you are x% likely to get the thing you want" info does seem like a reasonable requirement.

    And personally the reason i spent more on genshin than any other gacha is that i had a reasonably priced guarantee instead of having to gamble at all, it felt more like buying chars for a set price with bonus loot boxes.

  • Common mistakes when using the metric system
  • Of english keyboards. Which honestly annoys the hell out of me because I am very used to german keyboards which do have it, but I switched to UK layout at some point because I generally prefer it. It's like the one thing I miss.

  • Seriously.
  • K is just shifted °C though and just removes what's nice about it with freezing/boiling of watee while requiring 3 digit numbers for every temperature you'd encounter in daily life. I think I'd rather use Fahrenheit

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