calcopiritus @ calcopiritus @lemmy.world

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Don't worry, I'm not American, I don't have to stick with no American political party.

You claim that you have other options. Which ones are those? The third parties that will never win because the system strongly favours a 2-party system?

I don't understand where in my comment I'm saying anyone should kill themselves.

Nobody wants just 5% less fascism. But your options are full fascism or 5% less.

What are you gonna do? Not vote for either party? You just removed a vote from 5% less fascism.

The reality is, there is a fuckton of fascists in america. If you want no fascism you gotta for for less fascism first, to signal to the political parties what you want. When they see that less fascism gives them votes, they will shift towards less fascism until there is none.

Just like Americans signaled so much that they want more fascism, that both the republicans and democrats got more fascists.

The Asian lady letting the vampires in, I have no issue with. Since it makes in-universe sense.

However, there are things that do not.

Why did the first lady vampire go outside? She was already let in. They didn't yet know how to defeat vampires. She just got shot at, and she's immune to gunfire as it was clearly shown.

And why did the vampires risk it until it was so close to sunrise? The vampire is presumably thousands of years old. He clearly knows that daylight kills him. He knows how to stay safe from sunlight. Any sane vampire would've just killed the last of them tomorrow.

The vampire didn't die because the main characters were smart and trapped him or something. It died because of a stroke of luck. They didn't even resist until daylight, they were massacred, they "won" because the vampire couldn't kill them fast enough, so 2 of them barely survived.

Also, it was a disappointment that the native Americans didn't have a more important role. All they did was basically say "be careful". I got the impression that they were actively hunting the vampire, was a disappointment that they never appeared again.

Other than that, it was a good movie and I enjoyed it.

As an analogy, just like dragging a 1000kg at 1m/s is not the same experience as dragging a 10g sphere at 1m/s. The same thing happened "something moved at 1 m/s", yet they were very distinct experiences.

That being said, Occam's razor applies here. If it's the same brain activity, it probably results in the same experience.

But there's still room for doubt. Since brains don't all have the exact same amount of neurons arranged in the exact same way. And their chemical composition might be slightly different. They also change with age.

I don't think science can prove definitely that a slightly different brain structure won't result in a different perception of color. Just like it can't prove/disprove the existence of god. Some questions are just unsolvable. But science can get far enough so we say "this is probably true/false"

What happens is that there's 5% less fascism. And also it doesn't increase by whatever amount the fascism party would've increased it by.

The other things would've also happened (and more even!) under the fascism party.

I do enjoy cleaning code a lot.

When I work on shitty code I'm always thinking about how shitty it is and thinking on how a different design would make it much easier.

When you clean the code, you're implementing that perfect design you were thinking of all that time. And you know from that point on you'll be thinking less about how shitty the code is.

If your only task is to clean code and you're not gonna work on that codebase afterwards, it's not as rewarding though.

In these situations, governments treat things like "Whatsapp" or "telegram" as social media.

They don't ban social media so tech corps don't fuck their population. They ban social media so their population can't organize against them.

Due to the lack of arms, I believe that is supposed to be her back.

We hate trump. And we saw all the US brands suck Trump's dick as soon as he got elected. Of course we aren't going to buy from brands that suck Trump's dick.

As a Spanish native I was very surprised when I learnt that "soy" and "estoy" both are translated as "I am" in English.

You can either be something because it is something inherent to your being "I am a happy person" or be something at this moment "I am happy". Both are expressed by the same verb, but mean very different things. In Spanish it would be "Soy una persona feliz" and "Estoy feliz".

Except for nuclear (fusion and fission) and geothermal, every form of energy comes from the sun eventually.

Fossil fuels used to be living forms, that got their energy from either other life forms or photosynthesis. Maybe geothermal for deep sea creatures.

And even fission and geothermal you could argue it's solar. Not from our sun, but from other stars, that formed the atoms. Both the radioactive ones and the ones that are hot inside the planet.

The "drop the array and slice syntax" is just nuts. With 0 justification.

Migrant to me is the more accurate word.

Migration can be seen from 2 viewpoints, "emigration" and "immigration". Depending if you are looking from the country of origin or the destination.

However, in this headline neither the origin nor the destination is mentioned, therefore it doesn't make sense from either point of view. Therefore the viewpoint-agnostic "migrant" makes more sense to me.

You think drivers from your <country/state/city> are bad? That's because you have never driven in my <country/state/city>

That sounds like such a stressful life. Having to constantly police not only your property but your neighbours property.

And that just won't work when the aggressor is mightier than your local community, which doesn't sound hard at all. Or if your neighborhood is more friendly towards your aggressor than towards you. Which would also end up in constant drama.

I don't like your solution at all.

We'll. Since I'm uneducated, you could try explaining why I'm wrong instead of making fun of me.