[-] [email protected] 37 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It depends on where and when in the US. In areas that are Democratic (the more liberal party) it doesn't really happen much anymore, but in areas that are Republican (the more conservative party) it still happens at the start of every single school day.

And the custom of doing this was started by a salesman trying to sell flags and magazine subscriptions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy#Pledge_of_Allegiance

[-] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

Ok, but here's a real answer. Have you ever sprayed a can of hair spray or wd-40 and the can got cold? That's basically the same process.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks very nice

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is there a reason why you can't get an air conditioner? There's tons of valid reasons why it wouldn't be an option, I'm just wondering what your situation is. Because nothing is ever gonna work anywhere close to as good as an air conditioner. If you can afford even the smallest air conditioner then it'll beat every single diy method in most situations

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

It's good to see that it only has basic instructions and doesn't rely on specific guardrail instructions

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This exactly. At the broadest range you can say there are certain qualities that are more prevalent in one age group compared to another age group, but at the individual person level those trends are meaningless. Any individual person can be conservative or liberal, be caring or selfish, be x or y.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago

Ya know what else causes blindness? Diabetes and obesity.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Wait, is that true? I mean it clearly would be significantly less effective, but would it really not have enough propulsion to go vaguely forward with enough force to penetrate into a body?

[-] [email protected] 257 points 3 weeks ago

I know I'm gonna catch heat for this, but sex-segregated physical competitions is one of the very few places where trans women shouldn't be treated the same. Women's sports competitions aren't segregated by gender, they're segregated by sex. Trans women are women in gender, but their body isn't a biologically female body. That's the exact definition of transgender - when your body's biological sex doesn't match your sense of gender. So by definition, trans women don't have a biologically female body.

The whole point of sex-segregated sports is for people with female bodies to be able to have a fair competition, instead of them not even getting a chance to compete at all because if they had to compete against biological males then almost 100% of females wouldn't even make the team. This is the whole reason why sports competitions are segregated by sex.

TLDR trans women should always be treated as women - except for sex-segregated physical competitions

[-] [email protected] 120 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If their constitution is anything like the United States Constitution and government, then one of the fundamental principals is that not every right is specifically enumerated in the law, meaning just because a thing isn't specifically listed as being a right doesn't mean it's necessarily not a right. Voting is obviously one of those things.

[-] [email protected] 121 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And then there's the famous case of the guy who was super early in on bitcoin and threw away the computer that had the password to the wallet, which eventually wound up being worth hundreds of millions of dollars that are now irretrievable

https://www.businessinsider.com/james-howells-threw-away-bitcoin-dump-masterplan-get-back-2022-7

[-] [email protected] 142 points 9 months ago

In 2020 I voted against Trump, in 2024 I'm voting for Biden.

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