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[–] [email protected] 33 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Compared to the other Uber wealthy, he at least seems to have some sort of a code of ethics from what i can see, which is obviously limited. He's still in it to make money (obviously), but his actions seem to suggest that he won't go to the extreme of hurting everyone else just for money.

I started liking Mark more when he opened cost plus drugs. It's a pretty decent endeavor to try to reduce pharmaceutical costs for the consumer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Half of all marriages, which include people who have been married multiple times. For example, if you have 5 married couples, 4 are on their first marriage and the last couple is on their 6th marriage, then on average 50% of the marriages in this scenario failed. But it doesn't apply to everyone in the same way. Some people even remarry the same person.

The median is much lower.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's not an analogy at all, as it's completely different from what i said earlier. I'm not trying to prove that Earth is moving amazingly fast, I'm trying to show how the headline seems grander than it is.

I also don't think a lot of people realize quite how fast the Earth is moving through space. Saying a million miles an hour really does seem impressive if you don't have that information. But as we speak, we are literally hurtling through space at half that pace.

If we weren't orbiting the sun we would end up orbiting something else at a different speed.

This would be similar to saying that San Bernardino county in California is 20000 sq mi, or about 50k km squared. It's just a number without context. But if i told you it's a county that is it was bigger than both the country of Switzerland and US State of West Virginia, that's added context for size comparison. The way that California divides its county structure does not invalidate this comparison, and is irrelevant.

I'm not really sure what your intent or point is here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I don't think that's entirely fair to say. The headline reads sensationally about a celestial object, but our own sun is traveling at almost half that speed, and we're following it. I'm not trying to prove that the Earth is incredibly fast, only that the headline may sound more impressive than it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Isn't the sun revolving around the center of the milky way at approximately 450,000 mph? And the Earth revolves around the sun, so we're moving about half as fast as this new object right now. One million is pretty fast, but context makes it a little less shocking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not a reddit fan anymore, but this makes me think of r/portugalcykablyat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They almost certainly changed the picture to the one that was using a filter to make it more blue. I'm fairly confident the earlier photo was easier to distinguish

Edit:

I'm being downvoted, but either this thread or another thread did literally use a different picture similar to this before.

https://images.app.goo.gl/VNi1HLeFWEPpex2S6

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you travel, you'll find very interesting combinations of flavors. As a few modest examples, I recently came upon paprika flavored and cheese and onion flavored Pringles, and awhile back i had sake flavored kit kats.

Travel more! Plenty of flavor experimentation going on

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think the joke is that a dominatrix is meant to, well, dominate their client (sexually). Think like with whips and chains, for example. Unfortunately, everything in her house, even the ficus, dominates her. It's a bad first impression and she appears to be unfit for the role.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like a Milchkaffee, which is kinda like a cafe au lait

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They're saying that allegedly, Christians are not big on voting, and this statement is meant to encourage those non voters to come vote just this once and everything will get better. Then you can go back to being a non voter.

I think.

Horrible wording no matter how you slice it, though.

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

I don't think it's fair to publicly show off and simultaneously lightly insult other people (the original post, unless it's ironic and I'm missing the joke, is trying to make such a point) but then not expect any sort of a response. These aren't people just minding their business. These appear to be extremely over confident people who crave public attention, and they (or their friends) are willing to put others down in the process.

I don't think they need to be defended.

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