[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

Yes, and as we've seen, when you make changes to education which are intended to push a specific political agenda, it always galvanizes opponents of that agenda to go out and vote. So we need to be very careful how that sort of thing is handled.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm walking him ATM but it looks like it says "Nite Ize" on the side

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Bought mine at a pet shop

[-] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

FYI there's another style of LED collar which is not a full collar but rather a rectangular strip of LEDs that you can attach to any collar. That way it can't be outgrown.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

Wikipedia has a sister site which is full of travel information: http://wikivoyage.org/

Cities and towns big and small are on there. Usually with helpful info about how to get around a the destination and how to access its attractions, as well as any local customs. It was a godsend for us on my recent trip to France with my dad

[-] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

For real. I recently traveled to Europe with my dad and I was going to buy a traveler's SIM card in the airport when we landed, and he was like "nah those are a scam, we'll get one from a phone carrier once we are in the city. The ones at the airport price gouge you". Fast forward to us getting the wrong kind of sim card, blowing like 80 euros on something that doesn't have mobile data, needing to go to an Orange place in every city we visited to find out why the SIM we bought stopped working after we used it for data for ten minutes (we had burned 50 euros of credits that quickly because it wasn't meant to be used for data), and going most of the trip desperately attaching ourselves to anywhere with free wifi just to check in with our family back home.

Eventually we gave up and bought the sort of traveler's SIM they would have sold us in the airport from one of the street kiosks in Paris. The first 2/3 of our trip was other cities around France, which don't have that sort of kiosk and don't have as big of an international tourism industry. It worked perfectly.

Just get the ones from the airport. They are specifically for travelers as opposed to just being the local carrier's prepaid option.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I half agree with you. I think it's very naive to say that things will turn out okay in the short term with respect to one specific event like an election. There's simply not enough reason to say that with any certainty.

But the broader point that things will be okay in the medium to long term, I do agree with. Things have a way of sorting themselves out, if not to a better state, then to at least a less intense one.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago

First name: Larry

Last name: Ann

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You're conflating correlation with causation.

Causation: Most homebrewing is a moderately expensive hobby, and so will skew toward middle class people

Correlation: where you are located, middle class people are probably majority white. Also probably the majority of people in your area in general are white. Also the majority of people in general are straight.

If you were in Japan or Colombia or Jamaica, middle class people would not be majority white.

As for the male thing, brewing beer is viewed as a more masculine hobby. Call it a self fulfilling prophecy. Many women probably choose not to join the hobby because they view it as not something women should do.


As an aside, it's helpful to learn about Bayesian statistics in order to interpret trends and observations that you see in the world around you. Here's an example:

Paige is a young woman. Paige enjoys reading books and has a quiet demeanor. She also enjoys drinking coffee and watching romantic comedies.

What is more likely?

A) Paige is a ~~teacher~~ librarian

B) Paige is a farmer

Most people answer ~~teacher~~ librarian, but the answer is that Paige is overwhelmingly more likely to be a farmer. Simply because there are orders of magnitude more farmers than ~~teachers~~ librarians in the world.

Edit: this would have made more sense if I said librarian instead of teacher. Let's all just pretend I did 😅

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

We literally did come up with new terms after the cold war. We now say Developing and Developed nations.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I keep getting banned from some places for no reason, no insults, no replies or not obeying the rules... Mods have too much power.

Ban evasion is a bannable offense. That's the rule you keep breaking. Also you can look at the mod log to see why you get banned. The reasons for you have been "trolling" and "incel shit" which are very deserved based on your posting history.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago

Something like this happened to me as well, but it didn't directly impact my grades. In the 7th grade my teacher accidentally locked herself out of the shitty filing cabinet that was standard issue in every classroom. I had learned from my cousin a couple of really basic Lockpicking techniques, just raking and jiggling, nothing with actual pin picking.

I told her I could try to open it with a paperclip and she was like "yeah okay sure lol" totally sarcastically. I get down there, bend open a paperclip, and start trying to jiggle or rake the pins up. This process looks a bit like I'm struggling to do anything, so she immediately goes "see? You can't actually open it". I told her I just needed to get the mechanism to catch the pins, she became completely insufferable, and started making fun of me for being a 7th grader who knew a 10 dollar word like "mechanism". I honestly wish I was making this part up but for the rest of that school year she joked about me... knowing the word "mechanism". What a fuckin' nerd amiright?

Anyway I got the cabinet open after maybe a minute of fucking around with the lock and she barely even thanks me at all, mostly just acts sheepish because she probably never believed I could do it, and suddenly realized that a student could break into her cabinet where she keeps her teaching materials (not that I ever would have)

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Back in my days on Reddit, my favourite feature was the ability to hide individual posts if I had downvoted them. It made it easy to hide things which I didn't want to see or felt shouldn't be seen

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Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

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I assume that of course we are posting the iconic Lower Decks character who is Peanuthamper's father.

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How exactly do the Klingons justify using cloaking ships, a strategy which necessarily involves sneaking up on an enemy and catching them unaware? Wouldn't sneak attacks conflict with their notion of honour?

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The party finds a secret door. Not knowing what's on the other side, they send the fighter in first. The fighter pushes open the secret door. As it swings forward it pushes aside a corpse on the other side that apparently died trying to pry open the secret door and escape from the next room.

The fighter steps over the corpse, walks into the room, looks around, sees there are no enemies immediately attacking him, and says to the rest of the party "come on in guys, looks like it's safe in here!"

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