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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

So does trying for exponential growth, or really selling anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Products can break, people are born and grow up an eventually need to buy that kind of thing. Some of it can break or wear out even if most of it last decades.

The problem is expecting never ending exponential growth because of the pressures of capitalism instead of finding a stable level of production and making that profitable. Especially with buy it for life products.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I thought 'troubled' meant suffering from external trouble, not troublemakers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox + ublock origin = no ads

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I skipped to the bottom to see if he mentioned Mankind being thrown through a table.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The suit is there to reduce fatalities and minimize injuries, not to avoid every poasible injury.

Sometimes there are situations where touch and feel is critical, although my understanding is that the preferred approach today is remote detonation where even the suit is away from the likely blast radius.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

A two (or more) state solution is also a possible outcome. For example, Gaza and the West Bank could become Palestine as a separate country from Israel. There would need to be a massive change in borders for that to even possibly work out, but an independent Palestine is more likely to lead to eventual stability than mashing everyone together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yeah, leading with the important part so the reat of it has context seems to work a lot better for a lot more people in my experience. Especially in your example where you are trying to front load the thing to do followed by the thing not to do. That way they don't jump to speculation halfway through the sentence :)

On a somewhat nonscientifically aupported personal observation, if the sentence structure has a 'but' in the middle the audience is very likely to start mentally guessing what is coming up and will have more trouble listening to what it being said. It can often sound like a rug pulling moment, where what they thought was true is suddenly switched up and most people don't like that. So if thinking ahead it is better to reverse a sentence like in that example to avoid the middle 'but'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Which is different than Israel not existing.

You understand the difference, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Israel does not need to stop existing for the genocide to end or for the government officials to be tried for war crimes.

It isn't like Italy needed to stop existing after WWII...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Depending on the heat build up and dissipation and the length of the slope, constant gentle braking could result in loss of friction if the brakes overheat that would have a negative impact on being able to control the speed at the end of the hill and could result in warping discs brakes.

It would probably need to be a very long and steep slope to do that, but heat build up is the only thing that really impacts brake wear since the same amount of friction is needed to slow or stop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This would be good if they received a surprise gift of stones, but is pretty awful for the players who took the time to find the stones intentionally.

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