So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.
There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?
So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.
I’ve said this before but apparently it hasn’t sunk in but if you say “Biden has lost my vote”, don’t expect anyone to listen to you or be surprised he’s not out gunning for it. The election is 6 months out. If there’s no way you’re voting for him, nobody fucking cares what you want.
You can enjoy likely a 7-2 or 8-1 conservative SCOTUS that will be grinding down our rights for the next generation or three. Enjoy that.
@TonyStark I feel there is a narcissistic type that gets all bent that their influence on the affairs of the world is zero. And wouldn't have the sense to be properly terrified if they had any to speak of.
@stevel@davidallengreen You guys just need to make each tourist bring a 100kg of rocks with them. You then pile them up in the west midlands. After a few thousand years you'll have a mountain with roaring rivers you can harness to make electricity.
I just tried to order a pizza and it wanted my credit card expiration date, so I entered "05/28" (example date only)
it then came back with a "your card is expired" error. Uh, no it isn't? that date is still several years in the future.
did... did this site just take my date and assume I mean May of the year AD 28? That is indeed very expired! that's what I get for trying to use Jesus's card.
Whatever you don't like about the Biden record, you should understand that when it comes to the rights of workers, and regaining some actual competition in markets, this administration has been mostly awesome -- leagues ahead than Clinton and Obama, and in a different (way, way, way better) universe than Republicans since, well, TR.
@dangillmor@pluralistic Too find someone better I'd have to remember back before Reagan, back probably before Nixon. And Nixon as shitty as he was was better than Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama. Oh sure those guys were better human beings than Nixon. But did stuff that helped workers? Yeah.
@interfluidity@pluralistic Seriously non competes are all about trying to prevent a) competitors from being able to hire skilled workers. b) your employees from going into business for themselves.
Contractors licensing systems are also anti-trust. Because they require so many hours working for a licensed contractor before one can get their own license.
The tallest building in Taiwan, half a kilometer high, survived the big quake just fine - in part thanks to a 'tuned mass damper'.
It's a 660-tonne steel sphere hanging from wires: a pendulum designed to reduce quake vibrations by 40%. It's yellow and it hangs from the 92nd to the 87th floors, visible from inside the building. On 8 August 2015, strong winds from Typhoon Soudelor made it swing by 100 centimeters. I don't know how much it swayed during the quake.
It's inspired a popular mascot in Taiwan, called Damper Baby. I'll show you the actual steel sphere, and then Damper Baby.
So you wake up one day wanting to invent a 2-dimensional number system. This requires a new number 𝑖 that's at right angles to 1. So you figure multiplying by 𝑖 must rotate numbers by 90°. So multiplying by 𝑖² rotates by 180°, so
𝑖² = -1
Cool!
Then you notice something else. The derivative of a function in the 𝑦 direction must be 𝑖 times its derivative in the 𝑥 direction, because the derivative is linear and you get the 𝑦 direction by rotating the 𝑥 direction by 90°: that is, multiplying it by 𝑖. So you get this equation:
[ \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} = i \frac{\partial f}{\partial x} ]
Cool!
Then you notice something else. If you use this equation twice you get
In short—USA's response to starvation in Gaza is to cut UNRWA funding, arm the occupying army with another $3.8B, ignore ICJ ruling that mandates Israel must provide aid, & ignore Article 55 of the 4th Geneva convention that mandates an occupying army ensures aid gets through.😐
This isn't just. This isn't sustainable. This is a crime against humanity.
The problem is with Hamas you're dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood. You only have to look at the concert hall attack in Moscow to see what Israel is dealing with.
@violetmadder@GreenFire@QasimRashid You don't actually. You pick the side of never ending war. Because you pick a side you think is righteous and then excuse malefactors on that side. Everyone does it, everyone is culpable no matter what side they choose.
Things would be better if people like you didn't care at all.
@CatHat@violetmadder@GreenFire@QasimRashid Eh, they cleared out of Gaza. Held elections and the Palestinians decided they wanted to be ruled by a terrorist group. And that group spent the next 17 years trying to provoke a war with Israel. Basically the experiment in Palestinians self governance failed.
Essentially they don't seem to be willing to settle for anything less than restoring their honor by violent retribution against Jews. And so reject any compromise.
@CatHat@violetmadder@GreenFire@QasimRashid I'm implying what you think about Israel is a figment of your ideology. Because your ideology falls apart if it was forced to accept Israel as it actually is.
It's very similar to fundamentalists who can't accept evolution because their religion would fall apart if they did.
In both cases it's not the facts that are the problem
I feel like when I was a kid so many years ago adults had seen the results of people like you. But now fewer and fewer are alive who know the horrors people like you want to bring into the world.
@dangillmor Trumps supportetd want him to be a dictator because they think he'll give them privilege. Some like poor whites think he'll restore race based privilege. Billionaires think he'll make them into a new hereditary aristocracy. Middle and upper class supporters do it because they're obligatory ass kissers.
Hydrogen is a scam. DRI isn't, but it uses methane.
Hidden at the bottom, the truly important bit: the move to electric arc furnaces. That's what will decarbonise the bulk of steel production. How to make EAF produce high quality steel cheap, from scrap, is the question.
@iinavpov@Hypx The thing is I'm not actually wrong on the first order. People have been increasingly poking at this problem and have got things to work in lab. In particular people are trying to figure out how to use red mud from aluminum mining.