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Ideally. Unfortunately, the people doing the buybacks now are no different than 19th century industrial barons; once they have a household name due to sheer wealth, they stop pretending (if they even bothered to in the first place) that they’re in any way good people.

Ah. Okay, that ruins the coolness but if that’s the case I’m not going to try and bet on a dead horse.

More like “no measurement without action” and “action = modification” but I get the reference, yes.

Sadly, IIRC, measuring an entangled particle on one end changes the result on that end, despite the other end trying to be the one that changes it.

I mean, it’s a Yin-Yang symbol. That’s some spooky coincidence right there. That, or someone in Asia once had a very weird dream/drug trip like when DNA was discovered to be a double-helix.

It would be, except it’s apparently been calculated that quantum entanglement doesn’t work that way.

double-checks that I’m not in the backrooms Okay, I can see this.

I mean, that sounds like it’s should be self-evident but sometimes people are stretched too thin by the nuclear family or even single parent expectations of Western society to realize they can’t do it on their own. Worse, the expectation of one parent per child means if you don’t have existing family, you don’t have a chance at being a parent unless you give up your life.

To be fair, it seems that all too often a baby with these issues turns out to have a genetic issue like Autism which is the source of their distress rather than anything the parents can relieve.

Unfortunately, from what I’ve heard about American laws, you actually CAN’T delete it and have to report cached content to the police.

Not sure about my own country, but I do know that kind of content is basically radioactive in most jurisdictions worldwide.

Cowards? I don’t think you realize what happens when you get caught by authoritarians.

I’m not brave but I would stand up to them, but only because I feel like I’m better off dead than living in Airstrip One.

Hey, I don’t see anyone here saying those idiots who thought the War on Terror were justified.

Would it happen this way if New York was being hit over the past 6 days? Considering events like 9/11 and the aftermath of Trump give conflicting signals, I’m not sure, but if it did… I don’t think the majority of people on the continent, from remote Alaska to Halifax to Mexico City, are going to see a random person complaining about how their kids missed soccer practice because of a bomber run like it’s a minor inconvenience to a news reporter and not think “that rich soccer mom is a b**** and she needs to get a clue that we’re at f-ing war”.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that’s not what’s going on in Russia, because somehow I suspect that’s what places like Kamchatka (Easternmost Siberia) is thinking about Moscow right now.

Basically, “Leaders == Citizens”. Please don’t judge people based on what their corrupt government does. I don’t like the CCP but you don’t see me saying Chinese people in general are somehow a uniform entity that is some sort of political hive mind, because that’s not how people work.

Yeah, the theme is “Don’t underestimate Neanderthals, they’re pretty much the granddaddy of Homo sapiens”. Or in short, “primitive, not unintelligent”.

The OpenTTD community does sometimes. Not that it matters much.

That’s not funny. Seriously. I’m getting so fucking sick of “dark comedy” or especially “deep chararacters in an engaging story” that abuses shock factor by dead dropping child death.

If that’s the case, I’m glad I keep my goddamn smartphone’s permissions locked as tight as I can. I’m so pissed off that Samsung decided to lock down their phones’ bootloaders that I bought a 512GB Google Pixel Pro and installed Graphine OS.

I will never use Google Drive as phone storage and it will be my last smartphone unless Fairphone starts doing business in Canada; I’d buy from a UK reseller but if I’m going to buy a phone I want to have access to the official warranty, which was not offered by the reseller I found, and repairable by even the best right-to-repair standards still means nothing if the local repair shops tell me they can’t order in Fairphone parts.

I’m going to go the devil’s advocate route and say most managers are less effective at THEIR job in WFH situations.

Of course, it could just be that middle management is obsolete but that doesn’t explain why the CEOs aren’t just laying off firing a bunch of middle management.

That and I’m sure they would if they thought they could get away with it but know they can’t. Saying approval is needed means you’re not just admitting you’re spying on your own people, but that you do not think they have a right to privacy in the first place.

Then go join a Lemmy community that’s focused on activism. I get it, I’m absolutely furious at these numbers and how many kids are suffering, and that a democraticly-elected leader is targeting a specific ethnic group is even worse, it’s just that no one tapped or clicked this topic to find anything that wasn’t related to space travel.

Please, for the sake of succeeding in your cause, go post somewhere that is designed for activism like Change.org

Absolutely. My dad plays the flight simulator X-Plane, he says that if these pilots can even make it to being airlines certified, they are most definitely experts in their field.

Also, FAA records are a big log to go through; they store everything, so you can see reports as far back as the beginning of civil aviation. 1948 was 75 years ago, aerospace is no computer science but it’s a distant second followed by a much more distant third. Imagine the difference between the deHavilland Comet and the Boeing 787 in terms of how many deaths occurred aboard the plane models and you have the magnitude of improvement gained by learning very, VERY well from every crash ever.

I honestly don’t get why my brother has aerophobia, I am far more terrified of passing on a two-way road and cloverleaf interchanges than an aircraft losing a major system, because unless that system is a wing or part of the tail, engineered redundancies make that kind of crash landing more survivable on average than the kind of black ice followed by post-crash blizzard bullshit I experienced in 2020.

Sorry, just a complaint about waiting an hour and a half for the ambulance when one of us accidentally undid her seatbelt in her sleep (pressure from her bag pressed the release button) and woke up with her jacket on top of her and her spine damaged by being slammed into the center panel.

My point is, cars are fucking terrifying compared to planes.

No no, he said an idiot that is/was his kid’s science teacher (ironically enough) mentioned the aspartame thing. The person you replied to is in agreement.

As for myself, idgaf about whether it’s outright healthy or not to drink aspartame as long as nobody’s dying or being injured from it; I’ve heard the quoted stats on diet soda and it sounds safe due to even processed sugar being more carcinogenic, but diet soda and aspartame in general still triggers insulin production.

Long story short, I just drink regular soda and try to limit my intake of processed foods. I’m not particularly concerned about my physical appearance or even my continued survival, but death by suffocating under my own body weight or losing limbs to diabetes does not sound like a fun way to spend my final moments so “YOLO means you don’t have multiple lives so stop doing stupid shit, dickheads” prevailed in my mind and I try to keep my weight getting higher than it already is.

Then why not just kill yourself now? Rhetorical question, my point is fight to live or give up now