sanpedropeddler
@sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Because people receiving the death penalty theoretically did something wrong, and fetuses did not. I’m neither against abortion nor pro death penalty, and I don’t really see a contradiction there.
- Comment on Guess what this product is without looking up what it is! 1 month ago:
I use pomade and it surprised me how often its branded like that. I have seen at least three brands that unironically use flaming skeletons. Also I have to say dapper dan is not great (at least the modern kind).
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
So you do know what I’ve been talking about, you just purposely ignored it because you think its invalid? You could not have possibly done a better job at demonstrating to me that you are arguing in bad faith.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
I don’t care that you think we should switch to metric, you said that Americans aren’t switching purely because they hate change, and they don’t care about the potential benefits just because they hate change so damn much. This is what I’ve been arguing against. I honestly have no idea how you could have read all of that and come to the conclusion I’m arguing against the metric system. Every word of it is about why Americans don’t think the switch is worth it.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
By continuing to act like this you are preventing any actual conversation from taking place. You might as well just say “you’re wrong, no I will not elaborate”. If you’re not interested in having a conversation then don’t respond, no one is forcing you to do this.
If you would like to have a less sarcastic and rude discussion, I’ll be here.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
American are willing to change things, we just pick what to change, and we aren’t being inconvenienced by this nearly enough to change it.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
We are used to 2 liter bottles, so we still use them. We run 5ks because its been a standard distance to run for a long time. Other countries also do similar things, old habits die hard.
We use metric for science and medicine because the benefits of metric are much more pronounced for those use cases.
Honestly, using both really isnt that hard. Its only really an inconvenience if you aren’t already used to it. We aren’t changing it because we’re getting along just fine the way things are, and there are much bigger problems to be solved.
- Comment on It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible. 3 months ago:
My only real problem with emulation is that I haven’t found a good way to connect my pc to a crt. I’ve been wanting to play oot randomizers on a proper display but I’m not willing to buy an everdrive at the moment.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
I get our healthcare system sucks but it isn’t worse than countless children dying of malaria.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
It might belong there depending on what they mean by easy. Its pretty vague
- Comment on Don't read the fine print. 6 months ago:
Maybe you should upscale it with ai
- Comment on An actual screenshot from an ad I got while playing a mobile game 6 months ago:
It worked
- Comment on An actual screenshot from an ad I got while playing a mobile game 6 months ago:
I’m tired of seeing this every time I open Lemmy so I’m unfortunately gonna block you
- Comment on Admit, who of you is this? 7 months ago:
This is highly insulting. The way I check on my muffins has no relation to my distaste for the orange gentlemen.
- Comment on 400,000 species 7 months ago:
I know whatever musicians were playing that faster track put countless hours into learning to play their style, but so does every other professional musician. That to me sounds like complete garbage, just as I’m sure slower lyrical music sounds like garbage to you.
Different kinds of musicians spend their time improving different aspects of their playing. Some of it you will appreciate, and some you won’t. You don’t have to be an elitist about it and pretend your favorite genre is the only one that requires any skill to perform well. Most people simply don’t care how fast you can play those technical passages that are so distorted they sound like white noise to the average person. They would rather perfect their tone and style.
- Comment on 400,000 species 7 months ago:
I would say they they are still culturally significant. Just not quite to the extent they once were.
- Comment on 400,000 species 7 months ago:
I wouldn’t say one is necessarily working harder than the other. They’re just doing different things.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
Love. This. Comment.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 9 months ago:
I don’t know what happens to the wings of that specific aircraft when they collide with that specific building under those specific conditions at 460 knots. That’s a question for an expert on the subject, not random people on the internet.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 9 months ago:
Yes, you are a nobody when it comes to investigating plane crashes based off images and video of the wreckage. Saving footage doesn’t make you an expert somehow.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 9 months ago:
Countless incorrect things were announced. Everyone was collectively panicking. That’s odd, but it doesn’t necessarily mean anything considering the building was already visibly damaged.
- Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job 9 months ago:
I don’t think the surface level observations of someone who has no clue what they’re talking about overrides actual evidence.
- Comment on Is there ever going to be a new PCSX2-reARMed? 9 months ago:
I hadn’t heard about any of this until now so I looked it up and I’m still pretty confused. Were people seriously harassing the dev just because of problems with the emulator? That’s the only reasoning I can find and I don’t understand how anyone can care that much about something so inconsequential.
- Comment on I know some of y'all can relate 11 months ago:
- Comment on What is the Israel thing going on? 1 year ago:
Anyone who has any decency or feeling of inner justice will support innocent civilians regardless of their country of origin, and will condemn terrorist acts and war crimes regardless of who commited them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I interpreted the “stricter” definition as just being more intense. Like its only used to describe someone who reads constantly, and knows nearly everything about literature. Or someone who is almost obsessively studying math, or chess theory. Or someone who is very interested in numerous “nerdy” things.
Maybe that’s not what they meant, I’m not sure. You’re right, their wording is kind of ambiguous.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don’t think they mean it to be negative. I assumed they mean its used more loosely now and has lost some of the meaning it used to have as a result. They can’t find a more fitting word for what they want to say, so they just specify they mean the stricter definition of the word nerd.
- Comment on A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg). 1 year ago:
with metric you don’t have „larger or smaller units“. You have one unit and you scale it to your needs.
That’s the same thing, the units are just proportional.
It’s not like we have „the meter“ and „the centimeter“ and have no clue what’s in between.
I know, its just easier to say a foot than 30 centimeters. That’s why I use it in casual conversation, and not in anything important.
There’s absolutely nothing more convenient about having multiple units for the same physical property.
That’s not the part I’m saying is convenient.
Again: There’s nothing more or less precise about metric or imperial.
They can both be used to measure things precisely, but metric is more convenient in those situations usually. If I need to accurately measure something, I would use metric because the advantages of imperial are probably not applicable. If I’m just estimating and it doesn’t matter much, I’ll probably use imperial because I won’t have to do any conversions with that number, or anything else imperial struggles with.
Oh, I definitely had other people tell me imperial is „more human“ because a foot is the size of your foot and an inch is the size of the tip of your thumb.
Those people are wrong.
- Comment on A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg). 1 year ago:
Yes YOU don’t do that. Because you can’t.
I won’t argue that, its a flawed measurement system. My goal isn’t to show you why imperial is so much better than metric, because its obviously not. That doesn’t mean imperial is never useful though.
There’s nothing „more useful“ about either a foot or a meter.
They can both do the same job, but its more convenient to have smaller units depending on what you’re measuring. I find the size of a foot to be convenient for measuring things in casual situations where accuracy and precision aren’t priorities.
Your foot btw most likely is not as long as a „foot“, and a small woman’s size is easily 20% off. And no, that’s not „in the ballpark“.
We don’t literally measure it with our feet, that’s just what its called.
- Comment on A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg). 1 year ago:
It is true that no one ever does that though. That doesn’t mean its not a problem, but I’ve never seen anyone do it. If you need to do something like that and you have a brain, you use metric. Just because its flawed doesn’t mean imperial should be completely abolished though. What needs to stop is people thinking imperial is better than metric somehow. Aside from that, its just a weird flawed measurement system.