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- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 hour ago:
Sorry for the multiple replies btw. My app is acting weird.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 hour ago:
“Billionaires are literally cancer” is false specifically because “literally” does not mean “figuratively”.
Correct. But that is not what OP said. Read it again and I think you will see that OP is saying that “Billionaires are cancer” is not a figurative statement at all, but a literal one. You can disagree with them (I do, btw), but they have not misused the word “literally.”
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 5 hours ago:
“Billionaires are literally cancer” is simply a false statement, unless “literally” was used, incorrectly, as hyperbole.
That is my point. Literally can be used correctly in a statement that is not correct, and my reading of the original post is that was OP’s intention. They did not misuse the word “literally.”
I’m not debating the meaning of the word cancer.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 day ago:
You are refuting an argument that I did not make.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 day ago:
Then you do not understand what the word “literally” literally means.
Oooo, sick burn!! I don’t know if I’ll recover from that!
My point is that I believe OP was using the word “literally” to mean what it literally means, and not just using it for emphasis as it is so often used these days. They may still be wrong, bit they did not misuse the word.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 2 days ago:
I think OP used literally correctly here. They are saying that one possible definition of the word cancer can include billionaires as an instance. That’s not the definition you’ll find in any dictionary, but those lag behind the true language as it evolves.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 2 days ago:
People think they understand numbers like billion because they understand thousand and billion is just thousand times thousand (million) times thousand. Multiplication is fairly intuitive, but exponentiation is not. Without explicitly thinking it through people feel like 1000^3 is not very different from 1000 * 3.
- Comment on xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons 1 week ago:
It looks like the dart took out about a half dozen lights and a dozen people in about two seconds, so let’s say 10 strikes per second. At that rate it would take 10^11 seconds to pop a trillion balloons. That’s more than 3000 years!
Of course I did say “make a tiny dent,” but even to eliminate 0.1% of the balloons would take the dart 3 years. One trillion is a number that we use a lot, for example talking about the US national debt, but it is not an ordinary number that lends itself to intuitive understanding. Even a billion is hard to grasp intuitively.
- Comment on xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons 1 week ago:
All the fighter jets in the world couldn’t make a tiny dent in one trillion balloons.
- Comment on Chicken TACO 5 weeks ago:
I like tacos in general, all kinds. But this is really getting under Trump’s skin, so more power to 'em!
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 2 months ago:
*The former
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 months ago:
take the L and walk away.
I’m here having reasoned conversations with thoughtful people. I left the karma farming behind on reddit, and I don’t miss it. I can’t lose.
The word see predates the concepts of neurons, chemicals, and photons by thousands of years. We see objects, not light.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 months ago:
The word “see” predates any concept of rods or cones or photons by thousands of years. It has nothing to do with those things.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 months ago:
That’s not what the word “see” means. You’re trying to to swap it for another word like “sense.” You see objects, not light.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 months ago:
The light that enters your eye carries enormous amounts of information with it. Your eye and a small portion of your brain comprise a highly specific tool for extracting a small subset of that information and processing it. The information you use is only related to the last object the light interacted with, not the light itself (with the small exception being the “brightness” - that has nothing to do with the object).
No one claims to hear the air in their ears rather than the violin that is being played nearby. That’s just not what the word “hear” means.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 months ago:
That’s not what the word “see” means.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 2 months ago:
Look around the space you’re in and notice that you can’t “see” the light, only the things.
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 2 months ago:
Kleenpodes!
Yes, I know its unrelated. I’m just trying to force in the whole octopi problem.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 2 months ago:
You don’t have enough subs. Slacker.
/s
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 3 months ago:
I’m just so grateful that so many great scientists fled nazi germany. Also that those who stayed behind (this is controversial and not known for sure) hindered and delayed Germany’s nuclear weapons program.
- Comment on Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server 4 months ago:
Sure enough! Thanks, that was fun to watch again.
- Comment on Mail-in-a-Box - simple email server 4 months ago:
Isn’t that step two?
I feel like step one was “get a box,” but I could be misremembering.
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 6 months ago:
I thought there was a whole movement going on among the “youngs,” where they were specifically getting old flip phones that couldn’t run any apps. I heard about that trend more than a year ago, so it’s probably long passed.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 6 months ago:
Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 7 months ago:
Kinda makes “bye bye” seem a little weird, eh?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 7 months ago:
The saying is really about asking god to remove obstacles from your path and facilitate faster travel. A little like “goodbye” is a very shortened “may god be with you.”
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 7 months ago:
Others have explained that it depwnds on when, but I want to add this: when a VP becomes pres. through succession, the speaker does not become VP automatically. The new pres. picks whoever they want. Ford chose the governor of NY, for example.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 8 months ago:
The disorder can only increase, just like your toys on the living room floor.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 8 months ago:
His disdain for NASA’s caution is obvious.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 8 months ago:
What a dumbass. If we send people in the quickest possible way (or any way at all, really) and they all die in the attempt, that will set the whole project back decades.
The answer to the radiation problem is better shielding, not a fundamentally unsafe mission.
btw it is not the nuclear propulsion that I’m calling unsafe. It is the idea that we could do without redundancy. That’s just a monumentally stupid idea.