GreyEyedGhost

So, subatomic particles have free will, but humans don’t?

I wouldn’t say 60 is the end, but being between 45 and 60 I wouldn’t say my perspectives between the two were basically the same, either.

Learning more about the universe is one of the least stupid things we can do. The estimates for universal healthcare in the US range from $200 to $500 billion a year. Sure, we could reduce our research goals wherever (keeping in mind those may have an impact on healthcare, such as radiation and photography) or we could…not attack another country for no pressing reason (about $200 billion in a few weeks). But sure, let’s focus on the $25 billion a year spent on NASA. That will fix things.

There are so many different fields of research that have led to advances in just medicine, that you would be hard pressed to find one that hasn’t benefited it. Optics, electricity, refrigeration, metallurgy, chemistry, nuclear science, on and on. How many years do you think germ theory would have been delayed if Galileo hadn’t advanced optics to the point where telescopes could show details on planets?

This is a fraction of the cost of healthcare and is absolutely not the reason universal healthcare in the US isn’t happening.

That’s an odd way to say 75% is basically 100%.

Yes, Esperanto has many advantages of a manufactured language, but I think there are only something like 2 million speakers worldwide. If someone wanted to dip their toes into it, Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series has Esperanto sprinkled throughout it, and has been translated into Esperanto. He was a fan. You certainly won’t learn it reading his (English) books, but the structure is very recognizable.

Moreover, their excuse is that 80% of appointed judges (who donated to a party, shh) are Liberal. The thing is, only about 20% of judges appointed donate to parties, so about 16% are known Liberals.

The actual numbers are 76.3% and 18.3%, so it’s actually closer to 14%, or about 1/7 of them, doesn’t seem like it would be enough to matter in any case.

It’s always good to assess the current state, look for the wins, and be prepared for the losses. Some days, this is the most you can hope for.

That broke my brain for a second.

Some of them are pretty well marbled. I’m not saying they taste like wagyu, but there’s only one way to know for sure…

Actual historical temperature data is recorded in tenths of a degree Celsius, because full degrees, Celsius or Fahrenheit, aren’t accurate enough. They still aren’t reported in the media, because they don’t matter in an everyday context.

Look, as far as imperial measurements go, Fahrenheit is pretty good. Any temperature scale is going to be arbitrary, and the reasons for Fahrenheit are valid enough. But, frankly, 180 divisions of temperature is nonsensical. The accuracy just isn’t necessary in daily life, and isn’t enough from a scientific context. And if I’m going to use an arbitrary scale, I may as well use the same one as just about all the other ones that don’t have some reason to be divided into multiple different segments, like degrees on a circle. So at that point, you can go decimal, like virtually everything else in the metric system, or you can go with a multiple of 60 for no damned reason besides history.

Weather forecasts are only accurate to 1 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 1 degree Celsius. So the only example you’ve given where Fahrenheit is “superior” is one where the accuracy is so low that we just shrug and give a number in the middle of the range. This doesn’t make using Fahrenheit more accurate, this just makes the scale irrelevant and we use a whole number because having a convention where we skip some would be pointless.

As for being more precise without decimals, I live in a country with half-decent education standards, so decimals and fractions don’t scare me.

…because we don’t need them.

In metric, we aren’t scared of using a decimal if we have to. Our thermometers can be as precise as we need them.

Holy crap, $300 for the lols is a bit much.

I feel like I need to go to Seychelles and have a coconut now. The butt stamp would look great in a passport.

Well, that’s impressive. I’ll remember that for the image embed.

Well, the scientists are talking about 95%, which is 400 million people, and if people started dying out due to climate, you would see regions where people have a better time living. These would most likely be in the temperate bands, which are a narrow strip across South America and Africa, and a larger strip across North America and Eurasia. Those northern bands are thousands of kilometers long, and people have traveled those distances on foot before. Moreover, those 5000 people don’t have to be in one place, they need to join up in a few generations at worst. Also, climate collapse isn’t instant, as we are experiencing it right now, so those 5000 can start congregating before the collapse is complete. For reference, 0.1% of 8 billion is 1.6 million people. 5000 people is a third of a percent of that.

Killing every human is pretty hard.

Civilization collapse in 200 years is pretty plausible, which would go along with 95% of the population dying. For humans to go extinct would take better than 99.9% dying. 5,000 individuals would be a comfortable minimum viable population for humans to survive.

You can’t say all that and not post pictures, so here they are.

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