CapeWearingAeroplane

There's always some place that's worse. What you're arguing for here is a race to the bottom, where everyone tries to be worse than their neighbours in order to get the undesirables to go there instead.

In essentially "the tragedy of the commons" but in an opposite sense. If everyone gets worse in an attempt to get rid of "undesirables", you just end up with everywhere being worse, and the "undesirables" still being around. What we need is for everyone to build safety nets together. That might actually improve the situation.

"Y'all better pack up and back off that there border"

– Mother Fucking Army Statement

Honestly, I kind of wish crypto hadn't gone to shit with the whole speculation thing.. It was just this fun thing where obscure websites would let you buy random shit for laughs sometimes. Then suddenly investors had to try making money off something with no inherent value and ruined it :/

GET THE ROUNDIE!

On a hard drive? I remember a bunch of people messing around with bitcoin when it was new, relatively unknown and considered a niche nerd thing. There were online competitions with money prizes where the "last winner" (eg. third place) would win like one bitcoin.

Fast forward 15 years and the stuff you mined for fun in high school and forgot about on some dusty old computer is worth thousands of dollars.

It's completely common in most countries that some high-ranking government officials live on state-owned property. Among the reasons for this are security, and the fact that official visits, press events and other official events are held at that property.

My personal tale on this is that given that the brain contains chaotic circuits (i.e. circuits in which tiny perturbations lead to cascading effects), and these circuits are complex and sensitive enough, the brain may be inherently unpredictable due to quantum fluctuations causing non-negligible macroscopic effects.

I don't know if the above is the case, but if there's anything like free will out there, I'm inclined to believe that its origins lie in something like that.

I'm perplexed: How do you go from someone saying "gender is a social construct" to them being trasphobic? I got the "spot the vegan" vibes that they were trying to suddenly make this about trans rights..

I love pedantry <3 I got the "three medals per event" from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?

In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let's round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.

There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.

If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.

I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.

Honest question: With this kind of system, how do you verify who filled in the ballot? In my country we have "mail in" voting, which consists of going to a polling station in some other district than the one your from, filling in a ballot in the normal way, and then they send it for you.

Also: I've seen people talking about how you have to vote in person on election day, don't the polling stations open before that? I usually vote a couple days before election day, the polling stations open like two weeks before...