CopernicusQwark

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My friends who grew up outside Oz find it weird that to me "it ain't Christmas unless it's scorching hot". To me the idea of having a cold Christmas is the odd one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Value is correct in this instance, I think.

The number of shares and the price people are willing to pay for those shares is how "value" is calculated, I think.

In contrast, "wealth" would be how much money they have in the bank.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why not just have both a male and female voice, and ideally one that's as neutral as possible?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A significant portion of women have either been sexually assaulted or harassed. Being wary of men (especially strange men in the hypothetical vulnerable situation) makes perfect rational sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I's often just carnal desire which results in the death of something to the tune of ~80 billion (with a "B") animals every year that didn't really need to be slaughtered.

I'm genuinely curious: what's the vegans' answer to the question of "what happens to the cattle and other livestock if everyone on the planet turned vegan tomorrow?". It's not like they can just be let loose...

Realistically the amount of livestock is not sustainable and they'd need to be culled in gargantuan numbers so that they don't go from a "managed" ecological disaster to an "out of control" ecological disaster. And then you get the slaughter without the benefit of feeding billions of hungry people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The "M" would be for mezzanine, which is usually either a floor that's small or at an intermediate height between main floors.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

or any democracy for that matter

Australia sends its regards.

It is really nice knowing that I can safely vote for our "green" party without risking our conservative party getting in because the centre-left party loses too many votes.

Also, voting being mandatory (and very accessible) and on a Sunday for federal elections is such a game changer for ensuring participation.

Hopefully you guys can get reforms in at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Life before death, Radiant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

To my knowledge, the sapient population is the human population of Earth.

However, there are numerous sentient species that could conceivably be "uplifted" in the next thousand years. Plus, I consider it more likely than not that extraterrestrials do exist and that there's likely another sapient species out there, though they are unlikely to be in our general volume of space

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have two moods for this:

One is a playlist composed of most of the library of songs by PVRIS. I don't know why, but their music just really clicks with me; I can listen to that playlist all day with no problems (I usually hate listening to the same song more than once or twice a day).

The other is a playlist of non-combat music from The Elder Scrolls. Really good for gentle background music.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Who said the person was human?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I read through the ABC article on this yesterday, and I'm pretty sure it said that people who identify as women are also welcome in the installation.

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