I earned that badge too! I think the ban was temporary. I’d have to unblock lemmy.ml to check though.

Most people on earth don’t care much about Paris. If you ask 1000 people on earth to do this measurement you’d probably get 1000 different answers. Picking the line that goes through Paris is just a random choice that got enough agreement.

It must be so exhilarating for you, asserting your opinions on weights and measures.

There’s no reason to pick those specific things to base your system on.

If you’re not a human, and not living on earth, and are unconcerned with the day to day activities of humans as they go about their lives on earth, I tend to agree.

Anyone come up with a good measure of distance that makes the speed of light a nice round number? I like the metric system, but the meter feels pretty arbitrary. We could do better!

Originally, the meter was defined as one ten millionth the distance from the north pole to the equator, as it runs through Paris. The unit and system were picked for ease of use for day to day activities. It is also tied to the attributes of our planet, which is also how we derived the time units that we use.

That’s the opposite of arbitrary, no?

What’s New Pussycat twenty times, with one It’s Not Unusual dropped somewhere in the middle.

Edit: and pour one out for the Salt & Pepper Diner.

not only that, but then your pet attack dog comes along and somehow twists that into me defending pedophiles

I should actually pop back in and look at the thread, instead of just replying to my inbox. I have a pet attack dog? That’s kinda neat. I wasn’t aware, but neat nonetheless.

My point stands: when called upon to boycott Tesla, no resistance. When called upon to boycott Apple, blow up the conversation into anything but generating momentum for an Apple boycott.

It really is that reductionistic.

Why did you assume I was “nullifying action”?

Mostly your action nullifying attitude.

I shit on Tesla on a routine basis, and get zero pushback. No bitching about other vehicle producers who also are Trumpdy Dumptys…, zero.

I say don’t buy naziPhones, and people come out of the woodwork with every conceivable devil’s advocate angle, and basically maximize tangentiality.

Anything other than reinforcing the message of not buying apple:

Be mad at everyone, such that you apply pressure to no one.

You know, nullifying action.

You’re made of spare parts, aren’t ya, bud? No, therefore you should punish both, and get a phone with GrapheneOS or Linux.

So why didn’t you just say something like Look into Graphene OS or Linux in the first place?

FYI, Google is also going after ICE-spotting apps.

And therefore, ill punish neither.

Can you add anything else to nullify action, and foster an attitude of placid obedience?

Please, share more ideas to help entrench the status quo.

Thus solidifying my scorched earth policy with apple.

I don’t want your naziPhone.

Remember the 1936 Berlin Games?iirc the government went out of its way to be accommodating to all attendees.

Banking on Trump being as coordinated and thoughtful as Hitler is not an overly wise way to reassure people.

It is legitimately dangerous to travel to the United States, because of state sanctioned violence.

At least there’s price gouging to offset concerns about personal safety, the very real possibility of being sent to a Concentration Camp, etc.

Thank you!

I saw some greentext about some list of caring for castioron/developing and maintaining seasoning. The list was some collection of a bunch of progressively more absurd tips. The comments were:

I own cast iron, and none of these are true.

I own cast iron, and all of these are true.

I own cast iron, and some of these are true.

I’d tread lightly, and be very thoughtful about if and how to deploy.

If the business is niche, I’d consider finding the instance that best aligns with the business, and then check the temperature there.

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and how many of those were invading nazis?

Stop trying to put lipstick on a pig.

“Don’t believe the victims!”

Isn’t the part of a winning charm offensive.

Any quibbling you attempt in an effort to massage the numbers just dies, when you consider that the numbers you want to fiddle with are in the fucking millions.

Triple that.

Legend goes that dessalines actually started Lemmy because their Reddit main got perm banned because he went a lil too tankie

Hey dessalines, care to chime in on why you are the way you are?

Anyone my age range or older would have no excuse for not knowing what kind of monster Stalin was. Anyone who has spoken to survivors who escaped his regime would never have the fucking audacity.

By comparison, Pol Pot was responsible for the killing fields in Cambodia. His murder spree is just a rounding error in Stalin’s body of work.