Technically speaking, no celestial body in our solar system orbits around a single point. The barycenter thing only works with two bodies. When there are more than two bodies, such as in our solar system, the orbits become chaotic. Granted, the influence between planets is small, so they all appear to orbit their barycenters with the sun, but there are small perturbations to the orbits caused by the locations and masses of all the other bodies in the solar system.
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I think it's important to realize that Christmas has lost a lot of it's religious connotation in the West. Don't get me wrong, everybody knows it's a Christian holiday meant to celebrate the birth of the Christ. However, there is no assumption that because you celebrate Christmas then you must be a Christian. That isn't the case for Easter. People who celebrate Easter in the West are typically Christian. This makes Christmas the more publicly celebrated holiday, which feeds back into it's own popularity.
I am not super familiar with eastern Christianity, so I could be wrong. It may be that Christmas has the same religious connotations in the East as the West. If that's the case, then disregard my previous point.
Here are some other perspectives:
Jesus was the Christ before he was resurrected. The resurrection is all good fun, but once Jesus was sent to earth, the whole train was set in motion and salvation became inevitable. The incarnation of a God bringing salvation is something to celebrate.
Historically speaking, I'm pretty sure Christmas is bigger just because it co-opted all the Saturnalia festivities as a concession to the pegans so that more of them would join Christianity. Saturnalia was all about partying and beating up Jews, so it was obviously immensely popular and helped Christianity grow much quicker than if they required the pegans to give up their festival. With all the Greek and Roman influence on the West, it shouldn't be too surprising that they treat Christmas in the same way - but hopefully with less ethnically charged violence.
Finally, it's easier to tell cute stories about a birth than an execution and subsequent resurrection. "Look at the cute little baby with the animals" vs "look at the immortal zombie man with holes in his body". This matters a lot in a hyper consumerist society.
It would be easy depending on your company's git practices. Complicated git workflows can leave room for you to slip stuff in unnoticed or misattributed. I mean, it still has to pass a review, but a lot of the devs I work with don't review that closely. Could just assign a lazy dev to the review and increase your odds of getting it through.
It's not stupid. Most cars will signal whether or not they are locked properly on the second press.
I live in dry heat. I have lived in humid heat as well. Not sure what you mean.
That can't be true. You shouldn't sweat less in humid heat. If anything, you should sweat more in humid heat because your sweat isn't able to evaporate and cool you off.
Perhaps you could get dehydrated more easily in dry heat just because you don't notice the water loss as quickly since you stay drier longer. However, I would wager that if you hold air temp, exposure time, and activity level constant, then higher humidity would lead to greater water loss.
This joke makes me sqrt(-1)%
That's exactly correct. It's similar to how a vector in R^2 is just an arrow with a magnitude and a direction. When you represent that arrow in different bases, the arrow itself isn't changing, just the list of numbers you use to represent them. Likewise, tensors do not change when you change bases, but their representations as n dimensional grids of numbers do change.
If you're saying in 50 years we'll all be soaking in this bullshit called gen-AI and thinking it's normal, well - maybe, but that's going to be some bleak-ass shit.
I'm almost certain gen AI will still be popular in 50 years. This is why I prefer people try to tackle some of the problems they see with AI instead of just hating on AI because of the problems it currently has. Don't get me wrong, pointing out the problems as you have is important - I just wouldn't jump to the conclusion that AI is a problem itself.
Not categories, entirely different sets of content for:
- straight: pornhub.com
- gay: pornhub.com/gayporn
- trans: pornhub.com/transgender
- lesbian: ___ which is actually just a category and not a set of separate content___ oof___ pornhub.com/video?c=27
This is incoherent to me.
You are conflating sex and gender which are distinct things.
How so? Also it would help if you didn't cut off the quote mid phrase.
Other than, arguably, pornography they don't seem to be overly relevant to furry either.
I'm giving a family resemblance definition of furry sexual. I'm not making any deep claims about the activities of any particular furries.
Apologies, I did misspeak with "all", however that's like saying trans people all share the hobby of crossdressing and it's just fetish wear. Fursuits serve the same function as gendered clothing or HRT for many individuals.
You're presupposing the conclusion you want to draw. I don't believe furry is a gender so you're not going to convince me that wearing a fur suit is gender affirming care.
My overall point is that you should speak with more furries, there's more going on there than you choose to acknowledge. Reducing it all to "fetish" is harmful and does harm the overall LGBTQ+ community.
I'm not reducing the entire furry fandom to fetish. I'm claiming that it's a fetish community. Does it have more depth than that? Yes, but that doesn't change the nature of the fandom. You could make the same claim about adult babies. They do more than just wear diapers. That doesn't change the fact that it's inherently a fetish community.
Questioning and invalidating another's gender or sexuality identity sets the precedent and framework for yours to be questioned and invalidated in turn.
I'm not questioning anyone's gender or sexuality, so I'm not worried about that happening.
This has been a long conversation. It's been getting less focused and more repetitive, so I'm going to call it here. I hope you have a good day.
Then what are heterosexuality and homosexuality defined by?
Pornographic material: Pornhub has entirely separate sites for "straight" and "gay". Would adding a "furry" site really feel all that strange or out of place?
Porn categories do not define sexual orientations, so I do not understand your point. Sexual orientation is a description of the sexual characteristics of yourself and the people you are attracted too, neither of which are decided by whether or not either of you are furries.
sex toys, roleplay scenarios: I don't think that's as strongly correlated as you're suggesting. Pony/pet play is big in the BDSM community and bad dragon toys were far from exclusively for furries. Unless you have something else in mind I'm unaware of?
Shared hobby: What exactly is the hobby all furries share?
I'm not claiming all furries do all those things. I'm saying that all of the characteristics that make someone furry sexual are covered by the categories I listed. None of the categories I listed are relevant to whether someone is heterosexual or homosexual.
Also, the hobby that many furries share (I never said all) is fur suiting.
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Unabomber was 30+ years ago, and he explicitly identifies the left with society's problems
Here is a nice summary of how the Unabomber (and apparently the author of the article) perceived the left:
https://medium.com/@eric.johnson7654/i-agree-with-the-unabomber-about-leftists-4cc100896e64