[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

When did they claim that Israel wasn't to blame? Two things can be true at the same time.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

There's a saying that humans only understand three probabilities: 0%, 50%, and 100%. So if 90% of people who are rich were born into wealth and 90% of all people are not wealthy, what does that mean?

Usually the knee-jerk response is to say that it's equally easy for rich and poor to end up wealthy, or sarcastically claim that it's supposedly impossible to become wealthy if you were poor.

Statistically, it'd mean that while 10% of rich people were self-made, they'd only represent 1% of the overall population, meaning it'd be roughly 100 times more likely for someone who wasn't born wealthy to remain poor.

These are gross oversimplifications with numbers that are not based on fact, but it's just a simple example to show that something can be possible in a system where certain people are disadvantaged and it doesn't detract from the fact that systemic issues exist.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 week ago

I am offended by this.

It's obviously z = boobs.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 79 points 2 months ago

Worst crime: Commenter doesn't like him.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 38 points 3 months ago

Driver does however always have the right to veto the music.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 49 points 3 months ago

C++ is unironically my favorite language, especially coding in python feels so ambiguous and you need to take care of so many special cases that just wouldn't even exist in C++.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 32 points 4 months ago

The joke is saying that he knows something so that Boeing will tale him out.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 97 points 7 months ago

I want to add that experimental reactors used for scientific research might never become net energy positive and that would be fine. Their purpose isn't to generate profit, it's to learn more about the physics, so it will be more valuable for them to be adaptable than efficient.

However, that doesn't mean that you can't take a configuration that has been shown to have potential and make a reactor that is more efficient than adaptable and use that to generate power for the electrical grid.

Basically, they have two different purposes.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 year ago

One thing I've learned is that conspiracy theorists always seem to end up at racism.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 year ago

The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 year ago

From the Wikipedia page:

If untreated, symptoms may include loss of the ability to move one or both sides of the face, joint pains, severe headaches with neck stiffness or heart palpitations. Months to years later, repeated episodes of joint pain and swelling may occur. Occasionally, shooting pains or tingling in the arms and legs may develop. Despite appropriate treatment, about 10 to 20% of those affected develop joint pains, memory problems, and tiredness for at least six months.

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 83 points 1 year ago

The term "premium-feeling" does a lot of heavy lifting in that paragraph, one might almost say that it's a bit subjective.

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