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Gravity bends space itself (which makes it able to bend light). It's really fucky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Deflection_of_light_by_the_Sun

It also fucks with time. If you saw the movie Interstellar, you know what this refers to.

I love that channel. It's one of the best channels I've discovered all year. A perfect balance of entertainment with deep dives into current hot topics. It's like John Oliver but triple the length and even more sarcasm.

But by that logic, there's a terrifying number of adults who also shouldn't vote.

Ugh, there's some parts of YAML I love, but ultimately it's a terrible format. It's just too easy to confuse people. At least it has comments though. It's so dumb that JSON doesn't officially have comments. I've often parsed "JSON" as YAML entirely for comments, without using a single other YAML feature.

YAML also supports not quoting your strings. Seems great at first, but it gets weird of you want a string that looks like a different type. IIRC, there's even a major version difference in the handling of this case! I can't remember the details, but I once had a bug happen because of this.

Performance wise, both YAML and JSON suck. They're fine for a config file that you just read on startup, but if you're doing a ton of processing, it will quickly show the performance hit. Binary formats work far better (for a generic one, protobuffers has good tooling and library support while being blazing fast).

Reddit never removes people from the subscriber list AFAIK. So over time, the subscriber count becomes extremely unrealistic. It might claim there's 500 people, but if the sub was created years ago, many of those 500 people probably are inactive. And god knows how many bots might subscribe to a sub for some reason or another (bots obviously don't need to subscribe, but I'm sure many do, since otherwise anti bot measures could notice that they never subscribe to anything). Reddit really should show active subscribers in the past month only.

Lemmy is just so new that if a community has 500 subscribers, that's probably pretty close to the monthly active figure (though with the exception that quite a lot of people have multiple Lemmy accounts because there's been constant reasons to switch instances).

Though also, if you see a Reddit sub with only 500 people, you know it's dead and you should look for a different sub to post in. On Lemmy, 500 isn't utterly awful and also many front-ends only show numbers for your instance, so a community with 500 subs might be a decently sized community (though who can tell?).

Same. Maybe higher level degrees are different, but getting into an undergrad program in the one major university my city had was extremely easy. I applied and got accepted. It actually never even crossed my mind that it wouldn't get accepted and I never applied anywhere else, nor did anyone ever tell me that I should (though that may have been grade dependent).

By contrast, American media usually shows getting into university as some grueling task, where a guidance counselor tells you to apply to all these universities and there's essays and whatnot.

IMO it's not a good solution to just say "just block the bigots". The problem is that for new users, they are going to see those bigoted posts. They're going to either think that's what kind of site Lemmy is and potentially leave, or they'll potentially get pulled in by the bigots. Both are bad situations.

Especially for blatant bigotry, it makes perfect sense to take measures to ensure that the site is safe for everyone by default, without every individual person having to take action (especially those without accounts or not signed in).

I thought that was odd, too. I've driven in both countries and they're very similar. Public transit is poor or unavailable for many outside of city cores and there's mad suburban sprawl. And the most aggressive drivers I've seen would actually be in Montreal.

I wonder if it could be cultural differences overall? Or maybe how much of Canada's population is so concentrated in just a couple of cities? Apart from the 401, most Canadian highways didn't feel nearly as backed as American ones, too. I've driven around San Francisco and Atlanta and they were both super packed highways with exit ramps constantly backed up for hundreds of meters. In Canada, the 401 is really the only highway I see that. As bad as inner city traffic can get, that's much lower speed.

But yeah, it's really hard to think of actual differences between the two. While the two countries do have overall cultural differences, I did not perceive a huge difference in driver selfishness or speeding. Contrary to internet memes, Canadians are usually very selfish drivers, too. Canada also is obsessed with oversized trucks. Ontario is the epitome of "just one more lane will fix all our problems" and train service is constantly underfunded (though I guess at least we do have the Go trains and buses, which seems to be more than can be said about many US metro areas).

Sadly, it's a bigger problem than just republicans. There's a scary number of people that will say "good, they deserve it". The US parties aren't the same on many issues, but both of them push for overuse of the justice system for punishment and not rehabilitation. The overwhelming consensus of American voters appears to be to use jail/prison to punish people, not to actually solve any issues with crime.

Just look at any big thread on topics like this and you'll see plenty of people acting like this is a good thing. And whenever some horrible person goes to prison, there'll be tons of comments of people hoping they get raped, tortured, or even murdered in prison.

It's not even unique to Americans. I see this all the time from my fellow Canadians, too. A significant number of people just want everyone in jail/prison to suffer.

I don't personally get the appeal of many gaming YouTubers. I'm not personally very into watching other people play videos (not review, but just play). I can kinda understand some people wanting to watch that, but it always surprises me just how many people watch it and for how long.

It also seems all too common that they have very questionable views and their fans will defend them to the death. I don't get that either. There's some YouTuber creators I really enjoy, but if they said horrible things, I sure as hell aren't going to defend them at all, let alone to the degree that some gaming YouTubers get ardently defended.

It needs to be regulated to hold manufacturers responsible when their software isn't good enough. My understanding is that there already probably is enough regulation and government agencies just need to hold Tesla accountable.

Personally, I'm all for cars driven by AI iff it's better and safer than a human driver. Human drivers make a lot of mistakes and driving is the most dangerous everyday activity many people do. But if the AI isn't better than a human, that's a problem. I don't need AI drivers to be flawless, as that's an unrealistic bar. I just need them to be undeniably better than humans. Everything I'm hearing about Tesla's self driving is that they aren't.

Yes, that's correct. One thing that might help you understand is that they're not merely declaring it, like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy. Trans people are that gender and they simply either have finally realized it. The default assumption is usually that you simply are your assigned-at-birth gender, so it takes some time for trans people to realize that this assumption was wrong.

Since they are that gender, it's easier to see how they would be a straight relationship in your hypothetical, since they're simply now a woman dating men, which we all label as straight. Such terms look simply at the gender of the people.

Of course, these days, our understanding of gender is a lot more diverse than it used to be, which makes labels like gay and straight more complex. Eg, non-binary people are on the rise (or more accurately, I suspect knowing how to label it and being out is on the rise). How do you describe a relationship with a non-binary person? It highlights how labels like straight and gay are usually very rough labels.