Perfide

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[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's still completely besides the point. Milk chocolate is it's own food, you don't taste the sugar or chocolate separately, it's a homogeneous mixture. You don't "like sugar more than chocolate", you like Milk Chocolate more than you like Dark Chocolate. You probably(hopefully... r.i.p your teeth otherwise) also like Milk Chocolate more than you like pure sugar, so by the OPs logic that must mean you like chocolate more than you like sugar, at the same time as you like sugar more than chocolate. See the problem here?

Btw, people do eat spoonfuls of honey which is probably 99.9% sugar.

One, not a completely fair comparison because honey has it's own distinctive flavor beyond just tasting like sugar. But also two, I've never known anyone to just eat multiple spoonfuls of honey by itself. Anecdotal, sure, but I don't think it's nearly as common as you seem to be implying it is

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A few years ago, maybe still, you could buy modified parts literally on Ebay to turn an AR-15 into a full auto, for really cheap. I have a family member who's a conservative gun nut and bought one, so I can personally confirm it is legit that easy. Probably suuuper illegal, but clearly no one was(is?) keeping an eye on that kind of shit to even catch it.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I even drink the water the pickles were in.

Yeah, that's vinegar, not water.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

How is OP right? Just about everyone likes milk chocolate, but you'd be hard pressed to find a significant number of people that enjoy downing spoonfuls of sugar. Clearly it's not just the sugar people enjoy

The pickle comparison is also perfect. The only difference between dark and milk chocolate is the sugar content, and the only difference between a pickle and a cucumber is the vinegar.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago

Anakin is, yes. Padme isn't.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not like the passenger knew they were non-critical. I certainly wouldn't have wanted him to stay silent only for it to turn out they were critical. They also wouldn't unboard and inspect a plane just on the insistence of one passenger, they'd deplane that one passenger if anything. The fact that they did do an additional inspection implies that safe or not, those missing bolts were not noticed in the initial inspection, which leads one to wondering if they missed anything else.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately this is a very cut and dry indication of intention of jury nullification, and that is a reason to dismiss a potential juror. They shouldn't have said anything and then nullified once they actually got on the jury.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Isn't he uhh... dead? Cremated, even? What the fuck.

Oh, Elseworlds... oof.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But when was the last time they landed on the Moon?

1972, which was the last time NASA even bothered attempting to land on the moon at all(well, soft land. They've sent up an impactor since then). It's not like they kept trying and suddenly started failing, they just never planned another landing mission until Artemis 2 and 3.

Tell me though, what did Apollo 17 have that every moon mission since has not had? Oh yeah, people, and not even for the first time ever, no. That was the 6th time in a roughly 3 year timeframe that NASA put people on the moon. Oh yeah, and on all 6 of those occasions, and even the disastrous Apollo 13, all the astronauts made it home safe.

So the last time NASA even tried to land on the moon, they 100% successfully did so, while doing something for the 6th time that no other space agency to this day has done before or since.

Let me know when JAXA puts people on the moon, and then we can talk about them being more capable than NASA.

NASA tells us they'll have Artemis ready by, what, next year?

Yawn, I'm so tired of this argument. Literally all you guys ever say nowadays when trying to denigrate NASA is "You really think Artemis will launch on time? lol". I've been hearing the same low effort argument since well before Artemis 1 launched. How about expounding on it for once and actually explain why you think Artemis will fail, as you clearly think it will? Not be delayed, fail. Everyone paying attention(clearly you weren't, or you would have already known and not needed to edit your post) knew for over a year prior to the official delay announcement that A2 and A3 would be delayed, that does not mean anything as far as the success of the actual mission goes.

Sure, congress could slash their budget, as they're often prone to doing, which could possibly kill the program, but that still says nothing about NASA's technical capabilities.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is NOT the definition of an outlier. There IS no set mathematical definition of an outlier, in fact. What is considered an outlier is greatly determined by what the dataset actually is. Please do more research on what an outlier actually is, even the wikipedia page on outliers is surprisingly high quality(aka has good sources, read those), so it's not hard.

That all being said, let's use your rigid definition. There have been approximately 100 billion humans to have ever lived, from now until all the way back 200,000-300,000 years ago when homo sapiens first emerged. The absolute oldest humans to ever live(ignoring Mr.Immortal) made it to about 120. Mr.Immortal has to be human to be factored into the calculations of human lifespan, so they are at the absolute MOST 300,000 years old.

Now, let's go ahead and say that all 100 billion humans lived to that maximum age of 120. Obviously not even remotely the case, but this is best case scenario here. The mean of a dataset is found by adding all of the numbers in the dataset together and then dividing by the number of data points within the set. So in this case it would be "(120(100,000,000,000) + 300,000) ÷ 100,000,000,001)"

Now if you do the math on that, you find that even with Mr.Immortal included and every human living the absolute longest life possible, the mean is... 120.0000029988.

Now tell me, what is closer to that number, 300,000 or the actual average lifespan of humans(70 something)? It's not even close, and since the rate of population expansion keeps increasing, Mr.Immortal would have to wait for humanity to die out before the mean could ever increase enough to make US the outliers.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy is VERY left leaning overall, and also still very small. You're just not going to find enough people here to populate an entire instance based around the terf's book series. Moreover, why would you even need an entire instance dedicated around one fandom? I'm still confused as fuck that Star trek has multiple dedicated instances.

Additionally, putting the terf aspect aside, the Harry Potter fandom just isn't what it used to be. Cursed child was garbage, Fantastic Beasts were garbage... and that's all there's been in recent memory besides "Wizards used to shit themselves". The last HP movie was 12 years ago, the last actual book 16-17ish years ago. The fandom is moving on.

That all being said, this IS Lemmy. Absolutely nothing is stopping you from starting a Harry Potter instance.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

The first one is very similar to The Boys.

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