It wouldn't be on the same day every year because there would still be 1 extra day each year and 2 extra days on leap years. The proposed 13 month calendar would have a "month" that is just 1 or 2 days as "New Years". That would cause the days to shift over time.
ShaunaTheDead
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It means "if you are able to stop safely, you MUST STOP. Otherwise, you must go through the light quickly".
Okay, I chose the wrong word, but it's semantics, I'm pretty sure you know what I mean by the word "productivity". There are already plenty of countries where there are jobs going unfilled for months or even years. Teams stretched thin and expected to do the same amount of work as 2 or even 3 people would have done in the past, and it's only going to get worse if immigration is limited because developed countries currently depend on immigration to fill the gaps.
You're right that it's totally unsustainable to depend on immigration to fill gaps in your labour pool. The hope many governments seem to be hinging on is that this crisis will rectify itself as the bloated elderly population of the pyramid starts to die off. There definitely needs to be systemic change, but that takes time. In the short term, there are plenty of immigrants that can fill those roles and keep your country's economy strong in the short term. Countries that fail to recognize that are going to have a rough time.
Of course there are plenty of other reasons that immigration should be accepted. I just figure conservatives are really the only ones who oppose it and they tend to think in terms of the bottom line and their own selfish interests, so I thought I would frame it in a way that would appeal to them.
It's pretty stupid and short sighted to hate foreigners. Every developed country has a declining birth rate right now and an inverted pyramid age graph where there are far more elderly people than young people. The only way countries can keep up their current level of productivity is by allowing immigration. Ban immigration and you basically guarantee your country is going to suffer economically.
Of course the racists think that this is a "white genocide" which is obviously bullshit. The entire Earth is on a trend of declining populations. It's actually estimated that we very likely will hit a peak population of 11 billion and then it will start to drop dramatically and could drop down as far as 6 billion by 2100.
Here's a wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth#/media/File:World_Population_Prospects.svg
And a nice picture from the same article showing the trend: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/World_Population_Prospects.svg/1280px-World_Population_Prospects.svg.png
Who the hell would have guessed that we'd have to deal with not one but two potentially civilization ending threats in our lifetimes? I want off this crazy ride please!
Has a little calculator you can play around with to see how much carbon is captured by a tree based on various factors.
They're probably saying that because scientific conclusions usually err on the side of caution. Plus they're using anecdotal evidence to make their claim which is known to be unreliable. However, there's really no other way to gather data about this except asking people or maybe sticking them in an MRI machine while they achieve orgasm which would be awkward and expensive, so it's kind of the best we've got.
They can then compare cisgender orgasm descriptions to transgender orgasm descriptions and see if they match up. And despite the shaky foundation of anecdotal evidence, this is a very long term study and they used a pretty large sample size (130 participants) so it should weed out any anomalies.
It's certainly still possible that the participants are imagining or embellishing the results, but I think the people behind the study did the best they could to gather accurate data.
You're right, my mistake. I was thinking of Existential Nihilism which is a school of thought within Nihilism, but is different in it's interpretation as I described in my original post.
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose... The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
... Friedrich Nietzsche further expanded on these ideas, and ... has become a major figure in existential nihilism.
There are also some quotes of note in the main Nihilism Wikipedia article
Nietzsche distinguishes a morality that is strong or healthy, meaning that the person in question is aware that he constructs it himself, from weak morality, where the interpretation is projected on to something external.
As such, the self-dissolution of Christianity constitutes yet another form of nihilism. Because Christianity was an interpretation that posited itself as the interpretation, Nietzsche states that this dissolution leads beyond skepticism to a distrust of all meaning.
I think Absurdism is more what people are generally describing when they use the term Nihilism in popular culture. Here are a couple of excerpts from the same Existential Nihilism Wikipedia article I linked.
The supposed conflict between our desire for meaning and the reality of a meaningless world is explored in the philosophical school of absurdism.
With Kierkegaard, the concept of absurdism was developed, which explains the concept of humans trying to find meaning in a meaningless world.
Because I'm transgender and have personally experienced both. And yes, there is evidence to support the idea that transgender women experience the same type of orgasm as cisgender women. Here's a long-term study into transgender orgasms: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0090429523000341
And here's just the excerpt for the conclusion if you don't want to read the whole article:
Our findings suggest that TW [transgender women] and TM [transgender men] experience considerable changes in several orgasm function domains after commencing GAHT [gender affirming hormone therapy]. For TW, many of these changes align with what cis-women describe for the same orgasm function domains. GAHT related changes are for the most part experienced positively by patients, and both TW and TM generally report improved overall orgasm quality and satisfaction.
I'm so tired of people thinking that nihilism (Nietzsche's main philosophy for those unaware) is depressing. It's not at all, it's actually very hopeful and liberating. Nihilism can basically be boiled down to "nothing matters" which sounds depressing, but what it really means is that "nobody can tell you what matters from your perspective, only you can decide what matters to you". It was considered depressing and was railed against by the public at the time because it goes against religious teaching which tells you that religion matters objectively and unquestioningly.
It's extremely liberating even today despite religion not having a choke hold on society as much as it did during Nietsche's time. It's liberating because if what truly matters to you is shitposting on Lemmy, then that's great! Go live your most meaningful existence! Enjoy yourself and be proud of your accomplishments in that field! You choose your own worldview and what matters to you, and that's obviously a very a positive thing, it's not depressing or morose or narrow-minded and I'm tired of people just boiling it down to "Nihilism is for depressed people".
I just started playing Amnesia: Rebirth and the opening cut scene gave me such unexpected euphoria. Take a look, the euphoric part starts around 2:20
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=oRSkZ1FdEXo
It made me realize how extremely rare it is for a game to not only have a female protagonist but also a first person perspective where you can actually see your own body if you look down.
I will never understand the impulse to plaster your car with your life philosophy. Obviously this is another level, but even the stick figure families or whatever are kind of weird. Some of it is sensitive information that you're just shouting out into the world.
For example, there's this person I see around my town whose license plate is "2HOUSES". So you're advertising to potential thieves that you're rich enough to afford 2 houses and that you're definitely not currently at either of them. Incredibly stupid just for the vanity of it, but you're also and just making a target of yourself.