Spuddaccino

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[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My solution to the pronoun game has always been to not worry about it.

At some point, the person having non-standard pronouns made a decision to have their pronouns not match their physical appearance, so it's up to them to communicate that difference in some other way. If they fail to do that adequately, there will be misunderstandings. Sometimes, that means they have to straight-up tell people when they meet them, other times it might mean a correction when a mistake is made. I've seen people wear buttons at social events, even, and I thought that was a cute solution.

If they want to be a dick about it, I now know that they're not someone I particularly want to be around anyway.

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

This is false. Republicans don't always lie. If they did, literally nobody would believe them.

What they do is actually far worse. They tell just enough truth to make their lies seem believable. That's why they end up being dangerous: because they're believable.

I know you don't believe them or find them believable, but enough people do that they keep getting elected.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago

It's hardly comparable. That's a whole pound of cholesterol you're missing out on.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

So do the people who say "check and mate."

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

That seems fine to me. I've heard "check and mate" a bunch, so this isn't too much of a stretch for me.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's preferred, actually, gives them a nice peg to hang the donuts on.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There's a few reasons.

The biggest reason is that bittorrent doesn't download segments in order. YouTube is a video streaming service, so the video will stop playing after segment 5 if you don't have segment 6, regardless of how many segments you actually have. This is a user experience issue, and it would basically make YouTube unusable for the current use cases.

Peer to peer file sharing, as you might expect, means that other end users are providing the videos, not the company. This means that the company cannot guarantee transfer speed, file completeness, or even that the file is the right file. This may end up causing them some legal trouble in the platform current state.

Peer to peer also means that the videos need to be stored in multiple locations, with multiple copies, and Joe Schmo doesn't have a datacenter in his basement. There will end up being a limit to how much content can be stored, and things that people don't watch simply won't be stored anywhere, so you wouldn't be able to look up that meme video you liked 14 years ago.

It's just not a good way of providing data as a service to a customer. It's an alternative for smaller sites that can't afford, or don't want the paper trail of, appropriate data server sizes.

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

This whole incel concept confuses me. Are you telling me there are hordes of dudes out there so unlikable that they can't even pay a hooker for a handy?

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 22 points 2 years ago

Well, of course not. It's not called No Labor Day.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, that explains a lot, then.

These are all island nations in Oceania that receive large amounts of their food supply from outside the country. This offloads much of the energy cost of refrigeration onto whatever nation owns the ship. I don't know if there's a good way of figuring out how much energy is spent shipping supplies to those countries, though.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Happy I could help. =)

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The answer is... kind of, but only really at the lower end.

Countries with very low (around 0) electricity usage are going to be places where food refrigeration is hard to come by, if even possible, and so stockpiling and transporting food becomes more difficult. These places, then, have to grow or hunt their own food, and it's often just enough to get by, especially considering how much hard work goes into it.

Once electricity becomes more prevalent and food refrigeration becomes common, people tend to be a bit freer with their food consumption. This doesnt mean that they all turn into fat slobs, but it does mean that they have the the option to do so that didn't exist before.

Once you hit that threshold, you start to notice things spreading out on the chart, whereas there are basically no obese countries at 0 kWh, outside of a few outliers. I'm kind of curious about which countries are up there at 45% obesity rate and no electricity.

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