tleb

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[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

It's a clear cut example of dog whistling. Without literally saying it, she engaged with the conversation in a way that tells conspiracy theorists "the US DoD is chemtrailing us"

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

What makes cop shooting ranges so special that they can't just pay to use public ones?

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Why is Agent 47 trying to recruit us for war

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fundamentally, the only people against this simply don't believe in covid. You don't see them crying on the internet about employers not letting people work on construction sites without hard hats - it's basic safety. As long as you accept that covid is dangerous, then you have no issue with employers requiring a vaccination.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's just flatout wrong to say it makes no sense because an acronym is pronounced as a word, not an abbreviation of its words. AIDS isn't pronounced "awh-ids", NASA isn't pronounced "N-eh-sa".

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ethical business? Wat? Our economy is propped up by a housing bubble and resource extraction

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

That would be true if Half Life 3 was a game that existed and not just a dream

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Monitor quality and calibration will always affect these sorts of things but your results are probably close enough to reality

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca -2 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Singh had many reasonable opportunities to do this over the last few years, but finally pulls the rip cord when the Conservatives are polling way ahead? What the fuck? He's such a useless piece of shit, why do the NDP keep him around

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

This is strictly untrue for many climates. Where I live in Canada, 0F is average winter day, 100F is record-breaking "I might actually die" levels of heat.

-30C to 30C is not any more complicated or less intuitive than -22F to 86F

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (5 children)

A degree Celsius is not coarse and does not require decimals in weather reports, and I suspect only a person who has never lived in a Celsius-using country could make such silly claims.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

It's a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.

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