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squaresinger

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  • What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

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  • Do the same with a raspberry and you get a computer.

  • Patriotism and nationalism are instruments of power

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  • That's pure projection. I don't love my country and it would be stupid to have romantic feelings toward a made-up thing that doesn't exist.

    I live here because it's a good place to live. If the country goes to shit, I move on.

    Do you feel patriotic love towards the supermarket you shop at? Or do you go there because it's currently the place where you get the best deal? Do you love your petrol station? Do you love the highway or train you use to get to work?

    Maybe it's the american weirdness that you guys don't value love so that you mistake thinking that somethig is ok is automatically deep love or something weird.

    Patriotism has exactly on purpose: to keep idiots in line and stop them from thinking.

  • Patriotism and nationalism are instruments of power

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  • Tbh, I have to disagree here.

    Even in its best form, patriotism is about being proud of things you did nothing to contribute to and about tribalism and exclusion of others (namely people from places where you don't live).

    In my city we have great public transport, great public healthcare, strong worker protection laws, a large public housing sector that keeps rents low, good free education, pretty old buildings, lots of nice parks and many other great things that I like.

    I did nothing to contribute to these things except of voting every few years. It's not my achievement that these things exist, so pride would be misplaced.

    I also know that all it takes for these things to vanish is the wrong people getting elected once or twice, and if that were to happen, the city could quickly be turned from a great place to live to a terrible place. It has happened before, specifically between 1933 and 1945, but also from 1809 to 1848 and 1914 to 1923.

    Being patriotic would elevating my city and/or country to something more than it is: from a place to live to a place to worship or something like that, and it would mean I would have to support things that cannot be reasonably supported.

    It's totally ok to like the good things you have. It's also totally ok to get behind good causes and further them. But it's weird to "love" a place and bind yourself to it even if it goes bad.

  • Zero tolerance policies in schools and mandatory minimum sentences have the same arguments and issues

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  • Mandatory minimum sentences exist outside of the US as well, and they are usually not a great idea.

    For example, in Germany they introduced mandatory minimum sentences for possession and distribution of child pornography. Politicians were warned that it will have unintended side-effects, but the warnings weren't heeded.

    A bit later a (female) teacher noticed that kids in her class were passing around a sex video of one of her underage students and her ex boyfriend, that the ex leaked as revenge. She had one of the students send her a copy of the video as evidence, took that to the mother of the girl, handed it to her, so that the mother of the girl could go to the police with it.

    In the process of the whole investigation, it was noticed that the teacher had that copy in her possession for a short time and passed it on to the mother, thus distributing child pornography. The judge was very apologetic and said the ruling was unfair and a shame, but his hands were tied, the law demanded without any possible leeway from him that she would have to spend time in prison, without chance for early release. She was also registered in the sex offender registry and barred from working as a teacher in the future. All for trying to help that girl.

  • What OS does the Batcomputer use?

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  • For the German speakers under us: Wayne interessierts...

    (As an explanation: Wayne sounds very close to the German "wen", meaning roughly "who". So that's a common joke phrase in German and means "Who cares?")

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • The home secretary in my country said during Covid that everyone will have to be more financially conservative during Covid-related lock-downs. She said that then three ball gowns are enough, you don't need more than that.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • Yeah, that company specifically developed a space-capable pen as a marketing gig and then offered it to NASA who paid less for them than they did for the pens they would have gotten instead.

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • They fought for their states' rights to dictate what other states were or were not allowed to do. Something that's closely mirrored with similar debates today.

  • People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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  • The fun thing is that everyone thinks they are middle class. When I was making €45k a year I thought I was middle class because I had an university degree and a leadership position. At the same time my boss, who had just spent €5mio acquiring a 50% share in a second company and owned three houses (two of which he rented out) also considered himself middle class because he wasn't a billionaire.

  • Magic word

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  • Didn't specify. Good luck!

  • Magic word

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  • Are you really asking to get a sandwich forced up some body part of yours?

  • Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes.

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  • And also remember “keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out”

    Love that, I'm gonna steal that ;)

  • Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes.

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  • Remember, critical thinking and trusting nobody are two very different things that don't really have anything to do with one another.

    Critical thinking means that you learn to figure out who (and what information) you can trust. If you are a critical thinker, you know how to vet sources, learn what marketing/political lingo actually means beyond the apparently obvious meaning of the words. You know how to find discrepancies between different bits of information and how to balance them and figure out what's behind them.

    It certainly doesn't mean to not trust anything, because that means you are discarding actual information in favour of hallucinations.

  • Oh the irony.

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  • Do you have some anger management issues? Dude, that kind of behavior is just not right, and no it's not funny, and no, you are responsible for your behavior.

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • Of course. For a large corporation only having to support a single platform is perfect. Having to support multiple platforms increases the cost and we have to think of the poor, poor investors.

    On the other hand, there are more than enough great indie devs making actually fun and innovative games.

    Screw AAA games, they suck anyway.

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • I think the main issue there is that the player base is not big enough to justify developing a kernel-level anti-cheat. The variability in Linux kernels might also be a bit of an issue.

  • Linus Comparison

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  • It kinda is, isn't it? Apt isn't super stable.

  • C++ on Uncyclopedia

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  • Python is really good too!

  • Linus Comparison

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  • This.

    The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.

    They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.

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    Christopher Robin (the kid from Winnie the Pooh) was one of the earliest victims of a parent oversharing for social media fame.

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    Birds are a class of dinosaurs, biologically speaking. That means, Dino nuggets are legitimately made from dinosaur meat.

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    There is a limit how much power the pedal assist of an e-Bike is allowed to provide. There is no limit though on how strong the exoskeletton is that you use on a regular bike.

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    Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

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    If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country.

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    Combine Eurotruck Simulator with remote controlled trucks and you got a fleet of "self-driving" trucks for free.