No, there are a lot of offices where casually browsing somewhere on a break is absolutely fine, but viewing sexual memes is not.

I enjoy lewd memes, but you lot seem deluded about the limits of their appropriateness.

You can have nice things though. Even if you didn’t get one in the lottery you can buy an equivalent machine for a similar price.

If you look at lewd innuendo in a typical work environment you can expect to have an unpleasant chat with HR at minimum

Right here on Lemmy, someone argued with me for weeks that the mathematical conventions on order of operations can be proven, and that all calculators obey them. You can find calculator manuals with explicit examples that don’t obey the conventions, and as a one time mathematician, his attempts at proofs are pathetic. Anyone who persists with him no matter how polite, will be faced with rudeness and condescension.

I found the guy on Mastodon where he peddles the full suite of common mathematical wrongness (he thinks 0.999… ≠ 1) and recently he tried to do an inductive proof in an “educational” thread and got completely schooled by someone else. He was unable to understand that he was wrong.

He claims to be a maths teacher, but his ability ran out at school and he’s to arrogant to realise.

If you look at what they did in some of the territories they have now left, like Bucha, and at their abduction of Ukrainian children to then be russified, there are definitely genocidal aspects to the war.

The purpose of the whole war is not genocide, but within it are acts constituting genocide.

Abuse is different from neglect. And unfortunately, even neglect is shaded by the common understanding of the time, because you can’t neglect to get your child vaccinated at a time when no-one knew about vaccines, for example.

So as society gets fatter, the threshold for overfeeding your kids being neglectful or abusive rises. Sadly.

I don’t really see the problem. It’s not worth double the price - anyone can go buy a computer and get the same functionality. If it’s worth so much to you to have the valve logo on the thing, then that’s up to you; the actual value though is in its use as a computer, which you can get by other means.

It’s not like a concert ticket where there’s no equivalent.

I would guess that scalpers will have to reduce their prices to shift what they’ve scrambled for when it comes to people actually buying them.

If it’s successful, it won’t be rare.

A typical air conditioner consumes 1kW, and on top of that heats the outside by however much the inside is cooled.

this is about looking at this huge machine that is destroying people

I don’t think you can draw the causal chain between me paying for a service I want and anyone being “destroyed”. Or perhaps you can, but it’d be so long and indirect you could apply the same chain to buying anything from any company.

This isn’t a matter of “making life better” in the sense that I am familiar with: that is, making a fairer, welcoming and livable place for everyone. This is that you and the person above have a certain preference that I don’t share, and you expect me to somehow enable you to realise that preference.

Your desire to be able to remote start your car in a particular way is not comparable in the slightest to issues of societal justice and trying to guilt trip me into enabling your consumer choices is, again, childish. If you don’t want to pay for a service don’t pay for it. If you wish there were a service which doesn’t exist, go and make your desires known to the people who may provide it. Don’t demand that someone else foregoes their preferences to enable you.

Doing so is as coherent as if I were to demand that you stop buying cars that aren’t green because I wish more manufacturers made green cars. I do wish that, but you don’t have any responsibility to help me with it.

Yes, that would be a good start. I live somewhere with decent data protection laws but I’m not sure whether the manufacturers require consent for excessive data use, and it would then be a bit unclear whether this is legal.

Don’t spend ten grand.

I proposed with a dummy ring made of foil and then we went ring shopping together. I also got an engagement ring because I wanted one.

Can’t have nuance.

You seem to be conflating “interesting” with “morally correct”. Yes, all of that is interesting.

What makes you think that is more common?

Holden remains annoying, but the plot and the other characters make up for it. I think it’s a problem with TV where you don’t hear his thoughts and only the whiney stuff that comes out of his mouth

Tis my guess

I hoped someone would make that connection! This one is actually sound but there is a closely related limitative result, the undefinability of truth (attributed to tarski) which uses a “liar sentence” like the “liar set” of Russell’s paradox: “this sentence is not true”. Of course, liar sentence have been known since ancient times, but it was only in the 20th century when we could give them a mathematical interpretation, rather than a purely logical one.

This means that there is no mathematical definition of what is true about the natural numbers, but there are still definitions of other things, and we can still quantify over those definitions.

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