[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

From memory and a couple quick Google searches

  • January 6th, including both the violence at the national Capitol and related, often violent protests outside verious state capitols
  • Death threats to election count and poll workers
  • Republican legislator invites armed men into the Oregon State Capitol during a protest
  • Armed protestors rally around the tallying center in Detroit while the count was ongoing
  • Brawl with counterprotestors at the "million Maga march"
  • Violent "Stop the steal" protests in Sacramento

I wouldn't say there was just a little violence after the 2020 loss

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Italy is 60% of the size of Spain and has a similar ratio of arable land (27.1 vs 27.9% per Wikipedia, Spain is also quite mountainous). Doesn't really invalidate the point in your comment, but I expected a bigger difference when comparing "immense spaces and flat fields"to a mostly mountainous fraction of the territory

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 101 points 2 months ago

Am one of those "assholes". Kamala was far from my favorite candidate in 2020, but I just donated a hefty (for me) chunk of change and will be volunteering. I didn't need perfection, just a feasible path to victory in November and now we have it. I'm so pumped right now, project 2025 no longer looks like an inevitability. LFG!

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

If you are going to and from points within a solar system, probably but not necessarily. Every transfer made between gravitational influences increases the chance that you will enter at an angle to the equatorial plane, especially if the two influences are not coplanar traveling between solar systems would likely have you entering at a significant angle. Furthermore, approaching a ship at a low velocity means slowing down as you approach them, so even if you do approach coplanar, it would be engines first and not nose first (unless star trek vessels have an ability to reverse their propulsors? I don't know if that's ever been shown aside from by approaching things nose first). The expanse showed this aspect of space interaction well with the flip and burn maneuvers

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Radiation does not by definition make things it impacts radioactive, and most of the lingering effects that we associate with radiation have to do with radioactive particles that are left behind by the atmosphere. Since there is no particulate matter traveling between the sun and Mars (photons not withstanding), the surface of Mars would not be expected to acquire radioactive properties from an acute solar radiation event like this one. However, an entity on the surface of Mars would be exposed to radiation from the Sun, much more so than an entity on/near earth and it's magnetosphere (Mars' thin atmosphere and distance from the sun probably helps reduce that disparity relative to something in say low earth orbit, but I don't think it fully equalizes or shifts the scales). I am not an astrophysicist, so there's at least a 20% chance I got part of that wrong.

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Pi is an infinite series of non-repeating digits, and yet you will never find the letter A in pi because there is a 0% chance of the letter A being a digit in a decimal system. By the same logic, infinite possibilities do not guarantee that every conceivable state occurs, if that conceivable state has a 0% probability. As finite beings, it is very difficult for us to accurately distinguish between a 0% probability and a infinitesimal probability, so we end up circling back to "we don't know"

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Buses and trains. That, or spaghetti interchange that are bigger than the rest of the city. Also, replace key arterial roads with a pedestrian path, call that path a park, and charge $20 for entry. That will easily fund all the city services and nobody will be too inconvenienced by having to pocket their car as they walk across the "park" to get between neighborhoods. Now excuse me, I have to go murder a little blue bird that won't shut up about the garbage piling up

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Based on the Wikipedia article on biological immortality referencing species that live for a couple hundred years and the Wikipedia page on armillaria ostoyae mentioning living specimens that are multiple millenia old (and thousands of acres large!), I'm guessing that may be what the prof is referring to?

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Actions or action? I was infuriated by the railroad strike response, and I'll never view that as anything but a miserable decision, but Biden was also the first president to join picket lines with the UAW strike and, for what it's worth, leaders of the railroad unions did give him some credit for helping negotiate for the sick day benefits they were able to earn in the months following. He's no Mother Jones by a longshot, but grading the balance of his actions on the curve of US politicians, he's a C+ at worst

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

Easy. It's fake because conservatives would never express the idea of a moist vagina as a positive. Female pleasure is an anathema to them because it means there isn't an unbalanced power dynamic favoring them

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

"Typical politician Biden refuses to call Xi a dictator". "Biden's so mentally incompetent, he can't even answer a simple yes or no question" ah yes, I can clearly see how these headlines would be so much better

[-] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Blizzard: willfully engage in a business model that manipulates players into constantly looking for the next thing, and structures their games around that model to drive sales of microtransaction

Blizzard's Player Base: fills with people responding to that manipulation

Blizzard:

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