Tenniswaffles

joined 2 years ago

Damn, I wish that were me

That room looks expensive, so hope they'll be my sugar daddy

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2625386/

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/life-expectancy-measure-misperception/

Logically, average life expectancy cannot be higher than average lifespan. For that to be true would mean that more people who made it out of childhood lived past their expected lifespan than didn't, which doesn't make sense.

If the expected lifespan is 38, than the average life expectancy before medical science advanced to the point where we could extend it should be lower than 38, but we in fact know that more often than not if you made it out of childhood in the past your chances of making it to 50+ were good, barring disease, war or what have you.

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to die

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just googled "best Linux distro for gaming," and got about 10 different recommendations.

You're literally the person your quote is describing lol

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's completely dependent on where you live. The closest train station to me is an hour and fifteen minutes walk from me.

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is it fair or just to expect one person to suffer for the benefit of others?

Can feel this image in my bones

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're not going ask if someone is actively dying obviously, but if they're in a position where they can ask those questions and the patient is able to answer then they could be seen as liable for a miscarriage if they don't ask and they give something harmful.

It's about protecting themselves. For example, I was a man working in childcare and I always had to be careful with my interactions with children and to minimise the times I was ever alone with a child as much as possible, because people can and will assume the worst about men in a position of power over children. So I can understand people doing everything in their power to protect themselves, even if they have to ask questions other people may be annoyed by.

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They do it to determine whether someone could be pregnant because if they give you any drugs that could harm a foetus they could be sued. It's an important question for all parties' safety.

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Here some definitions for you, Elaborate: Containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts. Details definitely aren't careful or many.

Impressive: If an object or achievement is impressive, you admire or respect it, usually because it is special, important, or very large. They're not special, important, or very large by any objective metric.

Decorative: Serving to decorate especially : purely ornamental You could use them as a decoration but it's definitely not their purpose, and them saying that they never broke implies that they were using them.

Expensive has never, nor will it ever, mean that the product 100% of the time is better.

True, but irrelevant. It's not about being better, it's about being fancy. (Edit: Whatever fancy actually means, words have lost all meaning at this point of the argument and I'm losing grip on reality)

They never broke.

Maybe, but we don't know how often they were used or even how they were used. And while I've never seen these particular plates in person, I've know plenty of plates like them where the printed design will quickly chip of or fade which speaks of poor quality.

Compared to a plain plate with nothing on it, these are undeniably elaborate.

Something being more elaborate than something else doesn't mean that it's something any reasonable person would call elaborate itself. If I scribble on a piece of paper you could say it's more elaborate than an empty page, but would anyone look at some paper with a scribble on it and call it elaborate without a reference point?

Edit: ignore that paper analogy, upon further thought I don't think you can call something that's elaborate elaborate without a plainer reference point to compare it to actually. I still stand by the first bit about something being more elaborate makes it elaborate itself though.

Edit 2 electric boogaloo: Don't take my arguing to heart I'm just doing it to be contrary at this point

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