[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 66 points 21 hours ago

This seems accurate to what modern car underbodies look like, a smooth underbody is very important for aerodynamics and therefore fuel efficiency. For race cars it is often even more important not only for fuel efficiency but for downforce.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Java is terrible and I hated it but I feel like this stuff is not why, this mostly just seems like stuff that most powerful object oriented languages do.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

So will so many better languages, more so actually.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's a distraction, it's important to remind people of the value and humanity of immigrants but hatred and anger is a byproduct of people struggling and the only major politicians who aren't ignoring them or gaslighting them that actually things are going great are the ones telling them immigrants are to blame. The left needs to get much, much better at organizing and the Democrats need to either go left for real or die as a neoliberal but with enough decency to not be preferred by anybody and to not be able to propagandize effectively.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

That is exactly what the word friend means to them.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, that's called life, we will never reduce death to zero, we will not even really reduce the total amount, 100% of people on earth now without exception will die and there is nothing whatsoever we can do about it. We can only look at preventing PREMATURE death. If Covid is the infection that finishes off someone who is very elderly and unhealthy already it is not nearly as large of a cause for concern than when an otherwise healthy teenager is killed by a new type of infection. Covid still kills a large number of people, much like flu, and bacterial pneumonia, and heart disease. It is however no longer a major factor in EXCESS deaths, is, causes of deaths that are disproportionately and significantly reducing the average age and health of the human population. Saying, some death is acceptable is an incredibly obvious fact of life when you think about it, it's pointless and futile to try to prevent all deaths.

Look at this way, "reducing death" does not mean making some people not die, that's impossible. "Reducing death" means increasing the average age of the population and reducing the likelihood of people dying while they're young.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, not just dumb enough to talk about it, anyone for whom most of their wealth is in publicly traded companies (which is most rich people) has public record of how much.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Thank goodness an expert is here to swat down the drivel a top NATO Admiral is spewing.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Uhm... Gonna have to wildly disagree with you there, wartime and postwar industrialization and strong unions created the American middle class, globalism breaking the unions is what has destroyed the middle class.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Are you fucking kidding me, Jill Stein is your answer? Jill I don't know how many people are in the House of Representatives and I refuse to call Putin a war criminal Stein?

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I don't remember a lot of details but I remember the human race ends up allying itself with a seemingly friendly alien race that agrees to give humanity advanced medicine and technology, but with the goal of slowly wiping out humanity through slowly making the species sterile. It follows a couple that is trying to conceive but has so far been unable to and the overlords keep reassuring them thR everything is fine just keep trying but the woman does digging and figures out what is happening but it's already too late. I think there is a time travel story where humanity is prevented from either coming into contact with the aliens in the first place or is warned away from making the deal.

Thank you thank you, it's driving me crazy.

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