Donkter

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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

You're saying two different things. Him attacking Ukraine is him doing something but the only way you could read the motivation as something done to stop Ukraine joining NATO is either basing it off of what someone in the regime said (hypocritical) or projecting what you want onto the situation to square a pre-conceived narrative in your head.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Well, depression/anxiety is spending your time agonizing about it and not doing it. Most people are doing this to some extent they just have brains that don't have them dwelling on it all day. I have friends of all sorts who casually lament not reading or not picking up an instrument. Some are depressed some aren't.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Trump looks so young in this photo, I forgot.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You'll always find an article about violence at waffle House that makes the jokes too soon.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Your brain has rotted.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe, but why not do one hobby for work then have other hobbies that you do for fun? I would much rather grow to kind of hate pottery at my pottery business and still play an instrument and bake pastries in my free time than despair in an IT job and bake pastries and do pottery in my free time and figure that instrument dream will just never happen.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you eat overnight oats for your tummy troubles the post clearly isn't for you. If you eat it because you can't afford other meals it is.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The media blows this out of proportion for you to even consider this an option. If you think that's an idea that makes sense then re-evaluate where you got that talking point.

There are laws banning trans people in states that affect like 5 people (I want to say there was a state law that literally affected one trans girl in the entire state.)

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should examine your definition of intuitive. Yes, technically nothing is intuitive it's just based on what you know because intuition is also based on what you're used to.

By your logic, if you compare a machine that powers on by pressing a big glowing red button labeled "ON" and one that turns on by you performing the haka in front of a camera while reciting a Shakespeare sonnet backwards you might say that there is no "more intuitive" way to turn on a machine, just one you know better and can perform quicker!

You aren't reading what you're replying to because I said in a previous post that it's easy to get used to Celsius and fahrenheit and there's no difference to either and I also already said that Celsius is better for science because it's based on water.

Everything you said can be said about Celsius scale as well.

At this point you're just lying or further proving that you didn't even read the post you tried to respond patronizingly to. I said that the Fahrenheit scale is intuitive because it's a 0-100 scale which is similar to other scales we use all the time and works well for our base 10 counting system being a scale essentially between two powers of 10. Neither of that can be said for Celsius and that's so obvious I think you just didn't read it before replying.

And hell, on top of all this, I think we should all switch to using Celsius! Because as I mentioned it's easy to grasp both scales and using Celsius makes understanding a lot of science easier which I think is the only real argument in this arbitrary choice between the two! But I'm out here explaining the use of Fahrenheit because people here can't grasp my explanation for why people might use it and are acting like they've got the defeater to a post they didn't even read!

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Never said either one can't be intuitive, just that the scale of farenheit has a precedence outside of it being an arbitrary temperature measurement by being a scale that goes from about 0 - 100.

If you had never used either scale and some one asked: "which is more intuitive, a temperature scale where -10 is really cold and 40 is really hot or one where 0 is really cold and 100 is really hot?" I know which one I would pick because I've done things before like calculate percentages and work in a base 10 system so it makes sense for the scale to be between two orders of magnitude.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I disagree that either would be just as intuitive. Fahrenheit being 0=cold and 100=hot is intuitive because there are a lot of things we do in the world that exist on a scale of 0 - 100. Percentages, just off the bat. Also, fahrenheit has a higher degree of fidelity in the temperature range that we use.

Celsius's general temperature scale is like -10 - 40 which is absolutely not intuitive because it doesn't look like any other scale we use as humans. I agree that we get used to Celsius fast and it's a fine it's not like it's super confusing (and Celsius is so much more useful scientifically).

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

How do you square what you're saying with the very easy to find data (look it up) that says that trans people are disproportionately killed by a large amount and the easy to find laws being passed around the US using taxpayer money to specifically target trans people by denying them recognition and healthcare?

When trans people "relax the fuck out and just live life" they end up being denied jobs, medicine, and sometimes their life by bigots. What do you think they're supposed to do?

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