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  • My version:

    24 hours in a day
    12 hour shift
    1 hour commute each way, so 2 hours
    1 hour cooking/eating/cleaning
    1 hour showering, getting dressed, getting ready for the next day.
    Uh oh, bedtime if I want to have a chance at 8 hours of sleep.
    1 hour walking the dog and playing with her. 7 hours of sleep possible.
    Fuck it, I’ll get groceries next week I guess.
    Trouble sleeping due to the anxiety of not getting enough sleep.
    Cry.
    Sleep 5 hours.



  • Yep, familiar with that phrase. I’ve also heard stories of people “robbing” banks for a dollar just so they could get put in jail for that bare minimum of food and shelter (and idk if it’s true but the unhesitating believability of it alone is a damning indictment). So really, by withholding food and shelter from free people, we’re incentivizing criminal activity.

    Do these law & order, fiscal conservative republicans want to lower the crime rate and reduce spending or not?


  • I know that you’re explaining the argument and not actually endorsing it, so this isn’t directed at you:

    You know that they just get given food at jail, right? And it’s still your money paying for that. And now those people are literally restricted from participating in society. If we fed them without jailing them, they could hold a job and spend money and provide to their community; instead we are paying for a punishment hotel to house and feed them in isolation. So if you subtract the cost of food from both sides since we’re feeding them either way, you just want to pay a lot of money to make them miserable, and also waive any benefit that society could recoup from having them be fed.



  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzChirp in Fahrenheit
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    Fahrenheit used the temperature of the human body to create his system, which makes a lot more sense than other systems.

    What is 0°F in terms of the human body? I’m guessing that 100°F is supposed to be a normal human body temperature, but in reality that will vary from person to person and everybody I’ve met is usually 97-99 unless they have a fever.
    In Celsius/Centigrade, 0° is the freezing point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 100° is the boiling point.
    In Kelvin, 0 is absolute zero, and it scales with Celsius/Centigrade because anchoring it to water just makes sense.

    Fahrenheit is fucking silly and people only defend it because it’s what they were familiar with growing up, so they teach the next generation the same thing, thus perpetuating the cycle of tradition for the sake of tradition.



  • America is a country in which it’s easier to get guns than doctors, and now they’re trying to take away vaccines on top of it. Even if you wanted to keep access to guns where it’s at (for whatever reason), you could still massively influence the amount of shootings happening by making it easier to get by so people don’t feel so goddamn helpless all the time. Taking 17M people off Medicaid will directly cause more medical deaths and indirectly cause more nonmedical deaths through things like frustrated shootings.





  • By this logic, why not buy 200,000 tomato plants with the million dollars?

    $50 in a few decades will be worth very little compared to now because of inflation. Take the lump sum and invest more on the early side. That’s how smart people successfully implement compounding.

    Edit:
    Also, that $6,250 times 52 weeks in a year is not $46M; it’s $325k. Not to mention that the $6,250 takes a year from initial investment, so it takes 2 years to hit that $325k. And that’s revenue, not profit. And it assumes dependable harvest. It’s a joke shit post that I’m taking way too seriously, right?


  • Legitimate question as I’m gonna move from Windows 10 within the next couple months. Is there something wrong with Bazzite or Nobara? I had narrowed my decision down to those two since they seem to be an easy transition, they do the things I need, and they’re popular enough that I can probably find fixes to any issues I experience. I pushed off my plan to build a desktop, but I still have an aging laptop that is losing security support in a couple of months.

    Also, my wife needs Excel specifically for school. Can Excel work on these distros or are there just good alternatives? She might need to keep a Windows 10 partition just for Excel stuff if she can’t run it in Bazzite or whatever she picks.

    Edit:
    Thanks everybody for responses! School is not flexible about using Excel specifically, and she has to share her screen during exams to show that she’s just using regular Excel. It’s not a hill we’re willing to die on lol.
    We aren’t super interested in doing anything beyond gaming and basic browsing type stuff with our computers, so I’m not sure that Bazzite being immutable really means anything to us. There were some good tips like a /home partition to easily swap distros when needed without losing everything, plus some people pointed out that some of these distros come and go over time so it would be harder to find fixes and continue getting updates if we get too entrenched in something that won’t be around much longer.
    Overall, I don’t think we’ll be too picky. We just want a pretty simple process to get something that’s like an unbloated Windows, and we don’t want to rip our hair out looking for a new distro and starting over every six months. Most people are not power users. I can do pretty much all of my computer stuff on my phone and all of my gaming on my PlayStation, so I really won’t notice the difference between most of these recommendations probably.