stormdelay

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[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the volume of a cylinder, pi times height times radius squared

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Proportional voting would actually make smaller parties be able to have representatives, breaking up the 2 party system and promoting more diverse point of views. You can also have mixed systems, with locally elected reps for a part of the house, and the rest of the house being filled in a manner that the end result is proportional to the global voting share

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, you can count France as not part of most of Europe in that regard, only the areas that were German between 1871 and 1918 have them as public holidays

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just imagine your mom saying your full name with an audible full stop, right after you said/did something a bit dumb

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's entirely unreasonable to compromise on striking rights for the mere convenience of international travellers and the pockets of airline owners. I don't see how forcing people to work could be apolitical.

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I do not see how that's opposed to personal choice, one's liberty to smoke stops where another person's liberty to not deal with the smell and refuse begins

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

The (local) universe

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

He's certainly a SpaceX fan, which I think is a lot more defensible than being a Musk fan

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Being unable to comply (signal) and selectively refusing to comply while still having access to the data (telegram) is not equivalent

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

It's really good, I played it again recently after not touching it for maybe 10 years, and finally beat the last difficulty in an attempt to prove to myself I'm still not old

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

The crude idea is that it makes US bonds less desirable, meaning they have to increase the interest rate on them, costing the US a lot of money

[–] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if I would go as far as saying you treated allies and friends well, but it certainly used to be mutually beneficial on the whole at least

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