[–] 21 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

Dude, if you needed to just do nothing for a day, that's time well spent. You need time to recharge. Your value is not measured in how many tasks you can do.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago*

    My step length is 0.8m. After taking 25 steps, I have travelled 20m (roughly 65feet). 5 times that is 100m. 10 times that is 1km. Notice how easy those numbers are to multiply and divide. And notice how much easier it is to take regular steps than heel-to-toe steps. You know you could memorize how big your body parts are in metric too, right?

    I'd argue that the only reason your preferred units are easier for you is because you are familiar with them.

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  • [+] -17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Not racist. You can learn whatever language you want. In fact you don't even need to learn Japanese. You can just use a translator app. This only is discrimination against those too lazy to do either.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The principal of my small-town high school heard kids talking about pump jack parties. He thought we were going out to a pump jack to get drunk and ride the pump jacks. Apparently, in his day, that's what kids did. He brought in a guest speaker from a local oilfield company to talk to the senior students about the dangers of doing that.

    We were dumbfounded by the talk because none of us had ever thought to ride a pump jack. What we called a pump jack party was just when a specific couple parked their car in the country to have sex.

    Older people in the community have since confirmed that riding pump jacks was indeed a thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Boycott - To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

    For me those last words, "as an expression of protest" are important. For me there's no protest and thus no boycott. The upset caused me to try Canadian products. I like them better.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    California senators don't get to tell me what to buy. Framing it as a "boycott" is just wrong, at least where I live. We have American booze on the shelves. I just don't want to buy American garbage anymore so I'm not doing it.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Calm down. It's probably not as dramatic as that. It's just that the billionaires need the AI cockroach swarms to deliver fresh children to their bunkers during the uprising. The humanoid and canine robots will do most of the exterminating.

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