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Millennials know all about this. And the hate-mongers of today will die with nobody to remember them
  • This misunderstands the motivations of real-life evil people.

    Once you accept there is no afterlife, that your legacy means nothing, and that you're a piece of shit who has no desire to contribute to society or help others - only your personal success and self-pleasure while living matter.

    Tarquin says it best, though much more humorously, here: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html

    By Rush's personal measure, he absolutely won. So did Kissinger. So did Reagan. Trump and Jones and Rogan are on track.

    You don't beat such people with legacy.

  • When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?
  • That is exactly the difference between weight and mass. And yes, that would be weightless and objects like balloons have negative weight until they reach an altitude where they're neutrally bouyant and then are weightless.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight

    Weight is defined as a force and has a direction. That's what causes the movement. If the weight didn't change there would be no movement.

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    Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
  • From TFA “The pair of you came within the thickness of a pane of glass of irreparably damaging or even destroying this priceless treasure, and that must be reflected in the sentences I pass.”

    Sooooo fucking close...

  • Brain damage linked to increased likelihood of religious fundamentalism, new study finds
  • I'm gonna copy my unedited response to this when someone posted this study as a Psypost link because I can't be arsed to change it and it's the exact same problem.

    I like the overall lack of bullshit psypost articles on Lemmy and would like to keep it that way.

    If you see a psypost article you should be suspicious.

    If you see a psypost article about a paper with a conclusion that you agree with you should be extra suspicious.

    EDIT: And now I’ve bothered to read the abstract of the paper and the first bit of the psypost article and they don’t say the same fucking thing.

    The journal article is saying they identified brain regions associated with fundamentalism by looking at brain lesions. There may be a seemingly obvious connection to say that the brain lesions caused the fundamentalism, but I don’t see them actually say that after skimming the full text. They focus on what regions are associated with fundamentalism using lesions as a tool to find them.

    The psypost article says in the first sentence the damage changes the likelihood of fundamentalism.

  • Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
  • Apparently it's not just an American thing, but maybe other countries have more sense not to do it anymore.

    They're usually in "high end" restaurants in big cities like Las Vegas. The ones I recall usually have the sinks somewhat separated from the stalls with a partition or turn, but they're not wholly separate rooms. The motivations are probably more needing money, access to a fancy place, and being an extrovert than perversion - more windshield wiper gig than peeping Tom.

    I think it's a combination of a holdover from another time that maybe was useful when they had an expanded role - they probably actually used to keep the bathroom clean, and some guys will shine shoes etc. - and tip-based service jobs they gave to poor people. I think they do get an hourly rate, but it's probably below minimum wage for the same reasons waiting tables is.

  • Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
  • Bathroom attendants - since people got all the high value stuff.

    I don't mean people that clean the bathroom etc.

    I mean the guy that stands at the sink and makes awkward small talk before handing you a towel you could have got yourself and expects a tip.

    EDIT: Y'all I'm pretty sure no one's having sex or shooting up in the bathroom at the fucking Eiffel Tower restaurant in Las Vegas ... Coke - probably. I don't know where anyone else has seen a bathroom attendant, but every place I've seen one at I've been wearing a suit...

  • Recommendations for a hidden camera?
  • Outdoors are generally not protected by right to privacy, even if on private property.

    Someone standing in their own front lawn can be recorded with both video and audio without their consent.

    This is what makes it legal to record police.

  • Recommendations for a hidden camera?
  • The problem isn't just that it will be thrown out in court, it's that it itself is illegal.

    Which doesn't necessarily mean don't do it but you're limited in how you can reveal how you know things are being stolen etc.

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