[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Going on with your songs theme, in "Shotgun" by George Ezra, right at the start of the second verse, it sounds like he burps. It's "brrrppsouth of the equator"

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Or we use binary to write all bases, since binary is the simplest. So English uses base 1010, and the alien is using base 100.

This system does break down when trying to use a base that isn't a positive integer. I've heard of people trying to use base e (yes, as in euler's number) for maths research.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago

2012 being 5 years ago was more than 5 years ago

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'm pretty firmly against, because to really call on bodily autonomy rights, you need to be able to make a reasonably informed, rational, and non-coerced decision. For the impact that death has, I don't think you can make that decision. Both because of the standard that you need to hold when death is the consequence, and because usually when someone is considering suicide they're not in a rational state of mind. I've been through depression and I had some suicidal thoughts, but looking at them in hindsight, I was not fairly considering things at all. Sure, my life was far from perfect, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as it felt at the time.

the only person I'll ever hurt is myself

That's just not true. Unless you live as a full on urban hermit, never interacting with anyone, you have people around you. And those people care about you more than you'd think.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

cheap

warhammer

Yeah, no

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

I like that your first one doesn't imply that you always need to find a good option, you only need to look for the best. Sometimes all of your options are bad, and in any other situation you'd never go for them.

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I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.

What's really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking "what if I did the other thing". Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.

I'm only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there's still a lot of things I could have done differently.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 175 points 3 months ago

The issue I see here is, and I believe I'm speaking for the entire rest of the world here, we don't want him

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 178 points 4 months ago

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

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My general assumption for the lowest I can expect a person to behave is basically always looking for their own absolute gain, and any attitude towards other people comes secondary to that. So while a person living by this standard wouldn't donate to charity without some other motive, they would have basically the same answer to something like the trolley problem as anyone else.

Am I wrong thinking of this as a "minimum reasonable behavior", or is there something people actually gain from the suffering of other people?

This question was born out of seeing how people are being treated by the US government at the moment, but I'm asking about more than just that. People like abusive partners/family, hostile cops, or just bullies in general.

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What does someone have to do that means no amount of remorse or effort to fix things will get you to forgive them? I don't mean forgive and forget to the point where they can hurt you again. If someone repeatedly steals from you, forgiveness doesn't mean putting them in a position where they can steal again.

I'm asking this purely out of curiosity. I'm just wondering what the attitude in my corner of the internet is.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 120 points 9 months ago

It is more chronologically accurate to show a t-rex being hit by a car than it is to show a t-rex eating a stegosaurus

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There's a mod I want to make, but I've never made a mod for any game before. What resources are there for starting out?

I know programming well enough so that's not a barrier, this is more about mod structure and testing

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[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago

There are four options for American voters: vote red, vote blue, vote third party, or don't vote at all.

Voting red is just bad. I highly doubt that the Gaza situation would get any better if Trump gets in, but I know for a fact that a lot of things will get much worse.

Voting third party is a wasted effort. Sure, every sane person would prefer different people to run America, but the the shit fptp system means they'll never get any traction. In another election voting third party could be worth it, since a third party might slowly get more support, but not this one.

Not voting is just pointless. That's just choosing to not impact anything.

That only leaves voting blue. It's not great, but it's the only option left.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 108 points 2 years ago

"Ah, the human has the zoomies."

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The most versatile of foods, creating chips, hash browns, and vodka, among other things. Which option is the best one?

IMO some good hot chips (fries for you incorrect Americans)

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What movie do you want made? If you got a pitch meeting with a producer and a guaranteed green light, what would you say?

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 257 points 2 years ago

Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk

So, the situation remains unchanged.

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