[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I mean... It was a cheap joke, but money and trade are not requirements for an economy.

If you look at ants, balancing defense (and offense for some species) with colony upkeeping is a serious problem. The Borg also have a "Roman Empire" situation where their wealth comes from war, so yeah, it would be really complicated.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I guess if it's less than 400ml, it gets called a "cup"...

But holly fuck, 800ml is large! People fill it with something for drinking, or it's a "it's nice to have some empty volume there" thing?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Netanyahu already said so.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Do you have any idea how long it takes to manufacture a cube?

They would need to start sourcing it from contractors 2 centuries before the war, and the effort they put into it would destroy their economy.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 32 points 17 hours ago

Fascists are all the same.

Sounds a lot like Hitler decreeing quantum mechanics a "Jew science" and expelling almost everybody that knew nuclear physics from the country.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wait, wasn't it a metaphor for "some nuclear reactor so rudimentary that they could as well use steam engines"? I really don't remember it well.

Anyway, he's famous for running the numbers for some things. But yeah, he absolutely didn't do it for all things.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You communicated that part badly, your comment looks like you are saying it's false and the only reason people believe Evangelicals want that is because of AIPAC.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They have to practice their construction skills...

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

Star Wars even have a city covering an entire planet

Yes, they copied it from Foundation. Trantor has a perfectly fine reason for being the way it is, that would apply to Corusant too.

That is, if physics actually allowed them to be that way. Apparently Asimov didn't run the numbers on that one.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Even though those are very different procedures, I fail to see how the outcome could be any different.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

american protestant denominations

One of the items Luther was protesting about was that churches were too expensive and ostentatious. So, no, unless you know if some protestants that aren't actually in the protest.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Luckily every sentient species in the galaxy has close to the same height and sits in the same position...

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As a developer that learned it once, a long time ago, naturally I sign to the pledge...

I have some doubts if I should mark it NSFW.

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All those student protests on the US seem to be about stopping their universities from supporting the Israel government. But supporting a foreign government is not a normal thing for a university to do, why do they do it?

Is there some educational or research resource they get?

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The links like !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world.

I have had a pretty bad time making those work. I have tried searching for them at the communities page, and removing the exclamation mark and pasting them on my instance (lemmy.world/c/NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world).

Some times one of those works, other times my instance finds nothing. And if I go directly to the home instance of the community, it doesn't bring my login.

What is the recommended way to use those?

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