[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maths understander here, in 2042 they'll be 60, not 62. Also the average life expectancy in the US is around 77-78 years, i.e. enough of a difference compared to 60 that you could more or less fit (and live to see) a grandkid/great-grandkid's entire childhood in there.

Although that 79 years figure is Life Expectancy at Birth, in practice it tends to be longer for most surviving adults older than a certain point, mostly because the lower ranges of the chart hit their allotted moment and pass on for whatever reason, leaving the remaining average higher still

~~Of course, with calculus living rent free in my head rn thanks to the uni course of the same name, I'm wondering what that chart of "current age vs expected remaining age" looks like, and where the point of "ageing faster than your remaining likely time grows" lies~~

Edit: source turned out to be a little out of date (although they always tend to bicker a little on the exact number), corrected for it

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[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 15 points 1 year ago

Your inner dog tells you that you have contracted the PathOwOgen and will soon be a furry

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 19 points 1 year ago

brb, going to grab a minor in philosophy so I can make fun of them for being ultimately useless to greater humanity and incapable of morality, ethics or self-reflection

(every business major I know easily fulfills both criteria)

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[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 16 points 1 year ago

Speaking as an Australian:

I also feel like you need mandatory voting (with enforcement), like what we have. That reframes elections from "riling up your power base so they go out and vote" to "hey average voter, here's why you should vote for me and how things will improve if you do so".

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[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 20 points 1 year ago

Every time you repost this meme, a philosopher weeps

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 23 points 1 year ago

Until the fetus can survive outside the womb, it's not a person, it's a part of the person carrying it. And nobody should be allowed to dictate what a person can and can't do to themself, but themselves.

Total Bodily Autonomy, motherfucker.

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 21 points 1 year ago

Even if you miss, the shockwaves the bullet makes will kill every fish in the barrel anyway. The Mythbusters tested it.

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 20 points 1 year ago

Once again we see the abled throwing tantrums over the idea of having to suffer a mild discomfort so as to protect the lives of the disabled, especially the immunocompromised.

I have an aunt whose immune system has to be medicated into nonexistence at all times so it doesn't wreck her body, and she is still fucked up from covid, months after "getting over" it and with multiple vaccine shots beforehand. How many people have you killed or left permanently ill, and never realised, in your selfish ignorance?

If there were any divine justice in this world, idiots like you would be smote with horrible autoimmune diseases or total organ failure, forced to go on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your lives, and live with the same fear you force on others, the fear that any "harmless" disease could be the death of you.

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 25 points 1 year ago

Trans? Tick

Programmer? Tick

Furry? That depends on your definition, does wanting to be a giant snake from the waist down but basically human with some cosmetic additions above the waist make me a furry? (or more specifically a scaly?)

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[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 40 points 1 year ago

Either way you as a country still need something better than First Past The Post voting, which absolutely centralises power in to just two parties and makes a 3rd party impossible.

Mixed Member Proportional looks pretty good, where half of all seats are tied to local electorates and won by the votes in them, while the other half are given out to parties based on what's needed to make the assembly match the overall voting of the country, e.g. if your party gets 50% of the popular vote but only wins 25% of location-based seats, you're given enough unassigned seats to make it so that you control 50% of seats in the assembly.

Too bad one party has no interest in making it the system you use, and the other would actively fight it because it would kill them as a political force forever

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[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 18 points 1 year ago

"Should I eat meat again to avoid being a redditor" though

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[-] smooth_jazz_warlady 16 points 1 year ago

It's a Keychron K8 with a custom set of keycaps I ordered from a guy on Etsy

If this sends you down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole, sorry not sorry

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