exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They sure are. It sounds like this video is examining these things in isolation instead of looking at the wider social effects that also help counter climate change. For example, if you build houses closer together, you'll not only reduce heating and cooling costs, you'll also reduce the monetary and carbon costs of infrastructure, you'll improve the efficiency calculation of public transit, and you'll make bikes more viable. One change with knock on effects that help three different sustainability areas. One change that literally costs negative money and also helps the environment. How did this not make the list??

Also shooting rich people dead only costs a hunting rifle and some bullets, and it prevents hundreds of private jet flights a year.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

And that there wouldn't be crunch

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel will call these people antisemites, but I've seen video of an IDF soldier beating up a defenseless Rabbi for protesting the genocide. The only antisemites here are the zionists.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I actually first ran into geas in Halo. The Librarian had the ability to implant people with a genetic destiny, a sequence of DNA which guides their species' evolution in predictable ways. She used it to make Dr Halsey a eugenecist and John Halo a good candidate for surgical augmentation.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, readability is low and you can't divide by three OR five easily. Binary has even fewer prime factors than decimal.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile I'm bucking trends as an advocate of the dozenal metric system.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago

Americans are still using monarchy units while the rest of the world is on freedom units.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck your decimal system. Dozenal is the most intuitive number system. Arithmetic is so much easier to learn in dozenal and you can even count higher on your hands if you use phalanges instead of fingers. Base 10 is a crap number system. It's barely composite, it only has two prime factors.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of people renting out properties on airbnb all year round. And yes, they're landlords. These are perfectly good houses someone could live in, but instead they're used for tourism and money, and not even the kind of tourism money where the hotel owner is actually responsible for cleaning and the full cost of the property. A proper hotel is better for society than a hundred full time airbnbs.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -4 points 1 year ago

I think it's a shame that they improved the game. CDPR claims to have satirised the objectification of trans bodies for profit, but the way they've done so is by objectifying trans bodies for profit. It's not actually a satire or critique, it's a trope played straight, and that's harmful. One of the winners of their cosplay contest was a cis woman who shoved a glowing neon dildo down her pants, and they posted her cosplay on twitter to congratulate her. I liked the fact that the game responsible for these controversies was bad. I want people to have negative feelings associated with a game that does this, and a negative image of a company that does this.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

So how long's it gonna take them to break this promise too?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

No, it's really hard to go to America.

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