Yeah, the admins deserve all our support on this. Not only to protect themselves as server owners, but to stop the spread. Hopefully a longterm solution will be found soon

As a graphic designer I do agree. If the makers of the Connect app wish I'd be more than willing to help them with a new logo. It's not a bad concept per se, just needs some better execution

How did volunteers who run reddit's for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?

Is that a giant turd coming out?

"Latino" is still considered by many native speakers to be "neutral"

So like, is there any sizeable Latin community actually calling for a gender neutral term or is this just a middle-class white people thing? Because as a white person I've never seen anyone push for this other than white people and it just seems like a white savior/ daddy knows best thing. But my experience is just my experience

Who would win, a B-17 Flying Fortress with no bombs, or the USS Missouri?

Edit: Also the Missouri can fly too, but it's a little less maneuverable, usually

Not to mention employee protection/rights laws that don't always apply to contractors

How is auth-left Robin Hood? Sure they wanna redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, but otherwise Robin Hood is pretty anarchist. I wouldn't compare anyone on the compass to such an unproblematic character but surely he's closest to lib-left

Fair enough have you tried 1.5?

The Millennium Falcon would destroy the Enterprise somehow. Then Kirk and crew would be stranded on a planet until they find a way to get aboard and commandeer the Falcon. Ultimately they would use it to go back in time and save the whales or something

Looking at the world rn, I dont think things have a tendency to get better on their own

This is called a recency bias (I think lol) - you're looking at the world rn and assuming its trends must continue. When you look at history you see that there are ebbs and flows, and that stasis is rare. If you focus on certain things, you may certainly decide we're in a downtrend. There will always be an uptrend afterward. And vice versa

Something about people living in glass houses not throwing stones

Hey JK Rowling is on lemmy!

there is a bigger difference between men and women, than between men and women themselves.

This is completely unquantifiable and therefore unprovable

I'm not gonna lie, you got me with that one. I looked it up because I genuinely couldn't tell if this was a joke or not. Kudos!

Always disliked how this scene makes Legolas look

[The Fine-structure Constant] quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.

Why the constant should have this value is not understood, but there are a number of ways to measure its value.

Sounds like we know what it is, we just don't know the reason for its value. (Edit: Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean)

Wikipedia link

It's interesting that people try to explain this away with all kinds of retroactive in-universe technobabble. I mean, I enjoy Star Wars just as much as the next guy but it's abundantly clear that SW wasn't meant to be investigated at this level. It's space mythology, not hard science fiction. And that's fine! We can have fun asking things like "Why is the Outer Rim considered a backwater if it only takes a few hours to get from galactic center to the rim?" and we don't really have to stress about answers to those things as fans. Edit: Or we can if that's what fans enjoy doing, but it just isn't my thing and I think that's ok too

And he said "Hi stuck in a non-linear perception of time, I'm Dad."

The People of the Color, the one true color, the one color to rule them all. Yes, the People of the Color shall inherit the earth