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Should people get preferential treatment because they have kids?

As someone without children:

They should, yes. Children are extremely important for our future so especially people who earn well and can provide their children with a good life (likely leading to a successful carrier later on) should be encouraged to have them.

Additionally this kind of culture is needed if we want women to have same chances as men (since childcare still is majorly done by women, and likely always will be (progressive families split it evenly, conservative families don't or at least don't split it evenly, for every family where the father does more there's at least one where the mother does more))

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Seriously.

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Kelvin is the SI unit. Anyway also for the weather Celsius is clearer: Below 0 = snow, above 0 = rain. And Celsius at least has fixed points that can be recreated - if all thermometers and data on scales were lost we could easily recreate °C, but not °F.

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"Today"= 18 Months Ago

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In the USA the republicans simply are such morons currently that anything reasonable appears to be leftist.

I'm center-right in Austria but US-americans would call me a woke communist (and in many regards I'm more leftist than the democrats).

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Just a quick thanks to all the Instance admins out there as we await yet another Reddit wave 💪

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.ml also has quite a few USSR- and China-fans (apologists for their crimes, going as far as praising Lenin/Stalin/Mao and similar leaders)

And I wouldn't call .ml anti-war, just look at their stance on Ukraine for example (very common: "Russia had to do it because of the evil west")

Calling Lemmy pro-corporate just reads like a joke. The entire point of it is to be independent from companies.

I also wouldn't recommend Lemmy.world simply because it isn't healthy when one instance gets too big.

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ur dada so buff he falls significantly faster than g

Why your spoiler is wrong:

The gravitational force between two objects is G(m1 m2)/r²

G = ~6.67 • 10^-11 Nm²/kg²

m1 = Mass of the earth = ~5.972 • 10^24 kg

m2 = Mass of the second object, I'll use M to refer to this from now on

r = ~6378 • 10^3 m

Fg = 6.67 • 10^-11^ Nm²/kg² • 5.972 • 10^24^ kg • M / (6378 • 10^3 m)² = ~9.81 • M N/kg = 9.81 • M m kg / s² / kg = 9.81 • M m/s² = g • M

Since this is the acceleration that works between both masses, it already includes the mass of an iron ball having a stronger gravitational field than that of a feather.

So yes, they are, in fact, taking the same time to fall.