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  • Which of these candidates do you think will be more willing to have their minds changed with protests and petitions?

    Nothing is going to be easy or perfect, but we can at least choose the most likely candidate that is slightly more aligned with our desired outcome and then fight for what is needed.

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    He can vote too
  • It's percentage of the entire population, if you organized everyone from lowest to highest IQ, what percentage of the entire population would you need to include for them to be in the top. It's a little clearer when a point of interest is near the top. E.G. "person is in the top 1% of people in terms of wealth."

    A less kind way to say it is '91% of people have a higher IQ than this person'.

  • Would you wear a body cam at work?
  • I imagine if my occupation includes carrying a gun, interacting with citizens, and a historically high rate of extrajudicial deaths amongst people I am supposed to be protecting. A publicly accessible camera would be beneficial to easing the minds of those I interact with and providing evidence for any actual instances where I felt my life was threatened.

  • Behind the scenes
  • I imagine that he is equating the spectrum back to the rainbow, where red is the 'top' of the visible arch when a single rainbow is seen from the ground.

    Of course the outer ring from a double rainbow flips the order of the colours, but that's probably being needlessly pedantic.

  • Saskatchewan files for injunction as CRA attempts to take $28M its owed under federal carbon tax
  • The way it's set up it sure looks like Saskatchewan is still technically collecting the tax and just paying the amount right back from their own budget. And Saskatchewan citizens are still getting the carbon payouts from Ottawa.

    Saskatchewan citizens will still have to pay for Moe's stupidity, but the deficit will be in the Saskatchewan budget, not an individual extra tax bill.

    Mainly means that Moe will just continue to destroy Education and Healthcare, which was his main goal anyway.

  • Subsets are a thing in biology as well.
  • Linnaean taxonomy classifies apes and monkeys as two closely related groups. This is the classification system most people are taught in grade school.

    Cladistics is a style of classification that seeks to organize species and groups of species from when they branched off of other groups of species. In this style, everything is defined by novel features, but they are still members of the more ancient clade. Birds for instance, would be a novel clade emerging from Dinosaurs, and thus all birds are also dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds.

    Because there are two groups of monkeys with unique characteristics (new world and old world), and apes have unique adaptations not found in either group, we have no way of cladistically defining a monkey in a way that meaningfully does not also include apes.

    As a side note, this is where the phrase "there is no such thing as a fish" comes from. 'Fish' in the Linnaean sense are a huge and diverse category. Two random members of the fish class would likely be far, far more distantly related than a random mammal and a random reptile.

  • Boring Werewolves
  • What's really weird is that the sun seems to be setting in the same place that the sun and moon are rising. Clearly their entire room is rotating as they sleep. (Along with their little miniature city skyline on their windowsill.)

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    Why do women of all ages only have the option to buy and wear skimpy bathing suits?
  • https://aquamodesta.com/

    https://www.splashgearusa.com/

    Are some options for people who don't want clothing that is skintight and revealing.

    I've very occasionally seen brands like this at box stores. But the vast majority of time if you want something that isn't skin tight you have to get shorts designed for men and some sort of sports top with a shirt.

    Yes. Baggy clothing isn't optimal for swimming, and trunks will tend to stick awkwardly anyway, but a lot of guys would feel uncomfortable if speedoes were the only option. I know I would.

    It's a double standard plain and simple.

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    Dairy drinkers are not okay.
  • *Artificial Hormones have been banned.

    The natural hormones in milk still exist. The post looks mainly to be a response to the pearl-clutching that soy-milk contains a similar low-level of (plant specific) hormones.

  • Get rid of landlords...
  • Even without going full 'free housing for everyone' utopia, it would be nice if the rent students currently pay to landlords was recoverable when the space is no longer needed. The same way people paying mortgages can just sell their house even before it is fully paid off. We wouldn't need to drastically reshape society in order to allow people to invest in their own futures rather than shovelling most of what they have into a landlord's pocket.

  • Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change
  • Well the first step is to reduce or at least drastically eliminate the amount of CO2 that is being released in the first place. Removal of carbon from the air is necessarily going to have to be a down the road plan. It literally cannot happen to any scale if we are still relying on fossil fuels in the first place.

  • UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s
  • Of course, "always cheaper" in this case means less money up front, but much, much expensive more down the road than the initial cost.

    Of course, the down the road cost isn't usually that visibly connected to the "make it illegal" plan, so conservative governments love it.

  • Ca...can I just roll for it?
  • You don't necessarily need to roleplay, but something like "I would like to play on their guilt by seeming hopeless." or "I would like to bring up the horrible acts of the orc warlord to stoke their anger." or "I would like to convince them to help by pointing out how their oaths may apply in this situation." would really help sell the specifics. If you are just trying a flat check I have no real way to know what you are planning on doing other than just sort of charmingly asking "Please?"

  • "Big Clearance! 12 in place of 1!"
  • That guy didn't have a car in the first photo either. They probably just walked home. But seriously, you can fit a surprising amount of groceries on a bike, especially with saddlebags or just a backpack. Plus, if you don't have to drive to the grocery store you often find you can make a few smaller trips now and then instead of one giant stressful trip that you have to plan everything around.

  • Looking for something new to read after The Expanse
  • The first few books (and really most of them that feature Rincewind) are not the best examples of his work in my opinion. Honestly the series evolves from cheap parody to suprisingly deep commentaries on life and society. Most of the books are standalone, so you don't need to read all of them to get the best bits.

    Might I suggest 'going postal' or 'making money' as good examples of his later work that are particularly stand alone.

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