Eiri

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ugh. Why did we ever privatize rail. People would riot if we privatized the highway network, and yet...

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait have Canadian conservatives sunken that low? For real?

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In a ranked choice system or other better voting system, yes.

In the current system, voting for anyone but the least bad choice among the two that stand a chance is almost like giving your vote to the one that has the best chances, regardless of your preferences.

Look up the spoiler effect in elections.

Or, CGP Grey has an excellent explanation of the whole thing.

https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

That is not the question. The question is: it's a binary choice. People should be aware that not voting helps the worst candidate win. Why not vote for the less bad candidate then?

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 weeks ago

I regularly say "from the 20th century" when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.

I don't know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I'd say "not sure, mid-20th century I think".

It's a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.

Although in a more rude manner I'll also say I don't care about some 20th century movie or something.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh, not sure it's got anything to do with the political spectrum anymore. At this point I'm not sure what to call it but the US and allies' obsession for maintaining ties with Israel no matter what feels divorced from... Well, a lot of things, really. But among them the left/right spectrum.

I can't talk much. Canada is also selling Israel the supplies they use to do their mass murdering.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago (24 children)

The US has two parties: center-right and far right.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

6 and 9 are huge fan favourites. I hated 6 enough to drop it, and while I did finish 9, man was it mediocre.

10, 13 and 7 are my favourites.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

It's just a really well-known phenomenon. People thinking they don't stink because it's the smell they're used to. I'm just speculating, and there's of course a chance I'm wrong.

As for how I know I stink, i have a much keener nose than the average. I can tell when my hair stinks because it's been too long since my last shampoo, for instance, a thing most people can't even tell about others apparently. Even though it's the grossest smell ever.

But even then, most of the time I can't tell my breath stinks. It probably has to do with how close the mouth is to the nose. Mostly, I've associated sensations in my mouth with instances where I was told I stunk and work from there.

As for what I eat, oh yeah, I absolutely do eat carbs a normal amount. But I really don't think this should have much of an effect when I'm not eating. I have trouble imagining bacteria having a stock of food for when I don't eat.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I do intermittent fasting.

My breath stinks quite a bit on days I don't eat. The bacteria develop very well on those days, since they're not being washed off as often. And that's before "keto breath" even comes into play.

Point is, your mouth bacteria are fine producing all sorts of "charming" smells even without food.

You probably do stink. The two of you are just used to it.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I vote food. There must be some unlikely placement along a meal that allows it to spend minimal time in contact with the acid.

 

One thing I liked (and sometimes disliked) about Reddit was that my feed was a mix of posts in communities I'd joined and a few suggestions of posts from subs The Algorithm™ thought I might like.

On Lemmy I'm realizing I'm starting to fall into a bit of an echo chamber situation because I basically only see stuff I'm already a member of, unless I explicitly go to All or scroll the list of communities.

Are there less involved (lazy) ways of discovering new stuff and broadening my horizons a bit?

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