DoughnutHole

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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Einstein’s work on the photoelectric effect was incredibly important, and incredibly influential on other research at the time. He proposed that light was quantised - essentially the foundation of quantum mechanics. It’s no exaggeration tha
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
The problem is there are two different standards of proof at different points of the legal process. Conviction requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt — all the onus is on the prosecution to prove that you indisputably committed that crime
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
In this case the prosecutor actively pushed against the execution, arguing that his guilt was no longer beyond a reasonable doubt. The blame for this lies squarely on the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Parson (who has never once granted cl
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Presumably they still think he’s (probably) guilty. Victims and their family’s can and often do oppose capital punishment on moral grounds, same as anybody else. They want him punished but believe that killing him is a moral wrong, or they’
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
A higher-end Rolex knockoff is indistinguishable from the real thing to the naked eye of a casual observer, and yet people still buy the real thing for 10 times the price. Brands will make themselves known as the more expensive option. Peop
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
That disregards the fact that facts change over time. If you google “best DSLR camera reddit” it’s much less valuable if the results are 5 years old, even if they’re LLM free - the cameras on the market may very well have changed in that ti
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Musk’s tweets and the unimpeded use of the platform for misinformation and coordinated violence give me the impression that he cares less about turning it into a profitable enterprise and more about its use as a tool to push his agenda and
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
> It's perpetually insipid, like watching a puppet show try to adapt Shakespeare. I don’t know about you but I would absolutely watch a Muppets adaptation of a Shakespeare play. When it comes to adapting classic literature they’ve g
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Your MEPs are likely part of a parliamentary group with foreign politicians and coordinate with them on policy. If your commissioner and MEPs have been solidly opposed to a policy there might not be much you can do. But do you know that tha
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Google’s recent AI assistant has already been documented recommending people mix bleach and white vinegar for cleaning purposes. Someone’s going to accidentally kill themselves based on an AI hallucination soon if no one has already.
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
You got “verge of a breakdown” from that? Is it that disturbing to you that your preferred working arrangements don’t work for others? Getting out into the outside world and seeing people prevents under-stimulation, and separating my work e
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
The lack of distinction between your workspace and reduced socialisation still exists - not OP but personally I’m climbing the walls after a day of working from home. I cope by have social outings and activities outside my home basically 7-
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
> That isn't very popular, with this crowd. It’s not that popular with the masses either. Sure, it can be very popular with the people whose specific industries are protected, and there’s many who like it in the abstract - but if yo
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Divulging someone's secrets isn't intrinsically unethical. If I reveal the secret that you've murdered someone that's not a secret that you ever had any right to keep. Likewise these "secrets" aren't somet
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
This is a recurring problem in Ireland due to nationwide local government incompetence in using the Irish language. Centuries old Irish language place names get replaced with bastard gaelicised versions of their English names, and now you’v
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Possibly an instance of the California effect? National manufacturers have to design toilets for western states where conservation is a huge issue - might just be cheaper to sell those toilets nationwide than to have a different product lin
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by DoughnutHole 2y ago
Who says there’s even anything stable to measure? If “intelligence” is just the degree/quality of someone’s brain function then your intelligence does drop when your brain function is impaired, and you would expect that to be picked
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
There’s something oddly beautiful about someone saying they “had to stop reading” in the middle of the sentence that would have rendered their annoyance moot if they’d only had the patience to finish it.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> To accept this view is to accept the idea that most of our ancestors had "childhood poverty trauma". I 100% accept this idea. Most of my ancestors lived the miserable, short lives of impoverished alcoholics. They and their ch
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
As an argument it’s only negated by scale. The CO2 output of a single car has little local impact and spreads throughout the atmosphere causing negligible global damage. The CO2 output of global industry has a significant impact because of
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
And that’s generally an awful failure of justice.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Most convicted murders don’t even get a 100 year sentence. I agree that 5 years is soft but regardless of the scale of the finances involved 100 years is an incredibly severe sentence for what is ultimately a nonviolent crime. Most people w
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The fact that plot armour applies to main characters does not imply that main characters necessarily have plot armour. Buffy having a high survivability is pretty consistent with her defined powers (general resistance to harm, fighting abil
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The important bit is > because they are needed for the plot to continue. ie. A character should die in this situation but survives because their death would be inconvenient for the writer. A character surviving because of a predefined
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
plot armor noun used to refer to the phenomenon in fiction whereby the main character is allowed to survive dangerous situations because they are needed for the plot to continue.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
A character’s explained powers saving them isn’t plot armour, it’s just armour. E.g. a superhero whose power is having impenetrable skin surviving a hail of bullets isn’t plot armour - it’s an explained part of the story. A character surviv
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
He may have been confused because it’s a dumb statistic. In good faith he probably assumed that the above post implied that Tesla was in some way leading other manufacturers, rather than Tesla having the single best selling model while mass
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
That itself is a product of current culture. Since the Second World War the expectation in most places is that cities and towns get built and then just grow with new permanent neighbourhoods. Nothing changes, the city just gets appended to.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
If the demand for housing increases faster than the supply increases then yes prices will still go up. They just go up less than they would if supply hadn’t increased. Even the cities in the US that are building aren’t building nearly fast
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Well there are temporary work visas out there in various countries that are fixed-term, e.g. a visa holder is entitled to stay in the country for 2 years. If they lose their job they're still entitled to stay for the remainder of the t

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