Okay, so, basically, you know how like, 99.9999% of everything is empty vacuum? Like, the vast, vast majority of space is just empty nothingness?
Quantum foam says that that's not exactly the case, and that constantly particles and anti particles are being created and destroying each other. So instead of empty nothingness, you have this sort of cosmic, bubbling, boiling foam of creation and annihilation.
Meant to mention in my first comment, I haven't met many other people who like to randomly imagine the ways major structural changes would take place. Lol.
I like to pick a huge project. Like, say, single payer healthcare, or the nationalization of an industry, and then imagine the individual steps that would need to be taken to get there. Doesn't necessarily have to be a project I'd support, I just have fun imagining the ways it would need to happen.
I'm glad you have a good relationship with your son. :) I'm one of those weirdos that's super close with my mom, and it's an absolutely awesome relationship to have a parent that you're close with. Not enough people get that.
Honestly, in a relationship, the closest I have gotten to is essentially friend with whom I bone. :/ Part of the problem, I think, is that it takes me quite a long time to really consider someone a friend. Like, I need to know someone really well before that bond forms, and none of my relationships have lasted that long. I also saw my mom try in a bad marriage, she thought she could "fix him," and that's a fate I've always wanted to avoid. I think sometimes I bail because I realize they're not the person I want to spend my life with, so what's the point in dating them, y'know?
What I want out of a partner is someone with shared interests, and someone who has a similar approach to life. Someone I can talk to about philosophy, or the books we're reading. The culture where I live doesn't lend itself to that, generally speaking.
Yeah, it bothers me to a degree. Less because I really crave that relationship, I do to an extent, but more because I desperately wanted to be a dad, and the only way that'll happen for me as a gay man is to be married so I can adopt.
I'm also not what you'd call a great looker, so finding a person to go out with on something other than a hookup is kinda rare. Not fishing there, just acknowledging a fact. I'm at peace with that on most days. Lol.
Existential cocktease is one of the best phrases ever coined, and exactly the phrase I have needed for years to explain many of my dreams.
I don't fall in love. Like, I've dated, and had a few relationships, but I've never really connected with a person in a romantic way. I love my family deeply, in a non romantic way, so I know I'm capable. But I just have never had that with a romantic partner.
But I routinely do in dreams. Several times a year, I'll have a dream where I fall deeply in love someone. And then I wake up, and I'm depressed for days thinking about it. It's an existential cocktease.
Thank you for giving me the language to describe that.
Yes. Jesus, why can't Europeans educate themselves on real measurements! We measure in feet and bald eagles for distance. We measure in shotgun shells, elbows and pounds for weight. We measure in ATNT for temperature. That's Ambient Truck Nut Temperature, which is the temperature of a pair of truck nuts after driving for 80 bald eagles at 40 bald eagles per Active Shooter Warning, at sea level on a Wednesday. It's not complicated.
I honestly hate that argument. "it would cost so much to change all those signs" is just negative talk for "it would employee a shit ton of people, create a lot of jobs, and be a major infrastructure project that could help our economy.".
Honestly, the economic benefit of major infrastructure works is rarely talked about as much as it should be. Mainly, I think, because the people it benefits are the ones actually doing the work. And that's scary to a certain segment of society that would like very much that not to be the case.
That's the great thing about being a metric user in the US. It's not the common system here, and the only people who really use it consistently are those who do so for work, and those who just enjoy it the same way one might enjoy learning a new language. It's sort of a grassroots thing here.
And because it's not the standard system, there's no one here telling us what measures are socially acceptable to use and which aren't. Use the decimeter. Hell, if you like it, use it in Europe, you might get a weird look, but it won't be like asking for the distance to the deli in leagues. They'll still understand. In the US, use the decimeter if you want.
I've used the metric system exclusively for so long, started as a sort of personal test, that I tend to think in metric now. I look at something and think "30cm" more than I think "a foot," occasionally I'll think "bout a 1/3 of a meter."
Have fun with it. Also, hot tip. If you ever struggle with temps, it's percentage of boiling. 0% of boiling is frozen. 100% of boiling is boiling. 20% of boiling is nice.
No one in the US knows WTF a long and short ton are. A ton is 2k lbs. And most Americans probably don't even know the exact weight of a ton outside of "a shit load."
For the most part, we generally only use pounds, feet, miles. Everything else is a mystery. Even ounces, cups and gallons are some fucking magical mystery. Just follow the recipe.
I switched everything to metric years ago, and have never been happier. It made a huge difference in most of the things I do, having a system that makes internal sense. The only thing I still routinely use standard for is sewing, because it's damn near impossible to find any patterns or things like cutting mats in metric in the right sizes for quilting.
I think it's that it's a job entirely unsuited to homework based super heroes. As in, they meant to call for like, superman, batman, captain planet, power rangers or something, but accidently for the PBS homework helped crew, and now we all fucked.
Only the purest bloodlines. Bloodlines so pure that they couldn't find a spec of unpure blood in Uncle Daddy during his last battery of genetic testing to determine why we all have blue skin and an allergy to calcium.
Can some ELI5 (Or, more accurately, ELI 30 something idiot) how this impacts the US for me? I get the basics of "big tech change in eu, will likely impact US to some degree" but I don't really understand how those changes work here. Like, no targeted ads for being gay in the eu. Would Google still be able to target me, a gay man in the US specifically on that criteria?
I never got to finish the series during it's original run. Got super busy in the second to last season. I finally researched and fi finished it last year. Dammit I enjoyed that show. It was weird seeing both a Mikail Bakunin and a reference to Dharma in a show, as a Dharmic anarchist. Haha.
And it really does. It's damn near impossible to afford an actual wheelchair van, and the only options outside of that are SUVs and pickups. And if you want anything newer than 25 years, it's gonna be absolutely enormous. We got lucky when a friend had a decent running 2002 CRV. It's "small," at least when compared to most SUVs, but capable of pulling a trailer.
They are functionally owned by the same people, support the same macroeconomic policies. They work together to ensure a continuation of the same system. They are two arms of the same organization. The republican party moves policies to the right, the Democrats come in and move them marginally left, but less so then they were before the Republicans, and the republicans move them righter still. They work together to ratchet economic and social policies further and further rightward. This allows the parties to claim two positions, ensuring a maximum number of devotees, while functionally working towards the same goal. Differences between the parties are largely superficial. There is no real change within the democratic party apparatus. There is some attempts to move the party leftward, but as we saw in 2016, 2020, and just about every day in the house with The Squad, any attempt at moving things to the left of Center Right is treated as some evil that must be stamped out.
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Okay, so, basically, you know how like, 99.9999% of everything is empty vacuum? Like, the vast, vast majority of space is just empty nothingness? Quantum foam says that that's not exactly the case, and that constantly particles and anti particles are being created and destroying each other. So instead of empty nothingness, you have this sort of cosmic, bubbling, boiling foam of creation and annihilation.
Or, at least, I think. I'm no rocket surgeon.