I feel this.
I think of myself as bi. But every time I thought I was going out with a man, she would eventually hatch into a trans woman.
Like, I’m happy for you and women are great. But I need to date a man before my bisexual card gets revoked!
China is the most populace country.
The most plausible path forward I see is the Native American model from the USA.
Genocide and ethnically cleanse the target population into progressively smaller reservations. (Israel is here)
Sign treaties recognizing the target population as a sovereign entity existing within the borders and legal framework of the parent nation.
targeted population demilitarized. It’s people become increasingly integrated into the parent nation.
Civil rights movement for members of the targeted population within the parent nation.
Develop an esoteric field of law clarifying what “sovereign entity existing within the borders and legal framework of the parent nation” even means.
Gradually chip away at the targeted population through a combination of progressively narrowing the scope of law covered in (5), and the natural integration of the targeted population into the host population (US is here)
Double jeopardy does not apply to facing federal and state charges under the dual sovereign doctrine. It does not really make sense, but that’s the law.
Around here (Maryland) it is totally legal. You just need an interconnect that disconnects the panels from the grid when the grid goes down.
We actually have a system called net-metering, where the utility will buy electricity from residential customers at retail prices.
Antisemitism has been on the rise because people conflate the state of Israel with Judaism. Let’s fight it by waving the Israeli flag! There’s no way that will possibly backfire!
Picking the Israeli flag also gives the game away. They could have gone with an actual Jewish symbol like the star of David or a menorah. Admittedly, both symbols appropriated by Israel; but the only thing I can think of that Israel hasn’t appropriated is a mezuzah; and I doubt most non Jews would recognize that.
Or, if they are having problems with antisemitism, they could try addressing those problems instead of performativly declaring what side they are on.
“Calories” is actually two different things. The first thing is a unit of energy. In this sense, calories are very much interchangeable. Wood has calories, which is why we use it for fire. However, if you tried eating wood, you would mostly just be increasing the caloric value of your poop. This is not inherent to wood; if you were a termite and tried eating wood, you would actually get nutritionally relevant calories from it.
For nutritional purposes, we generally use some variant of the Atwater system. The core idea was to measure the caloric value of food, as well as the caloric value of the subjects feces and urine. This gives you a better estimate of how many nutritionally relevant calories there are.
Nowadays, we have standard values various core food components (e.g various fats, proteins, etc). By breaking down a food into its components, we can apply the standard conversion for each component and add up the results to get a value for the food as a whole.
This process is actually pretty bad. The digestibility of individual components does not perfectly predict the digestibility of a whole food. The measure of individual components is not perfect. The actual digestibility of some foods can vary significantly between people.
As a practical matter, “counting calories”, really just means eating less in a way that roughly measures food by effective energy content. It turns out that an accurate accounting of calories just isn’t super important or useful for this. There is even bigger variance in the “calories out” department (including the annoying tendency of bodies to become more energy efficient when less energy is available). Further, all of the errors in calorie counting tend to be consistent. If you reduce calories by reducing the quantity of food you eat, you are reducing actual metabolized calories, even in the exact measurement is wrong.
It is a little more complicated if you reduce calories by changing the composition of the food you eat, but broadly speaking lower reported calories are actually lower effective calories there as well. Further, if you are adjusting the composition of your food specifically enough for this to be a problem, then you are well past the point where you should be caring about other nutritional factors.
Where in those axioms does it say that ↑ = 0 = 0 } is not a number? No where, that’s where!
The actual reason that ↑ is simply that it is too ill behaved. The stuff I thought were the “numbers” of combinatorical game are actually just called Conway games. Conway numbers are defined very almost identically to Conway games, but with an added constraint that makes them a much better behaved subset of Conway games.
I suppose you could call this an axiom of combinatorical game theory; but at that point you are essentially just calling every definition an axiom.
<s> Getting back to my original point; this distinction just goes to show how small minded mathematicians are! Under Conway’s supposed “reasonable” definition of a number, nimbers are merely games, not proper numbers. However, the nimbers are a perfectly good infinite field of characteristic 2. You can’t seriously expect me to believe that those are not numbers! </s>
I was going to make a comment about surreal numbers not being numbers. But I did a bit of fact checking and it looks like all of the values I was objecting to are not considered surreal numbers, but rather pseudo numbers.
I find this outrageous. Why can’t ↑ be a number? What even is a number that would exclude it and leave in all of your so-called numbers?
Wow. Those wings sure get hit a lot. They should really make sure they are well armored.
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Years after, Rabbi Natan encountered Elijah the prophet and said to him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do at that time, when Rabbi Yehoshua issued his declaration? Elijah said to him: The Holy One, Blessed be He, smiled and said: My children have triumphed over Me; My children have triumphed over Me.
We got here pre-modern medicine has a high demand for babies (most of whom will die before reproducing). And agrarianism has a high demand for children (who become productive workers on the farm young).
Developed countries almost universally have birth rates below replacement levels. Their populations have internalized the facts that babies will almost always survive into adulthood. And children are a massive economic cost for decades. And that cost is often never paid back to the parents who incurred most of it. As long as contraceptives continue to make children typically a choice, and you get sub replacement levels of reproduction.
Sure, the capitalists would like for there to be more children to grow into workers and keep the machine humming along. However, they would also like to not pay for that; and by and large haven’t been.
It is a bit broader than that:
A) it is not restricted to the Netherlands. Any country holding a covered person at request of the ICC is fair game.
B) It is not restricted to US persons. NATO members and major non-NATO allied are covered as well, so long as they: are not party to the ICC and wishes to be exempt from ICC jurisdiction.
C) It is not restricted to government employees. Anyone working on behalf of the government qualifies.
The big improvement has been image recognition on produce. It used to be you needed to either know the produce code, or navigate a terrible menu system. Nowadays, you can just put stuff on the scale, hit the camera icon, and have it show you a few possibilities, which is almost always correct.
There was also a long period where the anti theft system would trigger if you breath on the bagging area, and require a staff member to unlock it. They seem to have toned that down a lot. Even when it triggers, it just nags you without locking anything.
So he’s an anchor baby? The reason we need to repeal birthright citizenship?
The problem is not risk. It is cost. Climate change means that the cost maintaining human infrastructure where we built it has become higher than we want to pay. And regulators and politicians have prevented insurance companies to raise rates to match the increased cost.
Ultimately, there are 3 ways out of this:
Move. Either have a government buy out program for at risk areas; or stop insuring new construction or substantial repairs. Your home was totalled by a hurricane for the second time this decade? Here’s your insurance payout; but don’t rebuild there because we will not insure you
Build infrastructure to reduce costs. This could be more regionally appropriate building codes. Forest management. Waterworks. If we are willing to spend the resources, we have a surprising ability to bend local environments to our will
Pay the increased cost.
I’m going to take this as an opportunity to point out that bees are a type of fish in California.
Looks like someone got redpilled.
~the red pill is estrogen~
The rapist pled guilty to 10 criminal counts. It’s not clear from the article how many victims that represents, as a single victim often results in multiple counts.
The 14 claimants come from a civil suit. The prosecutors have no say in who gets to sue. Further, the standard in a civil suit is propendrrance of evidence, which is far lower than beyond a reasonable doubt. And the defendant is the school, so it is likely that both sides would try to throw the rapist under the bus.