DeepFriedDresden

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[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago

Girls go to HD 189733b to get a degree, boys go to Kepler 11b to get drunk on Hennessy?

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Not enough people outside the capital to make it worth it. They have had rail systems built but were later decommissioned. One was built for the building if a harbor but after construction it didn't get much use.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It already is an option in certain states in the US and I think parts of Europe.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Close. He died on 4/30, he was born on 4/20. But there were many deaths at Columbine High School on 4/20/1999.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Problem drinking and alcoholism aren't the same though. 9 out of 10 excessive drinkers aren't alcohol dependent. So yeah, while many people who at some point have a problem with drinking can learn to moderate without future issues, I don't know if most of them would fall into the alcohol dependency category.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

When I replied, you didn't have all of that info in there. Good for you though, if it works then great!

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Yeah I'm going to have to agree. I'm an alcoholic myself and this is a problematic way of living with it. Moderation seldom works for alcoholics as it is and by putting your choice to drink on someone else's offerings seems to just be a way to escape any blame should it end in full relapse.

Everybody's journey is different though so I'm not going to judge. But at no point was I able to stop drinking until I straight stopped drinking. As they say "one drink is too much and a hundred isn't enough."

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty much the year. Like they will have to cut off the data collection at some point. Because, well, when the wrapped Playlist comes out, you're probably going to listen to that Playlist a few times, to recap your year, which would drive more data for those songs.

I dunno, just seems like a silly thing to worry about. "Oh my gosh they only captured 11 months of my listening! How will I know that I went from Taylor Swift non-stop for 11 months and then nothing but Mayhem for all of December!!" It's a personal record of what you listened to throughout the year, and its kind of fun to see, but it has no actual bearing on your music taste. You still like what you like.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

December can skew the wrap though. People will listen to more holiday music in December, they might use their spotify for Xmas parties, while wrapping presents, or just listen to it because 'tis the season. Suddenly Mariah Carey is contending for a top 10 artist and holiday music could be one of your top genres.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

My buddy gave me a VHS camcorder and VCR for Christmas in like 2015. My favorite thing to do with them was to buy VHS movies from the thrift store and record home movies over them, but each time I would start to record I would randomly fast forward a minute or two. It was kinda cool and trippy to watch goofy shit we'd do and then it phases into a random scene from Edward Scissorhands before going back into the next adventure of ours.

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, some uncles actually enjoy spending time with their nieces and nephews, and parents like to have a break from raising their children. It's amazing what can happen when your family is barely functional

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are more people now than ever before. Using just the number is misleading which alienates people from caring about the issue and undermines the goal. Let's say that in 1950 1 in 10 people died from cancer. That's 250m people. If every year 250m died from cancer, and there was no change, that means with a current world population of 8b, the cancer death rate dropped from 10% to 3%. By looking at the raw number, it looks like nothing has changed, there has been no improvement. But looking at the percentage, we have cut cancer death rates by 70%. This is why ratios are important, it let's you measure the progress. Are we doing better or worse? Raw numbers don't tell you that.

The important part of the article is that modern slavery is rising, because the percentage of slaves is increasing, which tells me the problem is getting worse. But by telling me there are more slaves now than ever before, and a quick research session tells me that that's not the whole story, suddenly I may not think there is an issue at all. And now people don't care and the sensationalism that was used to get people to support resolutions and invest in change has had the opposite effect which means the problem will just continue to get worse.

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