CarbonIceDragon

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Cells are basically the self replicating nanobots that sci fi sometimes has as an example of highly advanced technology, but naturally occurring.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Isn't this the entire "dollar store" industry? My understanding was that these kinds of thing were the entire reason that business model was profitable. Or does this company do it worse than say dollar general or something does?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I mean, the whole "no ethical consumption under capitalism" or "all corporate ethics are fake" type stuff has plenty of truth to it, but at the same time, one does have to get any good or service not made oneself from somewhere, and corporations are made up of people with different views about what they're personally willing to do, or how much they think taking unethical actions even is the profitable thing. So, there is still room for some businesses to be worse than others.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To be fair, Hong Kong wasn't really large numbers for the government that would actually have had to have been affected to change the policy, that is, mainland China. Had every other Chinese city had protests similar in relative scale, things might have gone differently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Every second I've lived so far, I haven't died, so if we simply take that pattern and extrapolate it for each future second...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depending on nature of the save in question, Minecraft could be pretty chill. Like a creative mode world is godlike power, a peaceful world would be a chill place where you can easily just build your own home to live in, and even a regular survival world isn't too bad given the respawns. Just as long as you don't choose like, hardcore or a pvp server world or such.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Normally I'd make the typical "food crime" jokes about this choice of toppings, but somehow, being critical of Canadian cultural stuff, even just a joking manner, just feels horrible now, like it'd be in bad taste with all the undeserved trouble my country has been giving them of late. If they can find a way to enjoy pineapple pizza, good for them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Those guys are what got me to finally start using adblocker, when they were running their videos as every other youtube ad (unless they still do that)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Has this kind of thing literally once in history ever ended well?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Zeppelin can launch and recover planes, therefore its true role in the fight is "aircraft carrier"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

everyone knows when you cut the sandwich in half, you get two sandwiches instead of one. You cut diagonally because the triangle sandwiches are bigger than the rectangle ones you get from cutting down the middle. /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

IIRC the space force basically just is taking what was air force space command and spinning it off into its own branch. So they'd not be doing much that wasn't being done before so much as making that operation independent of the air force, same as how the air force used to be part of the army.

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