omfalos
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omfalos
5d ago
I was around thirteen-years-old when I went to Alaska. Being with a group of strangers my own age on a boat for a week was a unique experience. Whale-watching was the highlight of the vacation. Whales breach the water quite frequently.
The Viking cruise was more recent. River boats are much smaller than ocean cruise liners, so the emphasis is on excursions rather than onboard entertainment. There is much to see on the banks of the Rhine. It's very nice to stand on the top deck and watch the scenery go by.
omfalos
6d ago
I did the Viking Rhine Getaway, and I've been on a cruise to Alaska
omfalos
6d ago
Having time zones follow state borders is very aesthetic, but you will have to make an exception for Kansas City. The time zone boundary should be diverted to pass through Kansas between Topeka and Lawrence.
omfalos
6d ago
What makes US customary units human-centric is mostly the fact that they are base-2 instead of base-10. Base-2 gives you an assortment of related units that are close to human scale.
For example, there are two tablespoons in a fluid ounce. Eight fluid ounces in a cup. Two cups in a pint. two pints in a quart. Two quarts in a half-gallon. Two half-gallons in a gallon.
Inches are also used in what amounts to a base-2 system, since they are broken down into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds and sixty-fourths. Foreigners may find it a bit ridiculous that Americans have sockets and wrenches with sizes like 5/8" and 1-7/16". I would say it is worse than metric overall, but the use of fractions does have certain advantages.
omfalos
6d ago
let businesses set their hours to be whatever is most useful.
Left to decide on their own, no businesses will adjust their hours to start earlier in summer and later in winter. I support the status quo, because I prefer to begin my day at sunrise year-round.
omfalos
6d ago
For places with hot summers, it makes sense to get up before sunrise to enjoy the coolest part of the day. Daylight Savings Time is as much about optimizing for temperature as it is about optimizing for daylight.
omfalos
6d ago
A vault system is okay for a meteor strike, but if planet Earth gets taken over by robots, a human colony on Mars has a better chance of escaping extermination.
omfalos
6d ago
Some may ask why we aren't building cities in Antarctica now before going to Mars. Building life support systems and growing food is easier there than it will be on Mars. Mars will be colonized first, though, and Antarctica may never be colonized. The reason is because international treaties prevent Antarctica from having sovereignty. But sovereignty can be attainable on Mars. The pursuit of sovereignty is what makes space exploration worthwhile. Sovereignty is unobtainium—the resource more abundant in space than on Earth. Men will endure bitter poverty, cold isolation, drink piss and eat lichen just for a chance to be free from the tyranny of the United Nations.
omfalos
13d ago
I humbly request that fellow users on The Motte refrain from using the word cringe.
omfalos
15d ago
What matters is ugliness, in architecture, in obesity, in fonts, in advertising, in fashion.
omfalos
1mo ago
Creating a system of health courts specializing in medical malpractice would be helpful for implementing smart regulation of abortion.
omfalos
1mo ago
"50% of all 3-z results are wrong."
So you're saying there's a 50% chance God is speaking to us through numerology?
Every prime number president has been a Republican since the inception of the party:
17 - Johnson*
19 - Hayes
23 - Harrison
29 - Harding
31 - Hoover
37 - Nixon
41 - Bush
43 - Bush
47 - Trump
*Johnson ran as Lincoln's vice president on the ticket of the short-lived National Union Party.
omfalos
1mo ago
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Here is an enlarged image of the nerd face emoji.
omfalos
1mo ago
Would liquid democracy be stressful?
omfalos
1mo ago
I tried to insert a blank paper ballot into the voting machine without coloring in any circles. The machine displayed a "blank ballot" error message and spat it out. I told a poll worker what I was attempting to do, and she made a phone call to ask whether my blank ballot could be accepted and counted. After waiting for five minutes, she got off the phone and informed me that I was obligated to color in at least one circle in order for my ballot to be counted. So I ended up voting to legalize abortion in Missouri.
omfalos
1mo ago
They should have waited until after the election to seize Peanut the Squirrel. Why don't government agencies have informal rules in place to prevent themselves from making controversial decisions during presidential elections?
omfalos
1mo ago
It feels wrong to wish death on somebody who has done (almost) nothing (truly) wrong.
omfalos
1mo ago
The best evidence for Tim Walz being gay or harassing kids is his familiarity with the word "cosplay".
omfalos
2mo ago
According to the SSA Actuarial Life Table, a seventy-eight-year-old American male has a twenty-five percent chance of dying in the next four years. However, the fact that Donald Trump has no chronic health conditions means his actual chance of dying may be lower than that.
omfalos
2mo ago
I would support a law that people who were convicted of marijuana offenses during prohibition have the exclusive privilege of owning legal marijuana businesses now.
omfalos
2mo ago
Holding out women's prison as an incentive for male prisoners to request castration is a good deal for everyone except the women. It would be ideal if prisoners worked jobs while in prison to pay for their own castration. But it makes sense for the government to cover the cost, since society benefits from the reduced secretion of testosterone.
omfalos
3mo ago
Nintendo Miis have good customizability without being infinitely granular. Inserting Miis into emojis might be an attainable goal.
Emoji + Mii = Emiiji ?
What I really mean are the united nations (lowercase) that comprise the United Nations (uppercase). The UN is impotent. The united nations that comprise the UN are the powers that be.
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