Animated_beans

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[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've stopped caring whether they are real or not and enjoy those posts like I would enjoy TV or a book. They're just entertaining stories at the end of the day.

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The ACLU is also fighting back with lawsuits. There are people out there fighting, it just doesn't always make headlines

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

There are things besides fitness that are relevant to combat situations. In the movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, which takes place in a war zone in Afghanistan, we see the female news reporter is able to talk to the female residents in a combat zone and gain information about who was sabotaging a US-built well. The male soldiers weren't allowed to speak to the women of the village, and had no way of getting this info.

Women make up 50% of the world population and sometimes you just need a female soldier to properly work with the locals. If men cannot get information from some populations because of their gender, then it makes sense that rules might be slightly bent to allow women to take part in combat roles. As a soldier, I wouldn't want to be miss relevant info just because no one in my troop could talk to half the local population- that ignorance of knowledge puts my life at risk too.

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

From the article, it was a 10% drop in approval ratings from boomers, compared to <3% drops among other groups (who already had a lower opinion of him)

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If research is funded by tax dollars, then it should absolutely be free for everyone to have access to.

I'm not sure how I feel about private research being required to be free to all (does it disencentivize research to let everyone learn from what you paid to learn?). Either way, if the tax payer pays for something, they deserve free access to learn from it.

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting! I didnt know that so many tech stocks were impacted on that date. Is there anything special about the start date of reddit's stock decline? Or was it simple a "straw that broke the camel's back" situation, where some insignificant thing started the downward trend?

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Yes, this isn't the best way to harm Amazon, but small, targeted boycotts can drive change. And I bet, if you try living without Amazon for a week, you'll find replacements and it'll be easier to move away from them long-term

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Not necessarily. The employees of airlines have been quite impactful with partial, random strikes in a method called CHOAS. Not everyone will strike at the same time and their strikes only last a few hours- enough to cause problems for the flight they've been scheduled on. This hurts the company without harming too many customers and has been effective in the past as a strike strategy.

Think of a partial strike as a warning that more could follow if demands aren't meet.

https://www.afacwa.org/chaos#%3A%7E%3Atext=CHAOS+is+AFA%27s+trademarked+strategy+of+intermittent%2Cminimizing+the+risk+for+striking+flight+attendants

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, if you click the link, it takes you to the EA github amd you can see folders for all included games

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder how that will impact those girls as they get older and start entering politics. Will it push them further left? Will they feel disparaged sooner and give up on politics sooner?

And same for the boys. By saying such dumb things so publicly at such a young age, will they face repercussions from their peers and get inoculated against manoshere-type-misogyny? Or will those beliefs become more ingrained in them and become a core piece of their identity?

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Wow, such fowl language

[–] Animated_beans@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Average and mean are the same thing (sum of everything divided by total number of things). Median is the middle number.

 

I keep getting signed out of lemmy.world (in Jerboa and in a web browser). I tried resetting my password, reinstalling Jerboa, moving to my web browser, but I still have the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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