Our society runs on our stomachs
scratchee
joined 2 years ago
It sort of still works if you imagine they’re talking about the descendants of the dinosaurs which form the primary meat of human society (chickens)
There’s been plenty of explanations already, but here’s a perspective I think can help:
Your original intuition is entirely correct for an object that appeared next to earth but which isn’t moving relative to the sun. It would fall straight in with very little trouble. If it’s moving a little sideways then it’d need to be nudged to make sure it didn’t miss the sun.
But the Earth is moving super fast sideways, so an object coming from Earth would need to be nudged a lot to not miss the sun.
Hell, you can take the logic a step further: this isn’t necessarily anti-Israel even.
People can show support for Palestine without making any claim against Israel’s right to exist too.
Advertising company finally gets memo that threats to the function of the advertising ecosystem are actually also threats to them, eventually.
Took them a while to do that maths.
The stowaway was on the outside. Therefore could have attached after they checked. I doubt very much that it’s practical to require constant vigilance from all travellers at all times (do travellers need to hire temporary guards for their vehicles when going to the toilet in order to comply with this law?)
Also, ignoring that, it’s braindead to not make an exception when the people in question self-report and fix the issue, it’s directly undermining the goals to punish people for vigilance (even belated vigilance).
But ignoring all of that, the law (or implementation) is flawed. The stated goal of the law is to discourage negligence, but negligence needs to be measured against a fair yardstick like “could a reasonable person catch this easily”, not just “were you smarter than whoever tried to hide on your vehicle?”. Defining negligence competitively like they seem to be doing isn’t reasonable and I hope these people win and force the law to be interpreted more judiciously. Next they’ll be fining old ladies who get scammed for “negligently supporting criminals financially”.
Ironic that his polite human-scale protest wouldn’t have gotten much attention if the police hadn’t turned it into national news.
That or some incentive to pressure landlords to do it themselves.
But saying that, you’re right, this should be the renters prerogative, not the landlords, unless the landlords paying the bills (which is rarely a good idea in my opinion experience)
Agreed, I’d be entirely fine with legal enforcement of the ISO definitions in advertising, no need to air historical dirty laundry outside the profession
Yeah, it’ll definitely be worse using a less complete constellation, but at least you can probably trust them to not fuck around and ruin military operations out of malicious political flailing, or whatever it is that Musk is doing constantly, so that’ll be a nice change of pace.
Agreed, but do you pick the de-facto standard of the entire industry (minus storage advertising) or the de joure standard of an outside body that has made a very slight headway into a very resistant industry.
The reality is that people will be confused no matter what you do, but at least less people will be confused if you ignore the mibibyte, because less people have even heard of it
Londoners looking at this article in utter confusion