stewie3128

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The Psychologists in my family only refer to Myers-Briggs in an anecdote from grad school: it was used as the ideal example of how to design a terrible test.

They say that, if you're going to do a personality test, long-form MMPI is the best of them, but personality tests are just academic exercises that don't tell the therapist as much as they could learn by just talking to the patient.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He'll step down, next guy will come in and start passing legislation. It'll be another fight over legitimacy, but they'll pass some bill about funding Israel, the Senate will take that one up, Biden will sign it, then we'll effectively never need a speaker again. Israel gets its money, and the government will still shut down on November 15.

Fuck this stupid government, seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'd love to know under what conditions this proposal is constitutional.

The supreme court is a right wing sclerotic fistula providing passage to creeping fascism, but reinterpreting Article 3 Section 1 is a tall order. By only saying that justices shall "hold their offices during good behavior" the Constitution is traditionally read to mean that only impeachment, retirement, or death will end a term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But by simply subtracting the number of kids I'd otherwise have by one, I'm preventing 21 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.

https://www.pawprint.eco/eco-blog/average-carbon-footprint-globally

There is simply no way to make enough lifestyle changes to offset that. I'd have to live car-free for 55 years to offset just a single year of a theoretical child's existence... and that kid is going to live for 70-100 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Obviously those things are on a different scale, but there are 3.7 million children born in the US alone every year.

That means it would take 193 million people -per year - switching to an entirely car-free lifestyle to negate that.

Or 400 million people per year switching to a plant-based diet.

Billionaires and the military doing bad stuff doesn't justify the ecological harm of enlarging the human population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Right here, in living color for you:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The audience on Lemmy is self-evidently overwhelmingly from developed nations, where most of the ecological harm per-capita is done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I don't understand the anti-antinatalist stuff. Having a kid is literally the worst thing you can do to the environment. Shouldn't we reckon with that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Uber Eats on my Android is 280MB for some reason.

Strangely, my largest app is Samsung SmartThings at 822MB. Maybe they include every driver for every possible device or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

That is our word and you have no right to use it

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