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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The idea of a personal "Carbon Footprint" was spread as an idea by BP in order to make people believe individual action/responsibility was more important than systemic change.

It worked really well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.

When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get's to Seattle the US government says "pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat."

The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It has to do with morphic wossname. On the Disc only one person gets to play City Skylines, but he gets to do it with infinite detail.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There will be a surge in "nobody wants to work anymore".

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

If they have the same mass they weigh the same until you blow up the beach ball and are weighing the beach ball + the air inside.

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

So a beach ball weights more than a bowling ball?

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

That's an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. "Effectively a blockade" is an embargo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Mason

She cast a provisional ballot, a mechanism specifically designed to check and count a vote only if the voter is determined to be eligible, on the advice of a poll worker, and was sentenced for voter fraud.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As much as I love Tom Scott and it's a fantastic visual/temporal representation, I doubt a lot of people have the patience.

I like "1 Million seconds is 11 days, 1 Billion seconds is 31 years" as a more succinct example.

One person earning $3600/hr, 24/7, without spending any of it, would take 31 years to become a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Threes

Fun puzzle game that got ripped off by 2048 and it's endless clones. They wrote a blog post on how shitty mobile game development can be.

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