Kind of like asking what murderers or drug dealers do…

Different people do it different ways, but lots of high profile cult leaders are in jail, you can actually find out on an individual basis, but if you average them all up, you get no valuable data

It doesn’t matter what the creator of the word thought

Yeah…

That’s why I said:

You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.

Thanks for aggressively agreeing with me I guess?

Weird move, and I think it’s more likely you were just confused, it works better if you ask questions when you’re confused.

Don’t try to fix loneliness by finding a “partner”.

Fix your loneliness and in the process you’ll either find a partner or stop caring as much. But very few healthy people want a lonely partner.

Even if you’re so lonely you’re uncomfortable around people, go volunteer at a Humane society and start walking dogs. It’ll ease you into human interaction, but everyone’s focus is on the dogs.

But just look in general for anything that helps the community, a lot of people are wired to want to contribute to a group task. And even if you’re incredibly rusty with social skills, when you’re volunteering for a good cause people overlook a lot of weird stuff people do/say.

why the word “literally” doesn’t mean “literally” anymore and we literally don’t have a replacement word.

Literally still means literally, it just ironically also means figuratively now too.

But it’s literally always meant literally.

but did you want to answer the question

I did…

it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to

Every reason why you can/can’t do something and be Vegan, is because the guy who made the word up ~80 years ago decided it should be like that

You’re acting like it’s a math or science, like it’s based on logic or something…

It’s not, so the answer to “why” is essentially “because the founder said that”?

Does that make sense now?

You can do pretty much whatever you want man…

Like “vegan” isn’t even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.

You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.

Or you can make up your own name and rules.

People searching for labels they like and then conforming to every fucking aspect of that label and nothing else, doesn’t work out well.

So please, if you want to eat roadkill just do it.

Less than three sugar cubes’ worth of plastic

Good, I was wondering why they were using “handful” for marine animals…

But still makes no sense considering the size difference of marine animals.

Yeah, English is the go-to example because the first people to run printing presses in English were Dutch and couldn’t really spell or speak English.

There was likely similar situations in Asia as well, I’m just not familiar with their history.

But go back far enough and even writing by hand is technology

In almost every language the writing was developed ventures or even millenia after spoken.

Writing is also more set, especially with the printing press it made changes very slow. So while spoken language keeps changing written lags further and further behind.

So instead of X disabling it…

Only Apple did

Straight up hard coding in a Geico ad is a strong choice…

I wonder if they change it or Buffet is still getting 1996 page view numbers on a perpetual contract?

Plenty of people are doing their commute as their training ride because it makes sense to do so,

Super convenient for them, but also very inconvenient for everyone else…

Which is my entire point about some cyclists being selfish assholes and them being the minority…

In another comment I mentioned how those selfish cyclists will always pretend they can’t be separated out, which I feel like is relevant here. And I know no amount of comments will change your mind because of that

Everyday there’s like 5-10 brand new accounts who quickly spam ~20 articles each and stop the same day.

It looks like someone hoping Lemmy takes off so they can sell aged accounts later.

I think part of it is that there are a lot of bike riders in US cities that are jerks

A lot of the ones an average driver interacts with are…

Especially in a city most cyclists are only on public roads on their way to/from a trail and they prioritize avoiding cars.

It’s just because of that, you never see them or don’t notice them as you drive by.

What everyone notices is the selfish dicks clogging up traffic, and they’re the ones who have made cycling a huge part of their identity, and they really want to pretend any criticism of them is a criticism of every bike rider, because it’s the only chance to defend the problematic ones.

They’re a tiny minority of cyclists, and most don’t like them either.

The road is theirs as much as it is yours.

People use the road to accomplish shit, going to work/school, get food, pick up kids, etc.

Someone decked out like Lance Armstrong to make their exercise take as little physical effort as possible and uses a route that’s not planned with others in mind both in time and location is selfish. Especially people who do it during rush hour, and inconvenience 100s or even 1000s of people.

There’s a big difference in that type of cyclist and someone that’s riding a bike in street clothes for a commute. And it doesn’t make sense to act like they’re the same.

Like, there are loads of cities with great bike trails, but they’re not going to be great bike trails on every street. And obviously cyclists who are inconsiderate aren’t exactly rare

Yeah, it just doesn’t hit it.

Gravity does work with dark matter tho, so we can’t really say “unaffected” because the dark matter would still bend the light due to gravity. I’m not sure if we can detect that bend, but I remember something relatively recently about how dark matter can interact via gravity, and I’m assuming bending light would have been the easiest way to test that.

It’s just a thing, some will have a posted notice they do it, some just do it.

You can try to keep track of which ones do it, but if the hold is a concern the easiest way is to pay before pumping.

The scientist may be right…

But that blog also thinks aliens are here and all types of other crazy shit

“Don’t worry about it.”

That is a very different response to that question and one that could very well escalate the situation.

The correct answer is: “nowhere”

If it’s isolated from a current it would be filled with denser saltwater with a higher salt concentration until it eventually fills in with sediment