Haha, I thought it was a homework question. It would be a pretty good one; it’s not hard to answer, but the a proof touches on a lot of things. I probably would have gone about this differently if I hadn’t thought I was addressing someone who’s actively studying these things. Hopefully you still knew most of the terms I was using.

Best of luck.

I have no earthly idea what you’re talking about (replied in the wrong place, maybe?), but that is some prime internet weirdness.

Oh the irony.

I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. Making a whole post about a mod decision/lack of decision you disagree with is not polite behavior, even if OOP was a nut.

I mean, political apathy is pretty standard in any culture, and there’s no some doubt people - particularly women - enjoyed the wonders of progress and democracy, but there’s always been support for the Taliban as well. That’s how insurgencies work.

I wasn’t there, but it was mostly fought from within convoys and fortifications, and even when there’s contact you don’t usually tell the guys with guns if you think they’re crazy. Are you sure your sample of local opinion was representative?

Yeah, but why the swipe at environmentalism? At least, I think it was a swipe. But, you know, Poe’s law.

Definitely.

It’s a violent world. If you think you can magically opt out of that, somehow, you might have lived a massively privileged life (to this point).

That being said, look at all the people in the thread who are afraid to admit possible abstract, hypothetical support for something. On a hard-left instance, of an alt platform, that I’m currently using over Tor. That should be an indicator of how much actual will there is to brave a shooting war. (You didn’t ask if we wanna revolution specifically, but this is .ml so I have to address it)

The practical takeaway of the literal question is much more nuanced and subtle.

I’m pretty sure that will be a minor inconvenience at the worst, right? Turbine engines are built to handle ingestion of most minor things, and paint will just burn off. If they actually wanted to keep them down, they should have used wet concrete or something like that.

I feel like saying that on Lemmy is kind of self defeating. We’re the people that were too nerdy and online for Reddit.

/s?

The old internet was just an intermediate stage between the standardised internet, and before the internet when you had to find a clear channel through the ionosphere. Congratulations, however old you are, you’ve lived long enough to be bitter that the world has changed.

Now if we’re talking about the specific way it’s developed with a new generation of robber barons controlling everything, obviously few here will disagree.

Is this a reference to shipyards being shut down over environmental concerns? Has that happened much?

I would go seriously digging for the source for you, since a cursory search is full of modern stuff and I can’t remember where I saw it exactly, but that would require non-glued fingers.

If you look at old (siege) engineering manuscripts, they’re full of “take the square root of the armslengths and rewrite as dactyls”-type rules for everything. They didn’t know much about mechanics, and often had funny ideas like momentum being self-dissipating if not sustained. but enough experimentation and basic calculating tools allows you to make rules of thumb anyway.

And, it’s not like nobody could see how things moved through the air when launched or dropped. Basic principles about falling things go back to the 14th century at least, and the ancient Greeks thought so much about parabolas one must have at least noticed that’s the trajectory of a thrown javelin, albeit without even algebra to start to explain why.

For example, we don’t need to know about ballistics to use a gun.

Sure, but you need to know about the trigger and where the bullet comes out of. And, if you don’t know about the recoil, how to load it and where the casing is ejected you might not use it well.

Thinking about places like Europe and China, there’s probably over a billion people that have never seen a gun operated in real life, so I suppose that’s actually not really necessary, either. On the other hand, I have trouble imagining a modern person who’s never needed to convey “perpendicular”.

You can define knowledge as enablement to do things.

For a while there, I could tell the wingnuts apart from the convoy-style flag accessories, which sucked. You don’t really want your own flag being co-opted. The whole “elbows up” thing where we oppose the US has changed that a bit. I’ll have to watch out for black ones.

Honestly, just getting rid of policies that actively encourage or subsidise parking lots and road usage would do the trick, I think. Parking minimums, absence of toll roads or per-klick tax, density restrictions as a first resort to deal with excessive curbside parking…

So basically, they’re funneling tax money into holding lightly used parking lots right now. Yes, they should absolutely sell that land for someone to do something with, and then take the funds and put them into non-stupid programs.

More than $100 million in land value,

I know it’s Toronto, but that still seems like a very significant amount.

Deputants also said New Toronto needs the parking lots due to poor transit access.

I bet people say they don’t need public transit because there’s so much parking, too.

New Toronto resident Matt Lawrence criticized the city-owned land-use policy, saying that “ rich neighbourhoods get pools and community centers. Poor neighbourhoods get subsidized housing and shelters.”

I’m kind of interested in this quote. Is Matt implying these are both bad things, or that it should be the other way around? It seems to me the latter, at least, is a good thing.

Very spooky, subtle propaganda is a lot more dangerous. Although people have always figured it out, in the past, if they deal with enough of the same kind.

If you’ve ever done home canning, it’s kind of a huge process.

TBF, those were the days of having to compile FOSS yourself (if you’d even heard of it) and proprietary connectors on everything. If we’re talking pre-Y2K, Linux didn’t might not have existed yet and they were trying to straight-up ban encryption. Anything networked has gotten dumber, which ironically is labeled “smart”, but the hardware and system software has actually gotten better.

PS, you think in the future there will be a nostalgia for RGB LEDs flooding every space in a PC?

Probably. I suspect it will be one of those things that’s cyclically in and out of style, maybe with a twist each time it’s back.

What’s wrong with, say, canned beans in water? I feel like you’re painting with too broad a brush there.

I think I did napkin math once that included cost of labour, and surprise surprise, mass production works. Just the energy is a good point too, though.

It sounds like energy pretty cheap right now. But, it’s also artificially cheap unless you have a lot of renewables on your grid, and somebody somewhere is going to pay for those emissions.

I didn’t do the math for bread - maybe I should reconsider that one, per the other users here.