Numberone

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Takin' it back! ❤️

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

If it weren't true you would be experiencing a net acceleration due to the imbalance in the forces acting on you.

What's really interesting is figuring out WHY mechanistically it's true. I had to rethink the whole thing this morning, because it really is pretty nuts how much weaker gravity is than the electrostatic force.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Physics teacher: "The electrical force that repels the bottom of your foot from the surface of the earth is greater than the gravitational attraction between the entire earth and yourself".

Me: 😲

Edit: I guess it's more correct to say "equal to", rather than "greater" since you're static.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, I like this. Good insight.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Haha, yes only Russia and Iran are doing this. Good guys wouldn't behave like this...Israel definitely isn't doing the same thing to Gaza.. Was propaganda always this lazy or is this a new development?

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't sound like they're the ones crying...

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Here is a wiki source (insert error bars here) discussion of his stance on his work being officially licensed. He thought that use of his work outside of a comic strip would cheapen the value of the strip itself. This was frusterating as a child (who wouldn't want a fucking Hobbes plushy) but now later I can see that it was at the very least a very defensible choice. Compare how people feel about C&H vs something that was commercialized to death like Garfield. Anyway, hope it's useful.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Is this not the shit that American cops use on American civilians like...all the time? Genuine question, would like to know if I'm wrong about that.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 57 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The word rape doesn't show up in that entire article. Must be some kind of mistake. I wonder why that would happen?

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% agree. However, I try to keep in mind that these are real people with real families doing real work in the ineficient system that we've allowed to exist.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Admin and billing would still exist, but it would be savagely curtailed. We now have to account for every insurance agreement between insurance companies and healthcare systems. These can vary on a hospital by hospital basis causing the incredibly complex system of pricing that are currently used. A single payer system would vastly decrease the need for this administrative overhead. Of course this would result in lost jobs, and an honest assessment of M4A would acknowledge this. Bernie Sanders 2016 M4A bill had funding for the workers having to transition jobs during this change if I remember correctly.

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