Hope

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[–] Hope 2 points 1 month ago

Why 50 and not, say, 18?

[–] Hope 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My experience having lived across the US has been closer to https://youtu.be/u3qJlWQNNxA?si=EU_dgGLT-vWgmNXy - I haven't met a kind ("actually nice") person in Northern California who grew up there.

Edit to add: err, except my wife of course.

[–] Hope 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Going through the wrong puberty is also a life long decision with major consequences. Hope that helps!

[–] Hope 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

People may have also switched some years retroactively. I definitely said two thousand ten back then, but would say twenty ten now.

[–] Hope 64 points 1 month ago

Well for starters, at least one famous economist would be discredited.

A meme saying "Could Autumn leaves soon be worth more than gold?" at the top, followed by pictures of leaves and a gold bar. At the bottom is a caption saying "A famous economist says 'what the ****? No, why would they be?'"

[–] Hope 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What firmware do you run on the cardputer?

[–] Hope 10 points 1 month ago

I found the federal elections to be exactly what I expected, but I was surprised at the ballot questions here (as well as my local elections where everyone I voted for lost too).

[–] Hope 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I tried edibles on Saturday for the first time, as a test run for ~~tomorrow~~ the rest of the week.

[–] Hope 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Hope 18 points 1 month ago

Yeah but this way you can screenshot the post and send it in a group chat to complain about a four panel comic that is just the exact joke from the show.

[–] Hope 314 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (47 children)

Not to argue for creationism, but this argument sucks. Lead can be produced by supernova, not just through decay of heavier elements. But even that's besides the point, since if you believe some entity created the universe, surely said entity could have created whatever ratio of lead to uranium they wanted. It's not a falsifiable claim, there's really no disproving it, unfortunately.

(Not so fun fact: the environmental impact of leaded gasoline was discovered by trying to estimate the age of the earth using the radio of lead to uranium in uranium deposits, but the pollution from leaded gasoline was throwing the measurements off.)

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