LwL

...there are cities in northern europe where it's freezing half the year and people still go by bike. Below 10 isn't even particularly cold. And as much as I die in those temps above 25 also isn't all that hot. Dangerous temps are still quite a bit above that.

You have an argument at below -10 or above 30 (latter depending on humidity) maybe

The main part of ping is the processing at the hops taking time, not the physical distance (for reference, with full speed of light you could get around the equator in around 150ms). I do recall there at least being a claim that starlink has reasonably good ping, it doesn't seem impossible for it to be better than via fiber, even if shooters are probably still unplayable

Boxen, presumably. Punching. So it's saying punch nazis

I think my problem is that if you inversely asked why those are true, my answer would be "because 3 is smaller than 10".

I think I'd just write something like "1+1+1=3, 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=10, there are clearly more 1s in 10". But that also just feels like a "because i am defining 3 and 10 this way" = "because it is". Though now that I think about it, that's kinda just the simple version of the university level answer, it works i guess.

In reality I would hope anything somewhat sensible would be correct here anyway, since it's more about making the child think about their answer than anything.

I am genuinely stumped about how to explain why 3 is smaller than 10 in a way that isn't either "because it is" or requires early university math. And the moment we go to university maths all the comments about ambiguity are true and it's unsolvable.

Coffee is bitter. There's shit coffee that's pretty much only bitter and nothing else, but any coffee will have bitterness.

Though I agree that "very very bitter" sounds like bad coffee.

The average income, according to a quick search, was $975. Comparing this to the current US median wage of $32k (and keep in mind the 1937 figure is arithmetic mean, the median was likely lower), incomes went up at a rate far beyond inflation as well. Not everything is affected equally. Though without living in the US and mostly guessing from prices here I'd guess many things on the list went up even more, like movie tickets.

The same search also suggested that the 1937 average wage was 25% lower than the 1932 one, so it seems 1937 was actually a pretty shit year.

That is true (well, where I live there are few actual dangers to cats but that's just region dependent) but in general I believe a short, but more fulfilling life to be better than a longer, less fulfilling one. Which I'm aware is subjective.

The highest GDPR fine was 1.2 billion. As far as I know nothing is stopping the EU from imposing higher and higher fines with continued breach of guidelines there, and I would expect these fair market regulations to work similarly.

Also for reference, that fine was against meta, who had 34 billion in revenue in 2023. So that fine cost them around 3% of their global revenue, which I'm sure is tolerable, but definitely approaching the point of hurting.

I am heavily questioning the life of a confined cat being better than the life of a cat that is free to go where it wants. The moment you have 2 cats that get along it's unlikely to be a bad life, but you have no way of telling how another being unable to communicate complex thoughts to you considers their quality of life to be.

I also found it very scary as a kid, though I haven't rewatched it later to know if it still feels like a horror film.

Hmm, I wonder if we could get an EU law that requires enabling testing of third party apps globally, as anything else is suppressing competition.