Some people just have hate in their hearts and they will use any physical differences to lump people together.

Being skeptical of people looking different from you used to serve a purpose in our history. It no longer does but the bias can still be found in our biology. It’s not that some “just are hateful people” - it’s that they’re human.

I basically see it as racism every time someone is treated differently because of the color of their skin. There’s racism with bad intentions and racism with good intentions but it’s all still racism. In my ideal world we’d care about skin color as much as we care about hair color now. Most of the attempts to “fix” racism by paying more attention to the ethnicity of people that’s been coming from the left over the past years has just maken things worse and is one of the big reasons for Trump as well.

The water in a floor heating system is around 30 degrees celcius so it’s not warm enough for you to necessarily be able to tell by feel. However bathroom would be the first room I’d imagine them including it on and the fact that there’s a normal radiator there leads me to believe it’s probably not floor heating. Ceiling heating is a thing too but quite uncommon.

I’m never on my phone at home except for when sitting on the toilet. 99% of my internet use is either YouTube, Porn or Lemmy and all three are done better on a desktop/laptop. My phone is for podcasts, texting/calls and photography.

Google and Apple are US companies though. I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name like that and I doubt the people in Mexico for example will start calling it that either. It seems like people are making out this to be a bigger issue than it is. Anyone is free to keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico either. I still call Facebook, Twitter and Turkey by their original names too and I’ve yet to encounter a single person not understanding what I’m talking about.

What’s the problem with calling it Gulf of America? To me that just seems like an objectively better name. You guys do realise that Mexico is in America too, right?

As long as you aren’t hurting anyone, you shouldn’t really waste your time trying to live your life according to how you think other people are wanting you to. Nobody probably is paying any attention to you anyway and even if they do, they’ll forget about you one minute later.

They were asking about planes.

Yes, I feel pretty confident in saying that in this case you are the problem. I have sympathy for antisocial behaviour as I’m that way myself too but you seem just straight up rude if not even mean.

because I know they will be there for me when I need it

I wouldn’t count on it.

That’s pretty dishonest summary of what I said. Nobody is selling anything here.

There are valid reasons to restrict the visibility of your content to registered users.

I post nudes on a certain site, where I have the ability to choose who can see my pictures. The options are: everyone, friends, registered users, and VIP members (paid subscription). Nearly all of my pictures are set to be visible only to registered users, with the spicier ones restricted to VIP members. My reason for this has nothing to do with trying to force people to create an account, let alone pay for a subscription. I have no illusions about my content being completely safe from outsiders. I simply want to create a small amount of friction to prevent complete randoms from easily accessing my content when they have no personal investment in the site. I see putting myself out there as the price I pay for free access to everyone else’s profiles. If you want to see my pictures, I expect you to do the same. I’m taking the risk of potentially being recognized - I expect you to take that risk too.

Let’s make this about politics too because we simply can’t have a thread without someone bringing up politics. Thanks for your contribution on making this place worse for everyone.

I think the idea with carbon capture is mostly that you power it with the excess you’re getting from renewables. Finland for example has so much wind turbines that when it’s windy they produce much more energy than the country consumes. In moments like this it makes sense to put this energy into something like carbon capture or hydrogen production.

What’s the K-word?

EDIT: To answer my own question, I think they mean “kike” which supposedly is an antisemitic slur directed at jewish people. I’ve never even heard that term before.

I own a house and I don’t make anywhere even close to 70k a year.

Yes it does assume economic growth over the rest of my lifetime but it has done that for the past 100+ years so it’s not a completely unreasonable expectation and even if that is not the case then we’d all be screwed either way.

Million dollars is enough to retire if you invest that into stock markets and life off the interests which would average 70k a year.

That is still considered active trading when someone is manually picking which stocks to buy. Historically, passive investing into index funds tends to have outperformed nearly everyone who does individual stock picking based on their own judgement.

I don’t get how this is even worth writing an article about.

Buying and selling stock based on short term value fluctuations.

I invest to make money, not to make a statement. If you try to combine the two, you’re likely doing one at the expense of the other. People are free to invest however they want, but making investment decisions based on emotions will inevitably be reflected in their returns - or lack thereof.

Currently, about 65% of my investments are in U.S. companies, while 7.8% are in Europe (where I live).