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It’s not about being comfortable with your nudity, it’s about basic personal freedoms

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674e3145544e78457a6333566d54/share.html

Yes very unfortunately this ship sailed long ago, and a tiny fraction of people opting out accomplishes nothing at this point. When the 3D nudity scanners arrived i opted out several times, but not nearly enough other people did, so it was pointless. A single digit percent of people opting out accomplishes nothing, we need to stand together in large numbers to accomplish any change. But for whatever reason the large majority of americans have decided to roll over and let the government take away any of our rights that they want to

Yes, it can.

It doesn’t tho. Is there an additional joke I’m missing here?

Edit - i didn’t see the little band in the middle

Exactly, in my neck of the woods it seems like the majority of people under 60 have tattoos

Ouch, sorry, my condolences

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Which asian language uses those?

I think you greatly overestimate the number of truly uncontacted tribes

You can keep your clothes on until the water temp is just right

I think this is true for many people, adults included. It’s the transition that’s hard, not the being wet or being dry

This is a commonly quoted fun fact that is not really true. There are 2 different definitions of calorie. One means the absolute amount of energy in an object, the other means the bioavailable amount of energy that a human can extract from it using their digestive system.

So every physical object that exists has some amount of potential energy contained within it which we can express in calories, but that doesn’t mean it has any bioavailable calories. For example glass has some significant amount of energy contained within it, but it has 0 bioavailable calories.

This “fun fact” mixes up the two definitions, making the statement meaningless.

(Nothing against you OP, this is a commonly repeated falsehood)

Hm, the stuff in wires is electrical current, but the stuff in nerves is static electricity based on an electrochemical gradient. Yeah i guess that all falls under the heading of electricity. No quibbles, carry on.

Thanks for the info, but what is the functional difference to the end user?

I’m not clear on what the distinction is that you’re referring to. How are the Linux window managers different than the win/mac ones?

There are tiling window managers for win and mac too, so i don’t think this meme makes sense

Thanks, feel free to post it over there if you like

Oh thanks, the chart is labeled poorly. Calling it “percent of support” with a number written on each country very clearly is (mis)stating that the numbers are the percent of the population that support the bill in each country. The chart should be labeled something like “percent of required signatures needed to demonstrate support of the bill”

“May” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The last third of the article is all about how this is very unlikely to be true. As the saying goes - “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, and this seems like pretty weak evidence.

Also fuck that headline. iirc usually the article author doesn’t get to write the headline, the editor does that. And often all the editor cares about is grabbing eyeballs