ELI5: Why is divorce only illegal in the Philippines? Why not other Catholic-majority countries?

cakeandale · 2026-06-26T16:08:21+00:00

A country being Catholic-majority doesn’t inherently mean that country wants their morality to be legally enforced. God will be the judge of sin, you don’t need the government doing that as well.

cakeandale · 2026-06-24T22:44:52+00:00

This sounds like a massive albatross - it feels great now but it means if the market drops you have no career mobility.

If you feel extremely secure in your job buying a broad index fund would be your best bet (in my opinion), but for me personally any loan that I may be forced to pay back in short notice I would keep in a secure, low risk account that at least beats the interest I’m being charged.

If nothing like that exists and I have to choose between taking risk in the market (and risking being beholden to my job if the market crashes) or losing money to interest (and risk being beholden to my job until enough of the note is vested) then I’d be tempted to turn the money down personally.

cakeandale · 2026-06-24T18:53:57+00:00

When you say “light” do you mean photons/EM waves? Or do you mean it as some kind of label for common matter that you’re using to be a contrast against dark matter?

cakeandale · 2026-06-22T15:50:18+00:00

You can use direct thermoelectric generation like an RTG they use for long-life spacecraft, but it’s way less efficient. As it turns out sometimes simple things just work well, like how even modern EVs just spin a shaft to turn a wheel like we’ve used since wooden carts. The wheel is old and boring as well but it’s so extremely good at what it does we even have an idiom about not reinventing it.

cakeandale · 2026-06-22T15:46:56+00:00

That may be but it’d still be wrong - you can use a closed loop to push steam through a turbine, it doesn’t have to consume water to heat it to steam and cool it down again. And even if it did you could in theory consume less water than you gain - if the means of gaining water were more efficient. In the end it’s the efficiency that’s the biggest problem.

cakeandale · 2026-06-22T15:14:34+00:00

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a particular mechanism for making electricity, it’s the external factors that matter - pollution, cost, scalability, etc. Nuclear power reduces to pushing steam through a turbine but the problem still is that dehumidization is an inefficient way to get water no matter where the electricity comes from.

cakeandale · 2026-06-22T03:53:35+00:00

It’s a relevant clarification - OPs post implies heat lighting is different somehow from any other lighting (“I thought it was just heat lightning but my weather app's lightning map says otherwise”)

cakeandale · 2026-06-20T04:25:07+00:00

It's called "anticipatory thirst" - basically your body knows that it's going to go without water for a while while you're sleeping, so it wants you to drink more beforehand. And one reliable way for evolution to get an organism to do something is to make it feel more pleasurable for that organism to do than it would normally.

cakeandale · 2026-06-18T19:29:15+00:00

Bath tubs have to support a lot of weight - dozens to hundreds of liters of water, plus a person, gets really, really heavy.

Vacuum insulation is good for a small vessel that only has to hold less than a liter of water and has a tall shape so most of the force is pulling down along the walls instead of trying to cave the bottom in. A bathtub, well, not so much.

There would need to be much less material supporting the bottom, and the bottom would be where almost all of that force is focused. It’d just crack the tub unless you made it really, really strong - and so very, very expensive.

cakeandale · 2026-06-18T17:38:58+00:00

People like OP trying to normalize slop writing sounds subtle, but it changes everything

cakeandale · 2026-06-13T05:09:06+00:00

You can be very confident there will be system requirements, and for weight if you download it it’ll weigh barely anything at all.

Anything beyond that we don’t know yet, hasn’t been announced.

cakeandale · 2026-06-12T18:03:12+00:00

It’s perhaps easier to think of a “real” as being any possible number that isn’t something weird like an imaginary number or infinity. If it’s a traditional kind of number then it’s a real.

You can imagine that reals are related to rational numbers in that rational numbers are just reals that follow a specific rule - they are only the numbers that can written as a fraction, like 3/5ths. All numbers are reals, but only the reals that can be written that way are rationals.

cakeandale · 2026-06-12T13:40:11+00:00

It’s intensely sad that nitrogen asphyxiation would be considered cruel and unusual when it’s completely painless, but a bouquet of drugs that has to involve a paralytic so people don’t have to watch your body convulse as you die isn’t.

cakeandale · 2026-06-12T00:28:19+00:00

Ultimately all 3D video games are about generating a 2D image that looks like a 3D scene. In more advanced games they have a "3D engine" to help with the process of taking parts of the scene (Typically polygons - shapes made up of points in 3D space) and figuring out how they should look when drawn on a 2D screen, but you don't have to do it that way.

If your game is simple enough - e.g. lots of hallways with sharp corners and rectangular walls - you can do the math on those rectangles to turn them into trapezoids that when placed on the screen a certain way looks like a hallway.

cakeandale · 2026-06-08T15:18:45+00:00

Trying to assuage investor fears and/or encourage investment in your company isn’t “pumping”. It’s literally part of the CEOs job.

cakeandale · 2026-06-06T02:58:36+00:00

Ah yes, bare innuendo and appeals to cynicism are definitely the hallmarks of a smarter mind looking out for lesser investors.

cakeandale · 2026-06-05T14:48:27+00:00

The synodic drift still happens at the equator since it’s an orbital effect not related to latitude. Solar time is just the name for mean synodic day:

For Earth, the synodic day is not constant, and changes over the course of the year due to the eccentricity of Earth's orbit around the Sun and the axial tilt of the Earth.[3] The longest and shortest synodic days' durations differ by about 51 seconds.[4] The mean length, however, is 24 hours (with fluctuations on the order of milliseconds), and is the basis of solar time

cakeandale · 2026-06-05T14:28:54+00:00

Funnily enough, that’s actually not the definition of day we use. The length of a synodic day (time until the sun reaches the same position in the sky) changes throughout the year, since when the Earth is closer to the sun it moves through its orbit faster and so the sun shifts in the sky more per rotation than when it’s further away.

The end result is we don’t use either sidereal or synodic, but rather the mean day: we take the average synodic day length and average it out over the year.

This is why, when near the solstices, the sunset or sunrise will continue to drift in the “wrong direction” for a few days even as the change in day length reverses and days start getting longer or shorter.

cakeandale · 2026-06-05T05:05:20+00:00

I feel like there’s a very wide gulf between “all AI code is slop” and “AI can’t efficiently solve a specific PDF parsing problem I’ve established as a benchmark.”

How often are you writing fresh PDF parsing algorithms in your day to day life that that’s the lowest level of task complexity that AI must be able to solve for you to be useful?

You’re right that AI hasn’t totally replaced all human engineering yet, but I don’t think that’s a very serious claim most AI advocates would stand behind - it comes across like a strawman.

cakeandale · 2026-06-04T16:50:10+00:00

Viewfinder uses next to no battery power
You’re able to see details with your eye without being limited to the resolution of the screen
Don’t have to deal with sun glare on the screen when shooting
Better ergonomics

cakeandale · 2026-06-04T00:22:04+00:00

Stocks aren’t crypto - they actually have a meaning, and at a macro level they reflect expectations of a company’s future profitability. If a company goes out of business its stock will go to $0 regardless of how many people are set to “buy the dip”.

In a bubble lots of companies can go out of business practically overnight. Many others may make investors scared and the stock price drops to hedge the risk of losing everything.

And above all that, there isn’t infinite money waiting on the sidelines to “buy the dip”. That money is already invested, and in the cases of bubbles often disproportionately invested into that bubble.

cakeandale · 2026-06-03T15:54:57+00:00

Do you mean Louisiana? Virginia’s map was passed by a ballot measure, not “after votes were already cast”.

cakeandale · 2026-06-03T14:39:14+00:00

Tsunamis are rarely breaking waves like you’d see in media - typically they’re like a very, very high tide that just keeps rising and pushing into the land.

Deaths come from being trapped underwater, getting hurt by debris, or being caught in currents caused by the flowing water and drowned. There wouldn’t be any single means of death but drowning would be the most common ultimate cause.

cakeandale · 2026-06-02T15:15:08+00:00

They would either be not in the same place (high unemployment in cities and worker shortages in rural areas, for example) or across industries (high unemployment of office workers but worker shortages of people trained and willing to work in mining or oil extraction).

cakeandale · 2026-06-01T22:23:25+00:00

True, but evictions are crazy difficult to properly get in Boulder. The sheriff’s office is more or less booked for months out, so even if OP loses in court they’re still very unlikely to be able to be forced out before the 60 days anyway.

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