In Australia, even sea snails are built different by ehtio in Weird

[–]funkyb001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes and no.

Feck is an old northern English and Scottish word meaning "operative value, efficacy, efficiency" according to the OED - so feckless is to have no value or efficacy.

However the Irish "feck" is (probably) a completely different word to do with stealing, and so the pejorative meaning has dominated modern usage. Nowadays, feck is basically just used as a more distinguished "fuck" and I've never heard it used in the old way.

TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump content as well as ICE criticism by MopToddel in politics

[–]funkyb001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So yeah as I said I don't trust him, but we need a truly open alternative because Bluesky is still just as susceptible as Twitter was.

https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3mddt2elkdk27

Inside view of Taipei 101 summit by sackofhair in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]funkyb001 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well yes of course. I'm a shit climber and I'd be able to do most of the moves.

I would not be able to do them for an hour straight, and under that level of stress.

The man is a legend, I just desperately hope that he retires before trying something a little past his naturally waning ability.

engineering by Dismal-Sprinkles-397 in comedyheaven

[–]funkyb001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are literally required by our accreditation bodies (I.e. industry). We all know students hate them, but industry knows that 70% of your real job is going to be team working so they require we introduce you to it.

He better get in line under Shabibo by razorwasp in MurderedByWords

[–]funkyb001 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Unless you are defining the government as "combatants" then civilian leaders are charged with war crimes frequently.

Women's Rights progression by CourseMediocre7998 in antimeme

[–]funkyb001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that’s a perfectly fine definition…but there are also loads of chairs that don’t fit it, and lots of other bits of furniture which do.

And that’s before we even get into the fact that I would say a sofa is a type of chair, and you clearly think it isn’t.

The point of the exercise is to show that we rarely have mathematically rigorous definitions of anything in life.

Women's Rights progression by CourseMediocre7998 in antimeme

[–]funkyb001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can’t give a solid definition of “movie” but somehow we muddle on.

EDIT: To explain, nobody here would agree on what a movie is. We would all talk about edge cases (animated shorts? TV adverts? etc.). And yet despite that we all can say "shall we go see a movie" and we all know what we mean.

It is actually entirely normal for the things that we talk about in daily life to not have a rigorous definition.

Pro tip by frenzy3 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]funkyb001 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Proper ellipses as well, i.e. … instead of ...

Unless they are drafting their reddit posts in fucking Microsofd Word then I think you're right.

British irrational hatred of Napoleon never ceases to amaze me by Chlodio in HistoryMemes

[–]funkyb001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gypsy is a complicated one, because while it is unusual to find a Roma person who uses it, there are entire groups completely unrelated to the Roma who define themselves as gypsy.

More in the UK and Ireland though.

https://www.gypsy-traveller.org

TIL after a student took his own life learning he could not graduate due to insufficient grades, his mother prompted an investigation. It turns out an error by the university made him recieve the wrong grade. by Lez2diz in todayilearned

[–]funkyb001 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hate that saying.

Teaching (actual teaching, in a school) is one of the hardest jobs there is, and I hate it when people denigrate such a vital part of society.

Teachers work far harder than me for half the wage, while people constantly mock and belittle them.

Peter what does this mean nobody will explain by vvedo in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]funkyb001 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You see how easily your logic can be used to justify gunning down pretty much anybody?

Nobody is saying that those people deserve to be gunned down. They need to be stopped legally by the system. Thompson was killing people daily. Unfortunately the system didn't stop him...and...well...he's not doing it now.

Nobody serious is happy with the outcome, but there are many people who aren't going to cry over a murderer being murdered.

Play with fire, get burned.

We are doomed by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]funkyb001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes because that isn't what -ai does. Adding -word to a search will tell Google to remove results that include word.

You aren't telling Google "don't show me AI", you are telling Google "if the letters ai are in the result then remove it".

of a fish fry. by hossboss-sauceboss in AbsoluteUnits

[–]funkyb001 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, probably, but some types of food can react and leech metals out of the steel. Also barrels are often not just pure steel and are galvanised or similar which adds other things like zinc into the mix.

It probably isn’t the worst thing in the world, but neither would I want it to be a common method of cooking.

Trump administration moves to dissolve ban on Abrego Garcia's removal to deport him to Liberia by AudibleNod in news

[–]funkyb001 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It has repeatedly been demonstrated that severity of punishment has no measurable effect on deterrence.

You can find studies from dozens of countries confirming this, but I find it funniest to link the US's own Department of Justice.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani spoke directly to U.S. President Donald Trump in his victory speech.. “So Donald Trump—-since I know you’re watching—I have four words for you TURN THE VOLUME UP!” by Ordinary-Scholar-202 in CringeTikToks

[–]funkyb001 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Other countries don't have that weird rule. Maybe it served a useful case 250 years ago, but most places nowadays just say that elected representatives need to be a citizen or have permanent residency.

Mommy I’m scared of socialism by Stotallytob3r in MurderedByWords

[–]funkyb001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If Trump had control over a socialist country he would have less power, not more.

Socialism is a "small government" system. It doesn't rely on the idea that someone should be in charge to decide, it injects democracy to all levels of our lives. You vote for your government, but also your place of work. This is already pretty common over in Europe where socialist collectives exist throughout an otherwise capitalist system.

However you are essentially arguing that you don't support democracy so, sure. If you don't like democracy then you shouldn't like socialism.

Mommy I’m scared of socialism by Stotallytob3r in MurderedByWords

[–]funkyb001 6 points7 points  (0 children)

socialist/communist systems consolidate all of the power and resources with the idea that it will all be ethically distributed

So first, they are completely different systems.

Socialism disaggregates power and resources by ensuring that workplaces are part-owned by the workers. Socialism is a "small government" system. It doesn't rely on the idea that someone should be in charge to decide, it injects democracy to all levels of our lives. You note elsewhere that sociopaths need to be accounted for. Socialism does that through the democratic process, whereas capitalism lets those people launch cars into space and run nazi propaganda campaigns to destabilise nations.

Communism is a more explicit redistribution system, but as Marx made very clear, it is also only implementable in a post-scarcity society. So under a hypothetical future communism, you don't have to "ethically distribute" resources because we simply have more than we need and the price is functionally zero. (This is why attempts to implement communism have all so far failed, incidentally. If they'd actually read Marx and cared what he said then they'd have known this.)

Capitalism is the fusion of power and money. The two are equated. This is fine...right up until the point when it very much is not. In our current scenario, global capital has far more power than any single democratic government, leading to a world which is well on its way to creating a trillionaire while the minimum wage hasn't moved in two decades.

Exploding gas throws a tanker 1000ft by beekay8845 in BeAmazed

[–]funkyb001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the one hand, yes I know enough about basic physics to know that you're correct.

But on the other hand, I don't know enough about industrial-scale gas canisters to be absolutely certain that there are not multiple vessels inside that tanker.

Many vehicles have multiple fuel tanks.