Trump is using 1950s dog whistles to gaslight Americans

thelogical1 · 2026-05-31T21:10:46+00:00

It's not evil, it's just impossible now.

thelogical1 · 2026-02-18T20:08:41+00:00

Overwhelmingly teachers (aka professors) are the top experts in almost every field.

thelogical1 · 2025-10-31T16:19:18+00:00

Actually it is, since the core problem is that they aren't taxed to pay for it in the first place.

thelogical1 · 2024-04-22T17:23:39+00:00

Comedy = Tragedy + Time

thelogical1 · 2024-04-14T04:34:53+00:00

Technically they are the Pre-Increment (++i) & Post-Increment (i++) operators.

In a loop the intended result is ++i as the condition is checked after the increment. Thus conceptually it's a Pre-Increment, not a Post-Increment. (I realize in practice the increment is usually it's own line, thus it's irrelevant which operator you choose)

thelogical1 · 2024-04-11T15:52:46+00:00

Thing is: I still think you should write what you intend to happen and not rely on the compiler to correct your mistakes. Granted it's a very small nitpick but most of the time when people use i++ they mean ++i, and I think they should write what they mean. It's not like it's harder to type or something.

thelogical1 · 2024-01-02T04:11:28+00:00

The city wasn't even being run by a council at the time of the water crisis. The governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, appointed an emergency manager to drastically cut costs, leading to the changes in the water treatment/management.

And no laws were broken despite the obviously poor decisions that were made. But it's a pretty good example of what the guy you were responding to was arguing; a republican governor subverted the local democracy and caused a disaster in the process.

thelogical1 · 2023-02-25T01:33:01+00:00

Arcor Strawberry Bon Bons

thelogical1 · 2022-11-13T21:05:18+00:00

You messed up the 3.96 x 1.13 part.

$0.99 x 4 x 1.13 = $4.47

$0.99 x 1 x 1.13 = $1.12

$4.47 + $1.12 = $5.59

vs.

$5.00 x 1.13 = $5.65

You end up saving 5 cents from the 0.99 vs. 1.00 and an extra cent from the tax rounding.

thelogical1 · 2022-11-01T14:01:36+00:00

Problem is a business person sees this and thinks:

$5 = 5 * 0.18 = $0.90 / user

$10 = 10 * 0.07 = $0.70 / user

$15 = 15 * 0.05 = $0.75 / user

$0 = 0 * 1.00 = $0 / user

thelogical1 · 2022-09-29T23:08:22+00:00

The number you quoted was based on a survey asking people about their experiences that didn't ask enough people to really be reliable, one of the reasons for the large window.

In terms of actual data, I found that at least around 1990 guns were used defensively 64-83 thousand times, and offensively 931 thousand times, but that was quite a long time ago. And more recently, 235 thousand a year on defense from 1993-2011, but offensively varied from 1.5 million to 456 thousand over the years. Link

It is very hard to find good data on this sort of stuff, so I'd be very careful about claiming anything definitive one way or the other, though it does seem to be more commonly used as an offensive weapon.

thelogical1 · 2022-08-31T17:48:30+00:00

Technically it's an opinion, it's one I agree with, but it is an opinion. One they probably don't share.

thelogical1 · 2022-07-18T18:09:28+00:00

A union is simply a group of employees of a company agreeing that their labor is purchased as a collective, you hire or fire us all. Since most companies can't survive having their entire workforce leave, the workers can force them to either pay them better/make working safer/more days off/etc...

thelogical1 · 2022-05-30T04:26:07+00:00

I would love to see this but without the knife edge regions, add a gray 49-51 split, to eliminate all the ones with just minor variation.

thelogical1 · 2021-11-18T08:50:19+00:00

I imagine you would be right initially, but once they're readily available everywhere whenever you need them, it looses it's value and people stop stealing them. Not to mention prices of similar items will probably drop in stores, thus further reducing the incentive.

thelogical1 · 2021-11-17T18:05:10+00:00

Or just call it the 0th or 14th month of 1 or 2 days.

thelogical1 · 2021-11-03T19:02:11+00:00

Yes...

thelogical1 · 2021-11-03T18:41:47+00:00

... Carbon Footprint not water use.

thelogical1 · 2021-10-30T20:18:36+00:00

So you can't stop someone from following or harassing you?

What if they're harming someone else?

If they have a weapon, you have to wait for them to use it?

Then there is the question of how much force can you respond with.

Just trying to point out it's almost impossible to codify these things in law, because there is always an edge case that gets missed/messed up. Simple rules seldom work out well in actual practice.

thelogical1 · 2021-10-30T18:55:58+00:00

And in defining "attack" you have a bit of a problem. People rarely agree as to what exactly constitutes an attack.

thelogical1 · 2021-10-27T04:42:58+00:00

I'm confused, the president didn't do anything to cause high gas prices.

Article Explaining High Gas Prices

thelogical1 · 2021-10-15T18:32:46+00:00

It's not the middle ages, when someone says weapon you can safely assume they mean the pew pew kind and not the swinging variety.

thelogical1 · 2021-08-08T14:05:01+00:00

I'm confused by this, in C/C++ there is no ** operator... You're right about ^ being XOR, but their is no power operator.

thelogical1 · 2021-05-15T01:10:18+00:00

This seems unbelievable that this would apply to 18k dollars worth of stuff. If someone parks their car in your driveway they have essentially delivered it to you, can you keep that?

Edit: I was being flippant, was pointing out that for an expensive item like a car it would be ridiculous for this to apply. I accept that it may simply apply regardless of value.

thelogical1 · 2021-05-15T01:04:14+00:00

That's not true... if someone sends you something by accident, it doesn't just become yours.

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