[-] essell@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

In the UK, life expectancy of a cat is increased 50-100% by not letting it roam free, exact numbers vary between studies.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Flowers never bend in my ass

[-] essell@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

🤔

Press the foot brake in-between turning on the engine and releasing the handbrake?

Only varient I can come up with because it makes no difference

[-] essell@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

Philosophically, sure.

In action and presentation, there's overlaps in outcomes

[-] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I imagine they're quite hard to do by accident

[-] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Preach it brother!

[-] essell@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Because you have two choices when choosing a family pet, Cat or Dog. Two choices makes them opposites.

Obviously this is not all logical or rational but that's fine. People are not all logical and rational.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Slack tide ?

[-] essell@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

That was a passing fancy, a dream of good government.

Reality has hit hard and they've moved on

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[-] essell@lemmy.world 129 points 3 months ago

Yup.

They told me I could choose between ads and a 35% price rise.

I replied "I have a better idea"

Can honestly say I've not missed out watching anything I wanted to watch

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The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.

This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.

When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.

I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!

And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.

So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?

If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?

[-] essell@lemmy.world 114 points 4 months ago

Silly meme. Nuclear bombs are much too heavy to wield on the battlefield, and their shape is unsuitable for piercing platemail armour

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[-] essell@lemmy.world 95 points 5 months ago

That depends on the current and voltage

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