Worth noting nuclear submarines have a sort of minimum-practical-size determined by the need for a functional nuclear reactor on board. Combined with the plain expense of nuclear reactors means that states can build way more ssk’s than ssn’s for a given budget. It’s often better to have three 25% chances of sinking the other guy than one 50% chance.
On the other hand, your arguments against polls are equally valid arguments against any form representative democracy. Politicans, policies and programs are just like polls. People will often vote purely based on surface apperances. See: every law called “the fluffy familes act” or two-thirds of US elections going to the taller cannidate.
There’s a reason it’s called ‘the least bad form of government’
(more than half, strictly speaking, I was 16 during the referrendum. If you add up all the zoomers like me that have entered the voting pool since 2016 (and assume they would vote at the rates & ratios 18 year olds did) it’d overturn the 52% majority of the leave vote)
Depends on church, I recently visited the babtism of a Lesbian couples’ child featuring readings by a trans lay-minister. This was CoE, rather than any ‘rainbow church’.
It’s true that almost every mainline Church denies the right of gays and poly’s to marry as they would wish. Beyond that single sacrement however there’s no need for exclusion. Many congregations are still full of assholes, absolutely, but you’d be surprised how often the views of the Church body diverge from talking heads like Calvin Robinson.
Trans-rights are an odd-space. There isn’t actually anything in the bible explicitly denying trans ontology (at least for binary trans people), so again it’s a matter of specific bigotry rather than institutional bigotry.
Yes, exactly.** Reading the article disproves the headline. **
When I hear ‘not eating three meals a day’ I do not think ‘has skipped one meal in the last two years.’ (which is how the headline get’s it’s 38% statistic.)
It’s not that deprivation does not exist in the EU, it’s that the scale of that deprivation is of an entirely different order than implied by the headline.
I mean, I do agree PR is better than FPTP, just for different reasons. Brexit is bad sure, but I’m not sure I’d want UKIP to have >12% of seats in parliament either.
I mean, launch costs are going down over time. It might make much more sense to put many warheads up with a reusable system like falcon (~3000$/kg) than it does to maintain a fleet of necessarily single-use systems like minuiteman (7,000,000$/~300kg = 23,300$/kg). You might well be able to put four warheads (with an equal mass of de-orbiting propellent into orbit - ~1.7 km/s given solid fuel) for the same cost as one ICBM.
Pop scientists routinely mis-represent facts to make warfare seem unappealing and lame, this is due their ‘sense of morality’ (read: crying baby noises).
For example, Carl Sagan warned that operation desert storm would cause a (non)nuclear winter and mass famine in Asia.
It does effect some people (I.e. People with variable rate mortgages)
But yeah, overall sanctions are completely insufficient. Partly because they are incomplete, partly because Russia is a massive country able to supply almost all of her own necessities.
I mean, isn’t that the core of the intermitancy argument for fossil fuels? Consumers wouldn’t be willing to accept a 100% renewable grid which only met demand 95% of the time.
You get that a “carbon fibre tree” is literally just a tree right?
(also, wind turbines tend to be made out of much cheaper glass fibre. Admittedly this does not grow on trees, but unless you’re willing to ban windows and home insulation too it doesn’t make that much sense to complain about it.)
I mean, at that point you would just call it a hydro power plant. Pretty much all hydropower doubles as storage due it’s flexibility, but typically don’t bother pumping water back up as it’s a waste of energy (as opposed to waiting for the river to do it’s work)
Hey there, fellow movie enthusiasts! I’m on the hunt for films that portray positive masculinity. We often see movies with traditional, stereotypical portrayals of masculinity, but I believe there’s a world of cinema out there that can challenge these norms and offer a fresh perspective....
Tenet had a pretty consistent “anti-james bond” vibe going, and whilst the protagonist is still relatively conventionally respectable (in a smart, strong, action man way) I feel that counts for something.
Pinnochio is probably very much up your alley, but to me it’s various themes of “wow fascism bad” and “misfits good actually” true as they are can seem a bit shallow at times.
I’m also going to recommend A Muppets Christmas Carol. Mostly to contest the idea that positive masculinity is a uniquely modern phenominon, but also because winter approaches and some people might forget to watch it.
US might send the mighty Dorito if won't behave (sh.itjust.works)
Trek Club (lemmy.world)
Clear difference (startrek.website)
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Majority of Britons support rejoining the EU single market - poll (www.reuters.com)
EU states can ban religious symbols in public workplaces (www.bbc.com)
Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day (www.euronews.com)
Exit poll puts far-right populist Wilders ahead in Dutch election (www.euronews.com)
Maduro's claim is as solid as diarrhea, but you gotta admit it is funny this happens so often. (sh.itjust.works)
Virgin Everything vs Chad Stargate (files.catbox.moe)
The space armament treaty says: no nuclear, biological or laser weapons in space. but kinetics... (sh.itjust.works)
Most Russians against ending Ukraine war if captured land returned (www.euronews.com)
Well, this is something! (files.mastodon.social)
Meanwhile in Germany:https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/18874a11-e448-4696-8ee7-28b87e2851d2.jpeg
Looking for Movies that Showcase Positive Masculinity
Hey there, fellow movie enthusiasts! I’m on the hunt for films that portray positive masculinity. We often see movies with traditional, stereotypical portrayals of masculinity, but I believe there’s a world of cinema out there that can challenge these norms and offer a fresh perspective....
When the writers say a planet is -291 Celsius (lemmy.world)
The science advisor must have been out that day