I’m new to car ownership and I wrestled my bike into the back of my low-roofed saloon car to cycle back. I didn’t really buy the car with cycling in mind but it beat paying them £25 for a courtesy car (I expected not to have to pay for that is this was to fix a recall issue)

Shh!

I have come to like more pop music over time too. What I found though is that I don’t tend to attach much to music unless it has something unique to it, so have found myself going for bands like Pixie Paris which is very poppy but still a bit different.

I’ve heard this, but I’d like to know what I’ve been eating over time. I never hated sprouts - I had them boiled (briefly!) as a kid in the 90s, when I guess this variety hadn’t yet proliferated? I like sprouts more now but have always attributed this to cooking them differently - fried or roasted, but occasionally simmered in a curry.

It had two buildings. Is that difficult to understand or what? Historically they were separate schools built close together. (Probably a boys and girls school but I don’t remember)

Each had a main part that was a single corridor on 4 floors with classrooms off it. There were extra bits that weren’t part of the main corridor, too, which weren’t as tall, and the main part also wasn’t all classrooms; in one building the bottom floor was, I think, just toilets and changing rooms, then admin offices, and only then were there classrooms, but I can’t remember for sure. In the other building there were 3 complete floors of classrooms and I think one half floor, with the rest of the bottommost floor occupied by a gym.

Surely any kid who went to only one high school is going to have, at the time, thought it was perfectly normal because that’s all they knew? I think our school had 4 floors in both buildings

Surprised no-one said <your lemmy instance here>

This is equivalent to the assertion that pi is a normal number, which is not proven.

The social construct of race is which features we consider important enough by which to categorise people. So in the USA, this is white, black, asian or hispanic. Maybe native. Those categorisations are based on real observable traits, but we could choose other categorisations. It notably groups together traits which we can easily distinguish and pull out as subdivisions, such as south-east Asians.

We could redraw these groupings: we could for example together north Africans, middle-easterners and Indians, separating out those from southern and central Africa. We could separate Europeans so that Scandinavians, Finns and Slavs are together, separately from western and southern Europeans.

let x = 0.999…

so 10x = 9.999…

subtract first line from second:

9x = 9

divide by 9

x = 1

Sealioning is talked about far more often than it actually happens, because people often perceive both fundamental disagreement and lack of knowledge about something that they are extremely familiar with as bad faith.

Feel replace to replace “dog” with “non-cat” in my comment; it’s just as valid.

I’m not interpreting you as believing it’s an “absolute truth” I’m saying it doesn’t seem like it would bear any relationship whatsoever. You are still saying that as a rule of thumb dog-lovers are less likely to respect people’s (lack of) consent than cat-lovers. That’s insane.

Let’s be real about it: being a cat or dog person can tell you something about a person’s personality and hence give you a hint about whether you’ll get on with them. A green flag should first of all be universal, not dependent on the person considering it, and second it should actually be a reasonably accurate indicator.

Come on, I prefer cats but the reason people prefer dogs is because they do consent to the kinds of interaction dog-lovers want to have with their pets. If someone doesn’t like cats because cats often don’t want to be petted all the time it just means that person wants a pet who wants to be petted.

Also I do things to my cats without their consent all the time: I give them medicine they don’t want, I use a vacuum cleaner, and I move them from places I don’t want them to be. They are animals, not humans, and how I interact with them is not a model for how I interact with humans.

The wording of the law requires in general that the user be given a chance to decline information storage - “implied consent” is not an opportunity to decline. The exception is if the “information society service” is “explicitly requested by the user.” Again there is no opportunity for implied consent because the request must be explicit.

The only argument I can see is to attempt to subdivide the service offered by a website and call “dark mode” its own service. That seems clearly not to be the meaning here.

It’s worth saying that the ePrivacy directive binds legislatures; it’s not the law that website owners have to follow. Member states wrote their own laws to comply with it, but obviously those laws are going to conform to the general principles.

This is not true. The Europen ePrivacy direction (“Cookie Law”) specifically requires that cookies (and equivalents) which are not strictly necessary for the delivery of a requested service be explicitly consented to.

That means that cookies which store user preferences like dark mode require explicit consent, because you don’t need to store that cookie to deliver your service. Even though there is no way to store a preference without a cookie (or equivalent) so selecting the option could be construed as consenting to the requirements for making that particular feature work, that is not the way the law is written.

Contemplating existence

If your feet get cut, sure. This is why tetanus vaccine is given as post-exposure prophylaxis in many places if you get a wound that breaks the skin.

I’d be quite surprised if rusting could consume oxygen fast enough to make a difference there?

Tetanus is a bacteria that lives in soil. It’s only associated with rust because rust gives more surface area to allow dirt to accumulate on which bacteria can survive, and because iron objects are often sharp enough to pierce the skin. If you were cut with a gleaming razer that had just had soil smeared on it you’d have a good chance of contracting tetanus!