I completely agree that they should. Recognize though that other people are going to find some things more attractive than others. That’s okay - we’re not obligated to dress in a way others find attractive - but many people do care about being attractive.

The plane on a treadmill one has seemed straightforward to me. Lift is caused by the air moving over the wing and the obvious intent of the treadmill in the thought exercise is that the plane is only moving relative to the belt, so there’s no opportunity for lift (no air flowing over the wings). Any other interpretation seems disingenuous.

The one that made me scratch my head for a while is the bicycle on the treadmill. People generally know that it’s easy to stay balanced on a moving bicycle, but hard to balance on a stationary one, so is it easy or hard to balance on one that’s on a treadmill?

A lot of people think that the stability of a moving bicycle is caused by the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels, but that turns out to contribute relatively little compared to the force of a body leaning one way or another.

What actually makes it easy to keep a moving bicycle going straight (or what contributes the most) is that the design has self-correcting steering. When you lean to the right, the shape of the forks causes the front wheel to point left, and vice versa, keeping you going relatively straight as long as you have some minimum amount of forward motion.

And since that forward motion is relative to the surface the tires are on, it works just fine on a treadmill. You can even find YouTube videos of people who ride their bikes on treadmills, and it’s very evident.

Look at you, bringing this thread back from the dead.

First of all, even if we take what you’re saying at face value, how does it being an original text in any way prove that its contents are true? If I made up a completely original story today about a stuffed animal that eats pickles and poops diamonds, would that mean that such a thing exists?

Secondly, we can’t take what you’re said at face value because Qur’anic and Muslim scholars are very divided about the origins of the Quran.

That’s great, at least as long as you’re truly letting go of it and not pushing it down someplace.

It’s pretty easy for me to feel sadness, but anger is just a very unnatural state for me. Probably to an unhealthy degree in that there are probably times when I should be mad, but instead just get despondent.

I was looking at that too. Hard to say for sure, I’m not a digital forensic, but it looks kind of that way. Which would explain how he had the full details of the man behind her.

You misunderstand: I love them so much that when I see any kind of dust or anything on them, I brush them off.

“Things;” I’m leaving that typo, but fixed two others. Proof reading for the win!

There really isn’t a norm. I don’t get mad very easily- I brush off thighs that upset other people - but if I get mad it takes a long time to get over it. I had a gf once who got mad at the slitest thing (often really mad), but would get over it really quickly. There’s a lot of variation. And, of course, it can depend on the issue, too. A guy leaving the toilet set up is different from a guy kissing his gf’s sister.

They did stuff like this - maybe not with AI - in the last two elections at least. The Mueller report made the Russian activity pretty clear. And 2016 was a really close election; they only have to shape the opinion of a small number of people.

It’s also curious that Republican lawmakers, who historically have been overtly anti-Russian and anti-Putin, have become pro Russian in recent years. What changed?

I can’t wait to let my wife know

That is so completely insane. Do you know how many workplace injuries and deaths were eliminated because of things OSHA put in place?

Okay, if you think that’s a good idea

I honestly didn’t get the joke and was trying to figure out what was wrong with the. Like, maybe if it was instead of raises or something I’d be pissed, but otherwise looks great.

Exactly right. They might consider it initially, but then they’d realize that they got an increase in support from the MAGA base and they’d lean into it.

Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.

And the thing itself looks like a game of telephone between a rabbit and a deer. Cute though. I wonder what they’re like as pets. Wikipedia says “near threatened.”

Patagonian Mara

In case anyone is worried, the worm is named for what it looks like, not where it lives.

I didn’t say any of these guys were gems of humanity - what does any of what you’re saying have to do with the fact that they were all workaholics?

Mastadon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit. So you don’t really follow topics, but you can follow people if you want (I never have) and you can join communities on the topics you’re interested in. Some of the things you’ve mentioned, like Linux, are very popular/prolific here.

My advice is to set your browsing by All (and whichever of the other one makes sense to you; I usually do New, but sometimes one of the Top ones), then when you see something posted in a community that you’re interested in, instead of clicking on the post, click on the community name. In the sidebar, you can subscribe to the community. After you’ve been doing that a while, if you want you can change your browsing to Subscribed.

There’s also a Lemmy Explorer, and you can set it to Communities at the top and find the ones that are the most active or are on the subjects you’re looking for.

Having your posts seen is mostly a matter of posting to active communities with engaging topics.

Welcome and good luck!

There are how many people on that list, and you’re picking one of them? What about Gates, who was the top four a long time? Dell? Buffet?

You have a preconceived notion, and you’re sticking to it, regardless of data.