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  • The concept of pedophilia may be connected with a number written into law, but isn’t derived from that number, People would almost universally see sex with an 8-year-old as pedophilia, but there’s always a spectrum of opinions about what the written-down magic number should be, or whether it’s appropriate in individual cases.


  • Addendum: one that stands out was an in-house survey app that allowed you to create questionnaires and email them to people in the company. Responses were saved in a database and you could make complicated statistical inquiries like, show me how people answered questions 7 and 8 who said Yes to question 12, No to 13, and filled in the “Other” blank for 19.

    My job was to speed up the SQL queries, which were so complex and slow the max runtime had to be increased to like an hour to let them finish. This was because the original database of questions and multiple-choice answers had been modified in several stages, which ended up with response details in multiple fields in multiple tables depending on the type of question. After about a month I managed to streamline the queries so the longest one took less than 10 minutes, but this was still enormously slow because questionnaires had maybe 2000 responses max. The problem was the database structure relationships was too complex because things had been scabbed onto it.

    One day at lunch I spent about 20 minutes noodling a redesign with fewer tables. All user responses would be in one place, and the longest queries probably would have run in a second or two, plus maintenance and enhancements would be WAY easier. When I proposed actually doing this, management said they would think about it if they ever did a new version.

    At least I tried.











  • We would need enough advance notice to prepare for massively farming mushrooms or something underground to eat. Canned food will run out in a few years, even military MREs have a shelf life. A few lucky people might survive a generation, but there’s a minimal breeding stock requirement to avoid degeneration from inbreeding. Extremely long odds, I think the human race would only survive this event in a sci-fi fantasy story.


  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzGottem. :)
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    Wherever you live on the Earth’s surface starts cooling every night and gets warmed up again the next day. It wouldn’t cool any faster if the sun went away, it would just keep cooling at the normal rate until everything was frozen. But I doubt it would take more than a week or two, depending on where you live.





  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldtoComics@lemmy.mlExplaining capitalism to aliens
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    While everbody was calling the Biden administration genocidal, they were negotiating the Gaza ceasefire that took effect a few days before Trump’s inauguration. Funny how nobody is talking about that. Harris wouldn’t be expelling immigrants, threatening to fire 2 million federal workers, purging diversity, gender, climate change, etc from government documents, and defunding anybody who objects. Single-issue voters are pouty idiots. And now here we are with a fucking dictator.


  • Throwing a shrunken cannonball would work the same as shooting it out of a gun. If you throw an object that weighs one ounce at the time, it flies away with the amount of energy it took to accelerate an object that size to whatever velocity you give it. When the shrinkage magic stops, its mass returns to normal. This doesn’t change the amount of momentum the barbarian or the flintlock gave it. Think of it this way - if you get magically shrunk and you pick a flower, when the magic stops and you grow back to normal size the flower doesn’t also grow. It wasn’t affected by the magic and isn’t affected by the magic going away. Neither is anything else you acquire while shrunk, like momentum.