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I don’t know of a jet that takes off at a 90° angle

F-35B can do a vertical takeoff. So can the Harrier. And the F22 Raptor can do this cool maneuver.

Really weird how no one answered that question when it's really easy. I don't know anything about jets, but I'm tangentially aware of the failure that was the F22.

Why is there this political lense that people see everything through?

That's a good question.

There's a historical Native American settlement, a pueblo, near where I live that my family and I walked through a few months ago. Apparently, it has been inhabited for the last 10,000 years.

What struck me as incredibly interesting is how little space so many people required. The rooms were basically the size of a closet, even smaller in some cases. Kivas are where whole villages of hundreds of people would hang out and discuss things. They're not even that big, like the size of a a modern living room (though some could obviously be larger). A whole pueblo's living space took up the equivalent of like...one city block

Conversely, my SO and I are searching for a house...and she and her parents want us to get 1 house surrounded by like 2-3 acres. There's only me and my SO! And we're not the only ones. Given than we're in the Southwest, people generally expect to have large houses and extra land for relatively cheap prices. And it's like having neighbors is soooo bad, like seeing meeting eyes with them while you're both leaving for work would be the worst thing ever. We better pay an extra $200K for that extra land.

Americans, man...idk about humans generally, but Americans really seem to not like each other.

Probably the Lemmy users and the community mods? So, nothing different from Reddit.

As a recent mod of another community here on Lemmy, there seems to be a weird expectation that mods are there to protect posters from each other. "They called me an ignoramus! Ban them! Ban them now!" Like...yeah, abusive language should be banned...but mods shouldn't be a poster's way to play bait-and-whack-a-mole.

If Reddit mods had to deal with that shit, then I feel sorry for them.

Conversely, there is an expectation that mods are supposed to be impartial. They're as human as any other poster, and dealing with antagonists day-in, day-out takes its toll. After a while, it's just indiscriminate pattern recognition: a certain pattern warrants a ban every time without discussion.

For example, when you said this:

If this gets me banned than you are worse than spez

Did you look at the rules before and ask, "How can this post get me banned?" If so, then you obviously didn't need to include this line. If you didn't, then you shouldn't have posted in the first place.

If users want a particular type of community, then users should act in a way to facilitate it. Mods alone can't do that. Mods, at most, can define and enforce the limits of what's acceptable. But if posters routinely act in unacceptable ways, then they shouldn't get mad when mods routinely enforce those limits.

I mean, I work and play Dota 2, but I don't do them at the same time ever.

After working, my method is plugging my peripherals into my desktop, and firing it up while my work laptop shuts down. (thx for reminding me that I should look at KVM switches for Black Friday....)

You do.

Republicans and their anti-governance beliefs would like to deny anyone else that opportunity.

...why did OP ask a real question, and then...just...devolve????

And in this debacle, I don't WISH to be anti-social, I'm anti-social but not in a voluntary manner. I'm in my prime years and I need friends and relationships at this age but my privacy standpoint is mangling with those.

But so this isn't a conundrum you chose. That's why people here are so into privacy. Instagram is social, sure, but is that the kind of socializing you want? Really? We know it's bad for the mental health of teenage girls. What's to desire about that? What's to desire about the algorithm that actively tries to make you hooked on the app?

These are the kinds of questions behind the privacy communities, among others.

Also, don't lie to women. Extreme things usually only look extreme until a person understands them. Explain yourself and give them an opportunity to come around and/or be willing to make compromises. Having an Instagram account you use every now and then to verify your humanity in a virtual world seems reasonable to me.

Holy shit.

1 million seconds is 11 days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years. What is 1 quadrillion seconds?

And they'll do so in the name of national security or some stupid nonsense that doesn't address climate change at all

When Whoopi retires, I'll take her spot.