Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)

Alcohol, astroparticle physics and hard rock music

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@chairmanxxx @SustainableTall (BTW I was just nitpicking, I don't actually mean to imply there aren't any reasons to care whether other people's cars are in garages--though the sane thing to do would be require people to have a garage *in order to buy a car*, as IIRC they do in Japan)

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@chairmanxxx @SustainableTall Those are reasons why you want *your own* car to be in a garage -- but in order to legally mandate houses other than your own to have garages you need reasons to care about whether *other people's* cars are in garages

(also, "snowing"? "Ice cold"? In Adelaide?)

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@NathanSRobinson May I suggest 2' (the way it works in Japan IIRC): garages should be mandated *when buying a car*, just not when building a house

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@unspoonerisable @SustainableTall Yes -- IIRC the way it works in Japan is that you are required to have a garage *when buying a car*, not when building a house

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@xsphi I have a suspicion that if both of you tabooed the phrase "ignore bad vibes" and described in detail concrete examples of the situations you mean and your reactions to them, you would find they hardly resembled each other at all

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@thiagovscoelho A 1 m x 1 m x 1 m cube filled with water

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@esrtweet @ReviewsPossum What fractions of boomers do you think are "like you"?

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@etubruton @Authw8 @PstafarianPrice Ice cream is unhealthy?

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@pxielovee Yes

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

https://t.co/5RSKpO3x2m

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@GolerGkA @ESYudkowsky Re the 2nd paragraph:

holy s---

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@pawnofcthulhu According to my parents, my kindergarten teacher once asked us "what's the smallest number" expecting us to answer 0, I answered −∞ instead, and she got angry.

(of course mine wasn't a correct answer — −∞ is not a number, so the right answer would be "there isn't any" 😉)

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@BoyanSlat Typically when people say "the 1%" they mean in their own country, not worldwide. The OOP does say "world's" but it's not impossible that people would overlook that.

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@robertskmiles @ESYudkowsky Ditto, came here to say exactly that

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@PhysInHistory I don't know how to type a slashed O off the top of my head without googling

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@mynamebedan They believe they use potable water for evaporative cooling, and if they were right "consumption" would be a perfectly reasonable word to use, even if water molecules aren't literally broken apart or sent to outer space.

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@EimileRos still nowhere near as cringe as the people who say "Eire" (without a fada) in English (or any other language other than Irish) to specifically mean the Republic of Ireland as opposed to the whole island, but still

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@EimileRos OTOH we no longer call Iran Persia or Myanmar Burma, so exonyms *can* change with time. I still find Türkiye cringe, but *not* because it's also the endonym.

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@TychosElk12 @ESYudkowsky Some people do say stuff like that (at least about countries like Japan), though some of them probably mean it hyperbolically rather than literally.

[Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody) @armando1987dim]

@BadMedicalTakes Their left or our left?