• usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    As an American who just emigrated, I guess I jumped. I can still vote from overseas, but I’m pessimistic about the future.

  • introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Isn’t it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?

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      No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
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    Water? Preposterous!

    A giant pot of delicious soon-to-be stew, however… mighty tempting, doc! You’ll have to treat me right though, you wouldn’t want to get food poisoning from stringy meat would ya?

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    This would imply that they’re not surrounded by other pots filled with water which is (varying degrees of) boiling. We don’t really have a Socialist Utopia meeting spot, let’s say.

    Beyond that, eloping requires a not insignificant amount of money (as a Romanian, I can say that homes/apartments aren’t cheap here, either, and we’re not exactly L.A.)

    And at the other end of the line, immigration’s not exactly thought of with fondness, even in Europe. Don’t forget, we’re stewing in our own pot even if the heat’s still relatively tolerable.