Just the light contrast. Stars are not as bright as the light from the sun reflecting off the Earth and the Moon. If they adjusted the exposure enough to see the stars, the Earth and Moon would look blindingly bright in comparison.

It truly needs to be very dark for stars to be easily visible, to the extent that the mere lights from a nearby city shining through the atmosphere are enough to render them invisible on a clear night.

It’s just water water, really. Water is already an acid.

I’m confused. Is this supposed to be your idea of a witty comeback because you took criticism of a billionaire personally, and now just want to belittle others to feel better about yourself?

It’s not about whether or not he has other philanthropic activities.

It’s about the fact that he thinks it’s okay to spend a billion dollars on just boats.

He also has the financial means to solve a lot of serious problems in the world that could save many lives.

But, you know, why spend that money on humanitarian causes when you can just buy a 6th environment-killing superyacht, because the first 5 weren’t enough?

There is no such thing as a good billionaire. Gabe Newell is no exception, even if he’s less overtly evil than others.

Google has a search monopoly, that is not in question.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-significant-remedies-against-google

The only thing is, had the case been decided under any other DoJ, Google would not have gotten off as lightly as they did. But even Pam-fucking-Dow-over-50,000-Bondi agreed that Google was a monopoly.

Steam has convinced the gaming industry that you can own nothing and be happy with it, just by virtue of being less shitty than everyone else.

Lemmy hates billionaires but never hesitates to kneel at the altar of Gaben.

Just to expand the explanation, blue and green were both just “ao” in Japanese until relatively recently (relatively still being a fairly long time), when “midori” started becoming more popular to refer to green.

As for why the traffic light is still called “blue” despite being green, one need only ask why there is a very popular rhyme scheme in English that goes “roses are red, violets are blue…” when violets are violet.

That’s what you get for going to a church run by someone with three legs and a clubbed hand.

Gotta break it down into stages for the clown meme. It’s supposed to get progressively more clown-like with each stage.

1. Buying clothes that I like.

2. Buying clothes that I think I look good in.

3. Buying clothes that others think I look good in.

4. Buying clothes that others think I look good out of.

Maybe you remove “Very Hot” entirely, being the median, and then take 50% away from either side left and right. Hot is downgraded to Mild and then we get half a Nut.

Mild, Mild, Half Nut, Vegetable.

Aww what a cutie

I’d argue there’s nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.

Have you had too many hornyposts not tagged NSFW cause furious masturbation incidents on public transit?

On the other hand, the nurse has potential for returning clientele. The husband does not. She can keep getting paid the longer her customers need her services over their lifespan, so it’s more a question of short term profits over long term sustainability.

Oh who am I kidding? This is capitalism we’re talking about, they’ll always choose short term profits.

Curious to know your opinion on whether or not purple is a color.

So many people think that it’s some big gotcha that “black and white aren’t colors” but that’s not how language works. Color often refers to black or white. Try sticking to this gotcha at the paint store and see how much it’s appreciated.

This. Color is subjective perception anyways. They are labels we give to things to describe what our eyes see in normal lit conditions. There are no absolutes about it unless you are measuring pigment makeup or light wavelength, which are not colors in and of themselves, but factors that cause color. Color is in the mind.

Someone with tritanopia seeing a green leaf as blue doesn’t make the leaf not green to others, nor does the fact that it is green by consensus make it green to them. And this is all outside of the linguistic aspect of it, e.g. how long it even took a lot of languages to start differentiating blue and green as separate colors, which itself affects perception.

Got me there.