Wherever you are on earth, regardless of season, the only stars you don’t see at night are the ones blocked by that rock you’re standing on.

ISome of the stars rise or fall under the horizon as the planet spins, and which ones of those you see can and do vary based on the season. These are the ones that the earth (and the sun) block due to the orbit of our planet.

There will be stars due north or due south that you’ll see all year. This part of the sky isnt blocked by the earth or the sun at all. In fact, if you use a camera with the right hardware to see through the diffuse sunlight that makes the sky seem blue, you could see the same small disk of the sky at any time during the year, regardless of season or time of day.

Note that the above assumes you’re in one of the temperate bands between the tropics and the polar bands, where sunlight varies throughout the year but every day has a night.

On the poles you only get one night a year, and it’s always the same stars. And on the equator you need a clear horizon to see the polar stares, while the seasonal constellations will be more or less right overhead.

What sort of circumstance could possibly make buying cheaper compatible batteries unethical?

1. Did you make an express promise to only buy brand-name batteries? (I.e., are they paying you money to showcase their brand? Did you lease or rent tools with a contract that specified brand-name-only batteries? )
2. Are you spending someone else’s money who wants name brand batteries?
3. Are the third-party batteries illegal in your country?
4. Is there a known greater ecological harm in the manufacture of the third-party batteries?
5. Are you expecting to have your power tools be harmed by the third party batteries and returning them for warranty repair you caused?

For a typical consumer in America, and likely most professional contractors, the answer is “no” to all of these. And DeWalt apparently only offers a one year warranty that specifically excludes “normal wear and tear”.

https://www.dewalt.com/en-us/support/warranty

Anything up to and including prying open the proprietary casing and swapping in new cells is entirely ethical.

Trying to push the narrative to focus on 2010 games feels a bit like moving the goalposts,

Why? Isn’t the comparable expectation for consideration of what high-end phones ten years from now could do with a six-year old game to ask what today’s high-end phones can do with sixteen year old games?

Moore’s Law was always a marketing gimmick, but progression of information technology has been a rather steady cycle of “next year’s model will be even better” that it strikes me as a good starting point.

I’m very confident that when my cats meow they are always saying a variant of “hooomaaaan!”

They’re like little eternally drunk roommates who walk around naked and are way too touchy for a household with children.

Cyberpunk came out in 2020. Are there games from 2010 that you would be surprised to see running af full speed on a high-end smartphone?

It’d kinda work, but not so well with uranium itself.

(A bunch of other atomic age materials like plutonium are radioactivley deadlier.)

The real goal of terrorism is to make people afraid, so they either change behavior or exert political pressure on their government to change behaviour. It doesn’t often work, often backfires, and when it does on occssion work we tend to stop calling the guys who set the bombs as terrorists.

You are largely resistant to the black plauge, though, if you’re of European descent. It killed a bunch of people when it initially evolved, but never really went away. The humans who survied had modest resistance and adopted social habits that were both passed on to their kids. (Nowadays it’s a simple course of antibiotics)

Your larger point stands, though, since part of the end of any pandemic is the overly effective pathogen succumbing to the evolutionary pressure to not kill the host, since the bacteria that infects living animals does terrible when those animals die.

Unless the cost of buying an equivalent version of CoD is more than $82 you can just do that and still save money.

Echoing this:

Being dehydrated has real and generally unpleasant symptoms which drinking water alleviates. Dehyrdation is not just when your urine has a color.

If you have to go #1 on a regular basis, you’re probably not dehydrated.

I’m not confused, you’re just a transphobe.

Why? You’d have to ask the authors why they put up a transphobic site. My guess is that they’re either personally hateful bigots or just amoral cowards who take money from the same.

As for how…

[How] is it transphobic?

Go read the “about us” link on that advocacy page you keep pushing. Specifically the part about how “activists” are trying to confuse their “truth”.

The advocates they’re talking about are non-cis LGBTQIA+ folk whose dastardly agenda is “just let us be who we are.” I suspect that if you scratched down to their funding source you’d find some of the same people pushing bathroom bills and gender marker shenanigans on official documents.

[How] is it an oversimplification?

For the Nth time, it’s an oversimplification because categorizing all humans based on which reproductive cells they make ignores or misgroups humans who either don’t produce any or who look and smell like they might produce the other ones than those they might once have produced.

It doesn’t matter how many times you share the same transphobic oversimplification, it’s still a transphobic oversimplification.

So, are you a hateful troll because you’re transphobic, or are you transphobic because you’re a hateful troll?

There is no “utility” in demanding that intersex humans be categorized as either male or female. No actual medical researchers study “biology”, and actual science tells us that models where we treat human sex, gender, and sexuality as having only a coincidental correlation to reproductive cells are substantially more useful.

I mean, unless you’re a transphobic bigot scared that the kids you love might realize that they are trans and dump you the way all victims dump their abusers. I guess a transphobic model could have some utility in spreading transphobia. Not that it even passes the first requirement of parsimony, though, since you need to ignore all of those damn edge cases…

Oh, you’re transphobic yourself. Got it.

“Truth” is for religion, philosophy, and encouraging honesty in courtrooms. Neither science, medicine, nor langauge give two shits about truth, only utility.

(And systems of categorization between N states have substantially less utility than those that include N states plus “other”)

No, you’re repeating a transphobic oversimplification of biology. And resorting to a bad argument from authority when the easy gaps in your simplifications are called out.

I’d ignore you at this point, but I have a macbre curiosity as to if you are yourself a transphobe or if you’re instead just a useful fool for transphobic activism.

Dude, you are the one arguing the position that sex is merely gamete production.

My position is merely “it’s complicated and we need to leave space for edge cases.” (I am perfectly fine with male/female being separate yes/no questions or having the sex options be m/f/x)

Linking to a transphobic advocacy site just identifies you as either an embarassed transphobe or a sucker.

I already listed a bunch. Here are the relevant comments.

https://lemmy.world/comment/23168319

https://lemmy.world/comment/23272499

I’m sure you can find some other examples if you do apply a proper skeptical review of your idea and search out arguments that disagree with you or examples that break your categorization.

I suggest starting with the relevant Wikipedia articles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_differentiation_in_humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans

Stomping your feet and pretending the exceptions dont exist doesn’t make them not exist.

Nothing in nature is ever absolutely so.

If you reduce sex to ONLY gamete production you esssntjally declare castrated males, menopausal females, children, and anyone with complete infertiktiy to be sexless.

Which has the benefit of keeping categorical simplicity, but most people who argue against nuance in the sexing of humans are against either either the two sexes being “yes/no” questions or the human sexs being three categories of “male”, “female”, and “other”.

(And it still obscures the nuance and variation in human gender and sexuality. Nobody’s sexually attracted to gametes.)

My guess is that you really just aren’t paying attention. Possibly because right-wing oligarchs keep buying traditional news rooms and turning them into weak propaganda factories.

Without control of even a single chamber of Congress the Democrats American Left has managed to:

1. Expand their state court lead in Wisconsin
2. Stop a bevy of abuse and chicainery by going to court.
3. Pickup control of Virginia, and get right to making that state better
4. Dominate in special elections to such an extent that a “blue wave” seems entirely achievable
5. Pick an actual Socialist for NYC mayor instead of a cop or sex pest, who is doing a great job by any metric
6. In Congress shut down the entire government and get the most out of any such shutdown in our nation’s history
7. Shutdown DHS to the point that the right caved to their demand to segregate ICE and non-ICE parts of the agency

Democrats and the rest of the left are fighting. But because the basic rules of American federalism and rule of law are still mostly being followed, that fighting is done by traditional peaceful channels rather than through violence.