valaramech

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I won't lie. I mostly don't engage with content I see here. I didn't do that when I was on Reddit either and mostly for the same reason: I don't really have much to say and, even when I do have an opinion, I don't usually want to engage in what's often a protracted debate about something that will probably just end up being frustrating.

That's not to say I haven't had positive experiences on the Fediverse - I've had more here than anywhere else - I'm just not particularly motivated most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Murdering people is part of their job. They're not about to be disciplined for doing what their higher-ups want.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because it's the logical conclusion of mainstream pro-life rhetoric. If one believes that all human life is sacred and must be protected, then it follows that they should want all humans to be safe and protected, not just the ones that are still gestating.

The reality is that, to many of us on the pro-choice side of the debate, pro-life seems to be more about punishing women than it does about protecting (future) children. At the very least, the way many of the pro-life policies are implemented cause direct and sometimes deadly harm to women.

In my mind, if abortion is murder, so is preventing life saving treatment for women. There are times when abortion is medically necessary to protect women's lives and we should allow them to make that choice for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you really want to make everyone mad, it's not "gif" or "jif" it's "jyfe"

[–] [email protected] 101 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Parade raining time: https://feddit.de/comment/3373323

  1. I believe flags are sorted alphabetically by how they are internally represented. All flags are a combination of two special letter-symbols. For the UK flag, these two symbols are “GB”, therefore the UK flag should be much earlier.
  2. 🇺🇸 (Flag of the USA [code: US]) ≠ 🇺🇲 (Flag of the US Outlying Islands [code: UM])

Yes, the first US flag, which most people pick, is actually the flag of the US Outlying Islands. Whenever you see someone use the US flag emoji, check whether they accidentally used the " wrong" one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure where that part of the post comes from. The source says "The judge said he will apppoint(sic) an independent receiver to manage the dissolution of the corporations whose business certificates he canceled." Which I can only take to mean that the judge is doing the appointing, not Trump.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me, it has a picture where it specifies a "polypropylene container".

There's also this bit from near the end of the abstract:

Additionally, the polyethylene-based food pouch released more particles than polypropylene-based plastic containers. Exposure modeling results suggested that the highest estimated daily intake was 20.3 ng/kg·day for infants drinking microwaved water and 22.1 ng/kg·day for toddlers consuming microwaved dairy products from polypropylene containers.

So, they're, at least, discussing polypropylene and polyethylene.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The patina on that crown leads me to believe it's actually copper or bronze. You might want to shoot for metallics that emulate those more than gold.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't find Atheism and Spiritualism to be, necessarily, incompatible with each other. One can believe in something beyond our material existence and also believe that there are no gods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What helps me is considering that I won't be around to contemplate that nothing. Sure, I dislike that my continuity of experience will eventually end, but, in the ending, there won't be a me to care anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Put simply, yes. Without explicit help to those that have less now, future generations simply lack the means to access those opportunities.

Take, for example, the situation ultimately presented in the article: if the person/people that are doling out the money have even a small amount of bias against a class of people, the result is that - outside of forcing investors to make what they see as bad investments - they will categorically invest less in that class of people. It doesn't actually matter what class it is.

These laws might prevent us from codifying our biases into contract or other law, but they do absolutely nothing to solve the problem the bias itself causes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the entry, the semi-major axis is 7,506.0 AU which is ~0.1185 ly, not 35 ly.

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