I’m not necessarily against this. Right now, social media companies can knowingly target children with sophisticated conditioning techniques that can and will steer their cognitive development. Although they know for a fact that they are manipulating children, they hide behind plausible deniability.

I don’t like age verification, but I don’t see an alternative. Between the robots and the advanced manipulation techniques, something has to give.

Yeah, I don’t get it. If the two examples linked above are his most offensive content, then this is a pretty low bar to ban someone. If the target of the criticism was priests or bankers, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Giving a demographic special treatment can turn indifference into resentment; it is not a path towards acceptance or equality.

This is why this sort of useless regulation is genius. No one is going to sign a petition to protect step-porn. Since it would permanently exist in a public archive, our great, great, great grandchildren would think we were freaks. “We don’t know much about great uncle Johnathan, but he liked watching step-siblings fuck.”

Lead is much easier to purify than lithium.

…in order for this discussion to make sense, one needs to define what is and what isn’t transphobic. This issue gets real subjective, real quick. What we objectively know about this state and it’s associated comorbidities sometimes directly contradicts what is considered socially acceptable. Is an opinion or belief that offends a transgender person by definition transphobic?

The rotten egg analogy makes more sense. Each egg is completely sealed off from the others in the group. Since the shell is only permeable to gasses, one spoiled egg will not spoil the bunch.

I don’t know about Amazon. On the one hand they are continuing the American tradition of destroying small businesses. On the other hand I have a lot more stuff than previous generations.

If Lemmy is indicative of the left political spectrum, we can conclude that projection is common among humans in general.

I think it has to do with the fact that most of them were born in area surrounded by hostile adversaries who would wipe that out of existence given the first opportunity.

Even if they spent the next fifty years being as nice as possible to the people around them, they would be conquered and assimilated if the US ever pulled their funding. They have two options: war or Exodus.

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I find it reassuring that the government is at least acting like they can’t identify this user without Reddit’s consent. I wonder why this charade is necessary; are they trying to set a legal precedent?

Aside from the hole in my tooth, I’m fine. I’m speaking as someone who is currently making the transition from a negligent dentist. Since losing a tooth is a cosmetic issue, failing to identify a problem that can be clearly seen on an x-ray for over a year doesn’t meet the standard of harm necessary for consequences. The selective failure of recent filling might have happened regardless.

…at this point, I’d have been less upset if this dude groped me. I’d let Satan work on me if he was a competent dentist.

I didn’t use this post. It was a week ago I clicked on the link on the top screen that said “donate to Lemmy.”. I don’t know exactly who the picture was, but I could recognize it as a left-wing revolutionary. It was that Spanish dude with a beard…Chavez I think. The picture was on Patreon and I think Librapay.

I’m not necessarily against him or left wing revolutionaries, but it felt like something the mods on News would use. After I thought about, I realized that whoever set up this instance probably controls the popular left wing communities. I would if I set up a website.

I don’t know the history of the person in the picture, but it’s commonly used by extremists. If I see that profile picture on Reddit, it means I’m about to read a comment from someone who thinks Bernie Sanders is a far-right capitalist.

The addictiveness of a drug is actually a quantifiable metric. In the early 20th century, scientists exposed hundreds of drug naive individuals to different psychoactive compounds. Although there are individual differences, something like half of the people exposed to intravenous heroin and methamphetamine would actively seek out the next hit.

I was going to donate $5 per month, but I had second thoughts after seeing the profile picture on the donation site. I probably will still donate eventually, but I am not comfortable supporting an openly biased platform.

…I’m new. I’ll probably donate. I just need to make sure censoring people for different opinions isnt as common as it originally seemed. The fact that I was already banned from one of the most popular communities isn’t a good sign.

If those mods are the people that would receive the donations, then I don’t think they would use it for anything good…just a better funded echo chamber.

It seems that there are multiple accounts set up to downvote anti-Chinese comments, so equilibrium is maintained.

Personally, I’d let my dentist grope me if he had a high enough success rate. I did some research a while ago, and a dentist whose work consistently fails will probably never lose his license. The patient won’t be able to successfully sue them and there probably won’t be an investigation. It’s a “buyer beware” scenario.

I hate to tell you this, but cyanide is more nutritious than asbestos. The body could probably derive some energy from it’s C-H bond, whereas asbestos is completely devoid of useful connections.

Thanks for this. I just realized I was recently the victim of fraud. I need to be on the lookout for a class action lawsuit.

I’m a chemist. A quantum dot is a specific structure in which a specifically sized particle gives off a specific color. One element can be used to display multiple colors since the color is a result of the size of the particle. What they’re doing is equivalent to selling lamb meat that is made out of pork. Fraud.

As long as their physical anatomy was identical to my gender of choice, yes.