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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

  • She's depicted here with dark hair, she's just wearing a yellow headdress.

  • There's a great story in i think the pseudepigrapha, where child jesus is playing with his friends and gets upset and turns one of his friends into a pillar of salt and mary comes and yells at him to turn the kid back.

  • This this this. It's basically impossible to get that rich without having endangered others.

  • rule

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  • That's so weird! What's terfy about green and lavender? And why have a three-part design when their whole deal is binary?

    If i was designing a terf flag it would be blue and pink with a thin black line in between.

    Don't get me wrong, i hate transphobia and oppose the insecure morons who can't cope with the diverse reality that is the human experience of gender. But i also hate bad flag design.

  • And fully co-operating with ice means breaking countless laws.

    So, logically, all NOPD are criminals!

  • North and south are fundementally different, climate and biosphere -wise, so i don't think it would ever make sense to people to modify the same word to describe two very different things. East and west maybe less so, but dawn and dusk are pretty important differences.

    Some polynesian cultures use two main direction words, which usually translate as something like mountain-ward and beach-ward.

  • You gotta say "nor-nor-east" instead, that's a blast.

  • given the fossil and archeological evidence for the spread of H. sapiens into the Levant and Arabia during [the era 130,000 to 80,000 years ago] and absence of Homo neanderthalensis from the Levant at that time, we argue that H. sapiens was responsible for the tracks at Alathar.

    Scientists: Since we already know H. Sapiens was here then, we think they did it.

    Headline: Human footprints shouldn't be here then!

  • Those articles contradict your claims, because you're wrong.

    They very clearly state that men report intimate partner violence at lower rates than women do, which explains why M/M IPV numbers are low and F/F higher.

    Thank you for proving youself wrong! I trust you'll update your opinions and beliefs accordingly.

  • La Troix

  • There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.

  • This was just a top notch meme. Informative and a very clever arrested developement reference.

  • So we all know that sleep is super important and that smart phones can impact sleep, but i wonder how much of the reported impact is because ofnsmart phones directly.

    I would expect that time and resource poor families are more likely to allow kids to have smart phones earlier to keep them occupied, and that being from a poorer family correlates with worse mental health and greater chance of obesity.

  • The rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

  • I guess i don't really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge's potato? ("I just think they're neat")

  • I was careful to say perminant heirarchies for that reason. Bao Jingyan said that power originates in the contrast between the weak and the strong, and the cunning and the naive. I'm inclined to agree.

    But we can have social institutions that break up and flush out these natural channels of inequality, rather than institutions that metastize them into heirarchies.

    Aristotle discussed a then-current idea to redistribute all personal wealth above 5x the poorest citizen. We could tax all inheritance above say 500k at 100%. Eliminate all personal debt every 7 years.

    There's a lot we can do to make heirarchies more temporary.

  • Blades in the Dark, it's called.

    The setting is quite different from Dishonoured, though you can see the influence clearly and it's mentioned by name as a media touchstone.

  • There are lots of ways to organize people that aren't heirarchical, or that dilute or limit power rather than concentrating it.

    Directly voting for laws, appointing officials by sortition - like being picked for jury duty, pushing decisions down to neighbourhood councils, consensus decision making, a culture that always permits insulting the successful and plenty else has been suggested.

    It all comes with drawbacks of it's own, of course. And having grown up in a heirarchical society, it can be very hard to imagine anything else, until you read about all the times and places where people have organized themselves differently.

  • There's a lot of neuroscience showing that social power suppresses empathy in the brain. Status, privilege, wealth, etc. make almost everyone less able to consider the pain of others.

    Most of us can be reasonable with people we know. But the socially powerful are making most of the important higher-scale decisions, and they are neurologically the least capable of making good decisions on behalf of others.

    Or that's how i see the problem.