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Schadrach

@ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • Double standards

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  • why are some animals allowed to have rights, while others allowed to be butchered and eaten?

    The line is generally a combination of social, practical, and culinary. That is, if it's not a companion animal, it's not endangered, it is customarily raised as livestock and it is tasty those are all evidence it probably goes in the latter category. So chicken = food, whooping crane = not food because endangered, german shepherd = not food because companion, blue ringed octopus = not food because taste bad.

  • the wok agenda

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  • There are lots of ways to be a piece of shit, let's be clear - for publicly chronically masturdebating to college girls to promote a Christian Nationalist agenda.

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    Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.

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  • Show me a good campaign that accepts AIPAC money.

    Pick pretty much any winning campaign on either side in something like the last half century. In context a "good campaign" doesn't mean a campaign holding up to whatever your particular markers of moral purity are (which includes but certainly are not limited to "does not support Israel"), but rather a campaign that is effective at getting elected.

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    Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time.

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  • and voting IDs

    Just another reminder: Read the SAVE Act and start getting together valid ID under it now, don't wait to find out if it's going to pass first. Valid ID has other uses too so it's not a total waste if it doesn't pass and gets you ahead of both the line and any GOP fuckery with trying to get ID if it does pass.

    Especially if you are someone who has ever changed their name, as SAVE allows for some forms of voter ID that don't verify citizenship, but those have to be paired with a birth record with a matching name, which doesn't exist if you have ever changed your name (such as being a married woman, or many trans folks).

  • apparently women specifically, which is kinda strange?

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  • Trans men are men.

    Yeah, but nobody gives too much of a shit about trans men. That's how they know they pass.

    But being serious, the dialog about this stuff is more or less entirely focused on trans women in spaces that are considered private or safe spaces for women. It's almost all about cis women having to open women's spaces to trans women, not really much about anything else. Even the most rabid TERFs usually frame things in those terms.

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • Same thing with planets. Rather appropriately the now-classified-as-a-dwarf-planet named Eris (after the goddess of strife and discord) being discovered was what set the wheels in motion that led to Pluto losing it's status as a planet.

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • Here, they only count five.

    Which other two get combined or does one get wholly discarded? Like the seven I'm used to are N. America, S.America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania and Antarctica. Is Eurasia a single continent to them, does Antarctica or Australia not count, or something else?

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • I vaguely heard about a bad… something else. Pictured it way different.

    Yeah, a bad dragon is indeed something else. I imagine there's a lot of overlap in the opponents of both though. =p

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • I didn’t know Bad Bunny was a US citizen because I didn’t know he existed till last week.

    At least I'm not alone. I just figured it was me being an old fart and not up with what the kids are into.

  • Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl.

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  • ~30% of voters will vote (R) regardless of who. A smaller share will vote (D) regardless of who. The rest have to be convinced to vote for you instead of the other guy, and the largest group by far have to be convinced to get off their asses and vote at all.

    Trump won a second term not because he had a massive upswing in popularity, but because Harris did the opposite of convincing people to actually vote and to do so for her. Apathy favors GOP, high turnout favors Dems.

  • "Erased"

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  • Objective truth is an oxymoron, to have objectivity you have to remove the subject. Thus eliminating the dichotomy entirely and making the argument collapse. To have true-false value arguments and statements, you need subjectivity and a frame of reference. This is a logical constraint, without anyone to observe and judge the truth, there’s no objective reality to be judged. Minerals and crystals, despite our best efforts, do not elaborate moral judgements, and they definitely don’t conduct science.

    So when the tree falls in the forest and no one is around not only does it not make a sound, but the forest and the tree don't exist at all in the absence of a subjective observer?

    Reality exists and continues to exist regardless of analysis or even consideration by any human. Science is a methodology invented by humans for trying to understand said reality. The earliest examples of scientific thinking are ancient and the social and moral frameworks they operated within are not at all similar to or very compatible at all with that of western Europe and North America in the early 21st century, yet underlying reality continues unabated. And yet we can continue to build off of their discoveries, despite them operating under moral and political frameworks that are abhorrent by modern standards.

    You are confusing the map with the territory - the territory cares not that the mapmaker decided parts of it were immoral to include on the map the territory is what is, regardless of anyone's perspective on it. Reality does not conform to the Overton window, only what we can say without running afoul of social, political or moral issues does.

  • Beyond fucked up (CW: sexualizing children)

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  • Beyond fucked up (CW: sexualizing children)

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  • This feels like some medieval shit from over a millenium ago

    I don't think you realize how new a lot of the current situation is. When that article was written, it was still legal for children to perform in commercial pornographic films in parts of the West. A year before this article was written feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir signed a petition against the age of consent (there were a bunch of these in France in the late 70s and most of the French philosophers of the time signed at least one).

    It only took a couple of decades for sexualizing children to go from a bit creepy but it happens to the way we see it now.

  • "Erased"

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  • The notion that we suck at choosing the good genes is entirely misled, even if it is just sarcasm.

    If we didn't, we'd be talking about eugenics as that nasty unethical thing we tried once upon a time that eliminated say Huntington's disease from a population, but we decided wasn't worth it because of the ethical issues in actually doing it, rather than as just "racism in a lab coat". The fact that eugenics in practice was about race at all is an example of us being bad at choosing "good genes."

    The final question is also morally misled because science and the notion of truth is not amoral. Science, without humans, doesn’t exist. And humans are moral beings (constrained by social and moral considerations).

    Reality exists, and continues to regardless of whatever moral framework you subscribe to. Moral frameworks are specific to time and culture, what is acceptable politically even moreso. There are and will always be things that are real and are true and perhaps even useful to know or launching points for further understanding that are outside the range of current acceptable social, moral or political considerations, but that doesn't make them less real.

    Truth is not limited to the Overton window.

  • "Erased"

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  • To provide a counter-example, hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate are combined into a single dose as a treatment specifically for black folks with heart failure (initially sold under the brand name BiDil), because the combined drug treatment in general works measurably better on black folks than white folks, to the point that the combo drug was rejected by the FDA based on initial trials (that had a majority white patient base), but was later approved specifically for for black patients because that specific pair of drugs worked enough better in that population to be approved after further trials. It's fallen somewhat out of use as a treatment, not because it was ineffective or "racist" to approve a race-specific treatment, but because better options have been developed in the last 20 years - the drug combo remains approved specifically for heart failure in black folks, however. It's just no longer the first choice.

    common social categories of race (scientists use ethnicity, because of eugenics),

    Literally, they use ethnicity because of negative political associations with race as a term, and also because from a practical standpoint ethnicity is like race, but with more narrow groupings in modern parlance (as noted in the past "race" referred to much narrower groupings, closer to how ethnicity is used now).

    Also, eugenics would totally work if we weren't terrible at deciding what "good genes" are and instead inevitably make it about something dumb like skin color and there weren't the massive ethical issues in actually doing it.

    Here's a fun question: If you had to choose a hypothesis that would be functionally impossible to properly test because of ethical or political issues but that you strongly suspect is true, what would it be?

  • "Erased"

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  • Also, dog breeds exist because humans have actively bred dogs to have certain traits

    Selection pressure is selection pressure, whether being done by environment or by the active efforts of another species. There's a reason why whether or not you are lactose tolerant has a lot to do with where in the world your ancestors are from, as does your likelihood of several diseases and likelihood of certain resistances/immunities, there are even certain drugs that will work better or worse for people dependent largely on where their ancestors came from. Short of doing thorough genetic testing, "race"/ethnicity is often a good-enough broad brush proxy for where a majority of your ancestors came from for a variety of purposes.

  • Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

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  • They couldn't do that from one photo though, they'd need several examples all believed to be the same guy. A swirl like that preserves some of the information and you can reverse it, but the lost data is lost. Do that for several photos and you can get enough preserved bits to piece something together.

    Same idea for some other kinds of blurs or mosaics. Black boxes, not so much - you e got no data to work with, so anything you tried to reconstruct would be more or less entirely fantasy.

  • Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch trees

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  • So are you eliminating/drastically reducing health and safety trials for new drugs, tripling taxes to throw vast amounts of public money at the problem and instead having the solve the hard problems of government waste and political corruption, or having a glorious workers revolution that this time unlike all the other tines actually creates a communist utopia and not something that doesn't count, or is this a hypothetical post-scarcity scenario or what?

  • Dev says "false DMCA" from Microsoft got their sandbox game removed from Steam over apparent Minecraft copyright, all because of a screenshot of birch trees

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  • Burn them to the ground to expose the hyper-green grass blocks below! (/s… maybe)

    One of the reasons I like mushroom biomes, but also import grass into wherever I'm building in one. The grass is in fact greener where also hostile mobs don't spawn.