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jsomae

@ jsomae @lemmy.ml

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polite leftists make more leftists

☞ 🇨🇦 (it's a bit of a fixer-upper eh) ☜

more leftists make revolution

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  • I imagine that such people also include almost any-non-Christian religion among those that mustn't be criticized (e.g. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.), so I wouldn't really say Judaism is specifically being treated like a special taboo religion.

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  • You're the one who kicked this off with the term "special religion."

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  • yeah those are all permitted. It's very inconsistent.

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  • Ah, I see. Still, I'd remove it from the list; it doesn't really strike me as the same kind of thing at all. Kinda ridiculous to put it on the same level as like, actual slurs.

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  • are you this skeptical every time a new treatment for something comes out?

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  • not sure how to test this without just publicly posting a big list of slurs lol. Anyway, it's just odd to me since I don't consider bitсһ a slur. It's on the exact same level of rudeness as bastard.

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  • you forgot to italicize.

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  • I would say judaism should be seen as at least as special islam and christianity since it's an abrahamic religion and rarer than both. So if you're okay to say that neither of those are special, only then is it consistent to say that judaism is not special.

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  • Yes, I agree it should definitely be accessible to everyone. Just like any other kind of healthcare is already in my country. As for the cost, one could redirect funds from healthcare toward it. It should save money on healthcare in the long-run. At least, once the price is in the low-thousands of dollars, it should definitely balance out. It's still on the order of usd$10k though at present.

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  • Never really thought of it as a slur. Like a general-purpose slur against women? I don't really agree, it's in common parlance, at least in my area. I've never found it offensive, personally. Generally when people I know use it, it's meant in a positive, I guess you could say "reclaimed" fashion. Plus, there are much worse slurs that are not censored.

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  • I'm canadian. I have heard that san fran is Canada's 4th biggest city by population or something like that, but no, I don't live there.

    Something I wonder is why people treat gattaca like it's exactly and completely prescient, but at the same time have no worry at all about AI x-risks because "terminator was science fiction, so there's nothing to worry about."

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  • I meant on my instance in general, not in the image. On lemmy.ml for some reason, if you type "bitсһ" then it gets automatically-replaced with the text "removed."

  • GOP senator who said trans people put girls at "risk" just helped a relative who raped a 13-year-old - LGBTQ Nation

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  • This headline has an important omission. It makes it seem like this particular GOP senator said that trans people are a moral or predatory risk to girls. But in fact, he was talking about physical contact risk as a way to deny trans people their right to play sports. It would be deliciously ironic if it had been the former.

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  • Gattaca is one of my favourite movies. Is there another thing you're talking about?

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  • Can we please either un-censor the word "bitсһ" or else add other similar minorly-offensive swear words like fuck, shit, bastard, etc. to the censor list? I don't mind so much the censorship, it's just the inconsistency that bothers me.

    FWIW, one word I do agree should be censored is "removed."

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • The news can't easily report on users actually returning to piracy; who would admit to it? And how would you get data on it? Much easier to truthfully report on users who talk about returning to piracy.

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  • I'm not generally one to advocate for free-market capitalism, but in this case, I think you would need to explain to me why genetic engineering would be withheld from people given that free access would be more profitable.

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  • I don't really see why billionaires change the calculus. So what if they get slightly genetically superior children? They already have everything. As much as I want to tear down billionaires, I'm more interested in seeing the lower class be elevated than I am in not letting billionaires get further ahead.

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  • Imagine somebody saying this about any other form of healthcare:

    "Yeah, you get the older, less advanced cancer-fighting drugs, while the rich maintain their lock on chemotherapy. The new marker will be a combination of lifespan and generation of hospital bed. This is also considering that it will be a broad application of the tech that is available to the lower classes, not just things that only help cure diseases in soldiers and laborers."

    Yeah! Legitimate points! I could see some forward-thinking philosopher objecting to the notion of health-care with ideas like this 100 years ago. And yet, I'm so glad we live in a world with healthcare so I am much more likely to live a long and healthy life, and I still have a chance at finding the right treatment for chronic pain. 100 years from now, we'll all be grateful that we have genetically-boosted lifespans and intelligence and we don't suffer from genetic diseases just because somebody objected, "but what if this helped the rich more than the poor?"