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  • They didn't sprout up out of the ground though. We're all from Africa originally, and the Americas were first populated by migrants from Asia.

  • If, when the ad read starts, you double-tap to fast forward, a little skip button will pop up which allows you to skip the sponsored section.

    With a browser addon you can skip automatically without Premium. It doesn't work with very fresh videos though, because they need time for the timestamps to get added into the database.

  • There is a TON of educational content on YouTube. You can spend all day watching nothing but documentaries and classroom-style lectures/tutorials if you want. I would prefer to not use a Google service, but the actual content-creators include some wonderful people.

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  • So, literally all humans? You want to empty the continent?

  • There are those that somehow have that urge but don't ever act on it, and I think they do at least deserve less punishment than what the actual rapists and stuff do.

    They don't deserve any punishment at all. I can only imagine how horrifying it must be to live with that kind of illness, and the fact that they have enough humanity to control themselves is commendable. I want a future where non-offending pedophiles are treated with compassion by society so that they feel empowered to reach out to community and professional help.

    The real monsters are the people who abuse children when they don't even have pedophilia in the first place. The ones who just want to inflict suffering.

    As for the death penalty, what about innocent people who are convicted? What about the kid who keeps his mouth shut because he doesn't want the police to kill Daddy? What about the pedo kidnapper who always murders their victims because it's easier to not get caught that way?

  • I'm not sure why you've been downvoted because you absolutely could domesticate them given sufficient time and consistent selective breeding. You could turn them into crabs if you wanted to. The trouble is that they don't have a very social disposition, so no one is motivated to dedicating their entire bloodline to the project. Most domestication happened kind of on accident as we developed symbiotic or exploitative relationships with various species.

  • Remembering that person who bought a "soy chorizo" on accident because they read the label as a sentence.

    "I'm a sausage."

  • You did not use the word incorrectly.

  • Terrible idea. Learn about prions.

    I don't base my moral judgements on whether something is recommendable. Skydiving, a sedentary lifestyle, and smoking are all things that I won't do for health and safety reasons, but I don't think they're unethical, and I don't judge people who engage in them.

    I live in a society where killing someone is extremely rarely understandable or justifiable, and that is the prevailing attitude worldwide.

    That isn't the case worldwide at all. Many countries have a death penalty for various crimes, and I get the impression that most people are okay with killing in self-defense or in a context of war or law-enforcement. I can understand thinking killing is never excusable if one is a true pacifist, but I am not.

    We can live very healthy as frugivores, nothing at all needs to die.

    We cannot. Please provide a credible medical source which claims fruitarianism is a healthful way for a human to live their whole life. Even the animals we categorize frugivores eat insects.

    Speaking specifically about the Maori, I'd have to actually know what I'm talking about in some detail to pass moral judgements about them. I will assume the reason enemy combatants exist in the first place is struggles over limited resources. I think that kind of war should be avoided, but if killing someone else is necessary for your own survival then I'm not going to judge you for it. It has nothing to do with society's attitudes about killing at the time, and everything to do with the practicality of the situation.

    So you have an enemy who is either dead or who you intend to kill. Why does it matter whether you eat him? If they ate him alive or something that falls under torture, and I will judge them and anyone else for it regardless of context.

    Meanwhile, there are authors from not actually that long ago who've written a bunch of misogynist and racist garbage, but I'm told I can't judge them because "it was a different time." I've been told I'd probably support slavery if I'd lived in the US prior to emancipation. Being an asshole is wrong regardless of what year it is or what everyone else thinks. If there are 10 nazis at the table, I don't have to be the 11th because it's what all the cool kids are doing. That this guy was able to interact with POCs and see human beings makes it all the more damning that other people didn't. People should choose to be better when given the opportunity.

  • I don't agree with the premise that all cannibals are murderous psychopaths. Humans are incapable of living without harming other organisms, so context matters when it comes to evaluating specific forms of harm. I struggle to think of a situation which would justify rape or slavery as necessary to continue one's life or wellbeing.

    Edit: I should clarify that I don't have a problem with people eating each other at all. It's the killing of someone else that I take issue with, and killing other people is often understandable or justifiable, depending on circumstances. What you do with your murder victim matters little to me next to the murder.

  • This kind of thing is why "It was a different time," is such an absolutely worthless defense of harmful behavior.

  • Wheat grain is strictly a vegetable, being an edible plant part. But people usually use the word to refer to a socially-constructed category which is completely feels-based. Membership tends to be determined by flavor profile, nutrition content, and whether the given part falls into another popular sub-category (such as fruit or nuts). This is why fruits like the tomato and pumpkin are usually sorted as vegetables separately from fruits with generally sweeter flavors like the banana or orange.

    Vegetables like grains, legumes, and certain tubers will often be grouped together as "carbs" due to their high carbohydrate content which distinguishes them from low-calorie, high-fiber vegetables like spinach or broccoli.

  • There are people young enough to be my children who I naturally think of as grown-ups, unlike myself. It has to do with multiple factors like wearing business attire, driving a car, not playing with toys or watching cartoons, etc. The kind of classic adult feel. I can't even really cosplay being an adult like that.

  • Can you explain why it's not a good idea?

  • Who is it being mean towards or bullying? Who is it angry at?

  • In retail it means "do not inventory" as in "don't count this as part of the store's inventory".

  • Even though we usually talk about it in a derogatory way, virtue signaling is not inherently bad. A shirt that says "trans rights are human rights" is virtue signaling, but the performance is in itself beneficial to society, even if the wearer is only doing it to feel trendy and special.

    What they accomplished with this is hostility to bigots who might otherwise have felt welcome.

  • I think it enforces itself by being off-putting to bigots. How many of them are playing it "incorrectly" to own the libs rather than just playing something they perceive as less hostile?