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thedarkfly

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PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.

Docteur ingénieur en aérospatiale de Wallonie.

Docteur indjenieur e-n areyospåciå del Walonreye.

  • Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction

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  • You're right that the comic wasn't targetting specific modifications, just 'GMO' as if it was bad in itself.

  • Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction

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  • Well... depends on the GMO. Copyrighted Monsanto "terminator" seeds that sprout sterile crop is a big no-no in my book.

  • Granny wisdom

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  • In a lot of cultures, a "fat" child is desirable, but actually unhealthy. A fat baby is simply healthy, regardless of the culture!

  • We're doing this, man! We're making this happen!

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  • We hugged it to death 🥲

  • Germany: Social Democrats urge ban on far-right AfD party

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  • Outlaw tax credit to political parties. Outlaw hatespeech and enforce it. Outlaw media monopolies and promote healthy journalists that will challenge the ideas expressed on their station.

  • Car Brain is a disease

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  • I mean, was this the situation before cars? I fail to imagine a person living miles from the next human being without a car.

    Cars made rural communities dependant on them. It's not a fatality.

  • Anaphylaxis

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  • Maybe... don't take the risk? If you wanna know how allergic you are, there are tests for that.

    Don't play with fire, friend. Fake crab isn't worth dying for.

  • Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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  • Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit

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  • Dang, in which country are you talking about Liège in elementary school?

  • Ha!

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  • Totally agree. But I'm a bit pessimistic that modern fascism and extreme wealth concentration stops at one man. In my view, it's more of a systemic issue. If he dies, the system that put him in place still thrives.

  • Ha!

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  • I agree. "One of the most important day in modern history" though? That's a bit exceptionalistic IMO.

  • Ha!

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  • Gets confusing

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  • Now we have elastics and stretchy fabric. I guess it was more difficult to have a firm and comfortable hold with loose fabric.

  • Downvoting posts that commit logical fallacies.

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  • Sure! Here's a nice article by Mireille Elchacar, lexicologist and professor at TELUQ university.

    The relevant portion:

    Le 8 mai 1673, l’Académie française tranche en faveur de l’orthographe savante « qui distingue les gens de Lettres d’avec les Ignorants et les simples femmes ».

    My translation:

    The 8 of May, 1673, the French Academy decides in favor of a scholarly orthography "which distinguishes literary people from the ignorants and simple women".

    Yikes! That's the basis of the "etymologic" or rather pseudo-etymologic orthography of French. The French Academy is still the authority for the French language, a remnant of the Ancient Régime. To my knowledge, they haven't retracted this statement since and to my judgement they still adhere to it by their actions and decisions today.

  • Downvoting posts that commit logical fallacies.

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  • My views on spelling changed dramatically over time. I am able to spell very well (in French) so I used it for moral superiority.

    Then I learned and realized that the French opaque, obtuse spelling system has been openly and admittedly designed for social elitism and discrimination. It's less about intellect and more about education, i.e., privileges and social class. Mastery of a dumb, nonsensical spelling system is no intellectual feat, it's a circus act.

    English orthography is also dumb and nonsensical, but I guess this is due to the hybrid nature of the language and the lack of an Academy. But it's also used by elitists for moral superiority, which I find hilarious.

  • Every Time I Post

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  • Ooh, whoosh on me. Thanks!

  • Every Time I Post

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  • I do it all the time :'( But if it's an important subject or if someone asks for a serious answer, I'm always frank

    E: also, isn't Machiavellianism "the ends justify the means"; aren't you thinking of narcissism?

  • We are but staff

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  • The argument I have seen is that other animals share some needs with humans, but not all. All animals don't have the same social behavior, and so they don't have the same social needs. We know that humans have a perception of reality different from any other animal, like projecting oneself far into the future etc. I think it's not far-fetch that all beings don't share the same physical, psychological, and social needs.

    I'd like to emphasize that humans wouldn't have more needs than other animals, just different ones.

    So the question is: if the animals' needs are met, could they be happier if we gave them opportunities that satisfy human needs? Or is that projecting a human perception onto another being that's just different?

    But the same argument was probably made by white people towards slaves: "they don't have the same needs than us". We know that slaves did have the same needs. Maybe something similar could happen with our perception of animals' needs?

  • Happy Mother's Day!

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  • Maybe a gay couple that adopted? One is celebrated on Mothers' day and the other one on Fathers' day.