michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 hours ago:
The logic behind not using them is either they can’t or they can’t. They didn’t kill a million russians and junk a fair chunk of their existing hardware for nothing. The reasonable perception is that they couldn’t take Ukraine and fight NATO at all whereas without NATO assistance historical or current Ukraine would have actually fallen in 3 days. Their ability to take Ukraine is therefore 100% a function of how well they can keep NATO out of it and nuking Ukraine blows that objective.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 day ago:
The stats say that very few kids are hurt by unknown predators but many in fact are hurt on bikes. The stats also say that predators don’t hunt by waiting slavering over facebook waiting for your to post your kids face and tracking them down in real life.
They mostly hunt by ingratiating themselves with the parents. The minority do so by grooming your kid online by direct communication. A VERY VERY tiny amount do so by waiting for your kid to be vulnerable in real space and snatching them. I have literally never in life even heard of someone who got their kids hurt by posting their faces on facebook but there are countless who got groomed by family, priests, teachers,friends who people trusted.
Turn on your brain.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 2 days ago:
Kids bicycling is perfectly safe around where i live.
No not it isn’t its in fact far more dangerous than your drive to work by the numbers.
Posting kids’ photos on the internet is never safe unless you take serious precautions (like covering the whole face).
There is no reason to believe someone’s face being posted on the internet is a substantial risk because although kids do get hurt or killed the overwhelming factors are trust by kids and family members and in a tiny minority of cases either opportunity created by the kids being unsupervised and perceptibly vulnerable or tricked into communicating with a bad person.
There is no reason to believe any significant number of cases had its genesis in a situation whereby the perp saw the kids face posted on facebook and said that kid that kid is the one I’m going to kidnap whereas cases that had their genesis in physical opportunity or trust are incredibly common.
How in your mind DOES this work. Do you think that snatchers are furiously combing facebook for kid faces and then doing detective work to identify and surveil the location looking for an opportunity to do the snatch? Does this sound real?
Studies show that we are terrible at understanding the magnitude of risk of uncommon events and drastically over estimate uncommon risk and underestimate commonly faced risks. For example the number of kids who were attacked because their face was posted on facebook in 2025 is probably zero but almost a thousand people per year die on bicycles and 400,000 are injured and end up in the emergency room.
Bikes are very dangerous. Posting your tike’s face… not so much. The dangerous people are statistically the perverts you will stupidly trust because you have shitty judgement WHILE obsessing about not posting their face on facebook.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 2 days ago:
You can’t just call anything a sacrament and it magically becomes a different thing legally. It’s perfectly ok to have standards for medical procedure and have it apply to all.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 days ago:
Tactical nukes are relatively new
Like new if you time traveled from the 50s We literally conceived of a bazooka launched personal nuke. Generally speaking not much was actually made by anyone and is unlikely to have been maintained as they would have been deemed basically useless for decades as is very expensive to maintain.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 days ago:
You can’t keep such secrets at scale at all. Abortions can be performed by giving someone a couple of pills whilst not being visibly pregnant and thereby avoiding life changing, ruining, or sometimes ending consequences of pregnancy.
It is damn near impossible to keep people from getting abortions because we give women so many reasons to have them. Compared to that almost all circumcisions would stop because it would be impossible to hide any substantial portion of the pop getting or giving them.
You are arguing we shouldn’t enact a policy that would end 99.9% because somewhere someone would be doing 0.1%
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 days ago:
No no it doesn’t again outside of your fantasy. Almost all harm that comes to kids unfortunately comes from people who are close to said kid.
Did you think there are random people on facebook waiting for a picture of a kid so they can somehow find that kid? Your perspective is demented.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 days ago:
Why would Rabbis be immune from the law again? If you cannot legally perform a procedure then you cannot legally perform a procedure. No this wouldn’t violate freedom of religion because holding them to the same law as everyone else isn’t discrimination.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 4 days ago:
It’s dubious that they have useful nukes available to just drop in an shell to start with. For practical purposes their nukes are fairly large and there are other considerations. Poorly maintained shit may malfunction creating additional doubt as to their military might and it might trigger additional aid by the rest of the world. They can’t actually fight NATO so actions have to be carefully calibrated so as not to bring the rest of the world or even just more of their aid into the fray lest it become even more expensive or even impossible to win.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 5 days ago:
Not using nukes isn’t holding back its not inviting armageddon.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 5 days ago:
Lol why are they ableist again?
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 6 days ago:
How are people going to be dragged to a cell for getting a procedure done that no Dr will do again?
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 6 days ago:
The cost of criminalizing it is virtually nobody does it because they don’t want to lose their license or go to jail this seems pretty cheap
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 6 days ago:
This is your fantasy. Sharing their face on social media is less dangerous than biking to a friend’s house
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 6 days ago:
Can you legally get any other cosmetic surgery on a less than 1 yr old?
- Comment on Zootopia 6 days ago:
Like maybe the cartoon shoe character getting torture murdered or the psychotic killer gloating over the prior killing of the detective’s brother
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
Nobody says the come and go. They can come on later in life but once there you are basically stuck with it. Reason being is that allergies are an immune reaction. These are mediated by immune cells, antibodies, that bind to the $insert_bad_thing and put a “murder me” sign on its back. These cell are produced by long lived immune cells.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 weeks ago:
Did you think they were going to gather them up and take them to the store?
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 weeks ago:
You are missing everything basically.
Normally its actually legally impossible to pursue charges against someone for picking up something you deliberately abandon. Furthermore the act of doing so would in the best case involve spending thousands to tens of thousands of the people’s money to pursue such charges. Threatening to burn the people’s money and hurt people to keep people from eating food that has been abandoned is absolutely crazy.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 5 weeks ago:
Morally nobody is being deprived of value because the goods aren’t saleable and thus no effort will be made to collect them. They are rather insisting that others who would have enjoyed them should simply let them rot. So first you are arguing for moral evil for no purpose. Next it is normally the case that goods that are abandoned on purpose eg making no attempt to collect the bananas cannot be stolen.
Lastly such a threat is absolutely insane.because it is a threat to go after private citizens with the power of the state to punish people for what normally isn’t a crime, wasting the publics resources hurting people for doing something that was never morally wrong.
Does this still make sense to you?
- Comment on how time flows 1 month ago:
Tell a bad joke, people don’t get it and now whining about it
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
Online communities don’t have to have the same demographics as physical locations. Why does it seem weird to you that either gender would want to vent about the opposite one without reading 100 replies by the group being vented about.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
Yes nobody could possibly downvote for any other reason
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
If this is so why is it such an article of faith for most of the next 2000 years that women not be allowed to serve as religious leaders. Your reading is just ahistorical. Ignores all other verses that clearly delineate the subservience of women and reasoning for same.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
It’s pretty clear that none of the individual sects consider which texts to follow up for debate and they used to murder you for having a different opinion. It is pretty clear that any new found mental flexibility is both heretical and ahistorical
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
You’ve still added god to the picture for no particular reason. The universe doesn’t need a sentient cause there is absolutely no reason to believe it needs one.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
You rarely convince christians or any other sort of fanatic you argue with them for the peanut gallery to create a pervasive sense that among smart people its a joke so that a few people should ultimately decide to laugh instead of being the butt of it.
It is on the overall working. Religious nones are a growing group and atheism is slightly more acceptable. Once nearly all were Christians. We are down to 62% of the pop and the youngest gen is 48%.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
I think its pretty clear that the word of man is not just like their opinion its the inspiration of the divine. It’s not really up for debate.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
The explanation is bubkis historical re-imagining like when the media sane washes the babble that comes out of Trump’s mouth. He’ll spend 15 minutes babbling about how he thinks magnets work and they report hurr durr somewhere in there he said lower taxes.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 months ago:
No christian would possibly accept the idea of an omniscient, omnipotent and evil god. Once you start imagining from first principals what ought to be real you don’t end up with Christianity. If you restarted humanity 1000 times you would get newtons conception of gravity every single time you would get Christianity zero times.