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- Comment on Antiphilosemitism is illegal 1 day ago:
Im not sure im reading the tone correctly from your reply, was it sarcasm or a legit take on that quote section?
- Comment on Antiphilosemitism is illegal 1 day ago:
Victimhood as in “a victim of something” or “claiming to be a victim of something”.
I want to be crystal clear here, im just trying to figure out what they were implying, not making implications of my own.
- Comment on Tony Hall has lived in the UK for 50 years. Why is the Home Office trying to deport him? 4 days ago:
By definition it’s less dangerous.
One involves the violence, one is the planning of the violence (with no actual violence having happened).
It implies multiple parties and the intent to commit the violence in the future, but the violence hasn’t happened yet.
If they were the same ting there wouldn’t be a separate term and or crime.
It sounds like you want to argue that the planning (with intent) should carry the same sentence and repercussions, which is an entirely valid argument, have at it.
Pretending that planning and execution are the same exact level of danger serves only to undermine what might otherwise be a well reasoned argument.
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 6 days ago:
then you’re funding a valuable public service to others, that provides not only the news, weather, and eastenders, but also a host of revision tooling for students of all ages, language services, a public information broadcast point in case of national disaster, and so on. It’s not just about you and what you do or do not wish to watch. If you drive a car, a portion of the tax you pay still goes towards public transport services.
Genuine question, which part of this is referring to income tax?
The only tax reference i’m seeing is the one that specifically prefaces it with “if you drive a car”.
Another genuine question, i’m not seeing how
just because I drive a car, I cannot (and should not) be able to reclaim the proportion of tax I pay that is put towards public transport infrastructure.
Relates to anything in my reply.
Not looking for a fight , it seems i’m legitimately missing something important here.
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 1 week ago:
I agree fully.
If you’re charging for BBC services then charge for that, if you want to tax tv based entertainment, then be honest.
This “how do we word it do we can effectively tax everyone, but don’t have to admit that’s what we want” approach is bullshit.
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 1 week ago:
This was going to be my answer but it apparently already is, officially, a tax.
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 1 week ago:
It’s very specifically about what an individual does and does not wish to watch, because it only applies in certain circumstances. If it wasn’t about that, everyone would have to pay it regardless of usage.
Much like car tax is about whether or not a person drives a car.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 month ago:
I think there is an opt out(or disable option), at the instance level, for the specific mechanism that lemvotes uses.
I vaguely recall someone complaining that they were using something that was never intended to be used that way.
Never looked in to it so I can’t be sure.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 2 months ago:
If its such a compelling feature set then opt-in shouldn’t be an issue.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
why would being form japan make it popular ?
- Comment on Painful to recover from 2 months ago:
Wealth for wealth’s sake, possibly, but i’m not gonna start throwing shade at someone else’s life goals.
Wealth is , however, a good baseline to build upon to achieve other metrics, up to a point at least.
- Comment on Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice 2 months ago:
They’ve had solar incentives,multiple times, the government fucked around and made it absolutely excruciating, then fully dropped it with a big fuck you.
There were legit financial reasons for this afaik, but it still left a bunch of people holding the bag.
People are understandably wary of any new promises.
I wonder if this it is a coincidence that this comes closely on the heels of : this or this or this
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 months ago:
HAH, that tracks so much.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 months ago:
Im conflicted,
if that waste of breath sorbo is disappointed, that would normally indicate it was doing something right.
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 2 months ago:
Are those designations mutually exclusive?
- Comment on She's just defending her country 2 months ago:
Indeed, and is the image posted supposed to be about the character “wonder woman” or gal gadot in a wonder woman costume?
Hint: look at the text
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
i think the miscommunication was mutual, but started with me, apologies.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
An important distinction.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
- I asked about the placebo effect, by name.
- You recited the placebo effect to me like i didn’t just mention it directly.
- I recited it back with extra detail , to make clear that i know what it means.
- You recited it again, with additional detail, and asked me if i misunderstood your reply containing the definition of the thing i was asking about, by name ?
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
You believe a layman is still able to discover something in medicine. We’ll see.
I think the belief that “the only place innovation can come from is trained scientists” is arrogant and unscientific, even in specialised fields.
Im not suggesting people will be producing testable medical end- products on the weekends.
Just that some things are worth testing/looking into, even if its suggested by someone not wearing a white coat.
If anything, the lack of low hanging fruit in the current common knowledge base should be an incentive to look in unorthodox places.
In addition there’s a wealth of historical information that is siloed by culture, language and accessibility (among other things).
That includes dusty old tomes in buried cities but also folk remedies passed down among small villages or families and everything in-between.
Various new snake oils (ivermectin or urine for cancer , COVID and whatnot) sure aren’t it.
Absolutely agree.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
All low hanging fruits we know of.
This is one of those unknown unknown situations where there are things were don’t even know to be looking for.
Like microbes, yes we posited something like them, but the full implications the confirmation weren’t understood until after.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
It’s known to potentially have an effect , even if the actual treatment administered was known(by third parties) to be inert and the effect wasnt the one originally planned.
Thats not the same as not working at all.
This is a core part of blind tests, the whole reason you test using a placebo is to isolate the effects that can’t be attributed to the actual medicine.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
that’s the exact opposite of what i was saying.
Nowadays we can potentially evaluate what is considered “alternative” for actual benefit, and if found then elevate it to actual medical science.
If it’s not considered beneficial we can discard (for now), perhaps a fresh look later when our tooling and understanding has improved.
That way we can try to gain benefit where possible, and definitively ( for the current level of technology and resource ) suggest people kindly not overdose on de-wormer because we’ve scientifically determined it’s stupid and potentially lethal.
- Comment on Just everywhere 2 months ago:
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
Agreed,
Pretty sure anesthesia is similar, (in the not fully understanding the underlying mechanism)
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
ah, that makes sense.
Does that still apply if the underlying mechanism isn’t understood?
I know examples of this exist already , I’m wondering if “proof of effectiveness” really means just the effectiveness in this context.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
I was also going to use aspirin as an example, but I’m also going to post a response i made to a comment further up.
Also psychedelics as a treatment for various psychological ailments.
I need to be more specific in how I mean “alternative” here.
What I mean is “not of the current scientific consensus” , which I realise isn’t exactly the same wording as the wikipedia definition
Thats my bad.
I also failed to mention that it also works the other way as well, where current science is discredited(fully or partially) , due to flaws in it’s methodology, reproducibility or some other reason.
In generalities i was thinking more of how certain branches or offshoots of what was considered to be mainstream ( or mainstream adjacent ) science were later found to be scientifically provable.
An example of this is microbes.
They were posited over the years in varied forms by multiple independent people, but they weren’t really fully accepted until the invention of a way of actually observing them.
This is largely what medicine was prior to the current , formal scientific method, local “medicine people” would have salves, cures, potions and other such concoctions passed down to apprentices, they might have some knowledge of how it works, but most of that knowledge would be in the practical application and treatment using said concoctions.
That’s not to dismiss this practice, the years of experience and experimentation (of a kind) was, in some cases, essential a precursor to modern scientific method.
There are ways of analysing effects and positing theories without fully understanding how the underlying mechanism works.
Sometimes that leads to legitimate data around the effects of a medicine or treatment being dismissed as “alternative”, at least until formal experimentation is done and verified
As i said in another reply, I’m not saying it’s common, all i was saying was that it’s a possibility.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
Agreed,
I was positing the possibility of a move from “alternative” to “scientifically recognised”, not that it was likely to happen.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
Indeed, though I’d argue that’s an issue with modern academia as an industry rather than the scientific method itself.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
That’s certainly a definition.
How dos that definition account for the placebo effect ?