Resonosity

@Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The use of the word “explode” is misleading. It’s definitely misinformation.

  Here’s an arborist talking about it, but basically:

  Trees move sap and other liquids up and down their trunk from the soil underneath regularly. For trees like maples, this is where maple syrups comes from, except you have to collect a lot of sap and reduce it down to syrup.

  The arborist claims that these liquids present in the tree when the temperature swings faster than the tree can respond expand due to freezing, which buckles tree trunks causing the outer bark to crack open and separate. The cracks can be from the ground up, or they can look like gashed in the side of the tree. There’s moisture in the soil too, which can shift tree roots and cause similar cracking.

  People say “explode” because there’s usually a popping sound when this happens.

  In other contexts, people call this frost upheave. Engineers know about this phenomenon, and try to bury equipment like pipes and cable and conduit below the frost line so frost upheave doesn’t crack and break that stuff. With trees, this frost upheave just takes place inside trees themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The trees don’t actually explode. They crack open.

  Words are meaningful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who care about book⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also be a character-limited review and the person wanted to simplify their thoughts before they ran out of characters to use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear disarmament. Hasanabi Doctrine.

  Arm the nations you want to be able to defend themselves, and disarm the ones you don’t.

  The US will fall as soon as its nukes are removed or destroyed. Hopefully peacefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All governments are experiments in how we organize and order society. Some experiments (governments) lead to greater flourishing than others, like socialism and communism (in theory). We’d have better evidence that those forms of government actually bring what they promise if oligarchies didn’t shut that shit down as soon as it takes route (see South America).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Embark is based!! I am actually ok giving them my money because they treat their customers right!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People have done what you say, and they’ve literally reset their motherboard with no immediate solution other than taking it to their computer repair shop. And that might even guarantee you get the motherboard back.

  Very out of touch and elitist. Fuck off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re using the logic you introduced in your claim to turn your claim on its head.

  If you can’t recognize that, then who really has comprehension skill issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has had enough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pee sitting down, you coward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m visiting NJ for the first time through a work trip this week.

  Reminds me just as much as Massachusetts or Maine. Lots of greenery, and definitely not as bad as maybe I thought going in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  D, hands down. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese. Literally my favorite foods

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be great if more and more companies packaged their foods through EcoEnclose or similar.

  It’d be even better if this was made default by legislation that eliminates the need for good will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not racist to speak about which parties play the role of the oppressor and the oppressed. It’s reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a response typed up, but I guess it didn’t send.

  Basically, white people have caused the genocide of Native Americans, and some say the genocide of slaves and black people too, although it’s not clear if what’s going on there is a genocide. There is clearly a race arrow pointing from one group of people towards others.

  The arrival of Europeans and passing of the baton from the British, Spanish, and French to the Americans introduced diseases that Native Americans weren’t prepared for, and this was a major factor in their decline. If you think the Civil War had impacts on civilians and those not participating, then you must recognize the impacts European contact had. It’s so much worse than the Civil War.

  And in the case of European contact, and again Americans’ continued settlement and structural violence against the Native Americans, pretty much only Native Americans were impacted. The diseases and technologies carried over by the whites completely overwhelmed Native Americans. Virtually no impacts to whites, which IMO is a worse outcome. At least in war, people sustain similar casualties and impacts on both sides, and this helps fuel empathy. Not the case when you’re the oppressor.

  There is a hierarchy to evil because there is a hierarchy to violence. Violence can be direct or acute, and then it can be indirect through structural violence (or social murder). Violence just means harm against others. That harm can manifest in many different ways. The ultimate harm is killing people, but there are many other harms to be done towards the outgroup.

  In the case of the Holodomor vs the Trail of Tears, I think we can make a good distinction that one was worse than the other. The Trail of Tears was essentially ethnic cleansing, or the displacement of people from one area or another. The Holodomor involved a famine that may or may not have been intentionally caused by the USSR, but which may or may not have been accelerated once the USSR learned of it. That IMO makes it a genocide. Ethnic cleansing is bad, but people don’t die as a result. With genocide, that is the case. The Holodomor as an event IMO was worse than the Trail of Tears, but there are other events in the history of the genocide of Native Americans that compare to the Holodomor or appear worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You tell me how a singular war fought primarily by whites against whites compares the US’s and Western World’s systematic eradication of Native Americans.

  The Trail of Tears might not have involved actual deaths of Native Americans, but it’s the hallmark heinous injustice and US-done marker of their centuries-long genocide (even if it’s considered more ethnic cleansing than genocide).

  Nothing about what you’ve said has refuted my point. More deaths are worse than less deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There absolutely is. Murder of millions is worse than murder of one.

  Let’s not fucking ethicswash this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Genocide the crime of all crimes. So yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently they are not

  Charlie Kirk wasn’t empathetic himself. Literally look at the posted quote by OP. He was not a tolerant person, but intolerant of others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, this is the right time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the very least they need to hire these doctors and scientists that RFK Jr. fired so their wisdom and knowledge don’t go to waste!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who could have predicted this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I finally made the switch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by informed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consent is not only informed. There are other forms of consent, like express, implied, informed, substituted, etc.

  I want to say pretty much all of the research I’ve presented so far fall under the idea of implied consent. Females in the animal kingdom do absolutely consent to having sexual relations with males, but only after the males have demonstrated some sort of direct or indirect benefit that the females agree to. Females consent by selecting one mate over others. Literally this can mean that they change their body like in the case of hyenas or ducks, where if they don’t consent males literally cannot fuck them.

  The opposite is when rape does occur in the animal kingdom. Males will chase after females, alone or even in groups, then force themselves onto the females. Females can show signs of escape by trying to resist, or they may submit to avoid further injury. This is literally what legal counsel advises women to do in human rape.

  You’re restricting the idea of consent to make your argument. That isn’t a good argument

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the sources I shared point to animals choosing their sexual mates, or choosing not to - and the consequences of doing that in many species: rape.

  Choice in this matter, and free choice at that, is the basis for consent. It matters not that the species in question understands what consent is for them to still exercise it.

  You’re trying to prove a negative. Where’s your evidence for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t push away people, jackass. Just you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I can say is that you have a super naive idea of the veganism movement, and your prescriptions for doing “good” activism can go paint my taint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We all have to pitch in sometimes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t shutting down the conversation. I never said that. Thanks for putting words in my mouth, idiot.

  You want me to voice my opinion in ways that are more palatable to your sensibilities. Ain’t doin’ shit for you bro.

  Good! Maybe you should date more vegans. Hell, even make more vegan friends. You’ll get over this hump of having your feelings hurt