splendoruranium

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never take any risks to improve the world, that’s how things are gonna get better!

  No, I don’t think I’d agree with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether to flee or fight isn’t a very useful distinction, I think. It’s a false dichotomy.

  Fighting someone or fighting for something in a way that risks your life just isn’t a very smart way to fight. Obviously run when your life is at stake. When you’re safe, fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that it’s an artificially engineered “crisis” by the medical industrial complex to justify modern day discrimination and refuse to provide healthcare to fat people, Black people, etc
  podcast episode on this

  Thanks! I’m slightly confused by the sources linked in the podcast description though. While it’s pretty US-centric they universally seem to confirm that yes, obesity rates are rising and that yes, medical consensus is that obesity is a bad thing. Does the podcast then come to some kind of different conclusion?
  I don’t have a hard time believing that American companies are profiteering off of sick people, but I feel like there might be some accidental shuffling of cause and effect here. You can fleece and discriminate against a fat person, but in order for that to happen you first need a fat person, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no obesity epidemic. it’s all eugenics to the core

  I’m almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the people who then say that if you gain weight it is because you are lazy or weak willed.

  Whether someone perceives it as hard to lose or not gain weight doesn’t really factor into it, does it? For adults the ultimate decision to eat more than one needs lies with exactly one person.

  Really it is 99% hormones and only 1% strength of character.

  I’m not sure I understand correctly, are you suggesting that obesity epidemics have some kind of shared underlying physiological reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty amazing that it’s as cohesive as it is.

  That’s a very good point. I’ve often wondered that myself. We may have reached peak Linux already - it’s so hard to scale up massive FOSS projects without somehow sacrificing ideals on the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many things in a FOSS ecosystem will sooner or later confront you with one hard truth: The program you’re using was not developed for you. It was developed because the creator saw a problem and wanted to fix it. Then they made a program to fix it and stopped refining the program the moment they were content with it. Little to no consideration for other users or mass-adoption. Which is fine, they developed it, it’s their time.
  But it also means that you will frequently be confronted with things that are objectively unintuitive and unreasonable from a new user’s perspective because they make sense from a developer’s perspective. The former will always be outranked by the latter, even though there will always be more users than developers. That’s just how it is. There are some few exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re trying to sound optimistix, but that particular example required significant (worldwide, in fact) external intervention…