TheLeadenSea
@TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 days ago:
…did you remove the default upvote from your own question? Before I upvoted it, it had 0 upvotes and 0 downvotes.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 days ago:
A felon just means someone who broke the law, akaik. Law != morality.
- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 5 days ago:
I run MojoLauncher which runs better than Pojav Launcher. It’s a bit laggy, and the default control map was no good so I had to customise it to be better, but it does work.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Why is it only valid on the 24th of July?
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 5 days ago:
I think you can say you want to kill the president, in America at least.
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 5 days ago:
Civilisation
- Comment on The UK can't see Imgur links right now, apparently. 6 days ago:
I can see it.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 6 days ago:
You are pointing out how the world is a terrible place with lots of suffering. I completely agree with you. But in each of these areas, the way things are now is still better than they’ve ever been. They’ve always been bad and horrible, and in most places and times, worse.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 6 days ago:
That’s just untrue. People live in better conditions today, even just considering social acceptance, and not technology or medicine. Most societies are at least in theory democratic, where people get some input towards the ruler. There are legal protections against slavery, misogyny, homophobia, racism, transphobia, and anti monopolistic agencies that try to temper the worst parts of capitalism. Trade unions have successfully campaigned so that now people work less than they have since the start of the industrial revolution, in unprecedentedly better conditions.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a long way to go, and many of these things exist a lot more in theory than practice. Child rights, in particularly, are woefully lacking.
However, claiming that the past, at any point, was better for the vast majority of people is the same nostalgic, rose tinted, incorrect thinking that MAGA (when was America ‘great’ the first time?) Republicans fall prey to.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 1 week ago:
It constantly goes in cycles, three steps forwards, two steps backward.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Both of these confirm that yes, it is lie down
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 1 week ago:
This is a really great resource, thanks for sharing it!
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 1 week ago:
Liberal/fascist
People seem to use them to mean ‘people I don’t like’ regardless of the actual meanings of the words
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 2 weeks ago:
Reception is dependent on which bands the phone supports, and which bands your sim contract supports. You can get cheap phones that support all major bands, and the rest is up to the sim
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it wouldn’t be this bad if people like them had criticised the government.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Wake me up when September ends
- Comment on Rust 4 weeks ago:
But they will, eventually. Even if only at the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on Rust 4 weeks ago:
100% of people
who breathe thisdie. - Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 4 weeks ago:
I fail to see how that’s changing his views on a subject during a debate. I already knew he had been killed.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 4 weeks ago:
Can you provide a reference, please?
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 4 weeks ago:
Fuck Nintendo, and fuck US copyright
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 4 weeks ago:
Did I ever say it was?
- Comment on Are fossil fuels vegan? 4 weeks ago:
No, they release harmful gases into the air which harm animals.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely a larger age gap than usual, but if you’re especially mature for your age/she’s especially immature, my opinion is that it shouldn’t matter to others as long as you’re both happy.
On the other hand, if you’re asking about it and think it might be a problem, it might be worth having a conversation with her about it.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 5 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be controlled by one foundation, so agewalls couldn’t be enforced
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 5 weeks ago:
My first device was a windows desktop, a shared device.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s like, the most classic of Marxism
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 5 weeks ago:
Oh, what does ‘grayscalemoding’ mean then?
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 5 weeks ago:
Is this about trans people or what?
- Comment on Language model 5 weeks ago:
Oh, like loch or chet