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- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 6 days ago:
Idk I was 16 when that came out so actually high school level. Feel free to read the study yourself and correct me? Not sure what you’re skeptical about tbh.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
They’re referring to this one back in 2016, but the caveat was that it had the same side effects as women’s birth control. Since the patient being prescribed isn’t the one who will experience negative health outcomes without the medications, the harm of those side effects was deemed by researchers (not the patients themselves) to be greater than the risk of impregnating someone else.
Other hornonal options have come out since then, though not on the consumer market afaik, like this hormonal gel and this pill.
More recently its been done without hormones by blocking a vitamin A metabolite that signals the production of sperm.
You’re the one “politicising biology” by using it to dismiss this out of hand without even the most basic level of research or respect for the complexity of the topic.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
Uh, it’s been done. Multiple times.
First was this one back in 2016, but the caveat was that it had the same number of side effects as women’s birth control. Since the patient being prescribed isn’t the one who will experience negative health outcomes without the medications, the harm of those side effects was deemed by researchers (not the patients themselves) to be greater than the risk of impregnating someone else.
Other hornonal options have come out since then, though not on the consumer market, like this hormonal gel and this pill.
More recently its been done without hormones by blocking a vitamin A metabolite that signals the production of sperm.
You’re the one “politicising biology” by using it to dismiss this out of hand without even the most basic level of research or respect for the complexity of the topic.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
Well technically you’re burning the same number of calories regardless of the time of day they were consumed, and two meals per day is a lot easier to keep at 2000 calories (as a rule of thumb - different for everybody) than three meals per day.
Personally I like to keep the digestive process dormant for as long as possible. Eating breakfast makes me hungrier throughout the day, so I end up snacking more than I otherwise would. I’ve never been a breakfast eater though so I’m pretty well wired not to break fast until lunch.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
aha, hence why I said optional. If you want/need it, have it. If you don’t want or need it, it doesn’t actually harm you in any universally applicable way to just wait until lunch.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
No, actually. I think it would unironically be better to get all your calories and nutrition from bread, cheese, and sausage than to have a diet consisting entirely of high-sugar, ultra-processed food.
Also breakfast is completely optional and it’s promotion as “the most important meal of the day” is a scam to sell more cereal, milk, and eggs. I will die on that hill.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 1 week ago:
No I’m serious! I’ve asked german friends and they just say it’s a hissing sound, which doesn’t tell me anything about mouth placement like it does to directly relate it to a more specific sound that I do know how to make. I’ve been casually learning for a few years though, so I probably wasn’t too far off in the first place.
I’m talking only about the ‘ch’ consonant in words like ich, milch, brauchen, that isn’t present in English. I realize there’s others that are exceptional, regional, case-by-case, and so on.
Videos don’t help me much but I appreciate the suggestion! My attention and comprehension is better when I can read at my own pace, formats with audio only add benefit when it comes with live feedback on what I’m doing. Unless I’m just getting the flow of the language of course, but that would just be a normal video on any topic.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 1 week ago:
“gross” and “grosser” are both great compliments in the bedroom
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 1 week ago:
Omg. Nobody’s ever been able to explain this properly to me. Also vielen Dank, du hast mir mein deutscher ch-Laut endlich freigeschaltet 😄
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 1 week ago:
I’ll also need a fanny pack labeled “kokin pussi” to wear with it.
- Comment on When they told me to invest in bitcoin, I bought all this at $20 dollars an ounce 100 years ago. 1 week ago:
Less likely to slide around. That’s a lot of downward force (about 30g/oz) to have the base be larger than the surface it sits on.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 1 week ago:
It’s unshielded street lights for me. If you absolutely have to have a lit street/front yard/parking lot, fine, but the light should cover exactly that area and nothing more.
Well, we should be within our rights to ask our neighbors not to shine their lights directly through our bedroom windows at night, but unfortunately I realize that’s not the world we currently live in.
- Comment on Moon talk 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t think I’d have to say this, but the conditions in which we exist are created by the system under which we exist. As Kamala said, you didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree.
It also wasn’t just smooth sailing up to this point; capitalism suffers crises like these on a regular basis. For example, the 15 recessions just in the years between great depression (1929) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020).
A system is designed to do what it does. If it doesn’t do what the designers intended, it gets changed. Otherwise, it stays the same. You would think if these results were unintended, the system would have been changed by now.
- Comment on Moon talk 2 weeks ago:
let’s work on making sure the only dictator is the working class ✊🏾
as for nobility, well, nobility doesn’t mean much if working class doesn’t lend it any political or economic power.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 weeks ago:
They’re fake internet points, you don’t get anything for them. You said something and people expressed disagreement. Don’t sweat it.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 weeks ago:
People say landlords provide a service that is providing housing to another person without them having to pay the full cost of homeownership. Yet, because the landlord is not only covering their costs but extracting as much profit as the market will allow, the cost of renting is pretty damn competitive with the cost of ownership. So to answer your question,
Are landlords supposed to protect people from increasing costs of home ownership?
Yes, that is the way most non-landlords justify the existence of landlords to themselves. The alternative is to acknowledge that landlords exist only for the sake of enabling the owning class to generate capital for themselves by exploiting the working class.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 2 weeks ago:
He just does it as a hobby
- Comment on Poor doggo 2 weeks ago:
Dog, dog is the word
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 3 weeks ago:
Put the rice in with the chicken. Problem solved.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 3 weeks ago:
nah. you will not catch me using a plastic receptacle in anything that gets hot enough to boil water.
- Comment on Every time! 4 weeks ago:
Is this about windows always turning on/waking my computer for no god damned reason every single night
- Comment on Which one and why? 4 weeks ago:
sprife
- Comment on At 1% 4 weeks ago:
The only time I’ve encountered VGA was my first year as an intern when my office had given me a flat screen monitor that frequently gave me migraines. Thing had to be older than me. That was 7 years ago.
If I encountered it before that, I wasn’t aware of it because I was a child and wasn’t responsible for plugging in the monitors I was using.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 4 weeks ago:
Just so you know, this link shares your substack username with everyone who clicks on it, and more than likely links them to you in the background. Everything after “?r=” is a unique hash linked to your account.
PSA for everyone else: You are sharing URLs with Tracking Links. Please stop.
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 4 weeks ago:
lake Superior lookin pretty lush
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Ironically enough I know it as a 2014-era tumblr meme Image
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
You mean like ICE is doing right now?
- Comment on soda 4 weeks ago:
Hope it had a triangle stamped LDPE
- Comment on Spokesperson 4 weeks ago:
Money doesn’t buy talent, and sure doesn’t buy culture, but it does buy expensive instruments and production equipment. More often than not it also buys industry recognition and other privileges above others that don’t have the same means, but that’s besides the point.
His entire career is built upon the appropriation of black culture; he started on the hip-hop scene. Only to take what he gained from that, strip black people and as much of their culture out of it as he could without making himself irrelevant, and use the resulting “rap rock” sound to pander to a broader more racist audience that would then cheer as he performed underneath white supremacist hate symbols. Once his fame was secured he would cleanse rap out of his sound entirely, and revert to country rock
He’s a cynical and talentless hack that formulated his music not as a tool of cultural or self expression, not for the sake of doing anything new, but for the purpose of self enrichment. To have the broadest appeal to an audience that wanted black cultural touchstones without black people involved in it, and would have rejected it if it were a black man in his place. He uses the spoils of his theft to support policies and politicians that are directly harmful to the people of the culture that he got his start from, and the city he takes credit for as a claim to fame. None of this points to him having any appreciation for music at all, other than as a scheme to become rich and famous.
So yeah, it’s no wonder his music has broad appeal within a certain audience, it wasn’t made for any purpose other than that. That doesn’t make it good. It’s a lifeless, blanched corpse of the culture he owes his career to.
That is what it has to do with music. Like it or not, all of these things are interconnected. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Music is culture is status is politics is history and so on.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 weeks ago:
The Wikipedia page for neoliberalism has more thorough real-world context for liberalism as it is applied today.
