imaqtpie
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
French Catheters
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference?
That’s a good point, you’re right.
That’s interesting about the eyes, I’m honestly not sure what to say about that.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
Wow, good source. 82% donor rate for the opt-out group versus 79% for the forced-choice is a smaller difference than I would have guessed.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure people do make their wishes clear regarding their funeral preparations. You can put that kind of stuff in your last will and I would assume it holds some legal weight.
I actually agree that organ donation should be opt-out, but there is an unavoidable argument against that. Namely, the fact that people have the right to opt-out at all implies that you have a responsibility to verify their informed consent before enrolling them in the procedure. At least, that would be the conventional wisdom according to the field of medical ethics.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
That sounds promising, I think you’re right that it would be a significant improvement in donor rates over the opt-in system.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
I agree, but it raises an interesting argument regarding the definition of consent. I don’t necessarily believe in free will so I like to mention it in situations where you can easily see that people are more accurately described as reacting to their environment than making any kind of conscious choice.
Simply by changing from opt-in to opt-out, you mostly reverse the observed behavior of a population. Lots of applications for this sort of thinking, like with voting for instance.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
I think it’s interesting to ask whether people in the opt-out countries are really consenting. Can you really say someone has consented if you never actually made the request?
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 4 weeks ago:
Ah, a fellow man of culture.
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ to Lose $150 Million to $200 Million in Theatrical Run After Bombing at Box Office 5 weeks ago:
Meh the director already got paid. Producers are taking the monetary hit on this one. Probably won’t be a good sign for the director’s career moving forward though.
- Comment on Anon tests something 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s just a surgeon who lacks personality and operates in a machinelike fashion.
- Comment on Anon loves his firetruck 1 month ago:
Lol! Nice one
- Comment on Paddington In Peru will nod to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo 1 month ago:
Paddington. I’m not very familiar with Herzog but I don’t think wholesome would be the correct descriptor for his work 😅
- Comment on Paddington In Peru will nod to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo 1 month ago:
Yeah they’re quite nice. Not trying to do too much, just well-executed, wholesome, pleasant films.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
God damn I just read through this whole thread and people are actually frothing at the mouth about returning shopping carts to corrals. What a sad and pathetic existence to live, where you judge other people so harshly over the most insignificant things.
Lemmy can be really fucking weird about certain topics. People here should probably touch grass more frequently.
- Comment on ocean depth 2 months ago:
The scale is very misleading. 0-200m is the same as 200-1000 and 1000-2000m is like 1/8 of 0-1000m.
Doesn’t really capture the insane depths of the Mariana Trench. This website visualizes it better. Albeit without the Saddam lying at the bottom.
- Comment on Anon works out 2 months ago:
Yea I wouldn’t block it if I were you. Thanks and same to you
- Comment on Anon works out 2 months ago:
You would probably enjoy this community more.
sh.itjust.works/c/wholesomegreentext
FWIW, I totally get the way you feel about greentexts in general. I think it’s a very natural reaction, and those of us (myself included) who enjoy these posts without reservation are actually the unusual ones who have been desensitized by a lifetime on internet forums.
There’s a certain jaded callousness, seasoned with a sprinkling of cynicism and misanthropy, which allows one to most fully savor the fruits of c/greentext 😂
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 2 months ago:
Yea this was a good thread. Except for your comment, which is off topic 😉
- Comment on Anon wants to go to Nuuk 2 months ago:
There are plenty of small towns away from the world that aren’t in Greenland 😅. I get the sentiment but Nuuk is total overkill if anon is just looking for a peaceful small town
- Comment on Anon visits New Zealand 2 months ago:
The Maori were Polynesian navigators who were the first humans to settle NZ around 1300 AD. New Zealand and Hawaii were two of the last places on Earth to be reached by humans.
Then some of the Maori left from NZ and colonized the Chatham Islands around 1500. Due to their geographic isolation, they diverged culturally from the Maori, adopted a pacifist way of life, and came to be known as the Moriori.
In the mid-1800s, some Maori tribes, armed with muskets obtained from trade with Europeans, invaded the Chatham Islands and committed a genocide for nearly 30 years against the Moriori, who did not fight back because of their belief in pacifism. This is known as the Moriori genocide.
- Comment on Twitter 2 months ago:
Lol. Nice one, I never heard that line before.
- Comment on That's how we do it 3 months ago:
- Comment on Two stupid questions. How can I message the mods of a certain community? And also why are most of my communities say subscribe pending? 4 months ago:
Click on their profile. There is a “Send Message” button right at the top.
Subscribe pending is just a visual glitch, you’re already subscribed but it just didn’t update visually. Posts from those communities are already showing up in your Subscribed feed.
- Comment on The Code 4 months ago:
It is different, but tbf academics are also reliant on external funding sources to conduct research. It’s not absurd to think that the grant writers or university administration might have some stipulations about the free distribution of research they paid for.
Have we forgotten what happened to Aaron Swartz? With the state of the world today, I naturally expect everything to be monetized, regardless of whether it makes any rational or ethical sense.
- Comment on Whales 4 months ago:
Yeah I guess, but that doesn’t really help. Humans already killed most of the whales so rubbing in our technological superiority is quite gauche.
- Comment on Whales 4 months ago:
Fun fact: every species on earth has been evolving for the same amount of time. Assuming that life wasn’t spontaneously generated multiple times on planet Earth, which seems relatively unlikely.
For some reason, I feel oddly defensive about the whale being insulted. Suck on that you stupid marine biologist, you should understand evolution more better.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 5 months ago:
Yes, as we both know, there aren’t any Americans who struggle with a low credit score and end up with insurmountable debt…??? Credit is reliant on debt and negatives, and people get screwed by their lack of understanding it every single day. Same with the lottery, except with big numbers and percentages. America is profoundly dysfunctional and it’s frequently the people who are bad at math that get exploited.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 5 months ago:
Literal kindergardeners understand negative numbers.
Literal adults have trouble with negative numbers. I can’t do this all over again, sorry and have a nice day. Hopefully it’s somewhere in the 80s wherever you are
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 5 months ago:
Yeah. I’ve had some time to ruminate and I think part of it stems from the impossibility of them not using Celsius in their lives. Like, they’re not going to singlehandedly make their country start using Fahrenheit, so accepting it as better would just create cognitive dissonance.
- Comment on Everyday, as an American 5 months ago:
The increments of 10f doesn’t make sense at all, though seems to be a common perception among people who prefer fahrenheit
What doesn’t make sense about it? You can tell another person it’s in the 30s outside, and you have efficiently communicated more information than is possible when using Celsius. You’d have to say it’s between 4 and negative 1, which is just lame. And this remains true across every temperature, because of a variety of factors which I explained above.
In every climate which you mentioned above, it’s easier to communicate how hot or cold it is outside using Fahrenheit. This is because all of the numbers being used are non-negative integers (aka natural numbers). Even the triple digit ones are one-ten or one-twenty.
I wonder why mathematicians named them that? Possibly because they come naturally? Unlike negative one point seven.