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- Comment on Dawkins 5 days ago:
Interesting, thanks for sharing. It really does seem out of place to suddenly reference the suffering of Muslim women in this context.
He seems to elaborate in that he just thinks this case was an overreaction on the side of the woman who felt uneasy, but that of course is a different discussion. We’re not comparing suffering here. I understand the negativity he seems to have brought up on himself better now.
- Comment on Dawkins 6 days ago:
Do you have a source for that; what I could find in a quick Google about his statements on rape is his arguments on X is bad and Y is worse. Which is more of a logical argument, but this does not include “a Muslim would have done worse”.
Quote by him: “Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that’s an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”
These statements are bound to be controversial as people might somehow interpret X is not bad as Y is worse. But I would disagree, this is more of a thought experiment in which you can always have a worse situation.
- Comment on Dawkins 6 days ago:
His wording is a bit harsh, but I don’t think what he says should receive such a backlash. He expresses hard stances on religion as well, which can hurt people in a similar way as that’s also part of their identity.
I think he’s not entirely accurate here though, as there can really be biological mixes / nuances in the sex of people. Even if you exclude the gender discussion on top. It’s all just a gradual thing I’d guess, even possibly inconsistent in ‘percentage’ on different parts of the body.
And all in all it’s also dependent on our culture how we perceive some things as feminine and masculine.
I don’t get why we can’t agree that biologically people tend to be on a multidimensional spectrum, which sometimes is too ambiguous for the naked eye to pin a binary value on. Even scientifically it could be difficult to determine. Above all, on the gender side we indeed should have the courtesy to trust how someone feels and likes to be perceived in this world.
But we can also not blame people for expressing uneasiness if the biological sex and gender are too far apart in how we defined it culturally over thousands of years. One cannot avoid some conflict there.
Hopefully we can try to better ourselves and respect others, in both ways.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
But if you cut the corpus callosum of the brain in half, it’s possible to have two operating systems that conflict with each other in actions in the body.
- Comment on Very understandable, have a nice day 3 weeks ago:
I’m afraid I sometimes am that guy, but with my glass of cold water. I instinctively say ‘aah’ after my first sip.
Thank god I’m working at home half of the time.
- Comment on isopods are friends 4 weeks ago:
It’s somewhat saddening that them dying is still an inconvenience to us.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
A song was listening to used the text ‘find me on Miami concrete’ just as I was reading this. Hope your bro doesn’t randomly get that.
- Comment on Uranium 🤤 1 month ago:
Helium would definitely be an easy win for the wolf.
- Comment on I'm never lonely cuz i got these little guys with me :) 3 months ago:
Awesome, thanks, exactly that!
- Comment on I'm never lonely cuz i got these little guys with me :) 3 months ago:
Floaters are one thing, but what about the internal electric / static activity you can see, what is that called? I was always way more intrigued by that than some eyeball sludge.
Do you see a reflection of neural activity or something? Just like floaters they’re only visible when looking at larger plain things with 1 colour. They seem projected, and less obvious than the floaters but more common in your whole view
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
The point is, laying all these people off with performance as reason protects Cloudflare in not having to pay extra (which would be legally needed if the employee was not at fault).
This is probably not any kind of proof she can use, but it does make people aware of how Cloudflare operates.
It’s understandable companies have to fire people and as an employee you’d probably do best to accept the harsh reality of a business. But if they really sell fake causes of lay-offs (not only hurting the employee mentally, but also financially by bypassing rightful compensation, by law), this should be known by the public.
To be fair though, we cannot confirm her statements to be true either. But I think it’s an interesting share nonetheless.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
That’s true, although I believe you still have to give permission to an app to use this (at least on Android). Not to say that people won’t accept things way too fast.
- Comment on Shame. 4 months ago:
It feels so weird to me that the small change in degrees might actually kill a virus. I mean, wouldn’t all viruses by now have become accustomed to “warmer climates”?
Or is it a cat / mouse game, our bodies being able to heat up more and them getting more fire resistant by the year. Was a fever less hot a couple of hundred years ago?
- Comment on Humans Against Shitting 4 months ago:
Even if that would mean that we keep growing in size, fattening up completely with all we ever consume?
- Comment on How do people understand each other? 5 months ago:
An underpowered one; In Another World With My Smartphone, trying to make a hotel understand that my wallet was stolen, using Google Translate, while they increasingly seem to question my sanity.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 5 months ago:
Only let the new “last month” have one extra day would fix this. That would break the Weekdays, but perhaps that’s not so bad as recurring events like birthdays and holidays are then not always destined per se to be on the same weekday.
- Comment on Anyone remember anything about 2021 5 months ago:
I’m using a mood app, and apparently 2021 was one of my best years ever. Isolation, taking hikes, cycling a lot and less social obligations.
- Comment on Next level 5 months ago:
Memorize your code while tripping on shrooms, try to access it accidentally on ‘aha’ moments when consuming again later.
- Comment on Gonna be a great day! 5 months ago:
In theory it could be added in addition to the open source, somewhere in the build process. Not that I think that, but it could.
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
A bunch of cells in rapid development with the potential to become a human being. Murder is a strong term, but in a broad sense I don’t think your insinuation is wrong per se.
This might be getting a bit controversial, but for the sake of discussion:
The important thing here is, do you mind if that potential for life is taken away. In this case we place priority on the human being that eventually has to dedicate her life to that potential. And is it more important than the already existing, conscious human being that has to dedicate her life to it (especially when there are physical / mental problems involved)?
It comes down to why we live, and why must we live? Personally I believe trying to avoid (potential of) suffering is a more reasonable concept.
If one gives life to a baby, you give it a potential for suffering which it otherwise does not. I’d say the ways one can suffer is of a greater weight than to be happy. So if you go that route of creating life, you better be damn confident that you are in a good position to do that.
In that philosophy ‘murdering’ a potential with a large chance of creating more suffering to the collective is not that bad. One might view this differently when the being is conscious and might actively not want to die, as we bring the complexity of individual human choice to the table and what worth that has; but I think we can agree that is not applicable on the potential of a human being discussed in this topic.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 6 months ago:
Can I select all races?
- Comment on Scrooge mcduck discovers bankruptcy 6 months ago:
Well, he has a position to uphold; what about future generations growing up with a broke Scrooge.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 8 months ago:
I think I understand your viewpoint, but personally have a different opinion. I’m not going to a restaurant to socialize with the waiter; although some of those interactions can be pleasant it’s still just a functional transaction to me that can go wrong and could be be optimized. My main focus is the people I’m going to the restaurant with and the food/drinks.
QR for the win for me, but I agree fully that most of those apps kinda suck. I hope time will fix that.