Moobythegoldensock

@Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This exactly. One of the houses on my commute had had TRUMP spelled out on the lawn with tiles for months, and after he won put up a sign that says “Daddy’s home.”

  Democrats don’t do that for Biden, nor would they have if Harris won. A lot of conservatives seem to want Trump to command them, tell them what to do and think, and that’s what’s truly scary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan-made Half-Life 2 Episode 3 demo arrives with Project Borealis: Prologue now on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  inspired by the epic cliffhanger from Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Project Borealis represents a fan-made effort to realize a cohesive story conclusion to the episodic series.

  I wonder if this takes Half-Life: Alyx into account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but at least this one has 91% critic rating on RT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny pp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that this legitimizes their belief that there are set characteristics that define people as “manly.”

  Every 30 years or so we make some sort of social progress for women and/or LGBT people, and then a panic ensues that society is trying to destroy manliness. The Joe Rogans and Andrew Tates of the world suddenly pop up and start selling their nonsense that will magically make them the man’s men that their grandfathers were (while in fact their grandfathers were being told the same thing.)

  The solution to this isn’t to tell the loud whiners that their exact fears are true. It’s to divorce ourselves from the notion that being a man is determined by penis/testicle size, or even by having them at all. By telling the bigots that their worst fears are true, we’re tacitly endorsing their bigotry as legitimate, when we should be doing the exact opposite of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Monkeys are specifically non-ape simians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is on some calculators C is clear all and CE is clear entry, on some C is clear entry and AC is clear all, and some have a C/AC or CE/C button where it’s press once to clear entry and press twice to clear all.

  So it’s safest to mash unless you really know your calculator, because the industry can’t get its shit together, and that’s the sole reason it died (I’m assuming.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it universal that pro-lifers only make exception if the life of the person carrying the pregnancy is in danger? I’ve seen pro-lifers who make exception for rape and incest, and others who would advocate banning it in all instances, even when the life of both is at risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It ultimately is religious belief.

  Religious people believe the soul enters the body at conception, granting personhood, so abortion is murder. They also believe that people put to death will go before God, where they will be judged as evil and sent to Hell for eternal punishment.

  Everything else is just window dressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clear and simple makes things easy, but easy is not always better. Also, the “life begins at conception” position only seems clear on the surface, but if you look deep enough things get quite muddled.

  For example, is a zygote a single person? What if it later divides and becomes twins or triplets: did the twin’s life begin at conception? Did one life become two? Is a zygote a ball of life that can become one or more people?

  What about miscarriages? It’s thought as many as half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, but most happen so early that the carrier is not even aware they’re pregnant. If you come across a family with four kids, do you assume they likely had another 3-4 lost lives via miscarriage and hold a funeral for them?

  Should people start getting child tax benefits as soon as they have a positive pregnancy test? Or is “life starts at conception” only relevant when we’re talking about abortion, but conveniently ignored everywhere else?

  And what if there is a complication with pregnancy, where if an abortion is not performed both the carrier and developing human will likely die, but if an abortion is performed only the developing human will likely die? Is it now permissible? What if the carrier is a 14 year old who was raped, is suicidal, and has a high chance of stabbing themselves in the abdomen to try to self-abort if they’re not able to get an abortion: should they be restrained in a padded room until the baby is born, forced to serve as an incubator for a baby that the state will then take?

  Even when your cutoff is strict, it is not always “clear” because this is a complex issue without a clear answer.

  But to answer your question specifically:

  Pro-choice people generally recognize that abortion is not desirable, but disagree exactly what the rules should be. Abortion does the least harm when the pregnancy is a single cell (zygote,) and in the embryo stage where most abortions occur the developing human is essentially a collection of multiple cell lines becoming differentiated into tissue but not yet developing functional organs (you’ll often hear this called “a clump of cells.”)

  As the embryo develops into a fetus, the heart and brain develop and start functioning, which is where some pro-choice people start to draw a line. Others point toward viability: at about 22 weeks, a few fetuses have been known to survive with extraordinary health measures. By 36 weeks, fetuses can be live born without any extra health issues from being born early. So starting about 20 weeks, we start to recognize that pregnancies become more and more viable: that’s where a lot of people draw the line.

  A very small percentage of abortions are done late in pregnancy, typically for health reasons. Not all pro-choice people are in favor of legalizing this, but many feel that in these situations, abortion is a tough decision that is best made by a patient in a careful discussion with their doctor, not by a politician they will never meet. So while these pro-choice people may not wish to see an abortion performed within a week or two of natural birth, they do not want to outlaw it so that the option is there for people who truly need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by that? You’re an anti-natalist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Godzilla Minus One” returning to theaters on November 1st, New poster revealed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a good movie. Way better than the Legendary films.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Wild Robot’ Sequel In The Works At DreamWorks With Director Chris Sanders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The books are a trilogy, so my guess is they were always planning to adapt the sequels if the movie was successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Debacle: Todd Phillips ‘Wanted Nothing to Do’ With DC on the $200 Million Misfire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re referring to The Last Jedi, it made $1.3 billion on a $300 million profit. Joker 2 is set to flop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Are there any upcoming movies that you are looking forward?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw The Wild Robot last weekend. It was great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow Leopard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just a snow leopard, you don’t need to censor it with all that blur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb Animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glycolysis yields 2 ATP. Cellular respiration can get ATP into the 30s under ideal conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Concerned that his usual toast images weren’t converting enough sinners, Jesus decided to kick it up a notch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Minecraft Movie | Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it worked so well then! Along with the other precursors to that film, such as Masters of the Universe and Howard the Duck! All certified classics!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Cool Guide about 12 myths that movies made us believe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They would need to. Otherwise, gravity would pull them together into a single asteroid/moon/planet etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨’24’ Movie In Early Development At 20th Century And Imagine Entertainment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’ll call the film 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the Putin maneuver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, hard cutoff is 2.5 terms or 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Cameron says he is working on a new "TERMINATOR" project - "I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with (Netflix's Terminator Zero). It’s totally classified."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  T3 respects that T2 did change the future. Judgement Day’s date moves and Skynet completely changes form. “Judgment Day is inevitable” refers to a general concept of a technological singularity where eventually some sort of tech will become self aware and decide to destroy humanity. But T3 does not assume all events are fixed and unchangeable. We later see different dates and forms of Skynet in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Genisys, and Dark Fate.

  “There is no fate but what we make” is Sarah’s mantra in T2. But she doesn’t change everything: she didn’t stop anything in the time loop from T1 and she didn’t change John’s fate in the future. John’s fate doesn’t change until the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Genisys, and Dark Fate, each of which gives him different futures. Really, the biggest thing Sarah and John do is continuously push the singularity date back further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Cameron says he is working on a new "TERMINATOR" project - "I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with (Netflix's Terminator Zero). It’s totally classified."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what you mean there. The only one in the series that gets close to determination is the first one, and even that one implies the future is changeable despite being in a stable time loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Cameron says he is working on a new "TERMINATOR" project - "I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with (Netflix's Terminator Zero). It’s totally classified."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell no. Terminator 3, Salvation, Genisys, Dark Fate, and The Sarah Connor Chronicles all had their moments, and I can’t honestly say I hated a single one.

  It’s been 30 years since T2 came out. Either you’re still engaged with the franchise and interested the newer films or you’re not. Comparing everything to T2 forever is pointless, just like it’s pointless to compare every new Alien entry to Aliens or every new Star Wars entry to Empire.

  I personally like how every entry in the franchise has tried so hard to retcon itself as a sequel to T2 that it’s turned into a Doctor Who style timey wimey kudzu plot, but maybe that’s just me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noble Gases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d fart right back. There’s nothing noble about being born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Majors ‘Heartbroken’ Over Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom Replacing Kang in Next ‘Avengers’ Films; He’d Still Return to MCU ‘If That’s What Marvel Wants’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s only appeared in Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the Loki TV series so far. They were really slow rolling the new villain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could change the ending of one movie, which one would it be, and how would you change it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the first three RECs were fine with the lore, it was only REC 4 that overexplained it, and somehow raised more questions as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would I get banned here for being over active? I got banned from reddit because they thought I was a bot. And don't want to repeat the same mistake here. Thank you ahead of time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How much were you posting that they thought you were a bot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nature of Nature⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, tool use evolved pretty early in animals (some insects and fish can use tools,) though of course humans have gone a step further and use tools to make other, better tools.

  The smallpox vaccine was developed in 1796, nearly a century before the first phone and a good 20 years before the first bicycles. The tech in COVID-19 vaccines was discovered 20 years before the first iPhone, but people act like it was invented yesterday.