Lemminary
@Lemminary@lemmy.world
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 4 days ago:
Umm I think he told everyone who would listen.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 6 days ago:
And an unsuspecting seasoner! 😋
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And cockroaches, too. They’ll haul ass and scurry away every time. They know.
- Comment on Great Mug 1 week ago:
I say they do in the same way that I care about the world in general, but I don’t think they pay much attention to layfolks for the purposes of their work.
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 1 week ago:
Future physics will be modern magic!
- Comment on Mafs 1 week ago:
Damn, and I just scored some gummies! It’s my lucky day.
- Comment on Your grandma's mine 2 weeks ago:
I agree she should go for the PS5, but also, grandma’s dad and doubt she cares.
- Comment on Cube me 2 weeks ago:
No, but they should. On me.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 weeks ago:
There a few many reasons why plastic bottles aren’t the best option for some medications and it comes down to the technical specifications of the drug as well as drug safety regulations.
Iirc, bottles aren’t optimal for formulations that result in friable (brittle) tablets, or those that need to be packaged in a reduced oxygen environment so that you can take out a tablet individually without exposing all the others to regular air, and so that they’re easy to handle and transport individually without exposure to contaminants in the environment up to the moment that they need to be ingested.
I encourage people to look deeper into pharmaceutical technology. It’s a fascinating field full of surprises.
- Comment on that is crazy! 2 weeks ago:
Wataru Futanari. You sly bastards! 😂
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 2 weeks ago:
Lol I think I’ve seen a few nature docs in my life
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 2 weeks ago:
Hymenoptera* 🤭
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit, will my stinger fall off if I, umm, sting someone?
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 weeks ago:
What anecdotes? The woman who called dozens of churches and only got 3 willing to provide emergency food for a hungry child who had been starving? You can listen to these calls yourself in the video I shared. Notice that I’m not arguing about food pantries, but rather churches not being willing to help adequately.
And still, your emphasis on food pantries is exaggerated. Food pantries were invented in the 1960s and are a distinctly American religious invention, so naturally, they would be primarily religious. What’s more is that your article even mentions the negative effects that these food banks have and their questionable efficacy:
Despite the rise in charitable food, there is a lack of evidence supporting their effectiveness in addressing the main issue of food insecurity. At the individual-level, the charitable food system has been shown to contribute to stigma and shame among patrons [13–15], offer poor nutritional value [11, 16], provide insufficient and inconsistent food supply [11–17], consist of limited food choice and variety [16], and exacerbate pre-existing chronic health conditions [11, 18, 19]. Furthermore, “pantries spring up wherever someone is moved to create them” [20] (p221). In this way, the geographical distribution of food pantries may not follow any systematic pattern or necessarily reflect need. Many food pantries operate out of churches and volunteers are often motivated to volunteer because of their religious commitments. Given these circumstances and undercurrents, faith is an important and dynamic element of the charitable food system. However, faith-based affiliations within the current charitable food system is unknown and likely context-specific.
I also found this:
a study involving case studies in Indonesia, Fiji and Samoa (Thornton, Sakai, and Hassall, 2012) showed that the contribution of religious groups in providing disaster relief and welfare services to their members and advocacy for the poor is often present but not always comprehensive or positive. The influence of religious groups in the public sphere and as institutions can also exacerbate unresolved tensions between different ethnic and secular groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0272-3
Regardless, food pantries and poverty in general are symptoms of great social inequality and of a society that doesn’t prioritize welfare, despite its religious devotion. So why confine ourselves to questionably effective religious-based initiatives? I’d rather compare the overall state of caregiving between religious and secular nations.
I concede that religion is useful for bringing communities together and alleviating the hardships of poverty by providing people a coping mechanism, but it’s by no means a towering force over secular initiatives because the desire to help and contribute to charity is innately human. Religion arguably only serves as a reminder of that with regular church attendance.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 weeks ago:
Science did not lead to eugenics. People used a young science as an excuse to advance their ideals by willingly misinterpreting genetics. Also, atom bombs are arguably more technology than science, and technology is rather neutral with its purpose.
Religion also builds food pantries, wells, and hospitals.
Do they, though? A woman called churches for baby formula and the majority of churches weren’t very cooperative. Also, even if the religious build churches, who’s to say they won’t follow some insane creed like Mother Teresa did, who willingly let people suffer because she believed that suffering led people to God? Not to mention that a lot of religious ideas tend to make people worse off, like denying blood transfusions with Jehovah’s Witnesses, or so many other topics that leave people out of proper care like objecting to abortions, prioritizing faith healing, historical opposition to preventative medicine like vaccines, IVF, etc. More often than not, religion seems to get in the way of major health interests.
What religion does do is build community, and communities come together to provide for necessities like community wells, but even an absolutely secular community would build a well. I think it’s a little undeserving to give so much credit to religion.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 weeks ago:
How is it stupid if religious people really do argue that their god as an entity is real? I don’t think the comic tries to dispute that the concept of gods aren’t.
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 2 weeks ago:
Right: a gentleman in the streets
Left: a freak in the sheets
- Comment on 94.3° F 2 weeks ago:
The final boss has decided to nap on my lap. Now would be a great time to reach for the sword but I’m incapable of moving.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 2 weeks ago:
The streamers I watch are usually incredibly talented and can pull off things I wouldn’t even imagine. They also explain the game at a very high level and can show me the boundaries that I didn’t even know existed. They also experiment with different setups and beat the game in hard mode without breaking a sweat.
Not everyone can pull it off while being entertaining and pleasant, but I think those are the ones worth watching the most.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 2 weeks ago:
Troll account. Dude’s history is atrocious and it’s been only one day.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
Glad to hear!
- Comment on Good point 3 weeks ago:
In Spanish it’s called “cacholote”. I wonder if it’s related because it’s such an odd word since other whales are called “ballenas”.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
I cut only a small hole from one of the corners, and when I pour, I prop up the other corner as I pour to keep the bag steady. There are probably better ways of doing it but this has worked for me so far.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using plastic bags for a while now. The difference is minimal, but I think the plastic difference is big.
- Comment on Subtitles 3 weeks ago:
Or closed captioning. I’m not entirely sure.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 3 weeks ago:
You big, hairy ape! Look at you over here, with your big brain and your big ass. So much abstract thinking, and you ain’t even got a prehensile tail!
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
My bike works well enough instead.
Same here, I’ve gotten weird looks for not owning a car. But hey, at least I got a pair of nice legs I get complimented on twice a year. lol
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Chuck it onto the stinking pile of insurance and privatized healthcare.
- Comment on So how was your year in review? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t mind such a feature if it were on-demand, with the option to delete, and limit its visibility. I think it’d be a nice addition to Lemmy so long as it’s user-focused.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 4 weeks ago:
the left as an implicit admission that the left is politically weaker
That’s not my conclusion from all this. Presidents like Biden and Obama cared about the law somewhat and tried to play by the book, which only seems like their hands were tied when they weren’t. The same goes for other politicians who do get away with a lot of shit. The difference is that Trump likes to make a spectacle out of it.