Worx
@Worx@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on The science speaks for itself 12 hours ago:
You can’t just use the same words and call it a rhyme… peanut
- Comment on Not the same 5 days ago:
I’ve never confused correlation with causation and I’m not dead. I think I know why
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 1 week ago:
Wait, different circumstances have different laws? Tell me more!
Would a traffic warden tell a surgeon how to operate? Would a traffic warden tell a footballer how to kick? The how come a traffic warden can tell me where I can park my car?
- Comment on I hope it doesn't find you 1 week ago:
Imagine letting an email find you. Best tactic is to clear it from your notifications because you’ll deal with it later, accidentally forget about it for three weeks, and then it’s too late for whatever the email was about
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 1 week ago:
Almost
Title
Memories are what get wacky. The main character (as well as the aliens who “arrive”) can remember the future as well as the past due to learning the alien language. It’s based on the possibly-not-linguistically-sound Sapir-Wharf hypothesis that says the language you speak influences the way you think. The aliens use a circular rather than linear writing system so they think of time in a non-linear way
- Comment on Gold 1 week ago:
I wnt gold
- Comment on The more you know! 2 weeks ago:
Thank you bees
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
She’s also 24 dating a 48-year-old so probably not the brightest 🤷
(sorry)
- Comment on We cosplay as free individuals on the weekend. Sometimes you just gotta get another taste of freedom. 3 weeks ago:
It’s also possible to play PS5 whilst being to ill to work. In civilised countries, you can (and should) take a couple of days off for minor illnesses - don’t spread that shit at work
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 3 weeks ago:
You can have a pull cord in the bathroom or a switch outside, as I understand it
- Comment on Halp. 4 weeks ago:
Coming from a non-American, an inches-only tape measure is incredibly cursed
- Comment on Aright, Elon has definitely gone too far now 4 weeks ago:
Of course you freeze frame on the exact moment it looks like a swastika. He was actually just in the middle of a really big sneeze that happened twice accidentally one after the other. Definitely he’s a good person and should be the
presidentvice presidentjust some guy in government - Comment on What is the most toxic instance of Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
lemmynsfw. Nudity and dirty language everywhere. It’s no place for a good upstanding Christian to be
- Comment on Anon has cold feet 4 weeks ago:
Chop the fuckers off, show them who’s boss
- Comment on Please give balls the appreciation they deserve 4 weeks ago:
Broke: stop touching pregnant women without their consent
Woke: touch their sperm-doner’s balls instead
- Comment on BRB, need more cheese 4 weeks ago:
They don’t want you to buy “cheese”, they want you to buy “my brand of cheese”
- Comment on Do sunrise and sunset objectively look different or do they just feel different? 4 weeks ago:
Yes! Also, I can take “real” photos and store them on an SD card and never see them again, or I can have all my photos in my pocket for whenever I want a reminder of the good times I’ve had, or I want to show a friend
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 4 weeks ago:
A very thoughtful and considered response.
Thank you :)
I would disagree that only >18 year olds can give informed consent
No disagreement needed, because that’s not what I said. I specifically said “children” because like you, I think that 18 is an arbitrary age
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 5 weeks ago:
I realise I didn’t explain why it’s bad for its own sake, as I was asked to… but seriously, murder is wrong whether it’s for eugenics reasons or just because you like killing. Do I have to explain that?
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 5 weeks ago:
Eugenics doesn’t solely kill disabled people (who, by the way, were also targeted by Nazis), it’s about improving humanity by removing any humans who are undesirable. If you take that first step in removing undesirable disabled people, it’s an easy step to removing undesirable mentally ill people, queer people (because being gay or trans is often considered a mental illness), Jewish people, etc.
It sounds like I’m making a slippery slope argument, and I am to a certain extent. But there’s also a very famous poem about this - “First they came…”
Consent is not usually part of eugenics programs, and the original post was talking about killing children who definitionally can’t consent to such a big decision. This is why we don’t let children buy houses, surgically transition gender, or have sex with adults. And I did specifically mention that painless suicide is an option that I believe a truly free society should provide - for adults.
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 5 weeks ago:
Yep, hence my comment about other countries doing it also.
- Comment on I'm old 5 weeks ago:
And yet anyone born in 2009 is only 12 years old. Kids these days just don’t put any effort into growing up
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 5 weeks ago:
That’s called “eugenics”, and fuck no. Historically speaking, the Nazis were a huge fan of eugenics and that was their defining bad trait. Governments cannot allow their citizens to murder freely just because they don’t think someone else’s life is worth living.
(I know a lot of countries dabbled in eugenics around that time, but they were also morally abhorrent to do so, and I’m not a historian to go into more detail)
Since we’re talking about “should”, rather than the world as it exists today, parents should consider if they can care for a disabled child before they get pregnant. The government or community should have a safety net in place for those children who can’t (or won’t) be cared for at home, and it should be easy to access and high quality. Finally, in my opinion, it should be possible for adults to opt out of life painlessly if they so choose, once they have had a chance to experience a full life and decide it isn’t for them.
I’m sorry that you’ve had such bad experiences, but allowing parents to kill their children legally is not the answer.
- Comment on The lost days 5 weeks ago:
it’s arbitrary
Start at […] one or zero.
Coward. My century starts at 54
- Comment on Sometimes I forget to hold the vodka tightly enough. 5 weeks ago:
Maybe try using a glass or a bottle to hold the vodka, instead of just holding it yourself? Anyway, GL licking your keyboard clean :)
- Comment on How to wake up during nightmares? 1 month ago:
I’ve had very similar dreams, especially the part about constantly fake-waking up. One method I’ve found to work is to shut my eyes then open them in a kinda exaggerated / forceful way to wake myself up.
Always have a book by your bed and grab it, because you can’t read when you’re asleep. If you read one paragraph and then go back and re-read it, it will be different each time when you’re dreaming
- Comment on JeSUS 1 month ago:
TIL ace people aren’t “fully human”
- Comment on My hotel elevator has a toilet 1 month ago:
Every elevator has a toilet if you’re drunk enough
- Comment on Anon's loving mom 1 month ago:
Can’t be a successful YouTuber if you don’t make videos
