Ginny [they/she]

People have known that water fluoridation is an international communist plot to sap and impurity our precious bodily fluids since at least the 50s!

The essence of the trolley problem is to ask whether choosing not to exercise the agency that you have is a moral choice. The fact that you may not have complete control over the outcome doesn’t make the analogy bad in and of itself.

Suppose everyone else except you had already voted and exit polls suggested Trump had won by one vote. Would you vote, then? I don’t care what your answer is would be; that is between you and your own conscience. But, is the situation really so different from the real world situation where for all you know your vote might actually count?

You can disagree that the trolley problem comparison is apt, but I think calling it “deceitful and self-serving” is a stretch.

FWIW I am from the UK and I don’t care whether you vote or not.

If you hate imperialism hard enough, a viable third party candidate will emerge. You just have to try harder. /s

I think the most reasonable assumption would be that the Democrats reckon that coming out against Israel will lose them more zionist votes then sticking with Israel will lose them anti-genocide votes. And given the amount of money AIPAC has been throwing around against anti-zionist candidates in primaries, that might not be an incorrect reckoning.

The UK was not open and tolerant in the 70s, which is why there was one race riot after another on the 80s.

The UK has definitely gotten worse in the last few years or so, possibly a decade, but before that was a golden period just after terrorism-related Islamophobia had died down and before refugee-related Islamophobia kicked in where the UK was probably the best it ever was on terms of racial attitudes.

You can tell it’s British by the fact that there are two white vans and not a pick-up truck in sight.

I don’t think the contrarianism is Lemmy specific. Whenever someone becomes problematic for whatever, there’ll always be people taking to twitter or whatever to say “well they were never really that good anyway”. And it is almost always just a cope, except in the specific case of Rob Schneider.

I would have expected that he’d have to shell out for a huge fine.

Bell did prove mathematically that a local hidden variables theory is unable to explain observed quantum mechanics. This doesn’t rule out nonlocal hidden variable theories, but a) that is called superdeterminism, and b) that would mean that there would be faster-than-light interactions, and that is in many ways weirder.

I also like:

“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A vote for JD Vance is a vote for an America where every new vehicle sold will be upholstered with rich Corinthian leather.

Either a comma or parentheses are what would make the difference.

I will tell the students whom I married.

Now the students know who was at your wedding.

I will tell the students, whom I married.

I will tell the students (whom I married).

You’re only telling something to the students that you married.

Are you familiar with the comedian James Acaster? He has a relevant bit: https://youtu.be/Zt5qJC1xQ8A

I am no visionary but if Linux doesn’t internalize this, I’m afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix.

Maybe that’s not a bad thing? If you ask me the GNU people are missing a trick. Perhaps if they rewrote Hurd in Rust they could finally shed that “/Linux”.

It’s true. I was only ever eating bacon to keep the flying pig population in check, but now I don’t have to because the wind turbines will do the job.

Good for you. I was assaulted on a train from London to Manchester before I learnt how to drive.

Tell me you’ve never been assaulted by a drunk guy on a train without telling me you’ve never been assaulted by a drunk guy on a train.

TIL

All this time I assumed Uranus was just the Roman equivalent of Ouranos.

Earl

Squeal

Gwee

If you want to change a politician’s mind, you don’t do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.

So how do you do it?