Note to remember: an entrenched belief has never been changed with anything less than a primary source, and even then it’s rare.

That’s why I’ve always steered clear.

Thank you for prematurely answering what the significance of all the hashtags meant. I’ve avoided the chans. Would you recommend them for anything that Lemmy doesn’t do?

Dissociating*

This isn’t addressed to OP, I’m pissing on Calvin’s premise:

Historically influential power can be gotten by being good: Jonas Salk, MLK Jr, Ghandi Gandhi, Darwin, some philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, etc. Unfortunately there’s a significant section of the population who don’t like good people (possibly due to foiling).

But assuming none of us are getting out of life alive, personally it seems like it’s worth risking being a historic level of good versus clinging to the status quo for an extra decade or two without the hope of making a difference.

In Multilevel Selection evolutionary theory there’s selection at the selfish gene and individual level, but also at group, population, species, etc levels. Those latter levels serta contribute game theory value to the community which is at least a definition of good (or moral).

Power isn’t inherently bad is the minimum thing I’m trying to demonstrate.

Terrible situation but hopefully this destruction at least enriches the soil and they don’t poison the trees more than is standard.

Well let’s see: heroin is categorized as Schedule I meaning maximally addictive with no therapeutic benefit, and…

All anti-depressants are not Scheduled at all meaning they have zero addiction potential. And meta-analyses show they do have therapeutic potential.

What good is a representative democracy when these are our representatives?

The pointer is incidental. Their comment is pointing out that globe’s are necessarily 3D spheres so (assuming it’s not a one-liner joke) OP’s post wouldn’t be consistent with “members all around” a flat circular model of Earth.

OP’s solid joke suffers from a lack of 0 vs O fluidity.

But they’re right in that the Kelvin scale doesnt take a degree symbol (since its absolute).

Hitchhiker’s

And dinosaurs existed for ~160 million years before grasses. runs to cross-reference all my illustrated childhood books’ dinosaur species extinction timelines and the presence of grass!!

Oh, bother (where art thou?)

Bats’ immune systems are insane and kinda an interesting example of game theory. From the perspetive of our dumb immune system bats are aiding and abetting criminals. But it’s actually a smart strategy.

Whereas most vertebrates try to strictly eliminate all infections, bats just suppress them. This means the former experience severe spikes in inflammation that actually damage the individual. Whereas in the latter they just have an always-on low level inflammatiom which is easier for them to adapt to since it’s consistent.

The infectioms don’t need to mount as much of a virulence response on bats because they’re allowed to persist/reproduce. Unfortunately, until humans can learn to bioengineer our own bat-inspired immune upgrade, bats will remain a vector for mutating viruses that eventually spill over into being compatible with infecting human cells. Fucken zoonosis.

Excessive noise is bad, violence is worse. Moral licensing for escalating is a hell of a drug.

Conversation here’s beyond casual, it’s implied.

Over my 15 years of negotiating (poorly) the doots of both up and down flavors I’ve learned very few things. So few in fact that they fit in this very short list:

• A subset of users downvote bad grammar, typos, and mispellings misspellings regardless of the message.

• A subset of users wil downvote perceived negativity, even if the intent was ironic, regardless of the message.

• A subset of users will downvote overly verbose or indulgent posts, especially when they DON’T start with a tl;dr: summary, regardless of the message.

• A sunset of users will gravitationally collapse and ignite hydrogen fusion, and then pass beyond the horizon of a heavenly (or hellenly) body, regardless of their masses (as long as it’s more than ~2.5×10²⁰ Earths’ worth of people).

ntl;siri: hey thx!

For completeness here goes the best steelman against GrapheneOS’ abstention I could summarize. Am I missing any other considerations because this is not strong:

Despite age verification laws empirically not working (VPN use just skyrockets), Rawls would argue that civil disobedience requires visibility and the acceptance of associated consequences. Anonymously non-complying against a democratically enacted US law lacks this structure. This makes it more akin to evasion, which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily wrong, it just weakens its high ground status.