Allero @ Allero @lemmy.today

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Why?

One can call a group of men "males", and no one bats an eye. But once anyone uses "female" to refer to a woman, it's a shitshow.

People do use them as nouns. For example, in statistical/scientific context: "Among males/females...", or outside: "I'm a male"

And I certainly saw the word "males" being commonly used, which is pretty much why I'm so baffled by the need to banish its counterpart.

Incels may call women whatever, but actively banishing the word because it was appropriated by some group of weirdos isn't gonna help - rather, it will only deepen the flawed interpretation of a very regular and normal word, assigning context to where there was none.

I'm a proud male. Why can't there be a proud female? This only means she is a woman, after all.

Driving above ~150 km/h is never ever safe, which is why Germany is such an outlier, while about every other country does not allow for it.

Autobahns are significantly more deadly than other roads.

This is basically Formula-1 race car/small aircraft speed.

Regular cars will only get you to, like, 160-180 km/h at full gas.

In other words, this is insanely fast and potentially very deadly.

At speeds above ~150 km/h, even on a well-organized highway, you won't be able to control your surroundings and have to rely on sheer luck to survive, unless you're a professional race pilot on an empty road. Also, unless the car is equipped with special gear for improved road grip, it will become uncontrollable because it will literally start to hover a little.

We're talking risk for the system here.

Sure, I had to make that distinction. I only mean personal home use here.

The latter. Even without mortgage, here in my city it would take 150 months of an average salary to buy a fairly modest apartment, and we're speaking average, which is very far from median. With mortgage...you simply wouldn't be able to cover the interest payments, so it's out of the question.

Also, government tries to step in to compensate a bit for the families with children. But overall, the insane interest rate reflects in everything. I currently pay out a loan at 35% APR.

Can we stop with this for once?

Men are male, women are female. These words are interchangeable, and whoever decided one should be somehow bad or derogatory is deranged. Claim the words for what they are. Use "male" and "female" in appropriate context.

Honestly, my current stance on immutable distros is: why don't you have a mutable distro and just try to follow the best practices without being forced to?

Install flatpaks, use Distrobox when something is only available as a standard package, but doesn't actually depend on non-isolated system interaction, etc.

This way, nothing breaks the way it does with immutable distros, but you still have a reasonable level of confidence in your system.

Wait until you hear about mortgage in Russia

26% APR. On a mortgage. No, seriously.

Those are older/richer people that saved enough money to buy new.

I would really like it if we could exterminate all species of fungi, mosses, lichen as well.

Congrats - you just destroyed yeasts and useful molds (both are fungi).

Now we don't have bread and most alcoholic beverages, skin is lacking natural protection, and yes - no more blue cheese.

In seriousness, this kind of opinion shows lack of understanding as to why those ecosystems are preserved in the first place. Not only are they directly responsible for producing things like oxygen, they prevent a lot of natural disasters (drought, cataclysmic hurricanes, land erosion, etc), and are able to naturally replenish their own resources, unlike agricultural land that either needs influx of matter from natural ecosystems, or requires finite resources extracted from Earth (for example, apatite).

As much as we think of ourselves as the conquerors of nature, in the long run we still cannot exist without it. We didn't figure it out.

Absolutely!

Essentially yes.

Normally, the amount of neutrons generated in a fusion reactor is an issue. Here it is an asset.

Good, I also think the "some money" part in the end can be removed. It's obvious and at the same time makes it sound a bit more rough than it needs to be.

...or you do neither of those?

Alright bud, you went too far into angry trolling territory.

Gosh, what .today has become these days...

This is one of the most problematic parts about vigilante justice and why it should be gone for good, regardless of what they are trying to achieve.

Nope, I'm not getting there. Sure, ephebophilia is a thing, and so is hebephilia, but in a given context there's no point in this distinction.

I'm only saying that many cases of child abuse do not involve pedophiles/hebephiles/ephebophiles/whatever. Children are the easiest to take advantage of, and this is what drives quite a few hypersexual non-pedophiles to become child abusers despite not being predominantly attracted to children/minors to begin with.

Regardless of reasons, whoever abuses children deserves punishment - although I would much prefer for the police, not vigilantes, to be involved in it.

Guess this is what happens when you meet real people online who are not artificially enraged - a productive conversation!