Darthjaffacake @ Darthjaffacake @lemmy.world

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Yeah you're marked on how focused the essay is. Also since they've already submitted the essay this is just to help it be found so it has to have the same title

pirate bay is alright, I managed to find metástasis on there a while ago but if you're looking for something in English 1337x.to is probably your best bet.

I would be incredibly surprised if gen z have problems reading since they read a lot more than any other generation due to the internet. Also I don't think there is a real test for critical thinking in general, especially not one that factors in age.

Wow that really is good

My Rx 580 is by far the best thing I could've possibly bought when I did, 8gb vram and I bought it for less than I could sell it for now, and I bought it right before the semiconductor shortage so it was hella cheap and I still use it 6 years later.

That's an interesting take, I think they look pretty similar even when from different races but it's interesting that there's no default state of being born for them.

Yeah I mean it's nice that it can just be whatever is run at a table. It doesn't have to be "official" to be fun.

I love that English has a way of marking nouns/verbs in a sentence but I hate that when written it's completely erased (although sometimes a comma can help) "The old man the ship" threw me for like 5 minutes before I realised that man can be a verb.

I would say English has the least variety in terms of accent, though stardardization can definitely be important (regional British English from old people can be super annoying if English isn't your native language)

Shithole.

This is just silly. Your group of people has never done anything bad so it's all okay is never a good argument since people are all pretty much the same (I mean it's wrong to treat people differently depending on the actions of people within the same wider group)

Lots really aren't

On that we agree, yeah it is awful the shit people have to put up with hiding that they're trans or gay for fear of any number of horrifying things. But everyone I've met from the south isn't like that, I'm gay and it's never been brought up once, hell their daughter is too and she's open about it with no issue which is a super brave thing to do. I'm not saying don't be critical of your culture (it's pretty much a requirement for progress) I'm just saying that an outsider looking in and saying that everyone is awful is always a bad thing.

The KKK isn't a culture they're a cult and they're not a group you're born into, to be a member requires that you be violently racist whereas to live in the south you just exist so the comparison really isn't fair. I will again say that it's never alright to dislike people for existing alone

Man just stop being a dick, I'm super close with a huge southern family and a ton of their friends and every single one was a super nice person and they weren't in their home country, it's not okay to hate a group of people or a culture as a whole

I think mandatory care is the way to go, if the government knows that you have an addiction it seems silly to do anything but make sure you have the tools to quit and have no option but to quit. People will do whatever is convenient, path of least resistance and all, there's just no incentive for an addict to report themselves if they're gonna be thrown in prison for it.

I think all the proposed medication to slow aging is cheap. Although I can unfortunately imagine some horrible world where the prices go up just because people want it and the patent stops other companies making it. (Can we just like not have patents last longer than 5 years)

This is actually a really interesting question, personally never. Not like heat death of the universe never but I don't feel like there's a point in theoretical forever young immortality where I would want to die, there's always more shit to do and I've never felt like I need to up my game or something. I'm curious what you guys think though

Cleo Abrams did a good video on that and her conclusion is that if the stuff does work it's not some magic reversal or absolute no aging ever technology, I think we've got a whole world away before we can get no aging. Adding a few years to someone's life or more realistically preventing diseases due to faulty organs is something we can all benefit from. I don't even know if this stuff will be done during my lifetime but I can hope that the next generation won't have to watch themselves break down slowly.

My great/granddad/uncle's woodworking tools and hammer. For my 17th birthday he just gave me a ton of them and I couldn't have been happier, they're made of really nice brass and spruce I think and they work wonders. Mfer says it's not worth much and proceeded to give me a tungsten carbide (world's sharpest alloy) plane that I maintain to this day. Also Beaver craft tools from Ukraine hold up pretty well and funnily enough come with a plaster because they're goofy goobers.