JackGreenEarth @ JackGreenEarth @lemm.ee

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In the Cambridge International AS and A Level coursebook it says that there is scientific evidence for acupuncture.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04001-4

I try to follow truth whenever it leads, I guess the closest was when I was younger and wanted dragons to be real, but I didn't really believe it.

Acupuncture isn't a pseudoscience, anyway, it's science. It has been actually proved to work.

What's boring about the magic system in Harry Potter? Can you give specific examples?

A broken heart? 💔❤️‍🔥

Nazism was the ideology of the Nazi party in 1930s Germany, and Fascism was the ideology of Italy under Mussolini. The main difference was that Nazism had more of an emphasis on racial purity and racism, whereas fascism was more focused on totalitarian, authoritarian control.

In the context of insulting a modern day extreme right wing person though, they're pretty much synonymous.

Biggus Dickus

It was similar for me as an LGBT+ person. Ironically, my internet was censored, but I found out about trans people through Scratch (.mit.edu) at the age of 13. Also found lots of YouTube videos that were helpful to me as an agnostic atheist surrounded by religious people.

Social media also allows people who would be isolated or in echo chambers in IRL friend and community groups to be exposed to diverse people and viewpoints. It's a double edged sword. For me personally, I know the Internet was crucial in getting me out of my IRL bubble as a young adolescent

The only real solution is to reject social media entirely.

...you say on social media.

I understand why, but you've got to admit it's ironic

Doesn't work in the app so well. Additionally, there's no read history, so if you click away from a post and close the app without commenting or voting, and have posts marked read hidden automatically, it's gone forever

I wish there was a way to subscribe to posts on Lemmy so you would get notifications for replies, even if you didn't create it.

It's definitely not green.

I relate to this meme so much

As a neutral observer, it doesn't seem to me that you've really tried.

That doesn't sound like a utopia, it sounds like a The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas situation.

Very much against conscription. If the country is worth dying for, people will volunteer. Otherwise, it is cruel and unfair to force people to suffer for a country they didn't choose to be born in.

To clarify for the commenters who seem to think anti conscription = pro Russia, no, Russia is an authoritarian dictatorship, and conscription is unethical in all countries. Democratic countries should model the moral behaviour.

The one that kept me alive was that I couldn't make the world better for others, even in a small near-insignificant way, if I were dead. And it would be a bit pointless to die if everyone else is still going to live a life of suffering, especially as I can't be sure reincarnation isn't true.

Ah, I thought it was a really clever statement about how they don't give you anything. But images failing to load are cool too

Unfortunately free speech is under threat from people across the political spectrum who don't seem to realise that if they can censor opinions they find displeasing, others can censor their opinions too.