Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world

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No legal system is immune to miscarriages of justice. Is it better to imprison real accusers, or falsely accused offenders?

You say, as you spell 'The Illiad' in English, the earliest instance of which was translated in the 1600s.

Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece

Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare

(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)

Girl boring guy quirky.

Your brother met someone, was immediately concerned about why he was crying, and it stuck with him weeks after never seeing him again.

That's a wonderful display of empathy, not just some childish complaint. When we talk about how boys and socialized differently from girls, this is it. How we respond to kid's feelings is how they perceive their own emotions. And if we cue that it is something they ought to grow out of, they will grow out of it.

Everyone loves to talk about Norwegian welfare as the pinnacle of social policy while conveniently forgetting that it's a tiny country of 5.5 million people backed by a trillion dollars of oil money from the state.

Edit: I love how everyone glosses over the population size as if it has nothing to do with policy making and the politically stagnant environment of the US.

The same top doctors and scientists responsible for perpetuating systemic biases in modern medicine against women and POC?

The same top doctors and scientists responsible for diagnosing 16x more boys than girls with ADHD because of antiquated diagnostic criteria that were solely based on white teenage boys?

The same top doctors and scientists who treat every woman with abdominal pain as a drama queen while they suffer from ruptured appendices and endometriosis?

The same top doctors and scientists who treat chronically ill patients as drug seeking hypochondriacs instead as people who have been failed by a medical system that does not treat them as reliable witnesses to their own bodies?

There's a certain kind of privilege to be able to hold such confidence in the medical system without having to worry about medical gaslighting and abuse, and then use it to ridicule people who have been subjected to mistreatment.

Make no mistake, I'm pro-vaccination and pro-science. But scientists and doctors are human with human biases, and it is reflected in the quality of care received by people who are the subject of implicit and explicit biases.

Autoimmune diseases: 'off with her head!'

I really hope he isn't wearing that all day. Cats are sensitive creatures and even plastic chains can snag their fur and overstimulate them.

That's where I draw the line too. It's unnatural and people shouldn't go into bathrooms with 1cm gaps in their doors.

AI slop. Get this shit out of here.

L-men

If you think weed should not be legalized, then you should be consistent and apply the same to alcohol and tobacco. Both of these substances do far more harm than weed with far fewer medical properties.

If you see a bear off trail, that's normal.

If you see a man off trail, you are being followed.

How hard is it to understand?

It's not about which one women would rather fight, is about which one they would rather encounter when they expect to be alone.

Also, the worst bears can do is maul you to death on the spot. The worst men can do is rape, torture, and maim you for weeks before killing you.

We don't have to romanticize the present either.

People still work 10-12 hours a week except they still have to buy their own groceries, cook food, clean the house, take care of their kids, and every other logistic that goes into housework. The idea that people always worked more and had less leisurely time in the past is one often used to downplay the impact of unpaid female domestic labor in the past to justify to expecting it of every person in the present.

Moreover, preindustrial workers only worked 1440 hours annually compared to the modern standard of 2080 hours. And that does not even include unpaid domestic labor.

Yes, it's great to have all the social advances and modern comforts that we do. But humans are not machines where by indefinitely increase our quality of life we can expect an indefinite increase in hours worked. Just because we have smartphones, AC, cars, and whatever modern luxury you want to include, it doesn't mean that suddenly we can work 12 hours a day every day and mentally stay sane.

There's a rope. He's not free-soloing.

Or is it just satisfying to put down other people's accomplishments from our keyboards?

The idea that people before us lived worse lives is one often used to obscure the clinical nature of standards we attribute to quality of life such as lifespan, infant mortality, food security, and housing. This is because it allows corporations to trivialize the impact of doubling the workload by normalizing the 40 hour work week and housework and child care, what used to be two people's worth of work, into one.

Are we living 'better' lives? On paper, sure. Are we living happier lives? That's hard to say.

Japanese work culture when you can't leave until your boss does.

Ah yes, systemic biases definitely don't exist in research because researchers are perfectly indiscriminate human beings and poor research has never led to swaths of the population being hurt or neglected. /s

Girl boring guy quirky.