Stoneykins [any] @ Stoneykins @mander.xyz

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You just left out the rest of the sentence when you quoted "... but you'll be glad to have them when it matters, or rather you will be missing them when it matters."

And the point is most people don't get in daily car accidents, and putting on your mask doesn't necessarily mean you will be exposed to a disease that day. They are a type of safety precaution you sometimes use in situations where they don't do anything, and that doesn't mean that they were useless, it means no dangerous stuff happened.

That kind of danger, the kind that only gets you 1/10 times, is the kind people are famously bad at understanding. Our instincts say if someone survived doing something unharmed that it is safe, but sometimes riding in a car is safe and sometimes it isn't. We get too easily comfortable with things we shouldn't have because their consequences are delayed or inconsistent, and it happens everywhere.

Eta: I find it odd that the masks bother you more than the spreading disease that they are a "symptom" of. Personally, for over a decade now, I had hoped that sick people around here would start wearing medical masks on their own prerogative, like many other places/cultures already do. It feels on par with washing your hands to me. But then it became a political issue...

Cancer is when they rise up against you, and your human cells stop being a part of a macroscopic animal and begin a new life as a species of human-dna-having single cellular parasites

I thought this at first but after reading the lyrics instead of listening I don't really think he is complaining about rich people explicitly. "rich men north of richmond" is just a poetic way to say politicians, imo, and so the song seems just anti-government. I guess you could consider the first part about workin all day has working class vibes, but that isn't a condemnation of rich people it's just talking about how life sucks right now.

People seem to only want their accounts on "general use" instances that are already pretty popular.

Which is... bizarre. There is no downside to having your account on a more niche instance (as long as it isn't so niche that it gets turned off), and there are arguably disadvantages to having your account on a more popular instance.

Hah ok, now I get it.

I avoid arguing in a way that could be neatly divided into your two categories, on purpose. I try to find practical ways to talk about moral issues. Emphasis on try.

Hmm... An argument could possibly be made that that was some sort of racism, but it probably would be subconscious, unintentional, "supporting the system" kindof racism. In my experience, trying to call that out as racism directly just gets people all worked up arguing about what defines racism, and it is better to just try and make direct arguments about the topic at hand than open that can of worms every time.

Obviously this isn't a very consistent rule, just a general thing I've noticed. Many times calling something out as racism is necessary for the conversation to be productive.

Idk what you mean by normal disagreement, but I have no intention of being hostile about this if that is what you mean?

This is kinda my overall point: worrying too much about the money being used "correctly" or "efficiently" above all else is a misdirection to keep the debate stagnated, and keep the issue of actually making reparations indefinitely in the future. The conversation of how the money can/will/should be spent isn't a conversation that the countries that got rich off of slavery should be having, it is a discussion that the descendants of slaves should be having. Trying to make the decisions for them is just more of the same fucked up "we should be in charge of them for their own good" mentality.

I don't really agree with that either. Organized collective spending would be better but giving people some cash does generally help. For every one person that would use it irresponsibly there are 100 people that would just pay bills and buy essentials, and that is helpful.

It is so weird to me you can somewhat accurately describe the issues that still exist today related to slavery and then just "but I don't think we should give em the money because they probably wouldn't spend it responsibly". What a wild assumption. Why don't we let the descendents of slaves have the money and figure out what to do with it instead of taking the attitude of "we know how to spend it better than they do so we should keep it and just fix things ourselves"? Do you really think that they wouldn't have the desire to invest it in things like education and lifting up their communities?

There needs to be like an information campaign or something... The average person doesn't realize these things say what they think you want to hear, and they are buying into hype and think these things are magic knowledge machines that can tell you secrets you never imagined.

I mean, I get the people working on the LLMs want them to be magic knowledge machines, but it is really putting the cart before the horse to let people assume they already are, and the little warnings that some stuff at the bottom of the page are inadequate.

It's just what they are trained to do applied to a situation that makes it harder to ignore.

They show up to an incident or make one, get "scared", execute someone in a panic, and then tell the media whatever bullshit is necessary to make them sound like they are in the right. You literally cannot trust early coverage of incidents where police are involved because they lie to reporters like they breath, and idk why but they believe them every time.

It doesn't work as well when the person they executed was another cop. The best they can hope for then is "accident" but that excuse doesn't cover up their incompetence.

The reason not to build those things is we don't know how yet? Not well, for power production.

There is a clear path forward. The only place where nuclear fits in the puzzle is specific locations where wind and solar are non-viable.

Also each of them resists different type of foods better. Wax paper will hold up to wet food, and parchment paper holds up better to oily food.

This is not anything I can prove just personal experience so take it with a grain of salt

I knew they had a more official name than "tasty banana" but I couldn't think of it, thank

My teeth crave violence, I am simply a host

This is good. I don't agree with copyrightable works by AI because I don't agree with copyright at all, at least not as it currently exists. Patents, too.

It has always felt like a contrived game to me, but that game has far too much impact on peoples lives.

They did, it is there under blocked instances

https://lemmy.world/instances

I will never try the tasty bananas.

The only bananas I will ever eat were thought of as trash by the people that got to eat the tasty bananas.

The closest I will ever come is the artificial flavor in the runtz candy bananas.