Whats_your_reasoning @ Whats_your_reasoning @lemmy.world

In case you can't tell, I'm passionate about rationality and critical think

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It's so backwards too, since the ultra wealthy are the ones who most dodge paying their fair share of taxes.

Couldn't we just add equality for sexual orientation and gender expression to a new list of rights, along with the things already mentioned?

OP even said, "Today one could improve on it," implying that the referenced constitution isn't meant to be a comprehensive list for the modern day.

Lisa gets it. From “The Italian Bob,” an episode where the family visited Italy:

Ooh nice choice! I’m using a protest wallpaper too. Though mine’s that “accidental Renaissance” shot where someone graffitied “EAT THE RICH” on the Utah capitol building, with three cops standing around while a crowd protests behind them. It’s just too beautiful.

If we sane people ever manage to win the country back, that picture’s totally going into a history textbook.

Time to find some caricaturists to help prepare the next round of protests signs.

I might get downvoted for saying this, but they're the same kind of assholes that blanket-hate vegans. Whenever a person shows an ounce of concern for an animal, there's a psychopath out there ready to tear them down because of it. There's no logic to it, just a bizarre hatred driven by an inability to comprehend empathy.

Sadly, having more reusable bags than you need can result in producing even more single-use plastic. From the article New Jersey Bag Ban Followed By Increased Use Of Plastic:

the reusable bags New Jersey shoppers have been forced to use since the bag ban took effect in May of 2022 are rarely reused, only two to three times on average. With many people in New Jersey now using reusable bags as single use bags, the state’s plastic and paper bag prohibition, though passed with the best of intentions, may be doing more harm than good in practice.

Reusable bags are manufactured with 15 to 20 times the amount of plastic used in the now prohibited single-use plastic bag, notes the Freedonia report. The reusable bags that New Jersey residents now pay for at checkout or when their groceries are delivered, according to researchers, need to be used anywhere from 11-59 times in order to have a net benefit for the environment.

Though I would like to note that New Jersey made the stupid decision to not only ban plastic bags, but to ban paper bags too. It's a move I can't understand, except to assume that there's some corrupt lobbying behind such a stupid decision. If the point is to be environmentally friendly, it makes much more sense to use a renewable source like paper.

but if you have an attached garage

Not sure why that's necessary for the process. Sometimes I do what you said with the things I buy, but I'm a standard poor living in an apartment. I gotta park my car outdoors, like a filthy animal, but I still do it.

Though I do find it easier to bag while putting things into the car, rather than when taking it out. I've already got to lug everything in and put it all away, so it's nice to have one fewer chore to do when I get home.

Especially right before bed. You never know where it might end up in the morning.

UTIs (urinary tract infections) really fuck with people experiencing dementia. Sometimes the way a person acts under a UTI is the first sign of such cognitive decline. They’ll be fine one day, but when infection sets in it’s like they become another person.

However, that’s for people who ordinarily have self-control. For Trump, it’s anyone’s guess.

It makes me happy to see the phrase "lightning bug" used so often here on Lemmy. I grew up calling them lightning bugs, yet I felt like it's been ages since I heard or saw that word. Then I started coming here, and I see it in every post about this topic. The term brings me back to my childhood, picturing the way my parents' backyard used to light up every summer evening.

Ha, great observation. For those that don't know - the fireflies/lightning bugs known to the east coast don't live on the west coast.

Apparently there are species that live west of the Rocky Mountains, but they are active during the day, and even at night the light they produce is too dim for the human eye to perceive. So the west coast doesn't get the beautiful light shows that the east enjoys.

Jellyfish that sting swimmers are just exercising their castle doctrine.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams always knew exactly the right words to say.

Do sponge baths count?

I lived in a van for a while, where I mainly used a wash cloth and a bucket. I had several plastic water bottles that I would pack into a backpack, bring into a public bathroom, and refill under the tap. When I got back to the van, one got mixed with no-rinse soap (that I'd gotten at a camping supply store), and 2 or 3 were used for washing my hair. On occasion I did go to the beach and use the free outdoor showers, but that wasn't a viable everyday solution.

Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.

I went looking for more information about that term and wasn't finding anything. But then the dictionary suggested Monopsony, which I figure is what you meant?

I wish I could agree, but my schools had two types of teachers: newbies who were desperate to prove themselves, and tenured teachers who gave no fucks. Even the "cool" science teacher couldn't admit the truth when I came in with three different sources proving he had been spreading a myth to my class. There's no excuse for teachers who can't admit they were wrong - they have one job, to educate. Spreading false information is the opposite of what they should be doing, and I cannot forgive that.

Which is why my elementary and middle school teachers hated me. Take a fiercely logical kid who has no qualms about pointing out contradictions, put them up against an authoritarian (who, let's be honest, probably works with kids because they're guaranteed to have power over them), and you're gonna end up with an angry adult and a kid who's regularly put in detention.

I have zero regrets. Authoritarians can get fucked. The only good thing I can surely say they'd ever done, was that they managed to radicalize me before puberty.