candybrie @ candybrie @lemmy.world

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Because discrimination based on certain things is pretty reasonable. Not allowing convicted sex offenders to work in schools is a type of discrimination. Not wanting kkk members to hang out in your bar is a type of discrimination. Even "no shirts, no shoes, no service" is discrimination.

Some people also get mild to severe reactions to pizza. They're sensitive to night shade. Or lactose intolerant. Or have celiac's. Or are allergic to one of the toppings.

North America and South America are 2 continents in a lot of models. What definition are you using that has them as one? I'm always pretty skeptical of the ones that have Europe and Asia but then just America.

If we're shooting for the stars, for election reform, I think we might need proportional representation. First-past-the-post is only one problem in our first-past-the-post, winner-take-all voting system.

Shou was talking about the person confusing the two. Sturgies was talking about the person staring into the void. Confusion ensues

That's not what that said. The USDA tried to raise how much tomato paste was required to count as a vegetable which would make pizza not count. Congress said no, pizza still counts.

In 2011, Congress passed a bill that barred the USDA from changing its nutritional guidelines for school lunches. The proposed changes would have limited the amount of potatoes allowed in lunches, required more green vegetables, and declared a half-cup of tomato paste to count as a serving of vegetables, rather than the current standard of 2 tablespoons (30 mL). The blocking of these proposed higher standards meant that the smaller amount of tomato paste in pizza could continue to be counted as a vegetable in school lunches.

I don't know how you can read that article and come away thinking Michelle Obama's efforts made school lunches worse. Unless by worse you mean healthier but less popular. The only reason people were attempting to get ridiculous things categorized as a vegetable was because they actually now had to have half a cup of vegetables.

Generally, how DNA tests work is by selecting points in the DNA and comparing the two samples. The more points you compare, the more likely you have a true match. If you don't compare enough points, or pick places in the DNA that are unlikely to have much variability across the population, you'll get all matches on those points and say it's a match. For paternity testing, you're looking for ~50% matches.

Though, in this case, it does look like they were just making stuff up:

Richot said she was coached to ask women seeking prenatal paternity test kits about times in their menstrual cycles and the dates they had intercourse with different men — information that is useless for a DNA test.

Staff put the dates into an online ovulation calendar to narrow down the possible biological father, she said. Richot then entered the information into a form that went to Tenenbaum for signoff.

"[Tenenbaum] would always make a comment like: 'It's definitely this one [the biological father]. It's this one, it's got to be this one,'" said Richot.

Ah yeah, the trans community. Totally didn't already know they were generally not accepted by Abrahamic religions. Weren't just given a tiny glimmer of hope to desperately hang on to that they might be accepted. Also are Catholic because Catholicism hurts the right people.

And it's not like we don't love other fungus. Any yeasty bread contains fungus (yeasty breads include most nonquick beads or flat breads and like cinnamon rolls or pizza crust).

Does delete not work on lemmy? I realized my mistake like 2 minutes after making the comment and deleted it.

At&t lost a bunch of people's SSNs

Why do they even have SSNs to lose?

To check for terrorism

(Also/but) that doesn't mean they need to store it.

Be honest. Which word actually makes sense?

"Also" doesn't make sense in context.

I think this miscommunication is more on you for taking it as an attack towards yourself when it was pretty clearly suspicious towards at&t, not you. In the future, I suggest trying to read things as charitably as possible. It will make forums a much more pleasant place if you don't immediately assume aggression based on pretty innocuous words.

You know what the plan to store a lot of nuclear waste in America is? Bury it in west nowhere, Texas.

The problem with your analogy is either the people of the religion need to view it as botulism or the vast majority of society needs to view those people as botulism.

The people of the religion are at best going to see it as tobacco. I hate tobacco; smoking isn't pleasurable, it just makes me feel sick. But there are people who love it. You and I may see their religion as devoid of anything good, but to them it's good. They are often born into it and want their religion with the negatives you and I see. It has nothing to do with liberal Christians.

And it is not liberal Christians that make it so we don't reach the threshold of the vast majority of society not tolerating the bad Christians. The bad Christians are a sizeable enough part of society on their own to guarantee that. And as a society, we're fairly geographically sorted. So even if they were only 5% of the population, they'd still often be surrounded by like-minded individuals and be able to wield political power. Plus, they're still people. Even the most evil people generally have some redeeming qualities.

How?

I didn't say waste your vote on 3rd parties. I said to get out of this christofacist death spiral, we probably need to fix our voting system. Obviously, that isn't going to happen in one election cycle. But we need to be pushing that reform. Because the next election cycle isn't going to magically be any better than this one without it.

Just electing someone who isn't a christofacist isn't a solution. You need the choice to stop being between X and christfacism every election. X is going to lose an election at some point. People are going to stop believing that this is the most important election and of our lives, and we need to overlook anything wrong with X.

I'm not sure how we fry this fish without fixing our voting system. There's no real incentive for anyone to do better in the current system.