steeznson @ steeznson @lemmy.world

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I think many social "issues" can be resolved with empathy after speaking to an individual on a human level instead of grappling with an abstract "issue".

Yes, I'd like to think I'm open to having my mind changed about things. I try to follow both left wing and right wing media (New Statesman and The Spectator respectively in the UK) to try to get both points of view on current affairs.

Cancer is an umbrella term for a huge variety of diseases and once you reach a certain age you're likely to have at least one of them. It's just not worth treating if you are in your 80s/90s.

I kind of think the "fuck cancer" online discourse is a bit misguided since it's the price we pay to have regenerating cells.

Yes, combination of the exhange rate and external market factors

• Dark Souls + DLC
• Metroid Prime
• Super Metroid
• Persona 3 Portable
• SMTV:V

Edit: Might swap DS for Sekiro

In Scotland we had a VHS the class watched when we were 9/10 which had a basic diagram of intercourse. The voiceover said, "Note how they fit together, like a jigsaw puzzle."

Seared into my brain. I remember asking if the sperm from the video "could think" like tadpoles did. Never got a proper answer!

Then secondary school had lessons about the reproductive cycle in mandatory biology class. Slightly later, when we were 14 or so, they had demonstrations about how to put on condoms.

Edit: btw does anyone know if sperm can think? k thanks

Argentina has made huge strides towards fixing their inflation whereas Turkey has a megalomaniac leader who refuses to even ackowledge it exists.

To be clear, almost every argument contains a fallacy in it. Having a fallacy in an argument only introduces the possibility of it being wrong, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's wrong.

An example of a valid argument is like:

P1: Socrates is a man P2: All men are mortal C: Socrates is mortal

The conclusion is guaranteed to be correct if the premises are correct. Most scientific arguments are technically invoking a fallacy or are invalid in some way, due to the extrapolation from an experiment in lab conditions to a more general conclusion.

I'd also have a pre-Ghibli film as my favourite with Lupin III: Castle of the Cagliostro. Although hard to argue with Mononoke or Nausicaa.

Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.

You pretty much need networkmanager for eduroam. If you are a wpa_supplicant enthusiast you need to swallow your pride. Otherwise no issues with using linux for higher education.

Learning Latex for your dissertation will make referencing easier, as an aside.

They should teach basic philosophy in schools; common formal fallacies and such.

We need to be able to express 0 and 1 as integers so that functionality is just being overloaded to express another concept.

Wait until the person who made this meme finds out about how many bits are being wasted on modern CPU architectures. 7 is the minimum possible wasted bits but it would be 31 on every modern computer (even 64b machines since they default to 32b ints).

I wish people didn't hyperfixate on labels so much these days. I feel like it causes more problems than it solves in terms of creating an identity someone needs to stick to instead of letting people just be themselves.

I disagree with this. You can already see a recent example of Canadian consumers avoiding US imports, creating pressure on US companies, and the US government reacting by making moves to curtail the original tarrifs proposal.

Obviously the Canadian boycott was only one component but I believe it did have a meaningful impact.

Kind of agree with you re:plastics. Last time I read about it they could only be recycled once into inferior quality plastic. Ironically in this case I'd suggest voting with your wallet is a solution to the plastic problem since businesses will react to more consumers switching to responsibly packaged products like paper bags for fruit + veg from a local grocers. One of the large supermarket chains in the UK, Waitrose, switched to paper bags due to public pressure in the past few years.

"Euphoria" has been popping up on my news feeds more frequently in the past decade or so. First jokingly, like the /r/atheism post that got a lot of mockery, "in this moment I am euphoric..." But now in a more traditional sense of the word in articles like this. It's interesting because I'd always associated it with intoxication, like it is a private experiential state that an individual has entered, so it had a slight negative connotation but obviously there are these positive situations for using the word too.

A linguistics student should write a dissertation on semantic shifts for words online (I'm sure this has already been done by someone).

Pretty much never off tv from what I can tell. I don't live in the states so don't have any exposure, but pretty sure my weak joke doesn't make much sense.

Can't say too much about the episode but think it could have been more harsh. I don't work for the crown company, that seemed completely trashy and of questionable legality.

You son of a bitch - I'm in!

Managing data pipelines doesn't exactly give me the skinny on how to beat the house.