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  • Placebos work even when you knows it's a placebo though. Pointing out something is a placebo is important because many are at best overpriced scams (homeopathy) and at worst actively harmful (chiropracty). The culture behind many placebos is also rife with pseudoscience and advocates against seeking out genuine care, so you should ensure nobody gets invested into placebos past a certain point.

    One can make an informed decision regarding taking placebos if and only if one knows it's a placebo, else one will be scammed and/or harmed.

  • Besides, what would a union even be for? Since the company is owned by the workers (because it is owned by the state) any union action would just harm the workers themselves! We don't want to encourage economic self-harm, do we?

  • Yes, but every liquid has a vapor pressure because some moleciles always evaporate - else anything wet would never dry unless heated to water's boiling point.

    For mercury it's fairly low at room temperatures but because it accumulates in the body, frequent exposure to unsealed mercury is harmful.

  • "We are deeply saddened by the loss of any marine life," the officials said, adding that the Geneva-based MSC Cruises follows all regulations designed to protect whales, such as altering itineraries in certain regions to avoid hitting the animals.

    Translation: We don't give a fuck what happened because we do the absolute minimum to abide by laws we lobbied into existence, therefore we will not face any consequences.

  • "Variedades de español"

    During much of its history, and especially during the Francoist dictatorship (1939–1975), the Catalan language was ridiculed as a mere dialect of Spanish.[60][61] This view, based on political and ideological considerations, has no linguistic validity.[60][61]

    Wikipedia: Catalan language

  • Trump is more pro-money than anti-China

    Biden has done significantly more damage to China's economy than Trump, by far. See https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-reelection-china-xi-jinping/676129/ for example.

    Besides, China supports every single party causing harm to democracies.

    For instance, there's a reason the German fascist "We should reopen concentration camps for Antifa" party has more popularity on TikTok than all other German parties combined. TikTok's promotion of fascism is even worse than Musk's Twitter.

  • False, the '=' is transitive, meaning:

    A = B and B = C implies A = C

    The symbol you meant to use is the implication arrow: =>

    Trans women => women

    Cis women => women

    Black women => women

    Lesbian women => women

    This means: If the left statement is true, the right statement must also be true. If the left statement is false, you don't know whether the right statement is true or false.

  • Killing 50% of any one people is genocide, right? For example, the Nazis killed up to 50% of European Romani people and it is classified as a genocide.

    Let's assume killing 50% of n peoples is genocide.

    Since killing 50% of n peoples is genocide, killing 50% of n+1 peoples must also be genocide, else a number N would exist such that killing 50% of N - 1 peoples is genocide but killing 50% of N peoples is not. The existence of such a number N would be quite contradictory, as it would imply one could undo genocide by killing more people. Additionally, if one were to first kill 50% of N - 1 people and then kill 50% of one more people some time later, both events would be classified as genocide, since killing 50% of one people is assumed to be genocide.

    Therefore, Thanos did in fact commit genocide.