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  • LwL@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneanarchy rule
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    7 days ago

    That line in particular isn’t an ideology, it’s a fact. Committing murder is illegal, but if I want to, I can still murder someone. More generally, systems can be put into place to prevent behaviour, but anyone can still try to get around them.

    (I’m not a full on anarchist since it doesn’t seem practical but I do agree with many of the ideals.)


  • How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.

    I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.

    Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.




  • The original audio after mastering is also still called a master, but I haven’t seen anyone complain about that. And that (as well as the same meaning for other media) is the word that the branch name master came from, so etymology can’t really be an argument there (though I also think etymology is terrible reasoning for renaming something in general).


  • There’s also the possibility of having genuinely good intent, but still speaking entirely from your own conjecture of what might make others uncomfortable.

    Ultimately, you should always talk to the people actually affected and take action based on that. But anyone can and should start the initiative when they think something is harmful.


  • Just to add: Germany (and probably other countries, but I’m not familiar) also has a special job type “working student” with some tax and insurance benefits (usually net pay after health insurance of a little under 1000€/month for a 20hr week), which is also a good way to gain experience while under a student visa and in the best case switch to full time employment at the same company (or another one, where you would then at least have some experience working in the country already). We have a few students from outside the EU in my company that are doing/did exactly that.

    Of course those jobs don’t grow on trees either, but it’s a thing that to my knowledge doesn’t have an equivalent in the US. Hiring students is much cheaper for companies so quite a few are searching in spite of the low hours (20/week is the legal limit) and usually no experience.


  • I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.

    I will be eternally pissed at people that don’t because then I find that question on google 5 years later and they’re telling me to google it which I did…


  • I wouldn’t even deny that in a sense my views on “race” and gender are extremist, even if my first thought was the same.

    Like, “it doesn’t matter people are individuals” is pretty much by definition on the extreme end.

    (Well there’s also “it sadly did matter in the past and even if we instantly stopped all racism and sexism the results will linger so we should see what we can do to get closer to actual equality faster” but that seems like a different axis, even if to conservatives it probably seems “more extreme”)


  • That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.

    A company that’s controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that’s most of them.

    To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there’d be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can’t or aren’t willing to take.



  • There was no value judgement in mine (or the other guys) comment, that’s entirely your victim complex. Of course I would rather china not try to destroy our local markets but that is very very low on the list of things to hate the ccp for and I can’t say it’s fundamentally morally wrong in the world we live in either.

    It’s just a fact that it’s subsidized and your propaganda that it’s cheap because china is just better at manufacturing is a flat out lie.



  • LwL@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldAssumptions
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    17 days ago

    It isn’t terribly hard to just address both and see who answers.

    Also the same logic would apply to racial profiling so while I’d agree that which person is addressed first is a pretty minor issue, it’s important to also consider the impact on the people involved.



  • We went down the slope once people started using it as the next euphemism for “retarded”.

    At the same time, to my knowledge autism (and ADHD for that matter) aren’t well enough understood that we can say for certain “all these things we consider autism are caused by the same thing”, it feels more like a grouping of symptoms and as usual you get the diagnosis it if it significantly interferes with your daily functioning.

    I can tell you that it very much did (and still sometimes does, though it really helps that most of my peers now think similarly) interferes with my life that people seemingly expect me to know magic to understand what they mean, and inversely their magic that works on everyone else malfunctions on me and gives them completely wrong ideas.

    But I am also entirely capable of living life on my own, and fundamentally it does make sense that there needs to be some distinction between someone that needs constant assistance vs someone that is mostly fine if people show some basic attention to not sensorily overload them/can mitigate the issues largely on their own as long as no one prohibits it.

    The thing is, it is very much a spectrum and outside of the clear “incapable of surviving on their own in society” and “does fine but people think they’re weird” there’s a ton of “does generally fine but if multiple people start talking at them at once they might shutdown”, “is caused distress by a few basic tasks but can deal with it, it’s just a stress factor” and “needs some active assistance, but is mostly independent” and people (rightfully so) neither want to be told “well your problems aren’t real because you seem fine from the outside” nor “you’re too disabled to live a normal life” when it isn’t abundantly clear that that’s the case. And trying to distinguish between the extremes will necessarily lead to that for a lot of people.


  • LwL@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneelectruleician
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    19 days ago

    It really isn’t, it’s the scientific term for a feature in a whole bunch of animals…

    Like holy shit context matters, and I don’t mean that in a “it’s fine if it’s not meant as an insult” way, because people have a right to ask to not be referred to a certain way regardless of intent.

    But also the tumblr links ask me to log in so I can’t tell if they would reveal this as sarcasm or they have an actually convincing argument.