Fun fact: Moon dirt, formally known as lunar regolith, is incredibly sharp. The particles it’s made up of aren’t weathered by wind or water like they are on earth, so it’s basically a soil made out of tiny tiny knives. If you breathe it in or lick it, it’ll tear your insides apart like super-asbestos.

Science success story:

Aboriginal religions generally hold that long ago in the Dreaming times, the world was cold, there was less water, and the coast was further away. You used to be able to walk to many of the islands around the Australian coast, because there were land bridges.

White people generally assumed these stories were mythological fiction, because white people are often racist and intolerant. However, science eventually figured out that 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age. The polar ice caps were bigger, and the ocean was shallower. Those land bridges were found under the modern ocean through satellite imaging. Aboriginal religions were right, and science proved that these religious histories had been preserved and kept accurate for 10,000 years!

Science wins again!

After all the Deans being posted on Lemmy, I think I want to talk about Community.

After Chang kidnapped the Dean and took over the school and was defeated by the study group, he showed up claiming to have Changnesia. Changnesia is a ridiculous lie and nobody believes it at first, but they decide to give him a chance, because we’ve all done bad things.

Over time we get confirmation that Chang faked his Changnesia, and the characters end up pretty sure of it too. But still, they don’t expose him as a fraud and they don’t send him to prison, where legally, he belongs. Because prison doesn’t solve problems.

Nobody ever trusts Chang again. Everyone knows he can’t be trusted. He can’t be given power. He’s evil. But he also has feelings, and he deserves happiness, as long as his happiness doesn’t involve hurting anyone.

May we all have our own redemption, even if it must come from something as absurd as Changnesia.

No, LLMs are heuristics

Turn off all the AI and I can’t play Halo anymore because the enemies don’t do anything

I wonder if Proton can run these old softwares

I dunno, I guess I think punitive justice is an inherently fucked up concept. When I was a kid, adults used to say two wrongs don’t make a right. At first I thought they were full of shit, but as I grew older, I learned how horrible prisons are and how they don’t make people better.

In Christianity, you have to mean it. People can’t turn their beliefs on a dime like that, meaning it takes work. You have to have done the work. Anyone who’s successfully sacrificing Jesus would basically be capable of giving a meaningful apology to the victims and rehabilitating themself.

Still, heaven isn’t for Me. It’s just not My aesthetic. When I die, I’m going to Ninuan.

Jesus actually uses two different words which get translated as hell: Sheol, and Hades. This makes sense, because most of the people around where he lived were Jews or Hellenists. Sinful Jews go to Sheol, where their souls are cleansed by a purifying fire and they cease to exist. Sinful Hellenists go to the bottom level of Hades, Tartarus, where they’re punished forever.

Neither of those is what Dante described in his fanfic.

I prefer the simple answer proposed by the Death of the Discworld: everyone is getting exactly what they think is coming to them. The final justice is that of your own conscience.

So pick a religion that aligns with your personal values and you’ll be alright.

I want to send the army to New Zealand with k-pop and beer and throw a rave in Auckland with free veggie snags for the locals.

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There’s no way to destroy cultural beliefs without mistreating people.

You know here in Australia, people have tried to “cure” religions they don’t agree with. White people have tried to exterminate Aboriginal religions. Because these religions were seen as dangerous and primitive.

Personally, I think taking people’s religions away from them on a massive population level is genocide. Aboriginal Australians have faced genocide for their religion. And to Me, this meme looks like a call to genocide.

No, the word didn’t enter the popular lexicon because people loved the French language. It entered the popular lexicon because people with disabilities were seen as acceptable targets. Citing the prior history of the word is a false etymology. There’s a reason people use that word instead of “delayed” or “slowed”. Can you imagine if I said “This rhetoric from people I disagree with is fucking slowed.” It doesn’t have the same bite, because it doesn’t use disabled people as punching bags.

Ooh, yes please!

Only one downvote that I can see, although I don’t know if anyone banned from My server is downvoting. People banned from My server tend to be right-wing reactionaries, so that would explain it. To reactionaries (and indeed most people), facts don’t matter as much as which “side” they support. Support vegan bodybuilders, and you’re implicitly attacking meat-eating ideology. So people downvote because their meat ideology feels threatened.

You can get huge muscles on a vegan diet.

Ah, sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of you getting banned from My instance for being a nazi fuck. Hopefully your home instance follows suit.

Racial minorities are less likely to have access to the resources needed to get an ID card, and the cards are more likely to be taken away by racist people in government. Your attempts to disrupt voting rights will harm racial minorities, and are in effect racist, regardless of any intentions. Because facts don’t care about your feelings.

Back then, the Democrats were right wing.

More right wing than they are now, I mean.