I agree it was ridiculous, but why would the woman validate the question by giving the most obviously abhorrent response? That just made the question no longer ridiculous, because she answered in the affirmative.
In other words, "can a mother murder her toddler?" is only a ridiculous question if everyone in the room agrees on the obvious answer. This time, not everyone did... somehow.
A zoo in Tennessee says it has welcomed a rare giraffe that does not have any spots. The spotless giraffe was born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, on July 31 and the zoo says experts believe she is the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe on the planet.
So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling....
Don't be too complacent, of course. I've seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It's not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can't help losing their composure.
Businesses are in it for the money, employees tend to be one of the larger expenses, so maintaining some bullshit positions that would cost them money doesn’t make fiscal sense, so what’s up?
TouchRetouch has switched to a subscription model. The older app cannot be downloaded by new users. The new app allows you to restore your old purchase and sets you to a core plan, where all the old features from that app still work. But, new features will require a sub....
To hear almost anyone tell it, racial preferences in university admissions are dead. But this pervasive sense of finality belies a curious silence in the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions. The Court never expressly overrules the line of precedent that has allowed universities to discriminate for the last...
Despite all his rage, he's still just a Rick in a cage. It's almost time to dive back into dimension-hopping chaos. Rick and Morty Season 7 is coming soon. Stream seasons 1-6 now on Max: http://bit.ly/3hRw9rU...
If Reddit had been any indication, the debate around Roiland's culpability seems to polarize around the idea that since the charges were dropped he evidently must not have been guilty, and the idea that even though the charges were dropped, we have, through sheer coincidence, just now decided that his various past behaviors warrant immediate cancellation anyway (and that he's totally guilty no matter what, either way).
I feel like the justice system needs to evolve in a way that protects people against social ostracism of this sort, should they turn out innocent. Even if Roiland himself is truly guilty, the fact that we live in a system where someone else who is innocent could feasibly end up in similar circumstances is unacceptable in a society as connected as ours.
I am not sure how this relates at all to the "justice system", however. Are private organizations only allowed to part ways with an employee because they committed crimes? This is not really about "guilt" that can be proven or disproven in a court case, and there are already mechanisms in place for people to be compensated if they can show that they were unfairly treated or if contracts were violated.
It wasn't a fully formed proposal, honestly. You make a very good point.
Mine is Hariyama. These sumo wrestler Pokémon interest me being really big, bulky, and strong. Supposedly they can lift whole trucks and throw them long distances.
Summary: “Beyoncé is selling “listening only” tickets for her Renaissance tour. The seats are behind the stage, so you can’t see any of the set or dancing, but they only cost $157 compared to the ~$900 fans have been paying for regular US tickets.”...
I think there are a lot of people who need this reminder. People act like "the market" is some autonomous, intelligently acting entity that we're powerless to control. If demand and prices go up, well, nothing to be done! Humans are mere slaves to their own creation!
ECFR: with possible exception of France, whole of Europe “has almost completely renounced the idea of greater strategic autonomy.” “We are so vassalised that we can’t even admit to it. If we did, then people might figure it out and that would be terrible.”
The number of older Americans living alone is on the rise. Nearly 16 million people aged 65 and older in the US lived solo in 2022, three times as many who lived alone in that age group in the 1960s. And as Baby Boomers age, that number is expected to grow even more, raising big questions about the country’s future.
Heyck says she got divorced in her 50s after her son turned 18.
“It was really more of a working relationship than a full marriage,” she says, and Heyck was emotionally ready to be on her own.
But the financial transition, she says, wasn’t easy. For years, she struggled to make ends meet, living with roommates and couch-surfing as she waited for a spot to open in income-adjusted senior housing.
“I was an artist. I lived on the edge financially. I didn’t have a 401(k) … I always thought that I would be married. That was the big surprise,” she says.
How was it a "big surprise" when it's implied that she wanted the divorce to happen? You have an unstable job, divorce your spouse, and then go all surprised Pikachu when it occurs to you that your finances are unstable?
The satire of 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove” may become a terrifying global reality by 2024, a coalition of scientists desperately warn.
Over 100 medical journals are simultaneously sounding the alarm that the potential for world-ending nuclear conflict is “great and growing” amidst states like Russia dangerously stockpiling their doomsday payloads.
“A large-scale nuclear war between the US and Russia could kill 200 million people or more in the near term and potentially cause a global ‘nuclear winter’ that could kill 5–6 billion people, threatening the survival of humanity,” they wrote in unison.
“Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. Even a ‘limited’ nuclear war involving only 250 of the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world could kill 120 million people outright and cause global climate disruption leading to a nuclear famine, putting 2 billion people at risk.”
The red alert follows January’s frightening moving up of the Doomsday Clock — now 90 seconds to midnight — in what the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists called “the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.”
This time last year, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres also said we are in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”
Now, the medical journals have opted to intervene in the geopolitical crisis because the threat is now considered to be “an urgent public health priority and fundamental steps must also be taken to address the root cause of the problem — by abolishing nuclear weapons.”
The journals also stressed that the intervention of medical science during the 1980s — under the leadership of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War — “helped to end the cold war arms race by educating policymakers and the public on both sides of the Iron Curtain about the medical consequences of nuclear war.”
“The danger is great and growing. The nuclear-armed states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us.”
The current crisis at hand most stems from Russia’s ongoing invasion and subsequent war with Ukraine, according to the Bulletin.
“Worst of all, Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict — by accident, intention, or miscalculation — is a terrible risk,” the organization warned in January.
But recently, these threats are becoming much more concrete.
Former Russian President and Vladimir Putin placeholder Dmitry Medvedev, now the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, recently said “the apocalypse isn’t just possible but quite likely,” according to the Associated Press.
The pointed comments come as Russia has moved short-range nuclear weapons into Ukraine’s neighboring nation Belarus. NATO has yet to confirm the validity of the maneuver.
“We must take up this challenge again as an urgent priority, working with renewed energy to reduce the risks of nuclear war and to eliminate nuclear weapons,” the medical journals wrote.
If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn't hate the place so much. There's a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it's not because they're beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.
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ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)
Classic New York City apartment with a bathtub in the kitchen (streeteasy.com)
Tennessee zoo says it has welcomed a rare spotless giraffe (www.cbsnews.com)
A zoo in Tennessee says it has welcomed a rare giraffe that does not have any spots. The spotless giraffe was born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, on July 31 and the zoo says experts believe she is the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe on the planet.
Something tells me this is Q's doing (sh.itjust.works)
Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?
So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling....
Not Happening (lemmy.world)
tired of lurking here's a meme
https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/c0ceeda7-c4f8-439b-aa09-ccb760d19d52.jpeg
One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it (www.theverge.com)
Look a look at these clowns running the diving subreddit (kbin.social)
https://www.reddit.com/r/diving/comments/155r24i/state_of_the_subreddit_update/...
If bullshit jobs are *really* bullshit, how do businesses justify the expense?
Businesses are in it for the money, employees tend to be one of the larger expenses, so maintaining some bullshit positions that would cost them money doesn’t make fiscal sense, so what’s up?
The Internet Archive is an important resource and needs to be saved. (www.techradar.com)
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ADVA Soft Changes its Pricing Structure for TouchRetouch (medium.com)
TouchRetouch has switched to a subscription model. The older app cannot be downloaded by new users. The new app allows you to restore your old purchase and sets you to a core plan, where all the old features from that app still work. But, new features will require a sub....
8BitDo stuffed 16 buttons into its hand-crampingly small Micro controller (www.engadget.com)
Arthritis can be yours for $25....
Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something?
Currently I am a uni student, working 4 days a week during the summer, moving to about 3 during term time....
Delete it. (lemmy.world)
HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on multifunction printers when ink runs low (apnews.com)
The Peculiar Silence in the Students for Fair Admissions Decision [FULL TEXT] (quillette.com)
To hear almost anyone tell it, racial preferences in university admissions are dead. But this pervasive sense of finality belies a curious silence in the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions. The Court never expressly overrules the line of precedent that has allowed universities to discriminate for the last...
Rick vs. Rick Prime: Music Video | Rick and Morty | adult swim (www.youtube.com)
Despite all his rage, he's still just a Rick in a cage. It's almost time to dive back into dimension-hopping chaos. Rick and Morty Season 7 is coming soon. Stream seasons 1-6 now on Max: http://bit.ly/3hRw9rU...
Nintendo has filed over 30 Tears of the Kingdom patents, registering things you wouldn't even notice in the game (www.gamesradar.com)
This article takes the interesting perspective of an anti-consumer bootlicker....
Five Guys (thelemmy.club)
Favorite Fighting type Pokémon? (m.archives.bulbagarden.net)
Mine is Hariyama. These sumo wrestler Pokémon interest me being really big, bulky, and strong. Supposedly they can lift whole trucks and throw them long distances.
The only way to avoid Grammarly using your data for AI is to pay for 500 accounts (yiffit.net)
Source: front-end.social/...
Silver coin of the Cordoban Caliphate, modern-day Spain, 1002 AD (media.kbin.social)
How would you feel if a person you've slept with asks for money after the deed
Pretty much the title - I met a girl on Hinge, we decided to go grab a drink, then one thing left to another and we ended up sleeping together....
Fuck SUVs in particular. (lemmy.world)
[Music News] Beyoncé is selling $157 “listening only” tickets for her Renaissance tour. The seats are behind the stage, so you can’t see the concert, any of the set, or dancing. (finance.yahoo.com)
Summary: “Beyoncé is selling “listening only” tickets for her Renaissance tour. The seats are behind the stage, so you can’t see any of the set or dancing, but they only cost $157 compared to the ~$900 fans have been paying for regular US tickets.”...
Sounds great in theory (programming.dev)
Europe is becoming a US 'vassal', leading think tank warns (www.brusselstimes.com)
ECFR: with possible exception of France, whole of Europe “has almost completely renounced the idea of greater strategic autonomy.” “We are so vassalised that we can’t even admit to it. If we did, then people might figure it out and that would be terrible.”
More Baby Boomers are living alone. One reason why: ‘gray divorce’ (www.cnn.com)
The number of older Americans living alone is on the rise. Nearly 16 million people aged 65 and older in the US lived solo in 2022, three times as many who lived alone in that age group in the 1960s. And as Baby Boomers age, that number is expected to grow even more, raising big questions about the country’s future.
Easter egg in the TOS that we all agreed to. (lemmy.world)
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When you encounter your own posts on other parts of the fediverse. (media.kbin.social)
Browsing Reddit (i.imgur.com)
I do not pay money AND personal data (lemmy.ml)