If you invented something unique your first problem is going to be describing it to yourself. You'll need new nomenclature. The second problem is describing the unique thing to someone else.
One could argue that anything that can be nailed down by language cannot be unique because the metaphors and phrases to describe it preexisted.
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
For some reason began going down a rabbit hole thinking about this. Let's say you are blind, and reliant on a guide dog, but end up in prison for a non-violent crime like possession of illegal drugs. Are you allowed to keep the dog? No, right? But if you are entirely reliant on the guide dog to perform daily tasks, how do you...
Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.
Medical care in US prisons is largely handled by a few for-profit companies that make money by providing inadequate care or refusing care at all. Prisoners routinely die from medical neglect. Healthcare behind bars is more capitalism, not less.
Oh, and healthcare is not a right, it's the State's duty to care for people in it's custody. That means prisoners have no agency over their care. For example if you're arrested at an accident, the EMTs gain consent from the police, not the patient. This is how EMTs can administer anti-psychotics and strong sedatives on the sidewalk after the pigs have kicked your ass.
James “JP” Staples has been expelled by Phi Delta Theta. When a Mississippi frat throws you under the bus for being too racist, you're not going to have a good time.
If you want an institution that keeps the peace, protects citizens, and is accountable for use of force, then you'll have to create one whole-cloth. Because the police are not that institution and they never were intended to be.
I am not familiar with this bronze colored nut that is holding my current Grohë Ladylux kitchen faucet to the counter. Does anyone know the best way to remove this? Thanks very much in advance!...
Yet they and their descendants would go on to transform Europe and much of Asia genetically, culturally and linguistically. Among the many innovations that these steppe migrants ushered in, scientists believe, are the Indo-European languages that are dominant in Europe today, and which are spoken by nearly half of humanity....
Just going to point out the irony that modern Europeans are descended from migrants that infiltrated the Continent and interbred with the locals until their genes and culture were dominant.
It's kinda hard to describe. I recon it's a parable about American colonization and the genocide of the native people. Like a map of how a project like that gets done and who benefits from it.
It's like a melodrama in that it's light on plot, and character motivation, but without the extreme circumstances unless you count the pervasive, persistent, and senseless violence. (that the characters themselves barely seem to notice) Not exactly a supernatural tale, but filled with dream logic, oh and the literal Christian Devil is one of the main characters.
This is the only book Ive ever read twice, back to back. I got to the end and was like WTF, turned to the first page and started again.
Satan plays the fiddle. This is not just the country song, but folklore going back to Medieval Europe. The early Catholic Church frowned on dancing which the violin was associated with.
In the 19th Century, Nicolo Paganini was rumored to have gotten his talent on that instrument through a pact with the devil, which may have inspired 20th century folklore about Robert Johnson and the crossroads.
Edging plutonium into criticality with a screwdriver is like lighting a match to get a better look at a stick of dynamite. It's embarrassing that it got two people this way.
The problem is that too many people think they are thinking critically. Pushback, fact-checking, and ridicule are all seen as evidence that one is correct because the crackpots all think they're fucking Galileo.
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity....
Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility
It's ironic because the more people who accept the plot of 'Idiocracy' (2006) as plausible or scientific is evidence that humanity is getting stupider.
Had a friend with problem neighbors kids cutting through his yard to get to the store. He was friendly with the parents and didn't want to stir shit. The neighbors were super all-natural, hippie, no chemical types, so he told them he switched to a new fertilizer packed with micro-plastics and forever chemicals made by Monsanto that he had to sneak in from Mexico because it wasn't allowed in the US. That fertilizer sure worked because the trail the kids were carving filled right in that summer.
Waland is the British half of the mega corp Waland-Yutani. Sometimes called Wa-Yu, or simply "the company"
Founded by Charles Bishop Wayland, the totally not evil billionaire industrialist, Wayland LLC was known for energy production, computer technology, and planetary terraforming before it was acquired in a hostile takeover by the Japanese Yutani corp in 2099.
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Articles like this are madding to me. The author painstakingly catalogues why policing doesn't work now, and never worked in the past. What's the problem: Incompetence laziness. (personal moral failings) What's the solution: reform. (of course)
Implied is the idea that policing is necessary. That society will just fall apart if we don't pay salaries to armed, unaccountable, and violent street thugs. What could undermine this childish faith more than the fact that pigs, in fact, don't do the core service we "require" them for?
The answer is that pigs do a great job, it's just that protecting the public isn't part of it. They're job is to uphold the social order and protect the property of the ownership class.
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
“It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.
This is the most selfawarewolf shit I've ever seen. Galloway mocks progressive students, then comments how mocking progressive students is just like the Brown Shirts.
Sometimes when a defense contractor and military branch love each other very much, they do a special hug, called an engineering and manufacturing development contract.
Parents of kids who commit crimes in Tennessee will face fines up to $1,000 for each offense after the first one, under a bill that’s headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s...
The physicist and the philosopher are both claiming that time is the order in which we observe things happening, the actual dispute is over the most fundamental force in science: nomenclature.
Iran has been living with Western sanctions for almost 40 years, and never have so many sanctions been imposed so quickly as against Russia. Although their effect is limited, there is little alternative....
Countries that have to jump through hoops to get their hands on, or sell sanctioned goods is an example of sanctions working.
Y'all remember back in 2022 when certain items were hard to get a hold of because of supply chain issues? You could still get what you wanted through the one weird trick of paying a premium for it. And that was a significant factor in inflation.
The goal of sanctions is not to hermetically seal a country off from global markets, but to damage that countries economy.
A great number of the enslaved people trafficked to the English Caribbean were later trafficked to work camps in places like South Carolina. In that State in particular (may be the case elsewhere IDK), the majority of the English Colonists as well as enslaved people came from the West Indies.
By the 19th Century the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the US (1808). The British abolished slavery in 1833. Most enslaved people in the US were descendants of enslaved people already there. IDK what the birth rate for enslaved people was, but you can imagine that 100 enslaved people trafficked in 1700 could be over a thousand by the time of the American Civil War. So most of what we think of as the height of US chattel slavery was after the Atlantic Trade was in decline.
This is a common rural mentality. Animals are utilitarian and those who fail to be useful or prove to be a nuisance are a waste of resources. "useless eaters"
Unless you're vegan (and I'm not), you participate in this kind of cruelty, even if you happen to be a few degrees removed from it.
I don't think the Warsaw uprising is an apt comparison for the war in Gaza. Never-mind the inflammatory nature of the Israel/Nazi comparison. But it's just doesn't add much context or illumination to what's happening.
I think historic examples that could bring more light than heat are : Plan Dalet and the Nakba (47-48), Beirut ('82), or the First Intifada (87-93). I think it might help if people understood more about this conflict, rather than trying to retread it over with WWII.
Can you name any objectively unique human creations or thoughts that were not derived/inspired from another source?
This is intended as a very abstract philosophical question....
Camelot Rule ( lemmy.world )
How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals
I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....
This is probably the premise of a Black Mirror episode ( lemmynsfw.com )
What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison?
For some reason began going down a rabbit hole thinking about this. Let's say you are blind, and reliant on a guide dog, but end up in prison for a non-violent crime like possession of illegal drugs. Are you allowed to keep the dog? No, right? But if you are entirely reliant on the guide dog to perform daily tasks, how do you...
Romney and Blinken Admit Tiktok Ban Sought to Censor Gaza News ( truthout.org )
The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train.
Green philosophy ( lemmy.world )
Mississippi Goddamn ( lemmy.world )
Police reform legislation
Are there any bills being written that would actually fix the US policing problem? Anything meaningful in the works?
Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident ( www.arktrek.shop )
Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather (Official Music Video) [3:02 | Rock, Indie Rock] ( youtu.be )
People that start a comment with "I mean," should be fed to alligators.
Faucet removal assistance - *SOLVED ( sh.itjust.works )
I am not familiar with this bronze colored nut that is holding my current Grohë Ladylux kitchen faucet to the counter. Does anyone know the best way to remove this? Thanks very much in advance!...
Was music really better "back in the days"?
Tell me all the trash music/artists you know from around the 50s to 70s.
Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya ( www.economist.com )
Yet they and their descendants would go on to transform Europe and much of Asia genetically, culturally and linguistically. Among the many innovations that these steppe migrants ushered in, scientists believe, are the Indo-European languages that are dominant in Europe today, and which are spoken by nearly half of humanity....
Can't get fooled again ( lemmy.world )
Arguing politics in 2024 ( lemmy.world )
Which are the most fucked up books you've read?
3 May 2024 ( sh.itjust.works )
Why do whistleblowers always do this? ( lemmy.world )
2 months earlier: https://lemmy.world/post/13041885
I cast Demoncore ( lemmy.world )
What game are you playing? ( lemmy.world )
Tucker Carlson Posts Deranged Interview With ‘Putin’s Brain’ ( www.thedailybeast.com )
How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one ( www.npr.org )
Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah ( www.middleeasteye.net )
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity....
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute ( www.theguardian.com )
How do I tell my neighbors that they need to stay off my property and not let their kids trespass. Joke answers only.
People and their kids like to come over unannounced, and without permission, to look at my ducks like it's the fuckin zoo or some shit....
What book(s) are you currently listening to or reading - April 29
Hi all, I’m taking over the weekly c/Books post this week to talk about what’s happening on the First of May....
I don't know who Wayland is ( i.imgflip.com )
If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I'd be incredibly thankful...
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A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. ( www.propublica.org )
College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professor ( nypost.com )
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
is Texas really that cold and cruel as depicted in movies of the Coen brothers, the novels of Cormac Mccarthy and the movie Hell or High Water?
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High Wire Act ( lemmy.world )
What radicalized you? ( lemmy.world )
Skywalker Saga Marathon Coming to Theaters on May the 4th ( www.starwars.com )
R. Crumb gives his opinion of Ayn Rand ( lemmy.world )
Does it count as a meme if it's from 1985 but still structured like a meme?
Bill that would fine parents for kids’ crimes passes Tennessee legislature [Ashley Paul and David Royer | 04/25/24 | TheHill] ( thehill.com )
Parents of kids who commit crimes in Tennessee will face fines up to $1,000 for each offense after the first one, under a bill that’s headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s...
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Why Iran and Russia can dodge Western sanctions ( www.dw.com )
Iran has been living with Western sanctions for almost 40 years, and never have so many sanctions been imposed so quickly as against Russia. Although their effect is limited, there is little alternative....
Overview of the slave trade out of Africa (1500-1900) ( i.imgur.com )
Source: https://www.slavevoyages.org/blog/overview-slave-trade-out-africa
Kristi Noem killed her pet dog, "Cricket," after the animal misbehaved on a hunting trip, she says ( www.salon.com )
Hamas and Iran celebrate anti-Gaza war protests taking US colleges by storm ( www.usatoday.com )
Thoughts on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 07 October ( www.nationalww2museum.org )
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