ConTheLibrarian

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Honestly that would explain the similarities between religious superstitions and the things people have admitted to believing as a child on ask Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We need enough people to agree on both a vehicle and a direction.

  • There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the current government(s) but don't agree how to create change; be it through the current system, major modifications to the current system, or even more severe changes.

  • There are a lot of people who don't want wide spread poverty/suffering, but don't agree on how that problem should be dealt with; be it through universal income, massive public projects, or wealth taxation and better competition regulations.

IMO we need a new digital/decentralized/open-source/transparent 'social media platform' that can replace the current easily manipulated electoral systems.

We need ideas & policies to be independently actionable from the partisan politics that afaic specifically exist to mitigate change and maintain the influence of money in policy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

I got a cat at 18 for the same reason I don't want kids lmao. I like kids. I also like dogs. But I like leaving the house for more than 8 hours more and for that you need a cat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup. They just got their satire lessons from the same place as Babylon Bee.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Its worth noting that they had completed "15 to 20 contracts previously" and that they had negotiated previous contracts via text message. This process became the norm during the pandemic.

In other words it's within this context that made it agreement... not that thumbs ups can universally be used to agree to contracts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Glad to see the reddit tradition of just commenting without reading any of the source material is going strong /s

But for real my dude. You got a problem with chemicals in your meat? How bout those crazy steroids and antibiotics they pump your chickens/cows full of so that they don't die of disease before maturation/slaughter? What about all the chemicals in the low quality feed they give the animals? Or the processing to increase shelf life?

The beauty of this technology is that it avoids all those problems as well as their chemical solutions. It uses mitosis, aka the same naturally occurring process all cells use, to grow meat in an isolated environment that disease cannot thrive. Meanwhile we can use genetic modification to improve the quality of the protein. The end result will be healthier, more sustainable and have a significantly longer shelf life.

And this technology is only going to improve.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

French Revolution: May 5, 1789 – Nov 9, 1799

Invention of 'Internet': 1969

Turning off the internet/social-media will only throw ~~gas on the fire~~ grease on the guillotine me thinks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Than there's the element of sites going down. Redundant conversations serve as a form of backup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The technicalities are above my head but I don't see how/why.

  1. Couldn't other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?

  2. Doesn't make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.

  3. Wouldn't everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That being said, sorting by awards was kinda useful. Except do away with reddits ridiculously specific ones. Keep it to stuff like Gold, Helpful, Hilarious.

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