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  • The environmental impact of shipping from overseas is costly

    Ocean freight is actually REALLY efficient. On a per-item basis, the environmental cost of the boat is typically less than the environmental impact of the trucks that handle the rest of the journey.

    Of course, that efficiency means we move a LOT of stuff over the ocean, and it does add up


  • WiseThat@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.worldSex Rule
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    2 months ago

    The goal of the anti-LGBT relious nuts is to force people into straight marriages because that’s all that matters to religious zealots.

    They know that if kids practice safe sex they won’t get pregnant and ‘shot gun marriage’ rates will go down.

    They know that if kids discover their gender or sexual identity is non-cis, non-het, or non-monogamous that they might not wind up having a traditional marriage.

    The know that people who only have 1 partner in their lifetime are much, much less likely to successfully leave an abusive partner, meaning there’s a higher rate of divorce if people learn that having multiple partners in your life is normal and okay.

    They know that kids who are educated about healthy sex and consent in relationships are less likely to go along with a child marriage or an assigned marriage.

    They know that removing sex ed means more teen pregnancy, more intimate partner abuse, and more child-rape. For religious people whose only goal is to get young women into marriages, those are good things.

    Example: An actual elected official in the state of Missouri defending his stance that “Parents Rights” includes the ability to marry off their kids to adults at age 12, because “Do you know any kids that have been married at age 12, I do, and guess what, they’re still married”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H6UJ-uCrgc

    These people legitimately believe that it’s morally correct to kidnap a 12 year old girl and force her to be entirely subserviant to, and dependent on, some pedophile husband who controls everything they do, because them being trapped in that awful situation means that there’s one more marriage in the world.




  • WiseThat@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzMythbusters
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    10 months ago

    This is what conspiracy theorists don’t get. The world’s scientists are not skeptical of your claims that water has secret spiritual memory because they hate you, they are skeptical because the claim you make, if it were true, would be so important and world-changing that they want to be absolutely sure of it before they endorse it.

    The difference is that, to a scientist, “this would be amazing if it were true” is not a good reason to believe it anyway