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Kids picking family farms is not “child labor.”

Yes it fucking is. What the hell. What else would it be? The fact that it’s the parents directly exploiting their children does not make it better.

And penicillin. I’ll gladly take the microplastics and credit scores if that’s the price to pay.

They almost certainly expected it. That’s why they’ve tried to cosy up to him, to get exemptions for their businesses.

Being attacked by a cat is annoying, not potentially lethal. Also cats don’t usually attack without reason. If a cat keeps attacking for “no reason” that’s learned behaviour. Their instinct is to run away from humans, which is what wild and feral cats do unless cornered.

Ah, yes. The Uyghur genocide: famously free of genocide.

not that difficult to be better than slavery, genocide, war and colonialism

Apparently it is, because other than constant wars China does all of those things.

Two bad things can be true at the same time.

Israel is currently engaged in ethnic cleansings in Gaza and the West Bank.

True.

Many of Israel’s neighbours would “drive the Jews into the sea” if they ever got the chance.

Also true.

The answer to genocide is not inviting more genocide.

And yes, nukes are effective as a deterrent. Look at how reluctant the West is to support Ukraine against a genocidal invasion because of Russia’s repeated nuclear threats. There’s no way any country is going to give up its nuclear weapons after Ukraine showed just how little security guarantees from the great powers are actually worth.

That was before Netanyahu brought the far right into power, and before the US gave said far right a blank cheque for ethnic cleansing (and that’s the charitable way of phrasing that).

Sadly the current Israeli government isn’t likely to leave willingly. Certainly not while they have the full backing of the US.

It’s better to be told that you can’t enter by the embassy than to be detained at the border.

What an odd way to spell Eierkuchen.

So explain all those leftist movements that ended up creating dictatorships like the Soviet Union and the PRC.

It’s a problem of reliability. If you need to be at work at 08:00 and your train is regularly late or getting cancelled, you can’t take the train to work.

Sacrilegious take but I think the world in Fallout should be mostly green and overgrown. It’s been 200 years.

Not always. In East Germany the (protestant) churches were some of the few places where organised resistance against the dictatorship was possible.

Real I’m 14 and this is deep vibes.

Nobody’s gonna stop you from doing any of that. Well, maybe from singing in public but that’s less about skill and more about not disturbing others by being loud and obnoxious.

Our conservatives aren’t literal Nazis. And yeah, the actual literal Nazis at 20% is horrifying but it’s not like they’re going to be part of the government. It’s going to be a coalition between the conservatives from the Union and the allegedly social democratic Social Democratic Party. If there’s majority for that they’ll add the vaguely progressive Greens to the mix.

Meanwhile the US has turned itself into a Nazi broligarchy.

We can still be smug. Sorry America.

Edit: and yes, this post is heavy on copium.

What if you told this girl you want to try to be friends, but please make an effort to not be so hot when you’re hanging out together. No makeup, her least flattering clothes

So basically “don’t be yourself and walk on eggshells around me at all times”. That’d make me just not want to be around you, even as a friend. Friends don’t do that. Do not ask her that.

Adding: that request would make me feel not just uncomfortable but actually unsafe.

Yeah. It’s one of those things where I’m sure it’s genuinely useful to some people but why on Earth is it on by default?!

A patch that was announced over a year before it went up, and that people who play on consoles very much did ask for. I’m not happy about it being forced on PC either, but come on, there was no malicious intent here.

Okay, I have to ask - why five?

Also, you’d need to know for certain that the planet you’re sending your generation ship to is habitable for your species. While this may be technologically trivial for a society that can build a functional generation ship, the timescales for such projects (literally hundreds or even thousands of years from the launch of the probe to the yes/no signal) makes it extremely difficult to actually organise.