idk i think our incentive should be to cure diseases with public funding and make people healthy instead of for profit but what do i know

Is this better science for you?

Empirical data.

It is.

“Meat and dairy products have especially large water footprints due to the amount of water-intensive feed required to raise the animals”

Right so you would have upheld and supported the 1982 Internal Security Acts in apartheid South Africa that outlawed chants like Mayibuye iAfrika because you “respect the law”

Thanks for telling on yourself.

mfs in this thread arguing misgendering doesn’t matter while assuming everyone on the internet is a man

From said article: “Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly is an unsettling mixture of childish humor and fetishistic sexual innuendo, seemingly only meant to appeal to those who truly love every experience relating to farting.”

This^ - as @[email protected] noted - women and men are good at different things so I don’t see why we can’t require mixed gender teams with equal representation for pretty much all sports.

And if somebody cries “fOrCeD dIvErSiTy!!” then you never really cared about women’s participation in sports anyways.

I mean it sure would do more than pretending it’s not happening - but I get it - most Germans preferred to pretend they couldn’t smell the smoke either.

And again you don’t even have to risk your own safety by protesting - you could at least join a local community organizing group to help people most affected.

I’m sure you may think one person can’t make a difference but I can guarantee that even a single person more that’s helping out with mutual aid would be met with appreciation anywhere. Still good on you for financing charities - that is usually the very first step.

Also this isn’t a sprint - it’s a marathon - expecting protests now to have any immediate impact is just setting you up for failure - these fights have been fought for generations - so lock in and get ready to resist not just these 4 but the next 40 years.

And sorry if this feels overwhelming and you don’t think you have the capacity - but even doing 1 day of volunteering a month is a good starting point.

Why try to do anything so this doesn’t happen when it’s easier to dig your head in the sand 🙃

Doesn’t providing nuance counter the homogeneity? Also what’s the alternative? Algorithmically promotes content? But those create even more of an echo chamber as you only see what the algo thinks you’ll personally engage with.

I guess meeting in person might be better - but even then your neighborhood is probably rather classist so idk how much you’d end up not in an echo chamber either :/

How come it’s always nazi apologists with these takes…

Ok big brain - who’s gonna provide those social benefits in a country with an aging population and no immigration?

This sounds like the whole Brexit thing where folk voted to keep immigrants out and were then shocked when social services went even more to shit when they realized half of NHS staff were foreigners…

If you were arguing to solve global inequality and climate change by dismantling western imperialism and by radically reducing their material consumption so that people didn’t need to emigrate - then we would agree - but your current stance just sounds like social security for me but not for thee…

you went from “Lemmy made me like this” to “I don’t give a fuck about anything on Lemmy” in one swoop - fucking touch some grass if you really don’t give a fuck nerd.

“look what you made me do” - I’m not saying you’re an abuser - but that is literally the most classic abuser rhetoric…

and if you’re saying Lemmy “canceling” you made you right-wing - you were always right wing, love

she did retweet a joke minimizing elmo’s salute… - multiple times…

nooo, you don’t understand - she was just saying this a day after the inauguration to defend musk doing his nazi salute - I’m sure all of this has nothing to do with her doing trans Holocaust denial either…

damn snowflakes always getting triggered by lighthearted fun from nazi apologists… 😤😤😤

Wtf, this is the same woman that shot her dog for being “untrainable” and “less than useless” before shooting their goat for being “disgusting, musky, rancid”, “nasty and mean”, and that “loved to chase” her children.

That’s fair - I guess that’s why I said “it seems” as I can’t confidently state something whose unknowns I don’t fully understand.

But yeah theoretically there might be a way to compress the final output into a physically possible form. Still considering the magnitude of the numbers we’re talking about - this would still be a mind boggling undertaking.

I guess my point was more around elmo confidently stating that chess is solvable and using the actual complexity of the task as a way to highlight how being that confident in such a statement is absurd.

Then again maybe I fell in a similar trap so thanks for pointing it out!

I just want to focus on this extremely ridiculous quote as if one understands how unfathomably silly it is - it becomes impossible to take anything elmo says seriously (not that you should need more proof)

What elmo is trying to talk about is called game-tree complexity - the number of possible games based on the number of possible moves.

For checkers this is 10^54 - massive but obviously computable (took 18 years and finished in 2007)

For chess this is 10^120 - called the Shannon number is unimaginably large - like if we counted it in Planck times (smallest unit of time) - checkers’ number would convert to about 300 years - chess on the other hand comes out to around 10^58 universe ages

What’s more - there’s about 10^80 atoms in the universe - so it’s physically impossible to store that many game states in a usable manner to compute a full solution of chess.

Even giving him the biggest benefit of the doubt and turning the whole observable universe into a black hole (the most information dense object imaginable) the Bekenstein bound still dictates you only have 10^96 bits to work with - so it’s seems totally impossible to store a full solution of chess in our universe.

Overall this proves the point of this post - elmo literally does not believe he lives in the real world and any proof otherwise will get rejected by his solipsistic brain.

One explanation for vegaphobia is founded on the meat paradox: many people who eat meat do not like harming animals. Vegans remind them of this cognitive dissonance, and one way to resolve this inner conflict and reduce dissonance is to maintain prejudice against vegans.

I find it quite interesting how often meat eaters in the west will be prejudiced against people who eat dogs - as if there’s any other difference than the cognitive dissonance of seeing one as a pet deserving of a dignified life and the other as a tasty steak to chow down on.