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I try to contribute to things getting better, sometimes through polite rational skepticism.
Disagreeing with your comment ≠ supporting the opposite side, I support rationality.
Let’s discuss to refine the arguments that make things better sustainably.
Always happy to question our beliefs.

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Cue conspiracy on a CIA plan that took 50 years to yield results.

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Forbidden lassi

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Marginalia is general term for whatever was drawn in the margins, I think a more precise term is drollery, from French drôle which means funny. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drollery

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The Moulin Rouge version of Holiday on Ice.

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It's both, you need both.

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I want more of you.

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He's worried you're not respecting the GDPuRr.

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That's a much smoother way to become a criminal than by committing an actual crime, kinda convenient.

Richard P Feynman on “Why are we here?” ( www.youtube.com )

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means...

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In this case, it was probably the teacher not being knowledgeable enough to explain a more advance theory that goes beyond the simple model he was teaching. What's sad is that the teacher didn't take the opportunity to dig deeper with the student, it could have been very motivating for the student to feel like he found something that went beyond the normal curriculum.

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You could try reading Feynman's lectures, he was a very passionate teacher, and he used intuition a lot, so you don't need to grind on equations to follow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics

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How comes it's possible for a bird or a fish, but not a human? If this article explains why, it is a bit obscure for non specialists.

European made batteries could be 60% less carbon intensive than Chinese, researchers urging Europe to support investments ( www.transportenvironment.org )

Onshoring the EV supply chain to Europe would cut the emissions of producing a battery by 37% compared to a China-controlled supply chain, according to new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). This carbon saving rises to over 60% when renewable electricity is used. Producing Europe’s demand for battery cells and...

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t’s smart to have everyone interdependent, to make conflicts less appealing,

Do you still believe that after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia? It seems the less appealing part only influenced the EU who refused to see the threat until the invasion actually started. But it looks like it didn't affect Putin's imperialist fantasies, it mostly funded his ambitions, and still does with the oil we keep buying from them because we're unable to reduce our dependency. https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-russia-banked-1-billion-euros-2023-eu-fuel-despite-ban/

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@comicstrips Words for an Epic Quest

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, Thursday, May 9, 2024: http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2024/05/words-for-epic-quest.html

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Promontory reminds me that as a French, when speaking English, I sometimes use literary French terms with an English accent as an elite facade for amusement because I sense that it probably exists in literary English (afaik literary words are more likely to be similar than common ones, dating from when they learned what cuisine is). It works better when nobody's a native Anglophone in the chamber so people just think they don't know this chic word when I'm just mistaken. Although, there is a risqué risk of false friend that may turn it into a ridicule faux-pas by ricochet.

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Most women choose to wear hijab and are defending the right to do so.

In democracies (and absence of family pressure) maybe, but in most of the world, I doubt it.

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Because I spoke with some of them, lived in different countries and my readings are not limited to information about my place of origin. What about you, do you come from a place that lets you know better about the world than mine, or your argument about having knowledge limited to your origin doesn't apply to you?

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Shouldn't the freedoms of women and education of men have evolved in 2000 years?

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Shoulderster

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

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DarkReader and PrivacyBadger are useful too.

Arrest of journalist Olga Fedorova (Alex Kent, New York, May 8 2024)

A police officer in riot gear swinging his baton over journalist Olga Fedorova after having pushed her to the ground, shortly before her arrest. Fedorova is staring defiantly back at the cop, still pointing her camera at him. Photo credit Alex Kent (alex-kent.com, via twitter @AlexKentTN)
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On desktop Firefox, using the Imagus add-on, I can still see the image by hovering over the link.

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Here's a comment saying it's useless from a different thread linked by a parallel comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/9817207

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It's like in American shows, they just speak English with a foreign accent (potentially unrelated to the location).

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I don't particularly love them, but subtitles are just part of daily life in any non-English speaking countries given the amount of English speaking media being produced, so most of the world are used to them.
I think quite a lot of English natives also use subtitles on English media because of sound mixing or sound system issues that make dialogues hard to hear.

Anyways, it's just a little jest, if you enjoy this trope, I am happy for you.

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I'm glad that there's no micro transactions nor loot boxes.

oce ,
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You can conviniently block a whole instance from your account now, it reduces this kind of disagreement a lot.

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If I’m not allowed to have a discussion or disagreement with you, and get kicked out instead, I’ll just go to places where they will talk with me

I actually tried to, and if it was possible to have rational and polite discussion, without straw man arguments, dog pilling, personal attacks and finally threats of violence, I would have continued to try.
But sadly all of this happen, multiple times.

At some points I considered leaving Lemmy, thinking that this federation as a whole was not safe for debating. But then I started understanding patterns, either it was from the users from a specific instance, or it was communities from a specific instance that turned like that. Overall the pattern seem to be that if the instance mentions extreme political ideologies in its description or if the profiles of its admins do, then debating is not possible.

If they want to stay connected to people to avoid the circle jerk, they have to work on themselves too (ex: learning to debate politely), you can't except us to absorb all the damages to help them avoid radicalization. It's like walking towards a terrorist group with flowers while they are shooting around and expecting them to be inspired by your pacifism.

I do enjoy debating and questioning my own beliefs, but I am not on Lemmy to consume my mental health, so I need to take some actions to protect it.

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I think you are correct, but not having the opportunity to participate in a thread on those instances because you can't see them anymore is part of the ways to avoid troubles.

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Lemmygrad and Hexbear are the most obvious ones, sadly lemmy.ml is also part of them in my experience despite not being obvious about it (you have to check the admins and mods profile to see the link) and having some good content when it's not about politics such as tech. There may also be some defederated by my home instance admins that I may not be aware of.

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Uncomfortable, mayby, for having to read information you oppose?

dog pilling, personal attacks and finally threats of violence [...]
I am not on Lemmy to consume my mental health

Not all violence is physical.

I think many people need to grow a little thicker skin in that regard.

Are you blaming me for not having a tick enough skin instead of blaming the behavior of attackers? Please reconsider that thought.

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They are "medical-grade" maggots raised for this purpose to avoid germs.

oce ,
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Your knowledge might be incorrect, I believed that before too but it seems to have never been used like that, it has always been against the Jews. Word usage is sometimes not aligned with etymology.

Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who incorrectly assert that it refers to racist hatred directed at "Semitic people" in spite of the fact that this grouping is an obsolete historical race concept. Likewise, such usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus was first used in print in Germany in 1879[17] as a "scientific-sounding term" for Judenhass (lit. 'Jew-hatred'),[18][19][20][21][22] and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.[18][23][24]

Bottom of the introduction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

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You said:

antisemitism is used to refer to Jewish people, though it is really being used incorrectly.

The present meaning as well as the original meaning when it was coined was referring to Jewish people, even if it doesn't align with its etymology. So using it to name hate against Jewish people is correct.

That also implies that using antisemitism to name hate against Arabic would be incorrect. Though you may try to redefine the term, write a couple of articles and books and maybe in 50 years it will be considered correct usage.

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I don't think you have any agenda. I think nothing else that what I wrote, especially because I used to think like what you wrote before, so I wanted to help you and other readers with more information.
I quoted what is the most obviously incorrect in your comment. The information you added now doesn't change the fact that this quote is incorrect.

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I don't assume anything about you, I'm strictly answering to your comment and nothing else. Considering the multiple sources backing up the claim in the Wikipedia article, I don't think it's just my opinion.

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I'd be curious to see if this actually enforced and for how long. I see companies cutting costs on security all the time. You can't really trust them with anything else than creating and optimizing processes to make money. I'd rather see public regulators eat their turnover until they comply.

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Are you sure the majority of voters (plus the weird intermediate system) would vote for him?

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Similar thing with the French revolution, it's the bourgeoisie who found nobility privileges unfair that led most of it.

Emergency Slide Falls Off Plane, Winds Up At Home Of Lawyer Whose Firm Is Suing Boeing ( www.huffpost.com )

An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues....

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Doesn't that make him run with the devil?

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15 years ago it was big data (Hadoop time, before cloud).

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Would you consider reducing according to carbon footprint? https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/4c5c26c3-4635-451c-a5ff-621b2f5c7c92.png

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And he got the crazy expensive white dye to show off!

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You need to farm for a life time to afford it.

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Incredibly unlikely, but possible.

I don't think it's incredibly unlikely working in IT in the USA.

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I’ve never bought anything specifically because it was made in the USA because US made does not equal good quality.

Not sure about the USA, but I consider it's more likely the ecological and social impact of the product is better if it was made in my country than in a cheap labor one.

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Singular, "they" has not been taught widely to foreign learners (maybe not to native either?). I just recently learned about it myself from LGBT support content despite practicing since childhood, I never heard about it during my English lessons.
So yes indeed, many English speakers don't know about singular they.

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Which referential are you picking? Is it better than Earth?

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I don’t think this applies to the general understanding of innocent civilians indeed.

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I think it’s mostly vengeance rage, they think the Hamas attack on civilians allow them to use any means to find the Hamas soldiers, including killing civilians. While some extremist parties may covertly push for actual genocide, I don’t think that’s what the military tries to do in general.

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