yesman

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The number of possible combinations of genes is so large that the chance of a random duplication is vanishingly small. Even twins aren't exact copies because they'll have mutations unique to themselves.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Rich people are allowed to rape girls in America. Law enforcement is an enabler, not an obstacle. Nobody is even talking about how to change that.

For every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 25 people will be incarcerated. America doesn't give a tiny shit about people getting raped. When it happens to girls and women, we ignore it. When it happens to boys and men, it's a joke. That's still going to be true if Trump and everybody you hate is rotting in prison.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This comment is braindead bigotry. It's like saying a paraplegic can't be a lawyer because they can't climb the courthouse steps.

There has never existed an astronaut that didn't need significant accommodation to live in work in space (duh), you're arguing that disabled people don't deserve the exact same treatment. Fuck you.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So like you want President Gavin Newsom to order the Justice department to charge Tucker Carlson with mortgage fraud?

Corruption and abuse of power actually get worse if it's "both sides". Don't you think?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.

As you can tell, I'm waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

SOMA is a great game. But I'm not going to watch for 2 and a half hours unless it ends with uploading Zoltan Istvan's consciousness into a broken robot.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Reddit is an advertising platform not a venue for speech. You're not talking in the "public square" your talking in a billionaire's house. So you play by the owner's rules.

Even the name "public square" implies that nobody owns it. If you think Reddit is important for free speech, then it should be nationalized. Only then are conversations about censorship even coherent.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

The dangers associated with Meth production have been exaggerated by ignorant media and lying cops.

A person with a serious meth addiction is dangerous and likely to cause accidental harm even if they aren't playing around with volatile chemicals. But these chemicals all have legitimate uses and are safe to use by sober adults. Stuff like Coleman fuel, ether, and acetone. You can create runaway exothermic reactions while venting flammable gas with some weaponized incompetence, but it's still a "low" explosive, with small amounts of chemicals, and unlikely to harm anyone not in the same room, much less the neighbor.

90% of meth lab "explosions" are small events that only harm people in the immediate vicinity and most of the structural damage will come from the resulting fire. Compare that to a simple natural gas leak that can turn a 3 story McMansion into confetti in under a second.

Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Conservatives have never respected the Reconstruction amendments because they coerced the slaveholding States to adopt them. Worse still, "disastrous" SCOTUS rulings like Row, Obergefell, Brown v. Board, basically anything affirming equality all use these Amendments' reasoning.

It's ironic that a conservative majority of all Catholics, one woman, and a black guy are trying to go back to an era where all of them could be legally discriminated against. Hell, before the Reconstruction amendments, Thomas would be ineligible for citizenship.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Brice canyon is a marvel, but it's most impressive feature is billions and billions of miles away.

I grew up rural, but it was like I'd never seen the stars before. The Milky Way was bright enough to cast shadows.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always like to remind white people that for POC and minorities, every time they go outside, they're stepping into the TSA security line. https://gitnux.org/stop-and-frisk-statistics/

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Epstein killed himself. (same for Gary Webb)

Too many people think suicide is rare, or extreme act. But it's common as dirt especially for people who's life is ruined. It's a joke in movies that "new fish" looking at long sentences kill themselves, but somehow when it happens to someone notable, it's mysterious and suspicious.

Also, the idea that there was a conspiracy to murder Epstein in prison and cover it up by powerful people is an extraordinary claim with the flimsiest possible evidence.

 

Listening to Netanyahu scold Australia about how to prevent antisemitic terror raises an important question. If Israel knows how to prevent terrorism, why doesn't she?

 

And I'll bet that the original trilogy hate Tiffany and Barron with a white hot passion.

 

12/13/03 A date that will live in infamemey.

 
 
 
 
 

I own Windows 11 and my computer and preferred OS (Fedora) support TPM and Secure boot. Is it worth the time to configure that stuff to run W11, or should I just continue to run W10 since I don't do anything but run a couple games?

I have a robust backup, so even a system wide Nuke is a day's worth of re-installing, worst case.

Honestly, since I boot W10 so rarely, it'll kinda be nice not to have to update it every time.

 
 
 
 
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