Wouldn't it be better to just make that information available on request? Make it known that they can retrieve that information at any time, but they don't have to if they prefer not to know.
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I've never really enjoyed his style of humor, but his dramatic writing is great. The Orville is at its best in its more serious moments and I usually feel like I have to tolerate the comedic elements to get to the good parts.
Seriously, watch the ad we're talking about before making a fool of yourself.
These aren't just commercials with "white representation," they are promoting eugenics. Seriously, go watch them. It's not even subtle.
Edit: getting downvoted on Lemmy for rightly pointing out that these ads are evoking eugenicist ideas is not what I expected. I thought Lemmy was more tuned in than this. Having white actors bragging about their superior genes goes beyond just being "white representation" and is instead a white supremacist and eugenicist dogwhistle. You guys really think that's a reach? Have you just not seen the full ads and are only reacting to this image?
diversity in cowmilk output (lol) in cows for a farmer isnt something desirable, atleast one area i know something about.
Surely you've noticed that this only applies to a population that is being exploited as a resource and prioritizes a specific trait or traits that are desirable to the exploiter rather than traits that contribute to the organism's well-being. That's what eugenics is, and what you are advocating for. It is not better for humanity or even for the individual to eradicate autism, it is better for our exploiters.
yeah, yeah, genocide is terrible and all but won't someone please think of the minor property damage! This doesn't help your cause.
signed, someone who can barely be bothered to give a shit about the cause.
Is this you?
But bad systems create the incentives. Chalking it up to "bad people doing bad things" is a shallow analysis that does nothing to address the underlying problem. If you replaced all the "bad people" with "good people" you would see the same problems re-emerge due to the perverse incentives created by the profit motive.
Tbf the guys up top were mostly on board with slavery.
The guy denied sexual assault by Hamas during Oct 7, got upset when I called him out for it, and then immediately downvoted a bunch of anti-fascist posts, for which I banned him from the comm that he did it in. In that thread, for that matter, there are all sorts of people falsely calling me a transphobe and saying I refuse to use neopronouns.
They denied "systematic sexual abuse by Hamas," which is a specific claim in the report made by the Dinah Project, and which the UN has been unable to find evidence for in its own fact-finding missions (partly due to the Israeli government's obstruction of their investigation). The UN's own reports find some individual cases of sexual violence committed against Israelis on Oct. 7, not sexual violence committed against Israelis by Hamas as a systematic tool of war. That you refuse to acknowledge these are separate claims is the issue at hand here.
On Lemmy, it's widely recognized that the Dem party is fucked up, but as seen in this very comment section, there are numerous people who still think outright not voting when literal fucking Nazis are running against the anti-fascist coalition candidate is not only fine, but commendable and even morally necessary.
One drum clearly needs beat here more than the other.
You beating this particular drum is not helping and will never change non-voters' minds. The message of "you have to vote for us to stop the fascists and that's the only thing that matters" didn't work on most people before the election and it isn't going to work now just because you're repeating it more angrily this time. Yes, it sucks, but that's the reality and you need to come to terms with it.
I understand the anger; I voted for harm reduction myself and am just as distraught that it didn't succeed, but instead of doom spiraling and angrily lashing out at non-voters I am focused on identifying and fixing the problem. People didn't vote for Democrats in large enough numbers to stop fascism, and the reason is that they are disappointed in and uninspired by Democratic leadership. The solution then is not to try and browbeat them into voting, it's to replace the leadership.
The solution is in the primaries, and this is where "purity politics" as you call it is necessary. Railing against "purity politics" in primaries only serves to perpetuate the status quo that led to this defeat in the first place.
Or they're bi. I grew up ultra religious and the choice explanation made more sense to me because I had both homo and hetero urges, and I assumed it was the same for everyone (I thought of people who claimed otherwise as self-righteous). In my mind at the time homosexual urges were just part of people's sinful nature they had to overcome. The whole thing only seems so incoherent from an outside perspective, which I was fortunately able to arrive at after experiencing the world more.
The main character starts the game literally giving himself a traumatic brain injury by drowning himself in alcohol. It's not really the kind of RPG where you can play a self-insert, the player character is an actual character with his own backstory. Not being able to make good choices because of the player character's personal trauma and limitations is part of the story that the game is telling.