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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

-> Protests go on peacefully for X number of days.

-> University management call in the cops.

-> News headlines the next day: CAMPUS PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Ah ok, so what they mean to say isn't so much that fossils contradict evolution but that the existence of fossils can be explained by the biblical account of Noah's Flood.

Not the same thing of course, but then hardly surprising given the apparent level of scientific understanding on display.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

They show how fossils contradict evolution

I've heard most creationist talking points before but this one is new.

How do they attempt to argue that the existence of fossils contradicts evolution by natural selection?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Haven't heard anything about this! The idea is intriguing at least, and the cast looks good.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're fine as long as you don't decide to jump in and offer a contrary opinion.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I find that lemmy has less of an echo chamber, but the average political stance is a lot more left-ish than reddit.

This is true once you've blocked Lemmygrad and Hexbear, which are as much echo chambers as r/The_Donald ever was.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First order of business: justify why Galadriel spends the entire first season looking for Sauron, discovers who he is, and then proceeds to tell absolutely bloody no one as he helps forge the three elven rings and then saunters out of Eregion like he owns the place.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

If the showrunners learn from their mistakes and actually fix the myriad pacing/characterization/dialogue issues from season one, there's a slim chance they might be able to turn the show into something half decent.

Now that they've got all the pointless mystery boxes about the identity of Sauron/The Stranger out of their systems, they can hopefully leave those far behind as well.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I still wouldn't call it "precise" in the slightest.

Even assuming that this ratio remains constant after the remaining 10,000 unidentified bodies are accounted for, men of fighting age only account for 40% of those being killed and not all of those will be actual Hamas fighters.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Grace Ocean and Synergy filed a petition on April 1 in Maryland federal court to limit their liability from the crash. If the court grants it, the companies’ liability could be limited to the present value of the ship, which they estimated to be $42.5 million, according to the petition. Source

Which would leave the tax payer footing the bill for the remaining $1.46B cost of reconstruction. Classic.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true if you're only talking about what was once called 'natural philosophy', but there are still many areas where philosophy and physics don't really overlap - ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, language, existentialism, etc.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Each to their own.

Gnome with GTK4 + adw-gtk3 looks far cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing than Plasma + Breeze, IMO.

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