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Red Dwarf has a gag where the crew has a time machine, but have sworn never to use it because of the potential dangers. But then the ship's curry supply is lost in a flood, and Lister (an average British slob) decides to go back to 20th century Earth for some curry.

Later on in the series they need a tyrannosaurus rex to lose its lunch, so they make a giant curry. The dinosaur loves the curry, and after having its fill it goes for the ship's supplies of lager and ice cream

Nah, Lemmy isn't usually this cool

I like the way the Denobulans in Star Trek handle marriage. Every woman has up to three husbands and every man has up to three wives. I wouldn't like to live under strict marriage rules of any kind, but that seems far better than Earth's rules.

It is reasonable, and polite, to assume a person knows their own mind better than any external person, and if prompted, has right of interpretation to their own beliefs, knowledge and convictions.

No, I disagree. I agree with you that we have the right to interpret our own intentions freely, because intentions cannot reliably be externally sensed. But let me give an example as to our beliefs and biases.

Suppose I'm a scientist conducting trials on a new drug. I gather a group of volunteer test subjects, and begin trials to compare the drug to a placebo. However, after they take the drug (and placebo), some of the test subjects come to me and say "You don't have to test me, doc. I'm immune to placebos. I can feel this working, so I know I'm in the experimental group and I know the drug works great."

If I were to apply your idea that you can't mistrust someone else's biases and beliefs about themself, then I would have to take their word and my science would be garbage.

To adress your argument: the person is convinced they take an atheist position

Yes, my question proved that very neatly, didn't it? They didn't think they had any belief in being an atheist, and that the final line of the original meme was therefore nonsense. But I used a very elegant question to prove that they do have belief in being an atheist.

Yes. I believe in all gods and myths, and I hadn't consciously thought that I believe in Krampus before, but now thanks to you, I realise I do.

Honestly I might just go back to Reddit at this rate. Yeah, it's giving content to a capitalist, but it also means not subjecting myself to as much transphobic and ableist abuse

Moderation on Lemmy is so miss or miss. I once got banned from an "inclusive" comm for sounding "pompous". I have NPD, pompousness is a symptom. And it wasn't a situation where I was causing any problems, a power tripping mod just didn't like my tone of voice.

This enby wakes up to the Cheers theme every morning

The summary is a lie. The crisis isn't over it expanding differently in different places. It's that two measurement methods give different results.

Well technically it would be skepticism

My country never let tipping culture cross over from America, and we never have to worry about that tipping stuff Americans complain about. When cheap credit card machines were still new, a bunch of businesses used American systems that asked for tips and employees and customers alike completely ignored that screen.

I only read the headline but if this is Bobby Kotick, he's just an all around piece of shit. He created a work environment so misogynist that multiple former employees described it as being like a frat, and a woman had her breast milk stolen from the employee fridge while the company did nothing.