kestrel7

joined 2 years ago
[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Scary shit. Imagine the city you live in having its highways torn up to delay enemy tank battalions, or seeing guys set up machine gun nests and sandbags in the park... I hope for a peaceful solution but that seems more and more unlikely.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

No matter what happens, I think about 25,000 Russian Army/Wagner soldiers just left the front.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Wow, I love slsk and have been using it since literally about 2004 (it has absolutely defined my taste in music), but I didn't know there were any options for clients except for the main one. This is great!

If you're reading this and you've never checked out slsk, consider this your invitation. I have spent hours trying to "stump" it by searching for increasingly-obscure music. Someone always has it on slsk.

EDIT: HOLY JESUS HALLELUJAH IT HAS DARK MODE

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm kinda splitting hairs here, but you seem to be using the terms "morality" and "ethics" interchangeably when they don't mean the same thing.

Ethics are social norms. Morality is personal. You cannot legislate morality because everyone makes those individual decisions anyway, and we will all rebel against rules we consider immoral. Ethical practices are those that balance everyone's divergent senses of morality in ways that allow us to actually function as a society. All legislation is ultimately legislating ethics.

Murder is unethical because we ban it. We ban murder because we believe it's immoral. But at least where I live, we can have a little ethical murder sometimes, as a treat -- if you call it capital punishment first. Many people, including myself, consider this immoral and would support changing the laws which inform (but do not define!) our system of ethics.

Also, I don't think you understand that abortion clinics are run by groups of physicians who are playing the role of this "medical board." It also seems you don't understand that limiting the incidence of DIY/back alley abortions is [the] major reason for making abortions accessible/legal. Telling someone they can't get an abortion in a clinic won't stop them from getting an abortion. It'll just stop them from getting an abortion in a clinic.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Those sources... are... interesting...

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

That thought occurred to me as well...

Knowing which rules can (or even should) be bent/broken, and which rules absolutely shouldn't be compromised can be difficult but... not in this case. This was easily avoidable.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Lemmy, kbin, and Mastodon are all different ways to view content posted to "the fediverse" which is basically a bunch of different small servers communicating with each other. They're basically different ways to do view and interact with the same posts, kinda like how you use different services (gmail, etc) for email, and then access that still with different software (browsers, or thunderbird, or what have you). For instance, right now I'm responding to your comment from kbin on my desktop browser.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh my god I only know a little bit about galvanic corrosion from messing around with aluminum fishing boats. I had no idea this was at play here.

This guy was a fucking moron.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's tragic.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago
[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's a good seedbox provider these days? I had one over ten years ago, but I don't even remember what that company was called.

[–] kestrel7@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, from looking at Mastodon, it seems like people there are hyping kbin (and fedia.io) more than lemmy... that could just be the people I happen to be following, though.

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