Let’s imagine it’s currently Wednesday the 1st. Does “next Saturday” mean Saturday the 4th (the next Saturday to occur) or Saturday the 11th (the Saturday of next week)?
Many people here are talking about under-funding of education in the US. If you look at expenditure per student vs GDP per capita, the US is actually doing fairly well when compared to the rest of the world. Our problems aren’t funding related (though I wouldn’t argue against more funding). Our problems are allocation and priority related.
Babies never stop squirming, whether they’re smiling or crying or anything else. The only exceptions are if they are sleeping or sick and neither of those is a guarantee.
Maybe there should be an option to join the various conversations together if a user wants to see more content. That sounds pretty difficult to manage, though.
An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor....
This seems like it has ramifications far beyond IVF.
What happens to the morning after pill?
What happens when an embryo doesn’t implant correctly? Or when a woman miscarries at 10 weeks? Will the woman be blamed based on myths about what causes miscarriages? Will a woman who exercised strenuously be accused of manslaughter or murder?
This just made me realize something. Hatred of knowledge is baked into the Bible.
Clothes weren’t a trivial thing for Adam and Eve. When they ate fruit from the tree of knowledge they learned that they should be ashamed of their nakedness and began wearing “clothes”. That was what tipped God off to the fact that they had eaten the fruit and is why they were kicked out of Eden.
So, according to the Bible, wearing clothes literally is against the will of God. Everything else we do with our knowledge is too since the ability to have knowledge derives from eating that fruit.
That’s some good pedantry. “The tree of knowledge” is common shorthand for “the tree of knowledge of good and evil”. For example, take christianity.com.
Edit: I didn’t mean to ignore your real point. It seems to me that “knowledge of good and evil” is what leads people to oppose things like IVF. They believe that they understand what is good and what is evil and are imposing their opinions on everyone else.
Unfortunately, “these people” seem to have taken over the Alabama Supreme Court and, possibly the US Supreme Court (we’ll see how they rule when this gets to them).
Hopefully, since Alabama’s Supreme Court justices are elected, they will be voted out over this ruling. Also, hopefully rationality will prevail at the US Supreme Court.
Republican candidate arrived late to Nashville speech looking flushed and exhausted to rant about Democrats, the Department of Education, the Capitol riot and the ‘silencing’ of religious groups...
It is still an allegation until it goes to court and he is convicted. That probably should have happened but “alleged” is the right word regardless of how guilty the fucker is.
I am so fucking tied of all of these headlines from both sides that take 22 seconds of a 90 minute speech/ramble and turns it into something. How about we talk about the fucking vile shit that comes out of Trump’s mouth and the reasonable things coming out of Biden’s? It’s such low effort garbage clickbait.
“Trump muddles through speech” because he’s fucking exhausted and old as shit.
“Biden gives deluded speech” because he mispronounced something in a way that could drastically change the meaning.
“Trump forgets the capital of a country”
“Biden forgets which country he’s talking about”
It’s so fucking tired and boring. Why can’t we talk about the content of what they are actually saying rather than their mistakes? That’s what is important. None of this gotcha stuff is going to change minds. It is just going to make people more entrenched jn their positions because they see their candidate being attacked and smeared for obvious mistakes.
Attack the policies. Attack the intent. Attack the motives. Don’t attack the stupid mistakes. It just divides the country further.
I don’t understand why companies who commit blatant fraud like this aren’t required to disgorge all fraudulently earned money. If someone defrauds banks they get fined based on their earnings in a way that hurts. If someone defrauds consumers for “tens of millions of dollars” they are only fined $16M.
Well, actually I do understand, I just don’t like it and don’t like what it says about this country’s priorities.
The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.
I agree with you. Just a note, though; Alex isn’t a billionaire. Even the plaintiff’s lawyers estimated his wealth at only “as much as $270M”. It still makes me sad to realize how many people he grifted, defamed, and otherwise harmed to make that much money…
I keep thinking that if things get shitty enough in the house, the centrists will start cooperating with each other again and we’ll start getting some sanity back. Maybe it will just go the route of the right going down in flames and dragging us all with them, though.
The group of more than a dozen masked individuals marched wearing red shirts and black pants, waving flags with swastikas on them. It is not clear at this time who the group is or affiliated with, though many of the shirts said “Blood Tribe.”
Not defending them, but they can certainly think they are in the right and realize that most of society violently disagrees with them. I’d say they were smart to wear masks to avoid repercussions from their vile, awful, hateful behavior.
I hope that if their names come out that they lose their jobs, get their asses kicked, get disowned by family and friends, and get run out of town. They know that many people feel the same as I do so, even if they really believe the filth they represent, they are probably scared to show their faces.
The idea of a Christian America means different things to different people. Pollsters have found a wide circle of Americans who hold general God-and-country sentiments....
I’m not defending the argument below. It is patently stupid.
I have heard people make the argument that the founders didn’t expect non-christian religions to become prominent in the US. That they thought they were only protecting the right of people to practice any kind of christianity they want to practice.
They think that the founders didn’t have enough forethought to realize that people of other faiths might migrate to the US or even the presence to realize that there were already non-christian faiths being practiced in the colonies.
What does "next Saturday" mean
Let’s imagine it’s currently Wednesday the 1st. Does “next Saturday” mean Saturday the 4th (the next Saturday to occur) or Saturday the 11th (the Saturday of next week)?
Why do US teachers have to ask parents to bring basic school supplies?
I’ve also seen US teachers spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to stock classrooms....
Hmmm (lemmy.world)
What do you think would improve your Lemmy experience?
I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!
Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice (www.statnews.com)
An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor....
Serco ordered to stop using facial recognition technology to monitor staff (www.theguardian.com)
Trump struggles to say ‘evangelical’ and muddles up Israel in incoherent speech (www.independent.co.uk)
Republican candidate arrived late to Nashville speech looking flushed and exhausted to rant about Democrats, the Department of Education, the Capitol riot and the ‘silencing’ of religious groups...
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)
Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.
Alex Jones Estate Liquidation Gets Sandy Hook Families’ Vote (news.bloomberglaw.com)
The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.
Bipartisan House members unveil new border, foreign aid proposal (abcnews.go.com)
Nazi supporters march through downtown Nashville (fox17.com)
The group of more than a dozen masked individuals marched wearing red shirts and black pants, waving flags with swastikas on them. It is not clear at this time who the group is or affiliated with, though many of the shirts said “Blood Tribe.”
Many believe the founders wanted a Christian America. Some want the government to declare one now (apnews.com)
The idea of a Christian America means different things to different people. Pollsters have found a wide circle of Americans who hold general God-and-country sentiments....
MRW when my Fediverse home is overrun with spam, the sole instance owner/admin/maintainer is missing, repo inactive for months, then the site goes offline for 24 hrs and returns without explanation (lemmy.world)