30% jokes, 30% attempts at academic discussions, 40% spewing my opinions uninvited to find out what might be missing from my perspective.
I'll usually reiterate this in my posts, but I never give legal advice online. I can describe how the law generally tends to be, analyze a public case from an academic perspective, and explain how courts normally treat an issue. But hell no am I even going to try to apply the law to your specific situation.
Is the right to abortion a "negative right" or a "positive right"?
‘Where negative rights are “negative” in the sense that they claim for each individual a zone of non-interference from others, positive rights are “positive” in the sense that they claim for each individual the positive assistance of others in fulfilling basic constituents of well-being like health.’...
I'm loving rule (lemmy.zip)
what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here's how to start (www.abc.net.au)
For all you urban gardeners out there. Article is Sydney based cos abc, but still valid. Good balance of ALL the factors involved including the downsides.
Not knowing wtf Kevin is this weekend (media3.giphy.com)
Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane?
First off, I don’t base my views on “what Americans are like” with what people post online. Just about everyone I know personally has just gone off the deep end it seems....
What did you do to survive the night of/after a breakup?
Boyfriend of 2 years (best friend of 6) just told me he’s started seeing someone else. No discussion. Just ghosted me for a week and hit me with this news. Thought he was my soulmate, lmao. I feel like someone just ripped out my insides. Just turned 31 this year, this shit is not any easier than when I was a teenager....
There are more women with incel beliefs than men and nobody cares/labels them
I have so many friends who would 100% be labeled as an incel if they were men. They hold men to impossibly high standards while meeting none of those standards themselves....
In the Company of Culprits (lemmy.world)
AI content generation is on fast track to kill the whole porn industry.
If you think about it, there are already tools that can do pretty convincing face swaps with few clicks and just from one low res photo at whatever angle. Long are gone the times you had to train the models for hours and had to have few hundred photos to just get “okay” fake. Once deepfake video creation becomes this simple,...
More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble (theconversation.com)
The first comprehensive assessment of trends in Southern Ocean ecosystems reveals an urgent need to address climate change. The summary for policymakers can guide decision-makers.
What 1st world Baldur's Gate problem would make you sell your soul to Raphael in order to fix? (startrek.website)
For me I can’t stand that they put difficult terrain in the act 2 camp. Makes zero sense. Who the F builds their camp in mud? I would sell my soul to Raphael for a boardwalk.
Baldur’s Gate 3 - Discussion Post #3
How are everyone’s stories coming along? Have you finished the game? If so how many times?...
Do any languages have words for left & right that start with the same letter?
And if so, how do they label headphones, contact lenses etc?
Bro (lemmy.ml)
My god. (lemmy.world)
Trump-appointed judge rips Texas law setting up book-ban regime for state's schools (UPDATE: it's going into effect. see blurb) (www.lawdork.com)
“This is textbook compelled speech,” U.S. District Judge Alan Albright ruled in halting enforcement of the law. Texas is appealing....
Alabama band director tased by police for not stopping his students' performance (www.npr.org)
What began as a routine band performance of Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck by Cameo at an Alabama high school football game ended in a troubling confrontation when a police officer tased the marching band director for refusing to stop the music....
Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? (scitechdaily.com)
The key takeaway here is that the people writing these guidelines try to give as much information as possible,” Reaves says. “That’s great, in theory. But the writers don’t prioritize the advice that’s most important. Or, more specifically, they don’t deprioritize the points that are significantly less important. And...
american politics (midwest.social)
ADHD + Depression is weird
I don’t know where the purpose of my life is. I looked where I last saw it and it isn’t there anymore. It’s like losing your keychain. All I can do is hope I forgot it somewhere at home because I sure can’t go outside without it. I wanna find joy in things again, and it is so difficult to get you shit together when...
The whole club lookin' at jeans (lemmy.ml)
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