I’m thinking of things like heliocentrism where there was some modern discovery or revelation by science that invalidated a common assumption prior....
Some beliefs along these lines have been used more recently in extremely religious places like Saudi Arabia.
"If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards,” ...
“That is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical problems of varying degrees,”
"When humans are nice to each other we are probably nicer and more altruistic than any primate. When we're nasty to each other, we are worse than any primate." - Frans de Waal
De Waal is a primatologist and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University.
Unfortunately the field of primate cognition is pretty new, partly because humans like to pretend we're special. I've been looking more into his work recently to better understand human morality and how we define it.
I very strongly recommend his Ted talk from 2012 on Moral Behaviour in Animals if anyone is interested in learning more. 16min 33sec
Bacon got REALLY expensive the year before I left the chef life for the wide world of food sales. I ended up running this as a special on the bars but it’s become a staple for me whenever I get the craving....
I think it could use a little extra protein. A lentil or bean patty made with chicken stock might work if it needs to be low cost. Or a fried egg if you're rich?
I found a community on lemmy.world I'd like to join, but I can't figure out how to open it in my kbin instance so that I can subscribe to it. I tried to paste the link into the search bar, but it came up with "empty." I also tried to modify a link to a different community on lemmy.world that I had accessed via kbin, but just...
Just to add to this, the community front page is also visible in the hamburger button on the top left of the header. It often requires less scrolling to get to. It's not the most intuitive of UX but it works!
The above instructions are only relevant for the mobile Web version of kbin.social, just for some extra clarification.
Not that I'm particularly against that - quite the opposite, in fact. But I'm wondering if anyone sees, or had seen a path to social and climate recovery/progress that could occur without first eradicating the class of people who most enjoy the present status quo.
I think the problem is not so much billionaires as much as it is the system of money itself. Billionaires are just humans who have prioritised selfish decisions, which is a pretty natural thing to do for an organism. I don't think we can solve much further for selfishness beyond our current slow legal systems of reward and punishment, that are themselves susceptible to corrupting influences and can't keep up with people's creative new ways of exploiting loopholes or just outright breaking the rules.
That's not to say money was a terrible idea, there's an obvious need to be able to trade goods you have for goods/services you need without ending up with a bunch of goods you can't use. An intermediary was necessary. But over time we've managed to really effectively minimise the downsides of hoarding money while not really ensuring the benefits are widely realised. Back in the day when money was physical gold, there were storage limitations and risks. You had to spend a fair bit of that money to build secure storage, hire guards, etc. We still have some storage limitations and risks with non-physical money but they're easier to deal with if you have money to begin with and less expensive overall.
There's also the issue that money has become not just a way of trading different goods, but has been extended as a universal measure of value. While money was always used to buy slaves and people, we now have entire industries of people who quantify the value of human lives and even body parts. Losing a hand in a work accident has been decided to be worth US$125k depending on where you live and what you do, when the disadvantages of living with that kind of disability are far more wide reaching and arguably much more expensive over the long run. And somehow we've all just kind of gone along with that concept, probably because it's distanced enough from advocating for slavery that it doesn't feel real. Much like buying a steak at a supermarket and being able to divorce the concepts of factory farming and animal welfare.
Ultimately I think the solution is more towards the Star Trek utopian idea of a non-money system, but reaching that ideal is a far off thing with a lot of intermediary difficult steps. I think as a start we need to re-evaluate our measures of value, which is tricky but probably not much more tricky than assigning a monetary price to a non-physical service. I'm a fan of the concept of Bhutan's measuring success with Gross National Happiness but even that doesn't do much to prevent selfishness. What would make a lot of people happier are things which would cause a lot of damage to our environment. Some way of measuring "good" is probably a way to go, and I think incorporating "time" as a metric would be useful, because even with modern medicine we're all still pretty constrained in how much we have as organisms.
How we measure "good" is something I've been thinking a lot about recently. I'm considering how we can approximate a definition and adequate measurements which is culturally and temporally agnostic. I'm a fan of the idea that "good" leans on two main pillars "reciprocity" (justice and fairness) and "empathy" (and compassion) which is proposed by Frans de Waal. Not just for our families, but other people and our environment. Those definitions are likely to change with time and more work though. I've been thinking about using NLP to try to figure out what we as humans across location and times and cultures have agreed on as being "good".
tl;dr we need to slowly reevaluate our reward system based not on monetary gain, but also pro-social and truth-based measures. I'm of the belief that humanity's greatest achievements have been collaborative and not competitive, and that we need to find ways to actively preference collaborative actions. Any system we build will have people try to exploit it, and prevention needs to be built in from the start
I use it to bypass Twitter's paywall and account signup barriers on the occasion I find a twitter link related to something I'm looking at. E.g Frequently articles on bots and misinformation will include twitter links. I also use it to look at feeds of various companies, such as ISP network problem announcements or public customer complaints. Sometimes I'm trying to establish if a source is real person or paid content etc.
I don't post on it, I don't scroll through related content, I don't like or retweet anything. I used to post, but only because companies were quicker to react to public criticism about service than other contact methods. Like Ticketek. Incidentally, fuck Ticketek.
I tried it for a while but I just couldn't get on board the with 140 character limit and conversation threading format.
This is the tree from the infamous scene in Lara Croft Tomb Raider. After Angelina Jolie spent time here to film the movie, she feel in love with the country so much that she ended up adopting kids from here. Later on, her and one of her children ended up directing the largest film to come out of Cambodia, ‘The Man Who Killed...
I was considering more of a week, to be honest. I can't imagine I'm going to want to move too much in that humidity before I have to retreat to somewhere with a fan and a cold beer.
I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, and I’ve noticed that I sometimes get sensory overload, when my kid (5, also neurodivergent) starts humming, or other loud conversations etc, I get physical pain from the sustain loud (or just high level) noise. I’ve been using my AirPod Pro with no music with just noise cancelling to help....
Yep, I haven't found any smaller compromises I can make for this problem, it's up to you if this one is worth it.
I only wear the headphones sometimes for the bulk reason, but I also go out of my way to have quiet environments to begin with. I suspect you want to keep your child though, so I didn't bother to suggest that.
You might benefit from headphones that have more passive noise isolation. A closed-back over-ear headphone like Sony WH-1000XM4 which reduces by around 28 dB overall (scroll down to isolation test results) while Airpods Pro do about 21 dB. 7 dB difference is very noticeable even though it look like much, theoretically more than twice as loud.
I have the 1000XM3 which do 30dB reduction, and I rate them highly. You'll need to check test results for different models and brands, over-ear closed-ear headphones don't necessarily guarantee great isolation but it helps. It's also worth trying to figure out if there are specific frequencies which get you - I struggle with high pitches like dentist drills and screaming children, for example.
Beyond that, I suspect you need to look into things with an EN 352 or ANSI S3.19 standard. Items like earmuffs and plugs have NRR (Noise Reduction Ratings) in the US and SNR (Single Number Rating) in the UK which will tell you how many dB they block.
Musk's lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court alleges that [law firm] Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz overcharged Twitter when it collected $90 million—including $84.3 million on the same day Musk completed his purchase of Twitter.
... The bulk of the $84.3 million paid to Wachtell on October 27 was allegedly a "success fee" for forcing Musk to close the [Twitter acquisition] deal. ... Based on other invoices and accrued fees, the success fee is said to be either $61 million or $72 million.
... Wachtell should be required to forfeit its entire $90 million total fee ... and make restitution in the amount of $90 million," the lawsuit said.
That sounds a lot like a race to the bottom. Where do we draw the line? Ukraine has already claimed some Russians have used lewisite. If the Russians started using Sarin gas again too, would that also warrant using it in return?
The people who suffer from cluster bombs are only the people in those geographical areas and their families. Not just the soldiers, the people who will have to experience their children accidentally killing themselves with unexploded ordinance long after the war has ended. There are good reasons The Convention on Cluster Munitions has been signed by 123 countries.
And there are so many more economic and legal strategies that can be used before this. Strategies that would affect Russian leadership instead of just more efficiently maiming their conscripts. Things like actively preferencing US companies that don't still sell products in Russia.
I am so deeply not ok with the cluster bomb decision, even if I am completely unsurprised by it. I call bullshit on the pretend hand-wringing by Biden.
I am not enjoying humanity's gradual selfdestruction at all, I think I'll go back to bed.
Like the messes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, etc.? I admire your optimism, and I wonder if the locals there would rate the US's cleaning services 5 stars on Yelp.
Attempting to weigh benefits against risks and asking for whom these benefits and risks apply is not absurd.
Adding more unexploded ordinance to existing unexploded ordinance does not reduce the number of future deaths and injuries which will result. That is, unless there are solid estimates of how many lives escalating violence will save through ending the war more quickly. I don't see much of anything to suggest cluster bombs are more effective than other available strategies right now. We do have plenty of evidence about how awful they are and will continue to be though. UN conventions backed by the Red Cross don't just appear for minor concerns.
Either humanitarian reasons are sufficient or they aren't, and the message the US government is sending here is that they aren't.
I live in a safe country because war forced my family out of their homes. This is why I'm heartbroken the line hasn't been drawn at cluster bombs, and it's why I want to know where the line is drawn. But, I understand your position and I won't belabour the point further.
the members of parliament in the camp of President Emmanuel Macron inserted an amendment limiting the use of remote spying to “when justified by the nature and seriousness of the crime” and “for a strictly proportional duration.” They noted that a judge must approve any use of the provision, while the total duration of the surveillance cannot exceed six months.
Oh okay, required judge approval, time limits and serious crimes only is something at least...
They said sensitive professions, including doctors, journalists, lawyers, judges and MPs, would not be legitimate targets.
Ah, yes. So none of the ruling class then have to be concerned then, their positions will always be deemed somehow "too sensitive" for the provision to apply.
Another helpful tool in white collar crime for those with existing resources, and blue collar criminals can continue to be made an example of to convince everyone that the justice system is functioning well. I hope this article is just overstating the actual issues for fearmongering, for the French people's sake.
Fox may have forked over $787 million to avoid going to trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false 2020 election claims, but the Rupert Murdoch-owned company is far from free of the fallout.
a petition has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission to deny the broadcast license renewal of Fox Corp-owned Philadelphia TV station FOX 29 over its parent company’s “misdeeds.” Led in part by former Fox Broadcasting Company executive Preston Padden, the petition from The Media and Democracy Project cites the bracing revelations out of the Dominion case and Fox News’ trumpeting of Trump’s Stop the Steal efforts as perpetuating “false news about the 2020 election.”
Just wanted to highlight this bit for proper specificity, the title reads like it's for all of Fox.
I don't consider what a company wants to be a true dependency. It's a strong and valid desire to prevent unnecessary financial loss, but it's not a requirement with only one possible solution.
If gig SaaS companies are innovative enough to come up with a way to allow remote commitment flexibility in the first place, they're creative enough to come up with ways of preventing drivers abusing that system without scheduling them in fixed time blocks in this day and age. Threatening a schedule is just the easy way out and a scary enough threat to drivers to get them to side with DoorDash.
The robo-debt royal commission found former prime minister Scott Morrison allowed cabinet to be misled over the welfare crackdown’s lawfulness and gave untrue evidence to the inquiry.
(Commissioner)Holmes said Morrison failed to meet his ministerial responsibility to ensure cabinet was informed about what the proposal actually entailed...
...Morrison’s evidence that the use of income averaging ... was an established practice was “untrue” and was inconsistent with other evidence he had given...
...accused ... Alan Tudge of an “abuse of power” for pursuing welfare recipients in the media to deflect from mounting commentary over the scheme’s issues...
... Christian Porter “could not rationally have been satisfied of the legality of the scheme” and ... Stuart Robert went “well beyond supporting government policy” as a cabinet minister in defending the scheme despite knowing its flaws.
I'm no law person, but none of those sound chargable as crimes except maybe giving knowingly untrue evidence. I assume that's somehow unchargable too for some special politician privilege reason.
...Kathryn Campbell ... chose to stay silent about robo-debt’s unlawfulness “knowing that Mr Morrison wanted to pursue the proposal”.
This might be a crime? Either way it sounds like there are few if any real criminal charges coming for anyone responsible. Civil suits might be different but...
the scheme ended up costing the public more than it was designed to reap after the Commonwealth settled a class action for $1.8 billion in the Federal Court...
... taxpayers funded more than $2.5 million in legal costs for eight former Coalition ministers who gave evidence
Oh, of course. It's just us who are punished for sure. How surprising. At what point do we see politicians facing actual consequences instead of just tapping public money?
I understand there are sealed criminal and civil referrals, but I am not at all hopeful they will amount to anything based on this article.
Simpler Times (lemmy.best)
What was the historical science debate that seems silliest in hind sight?
I’m thinking of things like heliocentrism where there was some modern discovery or revelation by science that invalidated a common assumption prior....
curious (lemmy.world)
I present; The CLT (lemmy.world)
Bacon got REALLY expensive the year before I left the chef life for the wide world of food sales. I ended up running this as a special on the bars but it’s become a staple for me whenever I get the craving....
How do you subscribe to a community outside of your instance without getting to it from an internal link? (readit.buzz)
I found a community on lemmy.world I'd like to join, but I can't figure out how to open it in my kbin instance so that I can subscribe to it. I tried to paste the link into the search bar, but it came up with "empty." I also tried to modify a link to a different community on lemmy.world that I had accessed via kbin, but just...
Is there any more ethical solution to our current circumstances than "murder all billionaires"?
Not that I'm particularly against that - quite the opposite, in fact. But I'm wondering if anyone sees, or had seen a path to social and climate recovery/progress that could occur without first eradicating the class of people who most enjoy the present status quo.
Pay Attention to What You See: Donald Trump Is Losing His Marbles | If he keeps this up, he’ll drag the entire Republican Party down with him in 2024. (newrepublic.com)
If he keeps this up, he’ll drag the entire Republican Party down with him in 2024.
former /current Twitter users, what do you do on there?
I’ve never had a Twitter account and I’m genuinely curious what everyone seems to love about it (or hate about it)
Ta Phrom, or more widely known as ‘The Tomb Raider Temple’ (i.imgur.com)
This is the tree from the infamous scene in Lara Croft Tomb Raider. After Angelina Jolie spent time here to film the movie, she feel in love with the country so much that she ended up adopting kids from here. Later on, her and one of her children ended up directing the largest film to come out of Cambodia, ‘The Man Who Killed...
Auditory sensory overload
I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, and I’ve noticed that I sometimes get sensory overload, when my kid (5, also neurodivergent) starts humming, or other loud conversations etc, I get physical pain from the sustain loud (or just high level) noise. I’ve been using my AirPod Pro with no music with just noise cancelling to help....
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Birdie (lemmy.world)
Pic I took at Busch Gardens in Tampa
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people. The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering laptops, cars and other connected devices. (gazettengr.com)
Fox Faces FCC License Threat Over False Election Claims & Jan. 6 Attack (deadline.com)
Fox may have forked over $787 million to avoid going to trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false 2020 election claims, but the Rupert Murdoch-owned company is far from free of the fallout.
DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery driver (www.businessinsider.com)
Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.
Morrison’s robo-debt defence based on falsehoods (www.theage.com.au)
The robo-debt royal commission found former prime minister Scott Morrison allowed cabinet to be misled over the welfare crackdown’s lawfulness and gave untrue evidence to the inquiry.
Johnathan's cell becomes very focused and will not be contained when it registers cabbage soup is availible. (lemmy.world)