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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Thank FUCK you edited that horrible FUCKING word, so that my innocent eyes aren't FUCKING desecrated.

Tits.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

I suggest autoreplacing it with a more technical term.

~~fuck~~ sex

SEX

That's a sexing dolphin.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

Fuck the fucking fuckers.

[–] maya_the_good_apple@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Fun fact: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.

Depending on what species a foetus looks like, you can make a guess for how long it has been present inside a womb.

Source: Haeckel's Embryos.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

You are never going to convince me the biggest vilain in the whole world is fucking religion. I hate religious people with all my heart

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

isn't fucking religion

Or

You are never going to convince me; the biggest villain in the world is fucking religion.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Lot of faith in that analysis

[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's in the top 5:

  1. Capitalism

  2. Patriarchy

  3. Racism (I consider this tied with patriarchy tbh)

  4. Religion

  5. People who take two seats on public transit with no justification

[–] groet@feddit.org 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Religion is a rationale for other evils. It is in itself not evil.

Patriarchy and racism (and many religions do that too) are all the same thing - chauvinism, the belief in the superiority of the own group. This also includes nationalism, homophobia, xenophobia and any other "I hate you because you are different"-isms

So I'd go with:

  1. Chauvinism
  2. Capitalism (greed)
  3. People who blast music on speaker in public transit
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 6 hours ago

I think people blasting music on hiking trails is slightly above public transit.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Even though you hate religious people with all your heart?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Somebody do better please. Sources are Wikimedia.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

90% of scientists agree

Even if that were true these kinds of people are notorious for discounting the vast majority consensus because some lunatic said otherwise. It's almost like science has no bearing to them unless it validates their preconceived ideas.

[–] Zebrafive@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Exactly the problem and they all cite a paper written by a pro life conservative who works at the Hamilton foundation which is a conservative 'think tank'.

The paper itself is abysmally stupid. He emailed about 60 000 people with 5 or so confoundingly, unnecessarily complex question (manipulated) and about 30 000 or so responded and then he interpreted the answers and made the conclusion that like 90% of respondents agree that life begins at conception.

Morons say 90% of scientists agree, which is not even what the paper claims at all which itself is not good.

He could have just asked 'does human life begin at conception'? Also he complained (author) in a podcast about the paper about how so many faculty at the college he was st during the paper writing urged him to discontinue the project as for various reasons and then spins that to basically say pro women's rights advocates are in a conspiracy against life and were all democratic demons in a death cult (more or less)

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 261 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Here you go OP. It’s actually ok to swear on the internet.

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 89 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here is a not weirdly censored and un-censored version:

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean… could I have gone and found the original, maybe. Did it cross my mind, no I jumped straight to do it on my phone and make it look as natural as possible, but of course this was the harder option. 🤦‍♂️

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I like to go the extra mile. I uncensor shit emphatically.

A censored "shit" in a post about Star Trek? "SHIT" in big Star Trek font.

"Cunt" in a post about the UK? Enjoy your "CUNT" dressed in a union jack.

The censored word is "cock"? Here's "COCK" in flesh tones with bulging purple veins on it.

Fucking lean into it.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

"Harder". I mean, sure. It's all so low effort anyway. Why not call that harder.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

I also like to reinvent wheels, it's basically a hobby at this point

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate it. I downvote every censored post.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

mUh EnGaGeMeNt StAtS

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I don't get at all this trend of badly censored words.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago

Yes, **** the fuck.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago

They try to be a rebel, but still wanna please facists algorithms. American puritanism BS. Fuck that.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One theory is that it's done intentionally to farm engagement from people pointing it out. Also I think most mainstream platforms heavily push down in the algorithm content that isn't sanitised. This is to make the platform more appealing to advertisers because the platform's userbase is the product.

As for why the words are partly censored instead of completely censored I'm not sure. I'd guess it's to game the algorithm while also making the word completely obvious.

Either way, if this is the behaviour that you engage in on a platform, that platform is terrible and you are an attention obsessed idiot.

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[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

MY EYES! NOOOOO! MY INNOCENCE!!!!

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Unless you’re a part of .ml, apparently. They auto-censor that stuff for some reason.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

i can promise you fuck isn't censored on .ml

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

90% of scientists agree you pull random percentages out of your ass.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 85 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Even if it was a human, Chris would be wrong with his lie about "90% of scientists." Not sure why people think a lie will help their argument in cases like this.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Eh... A Human fetus is human, but it is not "a human". Your toenail clippings are human.

Plus, the humanity or personhood of a fetus doesn't really matter for the pro-choice position. Simply put, there is no (other) legal situation that can compell you to give up your bodily autonomy.

Example. I can shoot someone in the street in cold blood, and they could die without a blood transfusion. The courts cannot compell me to do something as harmless as donating blood to save that person's life. A fetus, despite arguably being a person, does not have a right to your blood, your breath, your nutrients, or a space inside your body. Full stop.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago

Wow. I have never heard this argument articulated in this way. Thanks!

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Am scientist (not in life sciences). If someone showed me this image, I'd have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at. So that's one for the 10%, I guess.

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had a...call? survey? at some point from an entity that probably gave rise to this data. It was basically a push-poll that used question order and positive reinforcement to try to get people to agree that abortion is murder.

Mostly, it tried to conflate "human" with "a human," starting out with things like "are cells isolated from humans still human?" "Can cultured cells be called 'viable?'" "So would you agree that tissue cultured from a human donor is viable, human tissue?"

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 21 points 1 day ago

Pfft, we have a hard time proving people under 1 billion net worth are human live nowadays.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I do love the "blank slate mammal" look we all seem to share at this stage.

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

A just a few less cells and it compares to birds, reptiles and fish.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago

We all start off as weird worm-like gilled things, huh

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Amazing how we (or any organism complex enough to have organs) are just a pair of cells that underwent a sequence of protein-controlled division, folding and diversification. And excretion and consumption that formed and maintains non-cellular parts like fluids and bones. Plus the microbiome but arguably that's not you, much like mites.

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