[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

Why are there ads in Gmail what is this? I have never seen ads in my Gmail app

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 107 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'll echo the words of my friend, who is a permanent wheelchair user:

"Yes, I identify with my disability as part of who I am, but I would still take a cure without hesitation"

Yes, people with disabilities identify with their disability, so even in a fantasy setting I can see how their disability would be part of their character.

But every disabled person I know would figuratively leap at the opportunity to reverse their disability with magic. It is also basically impossible to use a wheelchair while holding something like a wand or a staff or a fireball in one hand, so if there's enough magic around to push a wheelchair, there's probably enough to make your legs work. That's why somebody has a good reason not to expect a wheelchair in a fantasy world. I can see how somebody who doesn't really know any disabled people would panic at the idea of a wheelchair being part of the narrative or something like that, and I can sympathize with it.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

Is commenting for engagement boost a thing?

This is incredible and I never could have imagined it. This will democratize the power of programming

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago

What do you mean you won't permit it? You mean you will actually try to stop Israel from doing it? Will you stop giving Israel money?

Or are you just going to do nothing?

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

I think I might have achieved security through obscurity. My custom keyboard is a unique shape and almost all the keys are one unit. Not only is it different enough from a traditional keyboard that the neural network probably won't understand it, the function layers I use obscure whether I'm typing a letter at all.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imma need a hardcore source for this. Not because I doubt it, but because I'd like to include it in an essay

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

Christian communism. Based.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The United States does not have a democracy. The United States Government is an enemy of democracy.

A serious analysis of our government and history exposes layers and layers of undemocratic rot in no particular order, and by no means exhaustively: The electoral college, police intimidation and violence against protestors, gerrymandering, regulatory capture, the historic and current slavery, segregation, and disenfranchisement of Black Americans, mass surveillance, imprisonment of Asian Americans, torture of prisoners, the genocide of Native American Indians, systematic destruction of voter registries, and the ability of our lawmakers to invest in the industries they regulate, and regulate the industries they invest in. This injury to our democracy is topped with insult as every one of these glaring injustices is either still festering in our government, or had to be taken down through immense sacrifice and pain, or for the aforementioned minority groups, represents an irreparable scar on our history.

The result is a Princeton study that, even according to its critics, describes our government as having only a 50/50 chance of serving the will of the American public.

And that's just at home.

Abroad, the United States is a zealous and brutal enemy of democracy anywhere its true goals are threatened. Over the past century, the US has overthrown dictators and democracies alike in service of private wealth and power. They have murdered countless innocent people and left countless more to live and die in the aftermath. In at least one instance, just a few people in our government with a blank checkbook and no oversight or accountability were responsible for the destruction of democratic governments abroad.

The United States does not value democracy or freedom. It values the feeling of democracy and freedom while actually crushing people and taking everything they have unless they stand to benefit us more if we let them keep it.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 156 points 10 months ago

"Palestine" is not the one that did this. Hamas is a terrorist group, and their actions do not justify the fact that the Israeli government operates an apartheid state where people are given rights, status, and property on the basis of race, and also participates in the slaughter of innocent people.

This isn't a "whoever's worse should lose" situation. Israel commits human rights violations and Hamas is a terrorist group.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In order to learn about sex you're going to have to learn about either straight sex, gay sex, or both. Turns out both types of sex happen to exist. If you're going to learn about straight sex you should probably learn about gay sex too in case you're gay. If you're trans the topic of puberty and your changing body gets 10 times more complicated. You should probably learn about that in case you're trans. It would be helpful for queer kids and the things they experience to not be left out of sex ed, also so that kids who don't know there's some form of queer yet don't grow up thinking that they're broken.

Since both straight and gay sex exists, and because trans people exist too, learning about sex from those perspectives is important.

This kind of education is what could have stopped an entire country from thinking that AIDS is caused by being gay.

Excluding queer sexuality and gender from sex education is what we've been doing since forever, and surprise it's left queer kids unprepared for the things they will encounter, and the other kids with the kinds of assumptions that you express here.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Things that happen inside your head = not illegal

Things that happen outside of your head = can potentially be illegal.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
  1. You can eat them if they have the nutrients you need. Non-carbon-based just means it won't use carbon as the foundation of its molecular and cellular workings. By mass, there's relatively little carbon in living organisms and on earth, so whatever's out there could still use carbon and other elements enough that it has something we could eat. There's barely any telling what kinds of chemicals will be found in an organism like that, but it could easily be a mix of things we can digest and things we can't. Even carbon-based life is like that. Wood for example is biologically very similar to us, but is mainly made of cellulose, which we can't really digest at all.

  2. yes, if it fits.

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