aelwero

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[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

'I've got to do this on my own,'" she said last September. "Because if I take the drug, that's the easy way out."

Apparently there's a perception that it matters... You'll see it with smoking cessation too. Gotta do shit the absolute hardest way possible or you're somehow "cheating"...

Wouldn't want people to have taken the easy way to not fucking dying :/

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 155 points 7 months ago (4 children)

LG effectively has said that their owners manual and a cardboard box have authority over the courts. Clearly, as the courts have nullified it, they fucking dont.

All I see is a damned good reason to ban arbitration agreements outright. If you want to arbitrate a tort, you should be required to motion the court for it.

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

That sounds like it's exactly the point...

Normally I'd chalk your comment up as being a little too "tinfoil hat" to warrant engaging, but half the article implies exactly that, and I don't think the author was doing it on purpose because quite frankly, I don't think there are any news authors left with the competence to do so.

This is 100% some shit I'd expect to come out of the red team though... The Biden administration hasn't struck me as being on the side of corporate interests (generally speaking... I'm not naive enough to think the Biden administration couldn't be bought, I'm speaking to track record here...), and I don't think this would impact tax revenue much, which is to say that there's not much ulterior motivation for blues to trump up a bullshit problem to keep Chinese cars out of the market.

I'm inclined to agree with your opinion, but logically it doesn't add up, is my point :)

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The word genocide itself is banned? Or you can't use it in reference to isreal? What if you're talking about WWII? Or you're one of the people protesting that call Biden "genocide Joe" (which is not specifically referencing Israel, but implies it pretty hard)...

I only ask because banning words is a pretty fuckin Republican thing these days and this don't seem like that kinda place.

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Attachment to either party is waning among younger voters. A plurality (41%) of them call themselves independents.

I swear this is a generational thing. Silent Gen were rebellious bastards, boomers were not, gen x are rebellious bastards, millennials are not, gen z going with being rebellious bastards totally checks out .

My old gen x ass is 100% with you my little dudes/dudettes... Gotta fight for your right to party ;)

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The movie companies said they were not planning to go after these people in court

Worlds most prolific story tellers tellin stories;)

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 110 points 7 months ago

In case Apple’s advice doesn’t work, it’s safe to say that you probably need help from professional repair experts and may even need to prepare yourself to buy a new iPhone.

"Don't do anything yourself, just come give us more money"

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm reasonably certain that once enough governments jump on the "we need to control the internets" bandwagon, there will be a region specific convention adopted similar to country codes for phone numbers so that they can, in fact, apply customs to it...

I suspect it won't be in the name of righteousness though, more likely it'll be taxes, copyright, etc, on internet sales that trigger it.

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago (1 children)

options include the establishment of a digital ID system or services that can estimate an individual's age based on a visual scan of their face.

Oh yeah... I'm sure that won't cause any unintended issues at all...

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Being black isn't a disqualifier if you can access resources...

How much discrimination do you think obviously wealthy black people face? A much as a poor black person?

It's not a matter of skin color in reality, that shit's nothing more than some extra melanin. The difference is the perception that black people are poor... People see a young black guy in a high end Audi and assume he's a drug dealer, because they have this societally developed perception that a person of his melanin content is incapable of acquiring that kind of money legitimately. The discrimination is centric to the resources, always has been. There are white people who get just as discriminated against as any other poor person, it's a huge factor in why Trump's stupid ass has the following he does... He plays that shit up and nobody else will touch it with a ten foot pole...

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that's almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.

It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).

The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they're assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.

Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn't even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.

You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases... Height, weight, physical condition... They're often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn't anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)

And of course it's more obvious among women for the same reason... The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women's choices of partners more so than men.

 

How do I make the politics and news subs go away? It's all ridiculously biased to the lib side and I'm as centrist/moderate as a human can possibly be, and don't want "news" from a polar source (and this joint definitely is).

I kinda want an "ALL" feed, to randomly wander around and figure out where I belong, but instead of the "memes and porn junk" everyone's complaining about, that I'd be pretty happy with, I got blue koolade nonstop.

Is there a fairly simple answer to this, or do I gotta go find specific subs and have only those be my feed?

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