FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

It will help a whole lot with any private prison which is having trouble making a profit. So there’s that.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

to stop kids from watching smut

They already watch Cocomelon. How much worse could smut be for them?

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

This is not an “are we the baddies?” situation because they already know the answer.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

Some of them think that this is how the glorious revolution happens and they don’t care how many die for it, especially since they rarely think that they might be one of them.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

“You think I have bad taste? Oh honey, look at that top you’re wearing.”

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

That can’t possibly be legal in Europe. The article suggests it doesn’t technically violate GDPR, but that still can’t be legal, can it?

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Let’s see whether lemmy.ml will ignore this story or if Tankies will come in here and tell us that such measures are necessary to counter Western imperialism.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

He was sentenced to two years for slander

Is it really slander considering the state of the Russian military a very long time after the week they were supposed to take Kyiv by?

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

Prehistory in this case, and the method they used to date it is pretty incredible.

Previously, the scientists dated the cave paintings by carbon-dating small samples of cave “popcorn” — calcite clusters that have accumulated over thousands of years.

But in the new study, Brumm and his team used even smaller calcite samples — just 0.002 inches (44 microns) long. By taking much smaller samples, the archaeologists gain a higher resolution of the age distribution of the calcite on the cave walls. The technique also minimizes the damage made to the artwork.

“It really changes the way we do the dating on record, and it can be applied to other records as well,” study co-author Renaud Joannes-Boyau, a geochronologist at Southern Cross University in Australia, said at the news conference.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

What exactly is your point here? You know that 4000 years ago is more recent than 51,000 years ago, right?

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

I have been told before that words mean things. Apparently not.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Quick! Someone get Claudia Sheinbaum a sharpie!

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

I wasn’t joking about dead people, I was joking about a certain world leader and their foolish attempt to divert a deadly hurricane.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Oh you and your logic.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Would the stars in Orion’s belt even be in the same positions relative to our perception 4000-5000 years BP? I don’t know enough about the astronomy side of things, but I know stars generally don’t stay at a static position in the sky long-term.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

The fun part is we don’t have any real evidence outside the Bible that the Ark of the Covenant even existed. Did it exist? Who knows? You can’t really take the Bible’s word for much.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

Knock knock

Hello, sir. I was wondering if you’ve heard the good nwes?

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Also, the Bill Gates microchips. Don’t forget those. And I’m still magnetic.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

I’m good with water, thanks, but never mind sharks. What I really need to look out for is other squid!

www.livescience.com/56211-squid-cannibalism.html

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Oh great, now you’re reminding me about how my cell phone gave me a brain tumor back in the 90s.

And just don’t ask me about the time I blew up a gas station because my mom called me while I was filling up.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

It’s a reference to Redditors circlejerking about the same picture of an Iranian woman wearing a bikini in the 1960s.

Cool, I wasn’t doing that. I was explaining why she might be a Muslim and still be against them.

And no Muslim that practices the faith will tell you wearing a Hijab is optional for Muslims.

I look forward to seeing you tell all those millions of religious Turkish women who do not wear anything on their head that they are not Muslims. I hope you forward me their responses when you let them know you have decided what their religion is.

Edit: South Asian women too.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Even if they don’t wear hijab, they’ll acknowledge that it’s obligatory and what they’re doing is, in fact, haram.

Ah, you speak for these women do you? Are you even a woman yourself?

Your interpretation of Islam is not the only interpretation of Islam.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

It’s definitely far more diverse. I’m sure there are very religious people who left Iran and also atheists. There is also a small but significant Armenian Christian community in Los Angeles that emigrated from Iran. Wikipedia tells me there are still Armenian Christians in Iran, which surprises me.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

It is extremely clear based on your interpretation of Islam. Clearly not the case in South Asia or in Turkey. Let me guess- In Pakistan, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, women are unIslamic.

This is some hardcore misogyny you have going on.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

You do know that Iranians aren’t Arabs, right?

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

Yes, again, I realize that is what the interpretation that you two are pushing is. Your buddy there doesn’t even known that Iranians aren’t Arabs and is calling me a racist over it.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

With tools like CRISPR, I’m guessing it will soon be trivial to take those children and make their genes even more favorable toward a single athletic event or class of athletic events.

We will be seeing people who will leave Usain Bolt in the dust because they have been genetically modified in whatever possible way could give them a boost to their already big advantages. And like you said, nothing illegal about it.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

The idea of mandatory enlistment gives me nightmares. But also the fact that you can be old enough to kill but not old enough to be trusted with alcohol or tobacco. That is just ludicrous on the face of it. This nation is a madhouse.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Calling the values that are supposedly held by Americans “American values” would be accurate even if they were the exact same values held by the people of Belgium. They would also be “Belgian values” if that were the case.

I doubt anyone here would suggest that “American values” were exclusively American.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

No, the collected body of them. Hence the plural.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

We called the dog Indiana.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

Yes, back before there were eight billion people on this planet. Farming vastly more amounts of methane-spewing animals than we do now is an insanely bad idea.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s safe enough. What would stop a Trump Gestapo from marching into one of those cities? People need places to seek asylum where Trump’s regime can’t touch them.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

Sorry, the idea that the Jews could have survived the Holocaust if they fought back is a myth.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Jewish_resistance_in_German-oc…

Jews did fight back. Millions died anyway. Also 15,000 people accused of being queer whether they were or not, and only a number that low because so few people were out of the closet.

You fight all you want. My daughter is queer and I’m leaving to keep her safe if Trump gets in.

FlyingSquid , 23 days ago

Presumably? Would you take that chance if it was your life?

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Well one of your conclusions seems to be that science can involve not using the scientific method. And you’re just wrong. That’s magic. Alchemy. Religion. But not science.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

What’s funny to me is that even if we find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, we will still likely only have a sample size of one when it comes to intelligent life that can survive on this planet for any length of time without a lot of artificial help.

You need to add to this conspiracy theory the reason the aliens could breathe our atmosphere when whatever atmosphere they evolved to breathe could not possibly have the same composition. We also may have too much or too little UV radiation coming through, but almost certainly not the right amount. Their eyes may not be able to see things in the same wavelengths we do, giving us a huge home field advantage when it comes to just hiding from them. There’s no reason they would be able to withstand our amount of gravity either.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

What is my interpretation of the scientific method?

And “science” before the scientific method was not science. It was magic and alchemy and religion. It was not tested. Experiments were not repeated to test them. Things were taken on literal faith.

And you can relate to the Ancient Greeks, but they were wrong. About pretty much everything.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

Cool. The Ancient Greeks were still wrong about pretty much everything.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

Nope. Responding to something silly you said by pointing out that the so-called Ancient Greek scientists you like were wrong on virtually every explanation of how the universe worked is not trolling.

FlyingSquid OP , 23 days ago

You can praise the contributions of the Ancient Greeks, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were wrong about practically everything.

Nothing you can possibly say will make their conceptions of the universe correct. Democratus will never be correct about atoms no matter how much you want him to be. Similarly, Pythagoras will never be right about beans.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

That said, the people who kept the whole literal city awake honking their horns last midnight while waving Turkish flags, or the Moroccan teenagers accosting everyone near my place, including hurling abuse at my Asian or queer neighbours don’t scream peaceful coexistence.

I think the argument to make here is that those people should be dealt with on an individual level rather than demonize an entire group. For every Turk honking their horns in your city at midnight, I am guessing there were exponentially more sleeping or trying to sleep but they couldn’t because of the small number of assholes honking horns.