Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you’re flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that’s normalized.

Trimmed down version of my 'sona’s full name “lythlphene” which I came up with kinda randomly in a weird creative mood early in the morning, it’s intended to mean something like “earthy creature”. I decided that I shouldn’t change or tweak it afterwards since I would have just kept overthinking it and never been satisfied

Ex-conservative here, this reeks of an extremely angry person hoping to prove something about social contagion and “trans people want to bring femaleness back to 50’s stereotypes”, and minus the comedy at the end of the first paragraph this is roughly how I would have written it about 10 years ago if I’d had the guts to lie to hundreds of people. Read their post and comment history (before they delete their account) for other signs like “I experienced misogyny and it gave me awesome gender euphoria”

No, and for my one-minute abridged defense:

• Gen 1-2 definitely didn’t happen and were written by two different groups with different religious views using two different creator-god names
• Noah’s Ark definitely didn’t happen, and the story repeats itself all the time because it crushes together the Yahwist’s and Elohist’s writing in a manner especially suggestive of natural human authorship
• New Testament claims that the human lineage is as young as is reported in Gen 2 (Luk 3:38) and has Jesus - presumably the same entity as God - suggest multiple times in two gospels that the great flood was a real event

That’s about enough to deconvert already, and it keeps getting worse the deeper you take things

Congratulations, you’ve invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist

The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely

pros: exceedingly small chance that the one decision-maker and everyone who succeeds them are correct about everything all the time and we reach utopia

cons: likely genocide

sarcasm was not clear, I bought a kilo of heroin after reading your first comment and now I don’t know what to do with it. I’m using it as a mousepad now

check op’s profile, pretty sure these posts are just meant to be confounding

tbh at this point being a Linux user is a Lemmy meme

Nitpick: the proper term is “virtual desktop” or “workspace”, as “desktop environment” is already a common term for the software composing the entire user interface.

I enjoy using this feature on any operating system since it lets me quickly scan through and declutter open windows, and place categories of windows in their own workspaces. I might have only productivity windows on one, and leisure and socials on another. It’s especially effective if you learn the keyboard shortcuts for navigating inside and between workspaces. All this improves my productivity and keeps distractions away.

Every time I sneeze I redirect all the air into a cough. If I actually need my sinuses cleared (e.g., at the end of a cold germ) I just blow my nose. Am I in the minority?

I’ve heard of lab-grown flesh cloned from a burn victim’s own flesh replacing the need for an invasive skin graft retrieval, and a gold nanoparticle mixture placed into an old spinal cord injury to cause microscopic damage and force the body to resume healing the severed nerves. Those are the big two I like to talk about. I’m optimistic about things like whole working artificial organs in the next 50 years

The Mandela Effect does not exist in the manner you’re describing, and by priming your audience to expect a specific false memory you’re tainting the data from any responses you get.

People wouldn’t have the Berenstain/Bernstein thing mixed up in their heads so much if the conversation about it was always phrased as “Who are the authors of that old children’s picture book series with the bears?” instead of adding doubt with “Do you remember the authors as Berenstain or Bernstein?”

I actually went to a real-life sex shop for the first time in my life.

I was nervous out of my mind and I was doing this weird fidgeting thing where I rub the inside edge of my eyelids with my hands over my nose and mouth, and the woman who runs the place asked if I was having an allergic reaction to the air freshener. That’s the humorous bit I think about to stop dwelling on how intense it was for me. It broke nearly every rule and norm I’ve ever lived by. I’ve had about ten distinct “I can’t believe I’m doing this” moments just in the last month.

The owner of the store was very polite, and spoke plainly about sexuality and masturbation so far as it was relevant to my business there. It was as if none of it were ever taboo to begin with, and that kind of approach was just what I needed to not have a heart attack right there. I got a mid-size metal plug and a small thing of lube and I’ve been casually exploring with it since then.

In other news, I learned that I’ve made enough progress restoring my foreskin that artificial lube doesn’t do much for me, and a lot of the time my glans looks like I’m uncut. Nature is healing

Bro, you just downvoted everyone and changed the automatic upvote on all your own comments into downvotes. Both vote totals are recorded separately

Try opening the link in your browser. It might be time to file a bug report

If it’s the one you reposted that goes “oh my god, did you make a whole post (…)” both copies of that one are visible

https://lemmy.world/comment/5605214

The entire thread is visible to me on Voyager and Chromium with no deletions, I don’t see any deletions under this post either

I’ve interacted with a lot of manipulative people online and offline, and nothing I could find in wildginger’s public comments was suggestive of manipulation. No Motte & Bailey defense, no coercive use of ambiguous phrasing, absolutely no sealioning, and not much of anything else. The worst thing they did was show an understandable amount of anger at your insistence that Christian Selig open-source his highly expensive software.

Try hanging out in philosophy-focused spaces, some of them are pretty close to the “civil discussions on hard topics with moderation good enough to toss out manipulators and build everyone else up” sweet spot I’m always searching for