GraniteM

@ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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8h ago

Violence
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GraniteM @lemmy.world 8h ago
this doesn't apply to personal property (legitimized by usage: your home, clothing, toothbrush, etc), but only to the state-backed legal regime of property such as owning land
What's the distinction between owning your home being okay and owning land not being okay? I can have a house, but if someone wants to dig a latrine in my garden then it's up to me to personally chase them off, because the idea of that not being okay is state-sponsored violence?
Also, who enforces the distinction? There might be a general concept that my toothbrush is my toothbrush, but what if someone decides that they don't agree with that philosophy, and instead that everything they can grab is in fact theirs? Aren't we just back to every man for himself at that point, and then of course people would naturally form tribes to consolidate and cooperate in their violence, and oops, we've reinvented feudalism all over again.

8h ago

Snapshot

[Checks]

Oh, thank God, I was worried it was going to be something heartbreaking, like the painting was commissioned after the little girl had tragically died from scarlet fever or some such. Everything's fine.

8h ago

Family trulee

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 8h ago

Due to two ancestors at unequal levels of generations back, I've got some odd ratio like 3/128 Native American. In practice this means that I don't grow much of a beard and I tan before I burn, and not much else.

11h ago

3 Frog Eyes

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 11h ago

Someone hovering two inches off the floor:

"Dude, what was in that delicious meringue?"

13h ago

Violence rule

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 13h ago

How do we feel about this comics' insinuation that the only safety any of us deserve is that which we can secure through our own personal ability to preserve through violence? By that logic, the pig should have shot the wolf the instant he saw him, and there would be no end to the violence until everyone was equally afraid of everyone else's capacity for violence, or until they re-invented feudalism from first principles, and neither sounds like a great state of affairs to me.

24h ago

Creativity (Art by Hatwolf)

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 24h ago

What are its properties? Is it merely a phenomenally effective lube? Does it facilitate passage through otherwise magical barriers? What's going on there?

1d ago

New Poster for "Masters of the Universe"

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 1d ago

If you told me this was the reference mock-up that the ghost of Drew Struzan was going to use to create the real poster, I'd be thrilled.

1d ago

Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice and likeness in era of AI deepfakes

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 1d ago

The "doppelganger problem" is really why this is not an easy issue to answer. If someone gets exclusive rights to a specific face, who is to say another person naturally having a similar face isn't being wronged? How close is too close?

At what point is Natalie Portman allowed to sue Keira Knightley?

2d ago

What Are ‘Scientology Runs’ and Why Is Gen Z So Obsessed With Them?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

Or even just getting hit in the head by a well-meaning person who reasonably thinks they're trying to prevent a maniac from killing someone in the building.

2d ago

What Are ‘Scientology Runs’ and Why Is Gen Z So Obsessed With Them?

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

2d ago

Nobody can ever automate the creation of handmade things

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

rule

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

"My kids ain't inheriting shit."

2d ago

God keeps his finger on the c constant slider

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

"No, that wasn't a metaphor! The Bible is literal truth!"

"What about 'The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me,' or 'But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,' or 'Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.'?"

"Those parts were metaphorical!"

2d ago

Role models

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 2d ago

Just taking this one example under consideration, maybe the boy has expressed interest in fishing, and the mom knows that this neighbor is into fishing, and she emphatically isn't, and she feels like her son might benefit from that kind of bonding experience.

From a more broad-based perspective, it doesn't have to be a gendered conversation, but for a lot of young people, they look to adults for guidance and for ways to understand and express their gender, and it's healthy and helpful to have an adult that they can pattern their own gender expression off of. I didn't have a lot of present male role models as a young boy, and so I found myself reading and watching a lot of science fiction and asking myself "Is this the kind of thing that Captain Picard would do?" It wasn't a perfect replacement by a long shot, but it was something, and it was something that I didn't even fully realize I was looking for until I went back and looked at my own developing sense of what it was to be a man, much later in adulthood.

Can a child learn healthy gender expression from an adult of any given gender? I don't know, maybe. But I do know that as a boy, I really wanted an adult man to help me construct my own identity, and I went looking for one, without even fully knowing what I was doing or why.

3d ago

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 3d ago

Honestly, how the fuck does he even have the power to try to do this? Like, if the president announced he was firing, say, me from my job at the local bookstore, we would laugh and move on with our lives, because he doesn't have that power. And if the president announced he was firing his own chief of staff, sure, that makes sense. But what's with him treating apparently the entire federal apparatus as if it's his own private business and firing people at will, when I should presume there would be an entire multi-level org chart between him and these people that would not give him the power to directly fire them?

3d ago

Trump fires the entire National Science Board

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GraniteM @lemmy.world 3d ago

Call me crazy, but I don't think the president should have the ability to fire all of these supposedly apolitical positions. The president should be walled off from those kind of decisions specifically to prevent the office from being able to hand out positions based on political loyalty and bribes. But maybe I'm just a kooky go nuts crazy guy.