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  • Anon tries to bow out

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  • Also, most people who just have bows laying around only have relatively dull target arrowheads, you'd want a proper hunting broadhead or similar, else you'll just wind up with brain damage and medical bills

  • Cryptocurrency's popularity in the U.S. tied to conservative moral foundations

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  • And incidentally, the rampant speculation around them has rendered them mostly worthless as a currency due to the high fluctuations in price

  • Why Vegan Desserts Are the Best They’ve Ever Been

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  • Read the article - that's really not the case anymore. My wife is a baker, and she makes Vegan deserts all the time, I can tell you first hand that when done well, Vegan deserts are every bit as delicious as "normal" ones

  • What do you think will be the next evolutionary step for our species?

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  • I'm not sure "evolution" is on the table for humanity any longer. For one thing, evolutionary pressures don't really exist for humanity, outside of the most undeveloped areas.

    Not making it to "breeding age" (feels weird to say that in the context of humans) doesn't really have anything to do with fitness any longer, more just luck.

    Add in the fact that we basically already have the ability to manipulate human genes - and I think it's far more likely that we'll just start tinkering with our genetic code deliberately, as opposed to what we think of as evolution

  • In the Company of Culprits

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  • Yeah, we need to get over the fantasy that any facts that come out of these investigations will sway anyone about trump.

    The fact is that anyone intelligent who supports him already knows he's a crook, and just doesn't care, because his policies benefit them (for now), and the rest will just swallow whatever blatant lie trump feeds them

  • Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.

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  • Framing by the justice system happens all the time. Adult DNA doesn't get there by accident, but DNA results can get falsified on purpose.

    I get that you really want to torture people while feeling morally justified, but consider the fact that torturing convicted criminals doesn't actually help anyone, including the victim, and that you will inevitably wind up torturing an innocent person. Period.

    Like I said, lock 'em up where they can't hurt anyone - but torturing them doesn't do anything except make sadists happy, and I don't think that's what we should be optimizing for in a first world justice system.

  • Dog breed bans are about human prejudice — not the dogs

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  • That makes me think that for you it’s about something more than public safety.

    Yeah, it's been clear from your very first comment that you feel this way lol - you're welcome to disagree with me, but I've already laid out my thoughts on the matter multiple times. Unless you have anything new to add, instead of just repeating the same fallacies about the data being "worthless", then I don't see any value in continuing to talk in circles

  • Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.

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  • you should also err on the side of “not maiming those people” because the chances are some of them are innocent.

    This was more or less my point, though frankly I don't know that I totally agree that a false negative is "far worse". Getting a false conviction as a child sexual offender is practically a death sentence in prison, and even if it's not, it's certainly enough to ruin that persons life forever. We're talking about an actual human here. I'm really not sure what it is about children that make people so perfectly OK with throwing away the lives of scores of adults just to keep one child from harm.

    Mind you, I'm not advocating that we should let all offenders go free for the sake of keeping any innocents out of prison, but personally I'd rather let several guilty men go free for a crime than see one innocent person have their lives ruined purely due to the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and the incompetence of our justice system. Though I recognize that that's no doubt a controversial opinion. Especially as no one ever believes that they themselves will be falsely convicted of something.

  • Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.

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  • Do you have a way of determining with 100% accuracy which is which? Because if so, holy shit dude, you need to share that shit with the world - you could single handedly revolutionize global justic, what the fuck are you doing just posting about it on Lemmy???

  • Dog breed bans are about human prejudice — not the dogs

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  • You are though.

    I'm not, reread my previous comment. Last time I'm going to say this before I just block you without giving you the courtesy of even replying, stop deciding for me what I'm advocating, I've laid out the strategy I'd like to see in my previous comment, I'm advocating for absolutely no action beyond that.

    So pitbulls will still breed even if you tell people not to do it.

    Yes, of course - do you actually believe this is where a majority of pitbulls come from though? No moral strategy will completely eliminate the breed, but restricting breeders will mean that your average person can't get one, which means your average Joe/Jane is far less likely to run into them on the street.

    How do you come up with pitbulls having health and aggression issues?

    I never said they have health issues (maybe they do, I'm not aware of it though) - When I talk about breeds with health issues, I'm referring to breeds like Pugs that live their whole lives in discomfort because of how much we fucked up their physiology.

    In over half of all dog bite cases, the breed is unknown

    True, that's why we only look at the cases where the breed is known for these discussions, without making any assumptions about the dogs whose breed is unknown.

    It’s not anyone’s job to count dog bites by breed

    I guess true? In that people don't get paid, they do however report breed information as part of the reporting of the dog bite. And as I've said in other comments in this thread, I'm entirely sure that there is a margin of error in the reporting of breeds for dog bites. However, even if you assume as much as a 5x overreporting for pitbulls, that still puts at about double the chance of an individual pitbull biting someone as opposed to a mixed breed dog.

    anyone purporting to have done so is basically lying.

    Ah, the ole "I don't like it, so it must be made up", very scientific.

  • Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.

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  • Realistically, ever justice system is going to have to compromise between between the ease of incarcerating actual criminals and the likelihood of a false conviction, I don't think it'd be possible to build a system where absolutely 0 innocent people get convicted of crimes they didn't commit - unless it also was unwilling to convict actual offenders

  • Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.

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  • As with any legal punishment, it's always necessary to acknowledge that no matter how heinous the crime, some portion of people who are sentenced for that crime, will in fact be innocent.

    I'd much much much rather not have a single innocent person be subjected to this, just so I can feel smug that some sick fuck "got what they deserved". Lock em up where they can't hurt anyone and call it a day. Cruel and usual punishments help absolutely no one in the end

  • Dog breed bans are about human prejudice — not the dogs

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  • And when you talk about banning dog breeds, yes you are talking about rounding them up in euthanizing them. Period.

    I'm absolutely not. I'm advocating restrictions on breeders, not owners. No one should have their dog taken away, and pit bulls in shelters should still be adoptable in my view. I just don't believe we should be deliberately breeding more dogs with known issues, whether it's issues with their own health (like pugs) or issues with aggression.

    Please don't presume to tell me what I'm advocating.

  • v thoughtful suggestion, I had not considered

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  • I mean, if it's a new therapist it still seems valuable to go through the "obvious" checklist first just to make sure you've covered your bases. For some people it may be enough, even if it isn't for most 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • Why do yall care so much about a branding update?

  • Trans Girls Belong on Girls' Sports Teams

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  • Exactly, switch over to leagues based on whatever benchmark makes sense for your sport and call it a day

  • Australians Are Not Loving The Daily Wire’s ‘Bluey’ Knock-Off

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  • Not enough propoganda, id imagine

  • McCarthy Says ‘We’re In a Very Bad Place Right Now’ Thanks to ‘Crazy Members Led By Gaetz’

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  • Oh I'm sure around the quoted bits in the title he threw in plenty of references to how this is still mostly the democrats fault lol

  • Elon Musk says 'we dug our own grave' with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges

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  • That's weird, I could have sworn he said that they nearly had all the issues sorted out and that it was coming next month.. Trying to remember when he said that.. 2021?