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  • State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes

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  • I think most people objecting to it are primarily objecting on moral grounds, not legal ones.

  • What widely-praised historical figure do you think was actually not very admirable when you scrutinize them?

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  • Had a book assigned for history class that totally and forever changed my understanding of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World I think it's called.

    Dude and his empire basically singlehandedly spread the written word, religious freedom, and lots of other ideas we generally consider good today. Not saying he didn't kill a lot, because he did, but his historical impact is much more complex than "barbarian invader kills a bunch of people"

  • Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?

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  • surprised i had to scroll down so far to find Old Man's War. definitely worth a read.

  • Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?

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  • Look into housing co-ops! They're basically this and there are already (kind of) a ton of them around!

    I've been in one for a couple years now and it's going pretty well.

  • Against my better judgement, I made vegan spam musubi.

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  • i wouldn't, as long as recipes and discussions were in the comments

  • Damn... The Bard did him dirty.

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  • i don't get it...why does the DM ask for wis saves at the end?

  • Capitalism is Still the Problem

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  • Capitalism is the greatest generator of wealth ever created

    I feel like when making that "calculation", you've forgotten to figure in the complete and utter destruction of the biosphere, the impending losses due to climate change, the cost in human lives and well-being and dignity of enslavement, exploitation, and so on.

  • Is America Really That Bad?

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  • Even when you CAN do this, it's usually because the employees are either kind enough or inattentive enough to let you do this. And if you are clearly unhoused or poor, your chances of being able to do this are much, much lower than if you can fit in in a middle class white area. (Restaurants with predominantly poor clientele or many homeless people nearby tend to be much stricter about this.)

  • Is America Really That Bad?

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  • I guess the one argument for "public restrooms" is rest areas along major highways and restrooms in public (usually national or state, not little municipal) parks.

    So we do have public restrooms...they're just nowhere near 99% of the population most of the time.

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  • the cognitive dissonance is astounding

  • Shakira Meet and Greet

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  • this had me actually cackling for a minute, thanks for sharing

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Weird Fishes (Eric Vitoff using loops to cover Radiohead)

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    The other day I heard a friend talking about how "the moon's gravity affects our internal organs." This sounds like bull, but is it? And if so, how would I correct their misinformation?

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Would wearing a covid-style facemask while cooking significantly reduce the harmful effects of gas stoves?

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    Reedit taking down any post slightly critical of Islam.

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  • There are 1.9 BILLION Muslims globally.

    You think the vast majority of them are fundamentalists?

  • How do I find news without using Social Media?

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  • For interesting, well-written, and in-depth articles I recommend:

    The New Yorker Harper's (not Harper's Bazaar) The Atlantic New York Times Magazine

  • Best lightweight note-taking app?

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  • I've been using Notally for a while and I think it checks all your boxes.

  • Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy

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  • I don't get why you'd think it would be censored? If anything the movie skewers US capitalism, so the CCP would probably be happy for folks to see it.

  • Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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  • I believe both of these questions have been thoroughly answered by the scientific community.

    You're right that meat is more nutrient dense than plants. But if we were to replace meat production with crop production for human consumption at scale, we would be averaging far more (I think on the order of 10x) human calories per acre.

    When you replace a beef farm with vegan food production, you're not just planting crops on the beef farm. Each of those cows eats for years--crops that humans generally wouldn't eat grown on other farms specifically as livestock feed. You need much, much more land and resources to produce 100 calories of meat than you do to produce 100 calories of vegetables.

  • How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?

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  • I'm a gig worker who delivers food to people.

    I almost went into CS and consider myself fairly well-educated, so I think although I'm not in tech I share a slightly similar background and sensibilities with Lemmy folks. I just got on here a couple days ago and it kinda reminds me of reddit back when I joined (hopefully minus the racism and spez's favorite subreddit)

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  • Factory farming IS killing for pleasure.

    Livestock animals are killed for their meat. Something close to 80 billion mostly chickens, pigs, and cows, all of whom have been shown in lab experiments to be surprisingly aware, intelligent, and social. The vast majority of these animals also spend most of their lives in a living hell.

    Why are they killed? It is not because it is nutritionally necessary to do so. It would be vastly more efficient to use land and resources to grow crops for human consumption than for livestock and their feed. Doing so would vastly increase the amount of available food supply, drastically reduce emissions, and reduce the suffering of hundreds of billions of living, feeling creatures (trillions over just the next 15-20 years).

    They are killed because humans have a gustatory and cultural preference to eat meat. Although meat is often healthy, western diets especially often over-include it, and meat is not nutritionally essential for health.

    I am not advocating for literally all human beings to become vegetarian or vegan with no exceptions ever. In fact, the use of some amount of livestock is necessary for maximally sustainable food systems. However, we could drastically (something around 95% globally, maybe more) reduce the amount of meat we consume and ensure that livestock are treated humanely, and it would be objectively better in the long run for humanity and for the planet.

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  • Killing

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_vegetarianism

    edit: Also hunting (specifically of deer and similar) is not a problem, as their populations will grow out of control without hunting. People advocating widescale vegetarianism in fact are not generally against hunting deer. But how much of the meat that is consumed in the developed world is hunted? Factory farming is by several orders of magnitude the greater ethical and climatic concern.