For showing up to work and not harming people by driving through them:

The first was of Amazon driver Jogernsyn Cardenas, who says he joined the union push at the urging of his nephew but didn’t realize the strike had begun when he showed up to work today.

He stopped his van as striking co-workers shouted for him to join them. ​“We were surrounding the van, and we told him to get out. Come join us!” says Latrice Johnson, a driver at one of Amazon’s eight subcontractors at DBK4 (whom I interviewed about the union campaign in September). ​“He was listening, and he wanted to know more. And the police stopped that, and they kept telling him to keep it moving. He was saying, ​‘How am I gonna go anywhere? The people are here. I can’t hit people.’”

NYPD officers swarmed Cardenas, blocking him in the cab of his van and ultimately arresting him after he attempted to leave his vehicle, over shouts of ​“Let him go!” from fellow workers and allies.

I understand that for security compliance reasons. But beyond that, yupp. It sucks.

Seagate. The company that sold me an HDD which broke down two days after the warranty expired.

No thanks.
laughing in Western Digital HDD running for about 10 years now

It’s natural selection which has born empathy. There are a lot of species which are successful because they are collaborative.

Same story with us humans. We usually prefer groups and collaboration. And look what we can achieve if we put all of our minds and strengths together.
Yet, this hasn’t been sufficient to overcome some individuals who live and enforce competitiveness.

Selling to Disnep was a huge mistake. Putting all the fabulous work of the expanded universe in the back for “creative freedom” and labeling it “fan fiction” basically killed Star Wars for me. Why make movies about Yuuzhan Vong, a novel and incredibly fascinating and creatively written species as the new menace, not detectable by the force, if you can just recycle the old movies?

When organized religion is kept out of public schools, with time, religion slowly fades away as there is less need for it.

Is there data to support this? As much as I would love that to be true, I’ve got my doubts. Most religions are not taught in western schools. Despite that, parallel societies are established where a specific religion is fostered. Children are sent to private religious schools and the religion is uphold by these communities.

(This is not an argument against secularism. I’m indeed in favour of keeping proselytizing subjects out of school. Just questions the effect on the evolution of religious demographics.)

Hm okay. English is not my native language. I’ve checked this with a dictionary and found it to be an adequate description, even discussed this with ChatGPT. It pointed out that this can also be understood in the way you’ve described it.

What I meant were people who practise in esotericism, like briefly described here. Besides “stupid”, what do you suggest to describe such people?

Also, thanks for pointing that out!

If you’re happy with your life, that’s perfect!

As people are usually social creatures, it’s only natural if someone is in truth not happy about this. There are exceptions of course.

However, my comment was totally misplaced and condescending. My bad. Didn’t think much about it. I’m truly sorry about this.

I’ve deleted the comment.

You’re right. I’m sorry. I was just joking, but it’s not okay to do that by picking on someone who lives a harmless life.

I guess I felt a bit offended, since he sounded rather aggressive and condescending. But, not my business. Doesn’t affect me nor anyone else besides himself alone.

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve deleted my comment.

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Yes. You can’tn’t.

As far as I know it is indeed theoretically possible to catch chlamydia when having contact to infected toilet seats. But for this to happen “fresh” infected secretes in high doses must be present. Chlamydia bacteria do not survive for long outside of a body.
Therefore an infection on this way is very unlikely and such a case hasn’t been reported.

For women an infection with chlamydia is especially dangerous since typical symptoms are often lacking. But leaving it untreated can pose significant hazards such as cancer and loss of fertility.
So, get yourself checked regularly.

Sources (German):
https://www.euroclinix.net/de/geschlechtskrankheiten/chlamydien/uebertragung
https://sicherintim.com/chlamydien-uebertragung/

but beyond that whatever means necessary to protect himself is justified. No one should be worrying about the safety of their attacker when they are defending themselves

Are burglars usually murderers? Don’t they usually care about stealing stuff to make some form of profit out of that?

I don’t share your view. You don’t need to kill someone in order to stop some form of crime. Especially not if there is no or a low risk of bodily harm.

Self defence only goes so far as to inrerrupt and disable an attack. The mildest means possible are the preferrable ones. For example, if some wants to beat you up, you don’t go on and kill them after you’ve defeated them and they’re unconscious on the ground.
In this case, the best the kid could’ve done is to just run away and call for help. It would’ve been safer for himself and prevented that he possibly might have become a murderer.

Self defence has limits. And for good reason. You can’t just do anything you want, just because someone attacks you. You do what is necessary and possible for you. Nothing more, nothing less. Otherwise you yourself become a culprit.

Isn’t “esoteric people” an accurate description?

Yeah, we’ve got those who promise themselves health benefits from drinking raw milk. I have the impression that this is mostly prevalent in esoteric people, as usual with such stuff.

But such beneficial claims of raw milk consumption appear to be not scientifically sound and are a myth.
https://doi.org/10.1097/NT.0000000000000108

you broke into my house dude you aren’t gonna be praised

Of course not.

This kid has every right to be proud, in this situation we are nothing but animals and he did exactly the right thing.

So is it right to put deadly weapons into the hands of children?
What if he had killed the burglar? Good thing to have on the conscience of a child, right?

Don’t get me wrong. I totally understand that in extreme situations people should defend themselves. But was this an extreme situation which justifies these actions?

What the child said is already deeply disturbing:

“I told him I was going to kill him if he didn’t get out of my house,” said Chris.

And why the fuck do children have access to weapons?

he grabbed a 9mm handgun

Then there is this:

The intruder made it out the front door, but that’s when Chris started firing off bullets. As the intruder was about to jump a fence, Chris’s 12th and final shot hit the bad guy in the leg.

( Citations from: https://www.wptv.com/news/national/chris-gaither-11-year-old-boy-shoots-intruder-who-cried-like-a-baby )

Intruder was outside, going away, and the kid started shooting.
The kid could’ve just ran away. Instead of trying to kill someone or getting themselves killed by such a behaviour.

No. The kid shouldn’t be proud. Neither should anyone. That’s just fucked up. And raising kids to become possibly killers is not making it better overall.
He can be lucky not to have killed that man and that he (the kid) didn’t get seriously injured.

People can and should be better than this.

and you’re naive if you don’t think violence is a potential outcome

Currently, of course. Point is, people can be better. On both sides. And instead of nurturing our compassion and collective support, we praise violence and let continue the wheel to roll which has already destroyed countless of lives.

Imagine living in a society so deeply fucked up that some people feel the need to become burglars and others feel the need that attacking them with deadly weapons is the only option.

And then imagine that this is celebrated.

Oh well…

Every man is by definition a man and feels like one.

I agree. Usually I am. But when it comes to such a rather humurous discussion as here with pizzas, I make an exception. ;)