Didn’t they leave a retro-reflector on the surface of the moon after the first mission? This seems pretty definitive to me.
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Are Becky and Kyle the new Karen and Chad?
jsomae@lemmy.mlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.11·2 days agoOkay so I must be in the minority, but I don’t feel any particular pathos for these billions of slaughtered animals. Seeing myriads of baby chicks ground into dust doesn’t really move me in the slightest. Just understanding that the farm industry causes intense, agonizing, slow deaths for billions if not trillions of creatures every year is enough for me to understand its morally imperative to not consume the vast majority of animal products. Bentham’s Bulldog has been quite moving for me.
Yesterday I decided to stop buying honey after reading his article about how honey plausibly causes orders of magnitude more suffering than everything else. I’m also vegetarian, and I have replaced most of the dairy in my diet with plant-based alternatives. I still haven’t eliminated cheese and eggs from my diet though. For cheese it’s because I don’t think there’s good evidence the cheese I buy causes any agony in particular, but eggs is the next step for me.
It’s been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.31·2 days agoGiven the amount of perpetual torture these very-likely-to-be-sentient creatures go through, it’s certainly worse than any genocide in history has ever been. Even if you only think that animals are capable of 5% of the suffering of humans.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans1·2 days agoPossible, but they’ll probably have to actually try somebody for a capital offense before people are legitimately scared of capital punishment.
i hate phones
(i have no other comment.)
jsomae@lemmy.mlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.291·2 days agoOntop of that, factory farming is a lovecraftian horror that floods the universe with terrible agony. And there’s very good reason to believe that the suffering of animals is as real and awful as yours or mine.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon studyEnglish1·2 days agoyeah, this is why I’m #fuck-ai to be honest.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans1·2 days agoProtect the children is basically always cover for something sinister. If there were easy gains to be made protecting children without sacrificing some critical personal liberties like privacy, I think those gains would have already been made.
Anyway I agree with you that everything is really bad, especially for queer people who are now a scapegoat. Or, just a target of hate with no particular scape in mind, I guess. But it’s rather detrimental to make stuff up (i.e. about this specific law) to make things look worse than they are. You have already shown you have dozens of actual established facts with the links you’ve posted, that show things are really bad and getting worse. If you want to speculate that the death penalty is coming, that’s fine, just please be clear that it’s an inference, not present-day reality.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon studyEnglish4·2 days agoThe notion that AI is half-ready is a really poignant observation actually. It’s ready for select applications only, but it’s really being advertised like it’s idiot-proof and ready for general use.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish1·2 days agomay well be a Gell-Mann amnesia simulator when used improperly.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish1·2 days agoIn the situation outlined, it can be pretty effective.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans1·2 days agoYeah, I mean, I agree it’s suspect. It’s probably the most anti-LGBT state right now, and they’ve been passing anti-trans laws, such as the drag ban you mentioned – it all lines up. The only thing missing here is that I don’t actually see how this particular law would actually be used to target LGBT people. I have a high prior that this is intended to be anti-LGBT, it’s just I don’t see how it actually could be. I would change my mind if I saw a plausible explanation of how it could be used to target LGBT people.
jsomae@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans2·2 days agoI follow Erin in the Morning, and I totally agree things aren’t looking good. Death camps aren’t impossible.
But you don’t have support for this statement right?
Why do you think some states have made sex crimes against children a capital offense? They call trans people groomers and predators. This is literally the intended effect.
Let me be clear: I’m completely onboard with you. We probably have similar opinions. I just wanted to see the source for this claim. (That is, the claim that there exists a state which introduced a capital offense that could plausibly be used to target LGBTQ people.)
gonna be real, I literally never noticed those before.
I wonder if lemmy would be better or worse with profile pictures
jsomae@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon studyEnglish2·2 days agoyeah.
where can I move to