Unfortunately very true. The hungry judge effect demonstrates how people tend to be more considerate after a meal.

I don’t see what would be wrong with a proposal if the lemmygrad community had gotten better. But I have no idea if that’s the case. Looks like the dbzer0 community doesn’t want them back regardless.

People do misuse the term “tankies” a lot and it is annoying. But people like diva go “no true leftist” a lot more than liberals do. I cannot fathom why they would use a political center that would put 95% of people as right wing. I guess it fulfills the classic meme of leftists’ arch enemies being people who agree with 80% of their views. And everyone seems to throw around “nazi” in a way that makes it hard to take them seriously.

Anyway, I do dislike resorting to defederation outside of extreme circumstances. I don’t know about sh.itjust.works, but world defederated from lemmygrad after an excess of hate speech and calls to violence, so I can accept that as justified. The fact that they are still federated with ml despite unaligned values gives credibility to that. I think hexbear was more from trolling, which I would prefer be handled by mods and individual user blocking but I can understand that at a certain point that becomes unpractical.

Anne Frank left out that night from the diary

It’s very possible to have a healthy or unhealthy diet both as a vegan or not. Nonvegan foods tend to be more calorie dense and higher in fat on average, but plenty of junk foods are also unintentionally vegan.

I’ve felt good in the years I’ve had a vegan diet, but part of that is me using vitamin supplements to make up for some things that are otherwise hard to get much of. I think I was deficient in a few of them before, but going vegan made it a notable enough issue to actually do something about it. Fortunately, they are very cheap and available in the US.

I made this argument in another thread, and someone replied that those were rules for Israelites, but not actual sins. They said God made a covenant with the Israelites about things that would be illegal, but not immoral beyond the fact it meant breaking the covenant itself. There is some reason to accept this, as Leviticus does focus on the new covenant with the Israelites specifically.

However, several books of the new testament are letters where Paul is instructing new churches and he explicitly reinforces the idea that at least some of the covenant laws still apply, including homosexuality (between men). As for Jesus, he seems kind of inconsistent about what is retconned in the gospels. He rejects things like “eye for an eye”, stoning adulterers, and complete prohibition of work on the Sabbath, but also has this passage

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Matthew 5:17–18 (NIV)

If I were trying to create a consistent biblical position, I would interpret this to mean the stuff from the old testament still applies unless something newer specifically counters it. But Christians ignore a lot of Jewish laws, so I think most would disagree with that.

A modest proposal that could make society so much better!

Neurodivergents being overrepresented likely accounts for some of the tendency of people mistakenly taking things literally on Lemmy. But I think a bigger issue is just a lack of media literacy. People tend to close themselves off from opposing viewpoints, and what does filter through is often exaggerated or otherwise misrepresented to make it easier to ridicule. This pattern leads people into thinking something intentionally absurd is in fact serious. Poe’s law is something easy to observe on other platforms too, but it’s worse on a platform with an especially political and nondiverse userbase.

Humans lack many sharp teeth and have unimpressive jaw strength. It’s a much more beautiful show of trust with my dog.

Well they also enslave their pokemon, primarily to fight each other to unconsciousness for their masters’ entertainment. In fact, gambling winnings from these fights is how the main protagonists in the games are able to make money. It’s prevalent and profitable enough that pokemon trafficking is the main enterprise of several organized crime organizations. All this is despite the fact that there are several examples of pokemon learning to speak and otherwise having an intelligence comparable to humans. Basically, it does not do well in the veil of ignorance test and only seems idyllic if you know you will be at the top of the hierarchy.

The AI is the summary software. How else do you think the summary happens?

It doesn’t sound like AI is being used for either. It’s just summarizing the encounter at the end as a note, and not storing any data to train on.

I’m ok with people being British, just not in front of children.

Pam Bondi more like Pam Gone-di

Others have already pointed out that her distress calls were most certainly not ignored. But even if it were true that others did casually allow her to die, their disregard for her life wouldn’t have been because she was a woman. Her navigator, Fred Noonan, was a man on board and also suffered the same fate as her. Inventing a sexist conspiracy over an unfortunate tragedy accomplishes nothing productive.

I believe the theory that the writers of the gospels really wanted to stress that they weren’t mad at the Romans for killing their messiah so they wouldn’t be considered rebels needing to be stamped out. So they said that Pontius Pilate had his hands tied and that the jews should be blamed instead.

Really, it doesn’t make sense why he would go to bat for Jesus and try to convince the crowd not to kill him in the first place. And the whole idea of jews having a tradition of setting free 1 person on death row, and that the Romans would care to honor it, just seems bizarre. It also seems unlikely that the crowd would show mercy on someone convicted of murder instead of a miraculous, popular, compassionate guy who just said things that may have been considered vaguely heretical.

Found God’s account

You are free to criticize democrats, but when you imply they are as bad as child rapists people are going to roll their eyes

I would say standardized testing is a way for us to provide transparency about how we are failing our kids. The SAT and ACT stats you used are an example of that. This should motivate us to improve things, but like a lot of modern issues people just don’t care enough to make it happen. Even so, being able to cite worsening outcomes supports people arguing for more investment in education.

I took standardized tests from elementary to college, and I remember their questions being objective, unambiguous, and relevant to learning topics much better than teachers’ custom exams. I actually felt well prepared for the SAT/ACT/college thanks to the way they were used.

Teachers do need some discretion on what they teach, but without good standards you can easily have them just spreading their personal agendas. I don’t want students learning about “the war of northern aggression”, or that native Americans just chose to move to reservations actually, or that evolution is nonsense, or that abstinence is the only way to be safe regarding sex. Having expectations about what students should know at each grade gives a goal without stipulations on how it’s achieved. Standardized tests then just measure it.