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  • The reason you cannot ban weapons is because anything could be a weapon. A rock, pencil, barb wire, glass, car, etc.

    I know what you mean, but there’s always nuance, a limit, when it comes to things like this. Just because you can use anything as a weapon, doesn’t mean everyone should have access to everything. Rocket launchers? Bio weapons? Nukes?

    Banning weapons wouldn’t make crime vanish. Also the whole point of crime is that you break the rules to do it. Your strict rules would just be broken by certain people hence creating the “crime”.

    Similarly, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. If there’s no need to ban things because criminals will do it anyway, why have laws at all? Murder, rape, assault etc.

    Ultimately, societally, we attempt to come to a collective idea of what we think is “right”, and then attempt to enforce that.

    Initially most are very straight forward, like “don’t kill people”… But then the deeper you drill into it, the more complicated it gets. What if you accidentally kill someone? You give them something they’re allergic to without knowing it? Should you get life in prison?


  • Probably depends on the type of company you work in. If it’s a long established one with lots of staff, they’ve probably realised this issue a long time ago and put plans in for it.

    If it’s a more modern one that hired a bunch of solid old heads early on, they probably know better from the outset.

    In both cases, someone, somewhere will have probably experienced it and said “never again”, so implemented (or improved) release procedures to ensure it doesn’t happen again

    A lot of my teams have been on the younger side and for small companies/startups. So everyone either had a recent example to pull from or had first have experience



  • I used to watch her when, as far as I knew, all she talked about was science (mainly physics) news. You know, talking about the thing she actually studied in.

    Then one day she did a “capitalism is actually great” video, and spouted a bunch of erroneous neo-lib bullshit. Thankfully most of the comments tore into her, pointing out the logical falacies and out right lies she was parroting.

    I only watched a few more vids after that as she seemed to get more and more out of her area of knowledge and saying dumb shit.

    I had no idea about the anti trans stuff though. I’d just stopped watching and written her off as the Nth person to be smart in one area and try and apply that to other areas where they have no expertise but think they know more about it than anyone else.

    So yeah, fuck her



  • If you ever needed proof that people/companies worth lots of money didn’t earn it, you can look at twitter as a great example. He pretty much did everything wrong. Massively overpaid for it, lowered the companies valuation significantly, lost a lot of users, advertisers etc.

    Somehow it still exists and is relavent and hadn’t hurt musks wealth.


  • Karjalan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldspoilers
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    4 months ago

    Sorry, that was a typo, “shark jumpy”. It jumps the shark quite a bit.

    I wouldn’t personally say the show is must watch. But it is pretty decent soft horror, retro, sci-fi, mystery, adventure entertainment.

    I guess my time is a lot more constrained these days and my list of shows to watch, movies to see, and games up play grows faster than it’s consumed. So I really have to prioritise







  • Doesn’t apply to my case

    Really? Anecdotal evidence, in a scientific setting, is described as

    casual observations/indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis

    This study is about the general trends of people judging others with tattoos incorrectly. It doesn’t mean everyone, always, judges people incorrectly.

    It also states that context matters for how accurately you judge someone. The gun, money, and the public information of his terrible actions, all change how you assess them and how accurate your assessment is.

    So in your case, yes, if you judged him as a rapist because he had a birthday tattoo, you were correct. But that is anecdotal evidence. And context based.

    Unless you’re implying everyone with a birthday tattoo is also a sexual assaulter/rapist, which is certainly a take, then it is anecdotal and doesn’t go against the studys findings.





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    6 months ago

    I just have memories of the early days of genetic sequencing research breakthroughs and the Israeli government started to order it’s scientists to sequence the Israeli and Palestinian DNA to “prove” their difference… only to very quickly learn they were almost identical, stop the program, and try and stop people from talking about it.