Yep! The observable universe has an edge we’re fairly confident about. Though while it is absolutely “expanding”, unfortunately, space around it is also expanding, so the universe is getting bigger in size, but we don’t think we’re gaining any new mass or exciting celestial objects. Everything’s just getting further away…

Maybe it’s because all popular media is corporatised grey goo now, whereas in the time of thelonelyisland, there was still minor room for internet creativity to be slightly different than very generic.

The ICC reply (though I like how they do try to reply genuinely and honestly) boils down to “but the palestinian government is/would be capitalist too, so…”

This is the very bad form of class reductionism, the idea that oppression/genocide/etc doesn’t matter and isn’t imperialism because it’s not fundamentally along class lines.

Sure thing, ICC, but I don’t think the people of Palestine are in any position to do any revolutions while under the iron thumb of the US and Israel. Nor do I think many people will view communist organisations positively if they sit by, ambivalent about genocide.

I assumed these were all meant to be like 14 year old kids, but Chunus and Jorch out here with their full beards really ruin that theory

To be honest, this is a very common occurrence in all UK schools up to ages ~13. I and at least 10 other students in my year group of ~150 were forced to wet ourselves in the middle of class because our requests to go to the bathroom were denied, not even by particularly ‘toxic’ or ‘mean’ teachers, it’s just a fairly normal attitude. I remember asking to go for like the fifth time, the teacher said “You can wait.”, and in response I showed her my piss-covered hand.

You’d think cleaning up all the piss would be enough to deter that policy, but apparently not.

It is child abuse though, and these really shitty attitudes to the needs of children are not spoken out against nearly as much as they should be.

Unironically “we may be poor and homeless, but we have FREEDOM (also we’re a police state)”

The common line is that the shadow cabinet are just saying all the stuff and announcing far-right policies to appeal to the voter base. Once they get in power, THEN they’ll be real leftists, they proooomise

Very smart engineer: Why don’t they just rebuild the bridge cheaply, safely and quickly lol? Also use rusty steel

What percentage of your genocide victims are literal children?

As a European, there is no doubt that Europe is genuinely descending into fascism. Every country puts in new, worse laws every year, the internet gets censored even heavier, more forms of protest get outlawed and control of media (TV/News/Social) is in ever fewer hands. We are quite literally at the point of punishing anybody who dares to suggest improving society somewhat

You see, I give myself my own money to make weapons for a stupid proxy war on the other side of the globe. And that’s how the money helps me! My salary is infinite!

I’ll take this moment to complain about how Tangled (a Disney Rapunzel film, basically) just assumes that pillaging native lands is the moral thing to do.

An old woman is using a magical flower out in the wilderness to retain her youth and health. It’s quite literally the only thing keeping her alive. When the Queen of the kingdom falls ill, soldiers of the kingdom go out and just rip up the flower. The old woman, deprived of her only means to stay alive, rushes to the castle, only to find that the flower’s properties are now stuck inside the Queen’s baby. Reasonably assuming that the selfish-ass King and Queen who just gave her a death sentence were obviously never going to let her use those powers, she takes the baby and raises it in a loving (if very sheltered) environment, using her hair to live instead, again, this is the only way the woman can stay alive.

Somehow, the woman is the bad guy, and the King and Queen who raided the native lands for their own selfish-ass purposes are the good guys. It was perfectly moral to take the flower because old woman didn’t enclose her land or have a fucking deed to say “THIS FLOWER BELONGS TO ME”. The old woman’s native knowledge of the land meant it could keep her (and who knows how many others) alive and healthy on an indefinite basis, while the monarchy just grab it, destroy it, and get a one-time use out of it because the lives of the royal family are more important than everyone else’s!!! Babysnatching isn’t moral, but what choice did the woman have?

Yeah I may be overthinking a kid’s fairy tale in movie form. But FUCK EM. I genuinely think it teaches children that there’s no need to respect the environment or other cultures’ understanding of ownership, nor the concept of public sharing.

I never treated them as equivalent? Just that the argument of “if it offends you just don’t look” is the same reasoning bigots often use and should not be relied upon.

Working as a pharmacist used to (in the past ~30 years) include making and mixing a lot of medications manually. Now it’s mostly just dealing with sealed containers. But I’d be surprised if some decent chemistry experience wasn’t still required during study.

You could also make this argument for a racist transphobic chud. To have a nice fun community you gotta moderate your users.

Egypt has started suffering quite significantly due to the amount of shipping traffic now avoiding the Suez Canal due to Houthi attacks. It’s kind of in Egypt’s best interest to put as much pressure as they can on Israel to stop the war.

Maybe we really should get a browser extension on the same lines as ‘cloud to butt’

Mark my words: Whatever they claim to have achieved now is already far less impressive than they tried to make it sound. Neuralink, like a lot of Elon’s companies, are just built to hype for their stock prices.