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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • C’est une remarque intéressante. Le droit de disposer de son corps est également le droit de l’abîmer, je pense que les gens ont droit au suicide. C’est vrai que l’ignorance est un souci mais beaucoup de choses mortelles sont en vente libre comme les couteaux ou l’eau de javel. On peut craindre les gourous façon Raoult qui pousseront les gens à prendre des médicaments dangereux, mais c’est l’acte de faire du mal aux autres qu’il faut interdire et non les substances elle-mêmes.

    Cependant l’acte de prendre certains médicaments peut faire du mal à d’autres, par exemple si la quantité est limitée ou si l’efficacité générale baisse à l’usage comme pour les antibiotiques. Alors il serait justifiable d’avoir un mécanisme de contrôle je suis d’accord.











  • One of the biggest criticisms of English is how reading a word doesn’t teach one how it is pronounced. So it’s not redundant since it addresses an actual problem.

    It was indeed superseded but that doesn’t mean it disappearing was good. Limitations of printing were involved.

    It is annoying to read because you’re not used to it. Were you used to it, you’d think “th” annoying. By your logic, everything you’re not already used to is automatically bad.

    It being hard to type was a question from OP.


  • Not everyone does it, and it’s ahistorical, but I think it’d a cool way to distinguish between voiced (ð) and unvoiced (þ) dental fricatives. Why not have two different symbols for these? Eg: ðe þin faðer þinks about ðis (the thin father thinks about this).

    It’s not necessarily hard to type, on my computer it just happens to be AltGr+d (ð) and AltGr+t (þ).






  • falcunculustoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldJust LOOK at the GODDAMNED ROAD!
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    This meme implies this is only an issue of personal responsibility ; but in truth to actually lower car deaths we need a systemic approach.

    Think of cigarette companies laying blame at “addictive personalities”. They knew making people personally responsible would not threaten their business, whereas public policies against tobacco did.

    This post is doing the same thing : when an accident happens we should not just ask “who is to blame?” but also “how do we prevent it in the future?”, which in this case means redesigning streets to be friendlier to pedestrians and developing other modes of transportation.


  • Russia indeed has a small economy if converted into dollars, but not if the internal price of goods and services is considered. This is because the conversion only works for economies that are well connected and comparable.

    This is doubly true for military matters which are very illiquid, and even more so given the sanctions Russia is facing. The measure you are looking for is called purchasing power parity adjustment, or “GDP (PPP)” for short. It is hard to compile though.

    No need for “hmm”, just readily available knowledge in economics.

    In addition, Ukraine is only supplied by NATO insofar the politics of its member states allow. Many parties inside its members countries oppose supporting Ukraine, which you are no doubt aware of since you are yourself part of this discourse.