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I kinda understand the marriage thing. I don’t agree, but: marriage involves the state, so it is possible to find yourself under threat a violence from the state for not blaspheming your god(s) when the state changes what they consider a marriage.
I mentions the body being a temple created by a perfect god, and forbids tattooed people from being given burial rights. I don’t agree, but it’s not hard to find gender conformity as a virtue, and most (not all) surgery as a sin.
what’s the point of prisons in the first place
Depends on who you ask. But, there’s plenty of people that believe strongly in a punitive system. Prison is primarily for punishment and retribution–the state empowering the (assumed) revenge desires of the victims. If there was a painless way to execute someone they wouldn’t want to use it; the suffering of the convicted is a feature, not a bug.
I agree with you that we should focus and rehabilitation and restoration, but the U.S. prison-industrial complex is not actually currently oriented with that being the primary purposes.
I don’t think it’s recommended, yet: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/safety-health/animal-drugs-new-world-screwworm but there’s a lot of treatments there, I haven’t read all of them in detail.
It is effective against a couple other parasitic worms, so it might be better than nothing.
1/2 as Interesting also did a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olj8arvfYj4
https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm – ANYTHING less is denying the personhood of anyone that can get pregnant.
Responsible disclosure is a kindness; it is not required–especially if/when the vendor doesn’t act in good faith.
MS shouldn’t be able to silence researchers, but that’s what the industry gets by voluntarily clustering around a single, proprietary service.
I don’t think either party should be compelled to take (or reverse) any action.
The article says tap water was available at the venue, but it is not served at the restaurant.
It doesn’t mention a public water fountain. It does mention that Italian law doesn’t require tap water be available, tho English and Welsh law does at least to some extent.
Age verification laws are cropping up in far more jurisdictions than California (which is already quite large both in population and economically).
Anti-circumvention laws already exist. If OSes and browsers do start reporting ages, you can expect Apple, Google, and Microsoft to use the DMCA to (at least) shift liability (potentially criminal liability) onto users that adjust their browser to report an inaccurate age.
If this proposed law the “end of the world”? No. But, it is yet another contribution to both tech and government panopticons and should be resisted, even WITH a POSS carve-out.
As several people I follow try to remind me: “Users of non-FOSS software deserve privacy and safety, too.”
IIRC, they want to have browsers automatically report age, and have OSes restrict access to software (like browsers that don’t do that) based on age as well.
I believe the “goal” is to restrict access to information to younger persons. Porn is the threat they most often wave around, but many advocates also want to restrict access to social media, and apps that have in-app purchases, etc.
Absolutely the law is still dumb, and people that use FOSS OSes should still fight it. But with this change, as least you won’t have to compile your own version of systemd (and NOT distribute it) to escape the insanity.
But some of the old-timers warned me that if one of those tanks ever really blew, those respirators wouldn’t do much good.
If there’s not enough oxygen in the air (e.g. because it is mostly chlorine gas), the filter can’t help. It can prevent lung damage (which is good), but if you don’t get somewhere with sufficient oxygen, you’ll be unconscious quickly (and, potentially, dead within minutes).
Well, there’s a lot of magic in 12, but I would say noon is more of a 0 and that’s the most magic number of all.
My plan is okay. It covers most things (including ER visits) partially, and the out of pocket maximum isn’t insane, but there’s constant co-pays. But, honestly that’s why I carry it; to limit the financial damage a single event can cause in a single year.
I got this plan through the ACA system, I just opted to skip the process of checking for subsidies.
full darkness or full daylight how the fuck would you know
Firstly, it’s not like that all year around, and your internal clock will stay synced to solar time with some minor disruption.
Secondly, even in full daylight, the size of shadows can be sensed, and at such low angles even a small change in degrees results in large length differences. Full darkness is harder to find noon in, but full darkness is around for remarkably few days even at the poles. More frequently you can locate the peak of a “pre-dawn glow” even tho the sun itself is never visible over even the flattest of horizons.
Places farther east in a time zone reach solar noon earlier and places farther west in a time zone reach solar noon later.
It can be 20 to 40 minutes different
Yeah, my timezone is about 15 minutes off of my solar noon. I see timezones as an acceptable compromise, though I’d prefer we did without them. I particularly dislike timezones that are so wide that in some parts of the zone are more than an hour off solar noon, and if there was a proposal to fix that I’d support it.
It does not matter what time it is or where the sun is in the sky
It does. There are various bodily rhythms and light sensitivities that for most people there’s a benefit to centering the time used on the solar day.
The peak of not at all in the sky
Yes, it gets closer / further from the horizon, even when it is not above the horizon.
length of day changes
But, it always has a midpoint: noon.
Still when the sun it at it’s peak. Even in places beyond the (an)arctic circle(s), the sun does move up and down in the sky over a 24 hour-period, even when it doesn’t go below/above the horizon for many months. (Tho, it might move left to right “more” on many of those days.)
I think it would be a bigger adjustment than that, yes. And, I imagine there would be on-going adjustments as some places/persons adjust their posted hours, either due to seasons changing the length of daylight or other reasons.
But, I do think it could be an improvement with planning to change and hour back or forth twice a year.
While I agree, I think there may be a limit to a morally-flexible any government can be. It’s entirely possible that the goals and evidence point the government in a direction that some find immoral.
Heck, there’s voters in the U.S. that would consider instructing someone on how to do a D&C an immoral act. But, the evidence is that D&Cs save lives and the government should (at least) help fund their instruction.
Separately, but also religion-related, what is “evidence”? It wouldn’t surprise me to hear some people claiming their faith not only is evidence, but is also better evidence than the observations of flawed, human “scientists”.