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  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoScience Memes@mander.xyzget nettle'd
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    23 days ago

    Nettle tea is also really good for swelling and chronic pain, at least according to my grandfather and his friends that have used it. My grandpa did go to medical school so I tend to trust him, but it was also in the 60s and he calls tattooing and piercings “psychosomatic self flagellation” so take it for what you will.


  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoScience Memes@mander.xyzAcademic writing
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    1 month ago

    If you need an example of this read republic book 1.

    Socrates essentially just dunks on these guys that are trying to define justice.

    One of them says that justice is doing good to your friends and evil to your enemies

    The way that socrates reubuts this argument is that the fella in question doesn’t define friends, enemies, good, or evil, so how can he expect to come up with an idea of what justice is before first defining these other concepts that are meaningful to us because of their common usage, but can be twisted greatly in logical argumentation.



  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoScience Memes@mander.xyzCrystals
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    3 months ago

    Yes. Insofar as our brains are made up of physical matter and interpret electrical signals from our body. Emotions are our meat computers’ interpretations of some of those inputs. If you could know the exact location and velocity of every physical particle, you could know/predict the future based on that information and physics. It’s impossible to get that knowledge currently, but that doesn’t make the underlying principle any less true.

    But I do agree that this is a dumb thing to argue abt and to let people enjoy their little thingies.




  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoScience Memes@mander.xyzLinguistics
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    4 months ago

    At least with orientated it kind makes sense because orientation is the process of orienting, so to have done the process would be to be orientated in a weird way but irregardless will always irk me because the ir and the less make a double negative, making the meaning as written ‘with regard’ which just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Like if somebody misunderstood a sentence with a double negative we would call them wrong but because it’s a single word they get to change the entire language, regardless of its structure and rules? Seems kinda bogus to me.





  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoMemes@lemmy.mlI mean it.
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    5 months ago

    Ok then, so people who vote in US elections are inherently evil? - a more analogous example

    People who consume bananas are inherently evil?

    People that have smartphones are inherently evil?

    Those things are all choices. How about another one? Lithium mining is a bad system that negatively impacts the environment. Therefore, people that buy electric cars are evil and bad for the environment, right?!?


  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoMemes@lemmy.mlI mean it.
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    5 months ago

    I disagree with the second part. That means everybody living in a first world country is inherently a bad person just by accident of their birth location. We’re well past the point of choosing whether or not we participate in most systems, and at the end of the day, somebody needs to do the job of law enforcement.






  • He’s joking bc senioritis usually refers to when people lose the will to work as hard (usually because they’ve already been accepted by either a job or a college). I assume the other part was about how southerners pussyfoot around the civil war instead of calling it what it is. I really don’t know where the vitriol came from tho.


  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoMemes@lemmy.mlThis is not REAL capitalism!
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    6 months ago

    A far right corporatocratic government that makes exactly zero effort to help the people? I’m not saying China is exclusively bad. The USSR was the only ‘country’ able to successfully play catch up with the west industrially. The problem is when the authoritarian government get old, realize they don’t own anything to secure their families’ continued lavish lifestyle, and reprivatize. I literally went to school with a guy whose grandpa was pals with Mao. Guess whose family is now worth billions and lives a lavish lifestyle in a mansion in Northern China?

    I’m not trying to argue socialism is bad, just that it can’t be achieved by an authoritarian government to significant effect.

    That’s where the value of democratically achieved socialism comes in, but it would have to be somewhere with an incredibly secure democracy and secure economic status, as the capitalist (elite) forces from outside and within will always work to destroy/impede socialism.


  • GiveMemes@jlai.lutoMemes@lemmy.mlThis is not REAL capitalism!
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    6 months ago

    Wow amazing, industrialization lifts people out of poverty… never would have realized. The problem with China is that currently, akin to the later stages of the USSR, they’re only redistributing the wealth insofar as that means reprivatizing and consolidating in new hands, not actually redistributing from the wealthy minority to the majority, but creating a new wealthy minority.