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  • The issue is not in the accuracy, ease, and convenience of describing and being compatible with the human experience. It has never been that.

    The issue is Fahrenheit’s/imperial units’ compatibility and division factor of 10’s compatibility with other units, and all of those scales and units being consistent and predictable.

    It’s literally just two philosophies of going about seeing the world.

    To disclose my bias, I was brought up with imperial units. The problem in most discussions of these two ideas facing off is that nobody discusses the real topic: The pros and cons of unification vs. the rote arbitrariness of the human existence and whether or not we want to stand behind yet again another self-centered description of the universe.

    Measuring horses with hands is fucking weird, but because we experience horses from our own perspective, which is limited to our physical body, measuring in hands is a really easy way to understand that unit of measurement, as opposed to decimals of meters.


  • The point of what? Life? Humanity? Existing? Existence?

    I get the anti-anti-sexuality, but doesn’t this boil life down to… Not even procreation, but … Sex?

    What about asexual people? What about… Wonderful moments or beautiful things or cake or socializing beyond sex? What about WORDS and complex thought and ideas and puns and coffee and art and adrenaline and naps and music?

    I can’t say I entirely disagree with you, but I also don’t agree, primarily because I’m not sure exactly what the hill you’re dying on is. Can you elaborate a bit to help me/us understand exactly what you’re trying to say?



  • Yeah I’m stopping using Reddit because of how fascist things are now around the world, in hopes of keeping access to my similarly old account because there may be a lot of porn on there, but there’s also a ton of good resources and important things.

    Maybe if things turn around in a few years, I’ll consider resume using reddit. But the more-intelligent-than-a-rock part of me knows otherwise.

    Too many people getting banned for fascist and sketchy reasons. So instead of participate there, it’s now just an archive to me.



  • Actually, yes, and actually, no.

    If you take a white person and put them in the equator for multiple generations, they’ll turn brown. If you try to put the result back north, it’ll take them multiple generations to get pale again.

    There isn’t really an inherent difference between us. There are small mutations or diseases that can kill, like Alzheimer’s, but those are all basically incidental. Your genes can change, that’s what evolution is.

    We ALL came from Africa, anyway, and then settled down in various places for a while, adapting. The longer people have adapted, the more they’ve adapted. But it doesn’t set anything in stone, and everybody still retains that ability to adapt.


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    Some people can’t see well from birth… doesn’t mean you can’t get glasses, or in your case go see a doctor (and get a poop infusion to fix your gut flora XD ).

    But seriously, it could be worth checking out. Maybe you have a tumor or cancer or one of those beowold smeagals or whatever

    Edit: bezoar. Seriously it could be curable and you could poop once a day. Think of the free time for activities!




  • Well the problem with trying to subdivide humans is that

    A) it’s actually really really hard to do, so hard in fact that it’s impossible and is a pseudoscience B) it basically always results in comparison. Which gets bad REALLY quickly because suddenly there is a better or worse, an inferior and superior.

    I’m not saying we aren’t different, I’m not saying that.

    But, as far as species, we ARE all the same. You, your sister, your neighbor, your great great great grandfather. We all have our differences and generic differences, but they’re infinitesimally small, we are just VERY good at telling the differences because we’re so used to staring at the same face over and over.

    There’s just so much crossover and mixing and volatility. People can change from one to the other or halfway and stuff, there’s no clarity. Like, me, for example: I’m a mix that people look at me and get very wrong 95% of the time. And then if I have kids with somebody that doesn’t have the exact same mixed heritage with me, it’s like… Wtf do you even call me?

    And then if you learn some anthropology and learn that long thin limbs and people are from hot climates close to the equator, and short ratioed people are from further (surface area to mass ratio, keeping warmth) away from the equator where it’s cold.

    Like… You can be vague and descriptive a little about it, but when you realize that reality is just that we’re all the same species, with no limits to interbreeding, it makes so much more sense.

    Let’s say you take a pale-ass white guy and strand them near the equator for ten years outdoors. Does that guy suddenly become a different breed or race or whatever you want to call it? No… it’s the same person, the same species, even if he looks different - he just adapted and his body is like “holy fuck it’s hot and I’m trying my best to not get skin cancer and the right amount of vitamins from the sun”.

    And same thing for brown skinned people (let’s just say Mexican natives). You take a young couple with darker brown skin, and move them to norway or somewhere cold with VERY little sun (latitude). They are going to lose melatonin in their skin and become paler. Let’s say they have kids and you inbreed them for a few generations. They will get progressively more pale, and start to look more adapted to the region, likely even take on regional issues.

    And the reason why is because we’re all the same type of monkey. (Not actually monkey because that’s a different offshoot, but primate; we’re great apes!).


  • If you ever make your own bathroom or get your choice in the matter, go full french: get the separate porcelain fixture that has separate hot and cold valves, with the soap and towel.

    I have a Toto seat and, while it’s nice, the stream is small, leaking potential poo water down your legs onto the inner edges of the seat is… (It doesn’t seem to happen, but still), and the internal warm water tank is small.

    I used my ex’s much cheaper one a bunch when we were dating, and his was cold only but like a garden hose flow rate. It was so fucking fast and felt so much nicer. But didn’t oscillate, have aim, pressure, heated seat, dryer, or any of that stuff…

    Plus, without the soap, I don’t really want to use a towel to dry my bits off.

    So ideally, it would be temperature adjustable, PORCELAIN AND NOT PLASTIC, high flow/adjustable, be an actual bidet where you can fit your hands down there to wash yourself with soap and water, and then have a designated towel so that you eliminate more if not all tp usage.



  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoCasual Conversation @lemm.eeWhat hill will you die on?
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    I posted a comment on Reddit telling about how the word racism really means a person who is a subscriber to the pseudoscience that is race.

    Tons of people downvoted me then reddit admins removed the content for harassment, of all things. (None of it made sense to me)

    I’m sad that people still think that people are different races, and to not be racist you just have to not put one over or under another, when the crux of the problem is fundamentally that people don’t get that race was made up because long ago dumb people thought that people that looked different were a literal different species but couldn’t prove it so made up the word race as a subcategory in the taxonomic system, but finally scientists realized it’s complete bullshit since it’s impossible to define, total bullshit, wildly inconsistent, and massively harmful… and I’m sad that people there literally couldn’t comprehend that, and got so mad or offended that they censured the information and thought I was arguing against the existence of systemic racism or something that only a dumb piece of shit would misinterpret.

    I linked the Wikipedia page for racism which explains all of it, including history and stuff.

    I was triggered for like a week trying to figure out what I said wrong, and honestly still kinda bothered.

    But, that is what race is: a bigoted idea that different people are different races and shouldn’t/can’t interbreed. And that’s the stupidest bullshit that MOST people don’t understand, and I’ll die on this hill, explaining that we gotta stop all being racists. Yeah, fix the problems like systemic racism, but stop thinking of people with darker or lighter skin as different - they’re just warm weather humans or cold weather humans, the same way buff or skinny humans are. Fuck. We’re all literally just humans, an amazing species, capable of adaptation and survival.




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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoBooks@lemmy.worldF**k Amazon
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    Hey so thanks for this. Helped me find some actual good books. All I had to do was put in the things that I actually liked.

    You know, it’s actually kinda wild how much published stuff caters to only a few average points in society and disregards the rest.

    Did you know that some people actually commercially publish omegv novels? I had no idea but it’s like christmas!