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Of course it’s arbitrary.
It doesn’t take much self awareness to realise that having a president pick and choose which SCOTUS rulings they think are ok, is exactly the type of authoritarian autocrat you’re trying to avoid.
Of course it’s arbitrary.
It doesn’t take much self awareness to realise that having a president pick and choose which SCOTUS rulings they think are ok, is exactly the type of authoritarian autocrat you’re trying to avoid.
Arbitrarily rewriting laws you don’t like sounds pretty fascist to me.
These threads are awash with comments like this but you can’t avoid fascism by becoming a fascist.
Shit is fucked but arbitrary killing is not the solution.
You can’t beat fascism by becoming fascist.
Sorry mate this is just bonkers.
Yeah, I feel the same, but I don’t really know enough about it to make that assertion.
I agree. There’s also a pervasive feeling that lemmy is unaffected by manipulation and misinformation.
If Lemmy continues to grow sooner or later it will become a large enough target for manipulation, and I wonder how federation will fare at that time.
You’re right in that it will never be like it was, but there are still fringes and niche communities that have that human feel. The thing is they’re much less engaging without algorithms and UX driving engagement, we’re not drawn to them in the same way.
Enough. Feel free to continue believing that, on the balance of probabilities, this tomb is that of the really real Jesus.
If you’re happy with this type of calculation then the probability that this tomb is that of biblical Jesus is (number of occupants) / (number of humans in that area at the time the tomb was built).
Of course you can.
I’m unable to calculate the probability that the moon will fall out of the sky tonight but I know that the probability is very low.
We might not be able to calculate the probability but we can conclude that the chances that this tomb is that of Jesus is infinitesimal.
This conclusion, while weakly supported by a statistical analysis of the names involved, is rejected by most archaeologists, theologians, linguistic and biblical scholars.
There’s a bunch of references for archaeologists debunking it.
I know you said “it might not be him” but I feel like that understates the weight of evidence against that possibility.
Well it’s made a lot of people feel satisfied that they’ve done their bit and had their say.
Yeah I’m on board now.
These stunts are a harmless way to keep climate activism in the media. It’s fine.
Sadly, I don’t see human kind changing course and I think it’s inevitable that this kind of activism deteriorates into environmental terrorism.
I’m not in the US. This wouldn’t be taxable income where I am.
It’s subjective… what does “gambling” mean?
Any thing you do has an element of risk, so you could say it’s a gamble.
"Gambling " is so meaningless in this context.
I gamble with my life when I drive to the shops.
When you put your money in the bank, theres’ a chance you’ll make some interest, there’s a chance you’ll make a little more interest. Does that make it gambling?
and a rescue tug
Imagine having to send a tug boat everywhere with your navy. You know, just in case.
Historically that never happens and it’s naive to think that it would.