LillyPip

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I’m a pacifist, but punching Nazis has been self defence for 80+ years.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh hell yes.

Thank you! Voyager is awesome.

e: Ooh – I just noticed the user vote counts are colour coded, too. Nice touch!

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pence didn’t refuse trump because he’s principled – he explored everything he could think of to go along with trump, even calling Dan Quayle to ask for more options:

"Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.

"'Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,' Quayle told him.

"Pence pressed again.

"'You don't know the position I'm in,' he said, according to the authors.

"'I do know the position you're in,' Quayle responded. 'I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That's all you do. You have no power.'"

Source: How Dan Quayle saved democracy. Yes, really.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s not necessarily too late. There’s a nonsurgical method to regrow your foreskin with a bit of time and patience, and several companies sell devices for the purpose.

Here’s a video showing the process. (NSFW content about 1/3 of the way through)

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren’t prophets basically god using a VPN?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Next up: Congress and/or the Supreme Court overturns the Freedom of Information Act on the grounds it compromises national security and hurts their feelings.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay, but what the literal fuck.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 87 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Someone with a shred of ethics on this ethics committee better fucking leak this.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

That’s not the reason, though. Imperfect witnesses are quite often at the heart of criminal cases – co-conspirators, jailhouse informants, etc. If that was an obstacle, no mobsters or drug lords would ever have been convicted.

The real reason is cronyism and political privilege.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Interesting thought, but there are a few problems with this:

  • The antichrist was supposed to be a genius military tactician. Trump isn’t a genius anything.
  • The biblical Armageddon wasn’t meant to be a prediction of the distant future, but was prophesied to happen within the lifetime of the original apostles, so 2,000 years ago.
  • The general scholarly consensus is that the Nero was meant to be the antichrist, and that the whole story was descriptive rather than prescriptive.

It’s a fun theory, though.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.

The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has many evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and group cohesion.

Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.

And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.

Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.

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