Yes on “no special gratitude for veterans of offensive wars”.

No on calling them “mercenaries”. Signing up to be paid by your country in their official uniformed military is considerably different than joining a corporation to do violence for whomever pays your employer.

(Also no on the USA’s weird solider/sailor/marine/airman distinction.)

The DSM isn’t a scientific document, but rather a medical and legal one. It is meant to help doctors correlate patients to find potential treatments, and provides language useful for billing and legal purposes.

Schizophrenia may not be an entirely accurate term, but if its use leads to patients who need medicine getting medicine and those not responsible for their actions not being held responsible then it’s hardly useless. But it does make it a good candidate for revision in the next DSM.

Which is beside the point, though. Somebody whose historical notability is half “thing contained in $BOOK is wrong” should not be presumed to be unbiased if they write a “$BOOK is bad” article.

You’re trying to place blame on an individual instead of a party that encourages policies that creates voter disenfranchisement.

No. I’m recognizing the actual system we have pointing out that anti-genocide non-voters made a deliberate choice.

This isn’t a disenfeanchisement issue so much as it is a disengagement problem. There citizens had the sane franchise as everyone else, and chose not to go vote against a rapist.

There’s plenty of blame to slap on the Democratic party from the former president and candidate all the way down. But Biden not standing by his purported morals and Harris not breaking with him when he didnt compel non-voters not to cast a vote. They’re adults and citizens and should either stand by their choice and argure that it was correct or else concede that they made a mistake and would change it if they could

The USA is a democracy; every one of us is responsible individually for what we do with our votes.

You, I infer, decided that the best thing to do with your vote was endorse the rapist who promised to do absolutely nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza over the candidate who at the least would have protested.

Which sure as fuck was your right, but it’s kinda weird that you’re trying to argue that this isn’t exactly what you voted for.

In a single-ballot plurality-wins-all election anything but a vote for the runner up is an endorsement of the eventual winner.

This is a billionaire buying the good name of trusted companies so he can have a propaganda house that isn’t obviously such.

Worth knowing:

Article’s byline is “Jim Van Os” , and the Wikipedia article for someone of the same name is a Dutch psychologist who has a ten-year history of arguing that “schizophrenia” isnt a useful label.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_van_Os

(Of course, as far as I know they may not be the same guy, and I don’t have any reason to doubt the sincerity of his argument.)

If the line is “AGI is what is necessary for us to have robots to do labor”, then we’ve had “AGI” since 1961.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_robots

You are not the first person to say this.

And as I understand it, trans men are as a group kida sick of being volintold to put themselves in harms way. It’s great that you recognize that they are men and are treated as such in your “men should do danger” sexism, but don’t suggest someone else do what you’re not willing to do yourself.

Get few skirts and maybe some makeup, dress yourself in drag, and then make a habit of asking every restaurant or shopping mall or store what bathroom you should use.

(Sure, you’d likely get harassed and banned and maybe arrested, but there’s a minority being oppressed and standing beside them is what strong allies do.)

The “State of the Union annual speech” has been pointless since before anyone living was born.

And yet it still happens, because “rapist who breaks all norms” still does it. (Were I a congressional dem, my pick for next speaker would be whomever pledged to not invite an infamous sex pest to ramble in person.)

Who is this “user” you’re talking about? Near every choice in a social media platform design is an engineering choice between conflicting priorities.

The troll who wants to post garbage finds it easier, but the earnest poster now needs to filter out trolls on their own.

The person wanting to co-opt a community label finds it easier, but the person who wants it to continue as-used now has no recourse.

The pervert wanting to upload PG boob-shots definitely finds self-moderation easier, but your change would force rape victims with PTSD to let that smut into their already-curated set of communities.

If you wanted to add a new layer of moderation for posters beneath instance owners and community moderators that might be plausible, but “OP posted something dumb and is getting piled on” is a it’s own force your suggestion would abandon.

(And if you think just adding more random part-time moderators to a community would improve its moderation I would encourage to try Improving your next family dinner by giving orders in the kitchen. Especially one that you didn’t plan.)

If you diss “american cheese” but endorse “pepper jack” you must be either entirely non-American or just plain ignorant.

Many other countries lack America’s “standard of identity” laws that keep cheesse with too much oil or ice cream with too little dairy from being sold as such, and often label the former ultra-cheap food “american cheese” it’s not at all what you’ll find in the states.

The “American cheese” you can find here is a high-volume, mild, and smooth-melting cheese originally created as a blend of older European cheese recioies, which took off because it did exactly what it was meant to, and pair well with grilled meat patties put on cut buns.

Actual American cheese is perfect for a breakfast sandwhich where you want it to support the other flavors. Other cheeses can be good if that’s what you’re going for, but so are non-chicken eggs.

(“Pepper jack”, in contrast, is a simpler cheese meant to be eaten cold as a major flavor on its own. It’s absolutely sold in the USA too and can be great on breakfast sandwiches, although I think it works best sliced and paired with cracked and smoked meats.)

Like the woman who sued macdonalds for getting third degree burns because their coffee was too hot.

Please never mention this story without pointing out at least one of the following;

• The coffee was hot enough to cause crippling burns to her genitals.
• McDonald’s intentionally had their coffee too hot to drink to keep customers from hanging out
• the woman only asked for medical expenses and did not sue until her complaint was ignored.
• the eye-popping headline number was calculated as something like one day of the company’s coffee profit.

There literally isn’t an instance of a US company being sued by a customer more deserving of empathy and horror.

Yes, I know how one deals with bad moderators in lemmy. Mine is easier.

Easier for who? If every post is self moderated how does a semi-interested reader exclude trolling while still seeing interesting posts? If I want to avoid, say, a “vi v Emacs” flame-war, or keep a “DomeGuyFanboys” topic about me, how does poster-only moderation help me?

Also, my system makes moderation easier. Which makes for better moderators.

Easier for ***whom? *** The person wanting to post whatever they feel like, or the person who wants to browse funny cat pics at work without accidentally seeing porn?

You’re absolutely right that self-curated social media places are considerably easier to either post without fear or create your own pseduo-groups. That’s why famous people tended to be on Twitter and not Reddit.

But the people who want an ActivityPub Twitter already have Mastodon, and those who wanted an ActivityPub Reddit have Lemmy.

Maybe some hybrid interface would be worthwhile, but I don’t think we’ll find out by telling people on a topic-focused environment to be unilaterally person-focused.

If the moderators of a community are bad, you can leave or boycott that community. Nice and straightforward, easily understood, and unambiguous. Also exactly in line with how content is chosen on topic-focused social media like Lemmy or Reddit.

If you would prefer person focused social media like Facebook, Tumblr, Mastadon, and BlueSky, by all means use them!

Cop staffing is already below minimum levels.

In a world where a literal police strike led to a lower rate of violent crime, this is not a claim that should be accepted without extraordinary evidence.

At the very least, a city whose “cop staffing” is below their minimum should have an obvious increase in crime relative to comparable jurisdictions.

Oof, girl. (?)

While I’m not a doctor, I’d expect that 60 hours of fasting would have as great an effect on your brain as several alcoholic drinks. Of course you’d be struggling with impulse control afterwards!

It’s a huge accomplishment to just say “wow, I did something I don’t like having done and don’t want to do it.” I’d still have an older brother if fully grown adults were universally capable of saying “I should stop this” and then doing just that.

From your last several posts I’d guess that you’re trying a ketogrnic diet / intermittent fasting for weight loss reasons. If so, remember that the length of a fast or time-on-diet doesn’t matter nearly as much as your weekly caloric net. Maybe plan for how you want your fast to end, so you’re not figuring out something with a glucose-starved brain?

Whatever the case, you seem brave and strong and are definitely worth this. A setback isn’t a failure, just a discovery of some way that doesn’t quite work. :)

You’re the first account I’ve seen endorse OpenOffice, and I’ve been casually looking for a better alternative to word since the copilot bullshit last year.

Do you have a good example of something they added since LibreOffice forked off that’s worth considering if choosing an alternative?

What matters is consistency.

“Why do you have a label that excludes me?” scales up and to a virtually universal group and down to a specialized category with only three members.

It doesn’t really matter if you say that men are right to critique the label “feminism” or if you allow specialization all the way down to “Midwestern small city non-theater trans-male part-African part-Irish demisexual furry feminism”. Just so long as you’re fighting bigotry and applying your principles consistently.

(I much rather spend effort arguing that a man arguing against anti-masculine sexism is a cause worth supporting than bickering over whether or not his cause counts as “feminism”, even though I would casually include him in the label.)

If you were in a jury box and were shown just this message and a note about how he was fired two months later for “not being a team player” you’d infer the intent and vote to hold the company liable for wrongful termination.

Corpospeak keeps a “work through lunch” message from being a self-evident labor law violation even if no adverse action occurrrd. They don’t disguise intent if those later bad actions occur

Any work that wouldn’t be done if we had a UBI should either be automated away or sufficiently well-paid that it would find workers even without the threat of poverty.

We don’t need to ritually kill a homeless person just so someone will pick up our trash any more than we need to do so for someone to tended to our elders dying of cancer.