JayDee

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I know you're correct, since there are now solid state batteries on the market which outperform liquid-electrolyte LiPo batteries, but just stating "we're at the tipping point" without dropping any link as evidence makes your claim very unconvincing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first news I've heard is Yoshino power selling solid state power banks. here's a video covering them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sacrilinux - or as I've recently taken to calling it, sacrilege + Lin.....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It could in fact depict any forum, IRC, or organized online community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you swap 20's and 30's, you have the 'panik kalm' meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When we're talking about this kind of genetic manipulation, there's two methods. Being able to meaningfully read a person's genetic code (we do not understand the majority of a person's genetic code due to a variety of issues), or basing your actions on individuals.

The individuals version has already been done, where we barred certain 'undesirable' individuals from reproducing. We know this one to explicitly only leads to evil implementations. It turns the practice of finding a romantic partner into a game of fusing two people together to get a better one.

The other method currently has two tools currently: selective IVF and CRISPR. Both of these are in their infancy, with how effective they are still being up in the air. These techniques require highly specialized professionals and are thus expensive. These will likely always be expensive even after they get cheaper. The world we live in where the rich can have "super-babies" with no genetic defects, while most poor children are still born naturally, is one where discrimination based on genetics is treated as rational, and based on lineages. That is fundamentally the creation of an evil world.

We're also still ignoring the fact that we're still pretty explicitly ableist as a culture. How do you think it'll feel when a person who lives with a disability gets pressured into IVF "so the child doesn't end up like you". Blind people have a subculture, deaf and mute people have a subculture, most people living with disabilities find each other for solidarity and relatability. We call it 'living with disabilities', but they just call it 'living'. We're still treating these issues as if they're something to wipe out rather than changing our culture and infrastructure to accommodate them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eugenics is bad because it's based on fundamentally incorrect ideas about how genetics plays into personal development. Galton drew specifically upon the fundamentally incorrect ideas of scientific racism, and wrote about Eugenics as being a means to better improve the superior races. Galton argued that things like poverty and mass suffering could have been solved this way, essentially arguing that it was the personal incompetence of the less fortunate which lead them into misfortune (also fundamentally incorrect).

Even if you drop the baggage of scientific racism, Eugenics is still conceptually ableist, choosing to eliminate those we deem disabled rather than finding solutions to better their lives.

On top of that, we were kind of hinging on sequencing the human genome giving us the insight to how genetic diseases work, the single possible case that eugenic thought might have had a use in. This has since fallen through. Further research into genetics has also demonstrated just how unreadable DNA is right now. We are still nowhere near being able to predict most genetic diseases based on the genetics of a couple.

I also cannot think of a single thing that eugenics implies should be done that isn't absolutely evil. I'd argue that things that only encourage evil actions are themselves evil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are we talking anarcho-capitalist, anarchist, or some third option? Because since Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged, the meaning in the US has been a bit shakey.

For an idea of US libertarians, most people think of "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Didn't know they put cuck chairs on trains /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've seen some screenshots sifting around, and it'll take a minute for me to hunt those down.

For now, here's a xeet from the victim after rereading the chat logs directly.

Edit: I forgot about this, woops. I did find a Redditch megathread about the issue that has some screenshots of discord chats. That is probably the best aggregation of info and evidence currently. Apologies about reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"I was not groomed" would just as easily come from someone being groomed as someone not, since the victim is unlikely to know it's happening to them in the moment. IIRC, the chat logs for that situation were cancel-worthy by themselves - grooming accusations aside.

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