Well ya got me there.

This implies the person knows the person’s birthday yeah? Just confirming.

They didn’t tell me how much energy it takes to put your mind to things. I can barely stay awake for a normal day length without putting in the effort.

Yeah, the problem of modreach is definitely not a solved problem. The other problem, of all discourse being directly controllable from on high by a profit-driven company, however, is solved by lemmy. I believe that was the original issue lemmy was meant to handle. And that problem does seem to be solved. We’ll just have to handle the problem of public official reach the way we normally would.

They also walked that back a bit after.

Hey, misunderstandings happen. I also jumped the gun a bit by posting in PTB first rather than contacting you directly first.

much appreciated, that makes more sense.

I did see that. She is a pretty active mod it seems.

The mod in common across all these servers is @Sunshine@lemmy.ca and her other alternate accounts on various servers.

Sunshine, if you see this, this is a pretty overkill response from you over what is a joke about the lengths people go to to lie to themselves. If you’re thinking it was a bad joke still deserving a ban, at least diminish the sentence length down from a month to a few days instead. I will edit the post to communicate the lessened ban length.

It’s a hand-crank drill.

‘It’s OK kids, they’re made out of styrofoam. They can’t actually feel any pain’

The kids, probably: ‘What the hell are we playing…?’

That’s actually an interesting one.

The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).

It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.

You know, based on the capitalizations, this is very goofy, where Progressives are all fighting each other and are concluding that democratic systems are the problem, which is actually fairly funny. I’m alright with that.

Why’d you go with Capital ‘P’ ‘Progressive’ and lowercase ‘d’ ‘democrat’?

If you are a Progressive, it means you run as a progressive in politics. If your a ‘progressive’, though, it means you hold progressive ideals, like women’s rights, nationalized services for people, open borders, etc.

If you’re a ‘democrat’, it means you are a supporter of democracies, as opposed to authoritarian regimes, feudal states, or vangaurd states. If you’re a ‘Democrat’, though, it means you are apart of the Democratic party.

Politics is case-sensitive.

The word is ‘divisive’, as in it divides people - causes division.

Are we supposed to avoid talking about misogyny like this? Because this wouldn’t be a divisive topic if men didn’t try to force women to have pregnancies they aren’t ready for.

This produces a free market of violence. We can see already from the free market of the goods and services, and the free market of ideas, that free markets tend toward worse outcomes pretty much every time. If anything, a free market of violence would tend towards a world where only assholes survive.

You do seem to know more about anaesthesia than I do, but regaining conciousness from general anaesthesia during surgery while not being able to move has been documented before. That’s why I’m talking about it at all. That is what the above meme is most likely talking about in my view - the horror situation.

That is my bad, not explaining this clearly.

Our formations of plastics usually utilizes petroleum products being formed into long polymeric chains. That’s what provides the pliable, even stretchy nature of many plastics. However, we don’t make all plastics out of petroleum - we also use resin mixtures and various other chemical processes for specialized plastics - PLA, for instance, is synthesized from plant starch. So, when we’re talking about ‘plastics’, we’re usually talking about petroleum products, but it includes other long-polymer-chain materials we artificially synthesize.

Having covered that, Teflon is often called a forever chemical, but it’s a chemical which we synthesize into long polymer chains so we can attach it to the surface of things. It’s how pans are non-stick, gore-tex is waterproof, and how many food containers are grease-proof. I am of the view that perflourochemicals classify as plastics because of that. And the reason it’s so pervasive everywhere is the same reason all other microplastics are everywhere: it chips off. You use a metal spatula on a nonstick pan - bam, stray Perflourochemicals, as tiny little solid microplastic flecks. And everything points to them not being inert to human health.

No, I think they want us to bomb data centers and gas pipelines.