crapwittyname

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

~Ford Prefect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I have tinnitus, and bought a Bluetooth audio sleep mask so that I could sleep with the TV off and not keep my partner awake. That in itself was a game changer, but on top of that, I sleep way better with my eyes covered and I use it now even when I'm not listening.

(It's extra weird because I have thick eyelids and see black when I close my eyes even in a well lit room, so I never considered that I'd need one.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That sounds like a policing problem?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The Mighty Boosh S2E5.

Get on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not Lebensraum though. Palestinians are literally being oppressed.
Why are you likening the Palestinian struggle for freedom from oppression to the genocidal machinations of the third Reich?

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

You said "it is". And it's still a huge leap to infer that the call for freedom of Palestine would require the mass murder of anyone.
The chant doesn't say anything about harming anyone, and it doesn't say that Palestine is/shall be the only territory between the river and the sea.
This whole furore about the chant is devoid of logic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's not "from the river to the sea, murder all Jews", though, now is it?
Seems a bit of a leap, what you're saying there?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sentience is a spectrum. Grubs and worms are barely more sentient than some plants, if at all. I think the yoga instructor's take handles this well, since each individual decides on their threshold and it's a personal choice. I like that, because it encourages people to consider it, without forcing an agenda. I doubt many people who then think about where their own threshold really lies would go the wrong way, i.e. from vegan to steaks for lunch. Merely reflecting on the suffering you may cause is likely to have a positive effect. Anyone who tries to be ethical in their choices has had this talk with themselves or with someone else. It's getting people to actually think that's the struggle. As usual.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, when a mummy user and a daddy user love each other very much, they go into a special private online matchmaking lobby and make little baby users.

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

Comments like this restore my faith in the internet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you're right. The opposition haven't indicated they're going to rescind anything yet. They've shuttled so far to the right in the last three years in a successful effort to woo the disillusioned "centrists" that it's really hard to get a grip on where they stand ideologically. All that can be said is they will do anything and say anything if they think it will get them more votes, and they won't commit to anything which might upset the centrists.

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