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- Comment on A brief history of abortion—from ancient Egyptian herbs to fighting stigma today:
The Japanese had a certain time period where after birth it was considered acceptable to kill a baby post-birth. It was considered the duty of parents to only allow babies who they could support and who were healthy enough to survive to adulthood. Babies younger than a certain age were considered to be something less than human, something with one foot in the physical world and one foot in the spiritual world, so killing the baby wasn't quite the same as killing what was considered to be a fully human being. It was called Mabiki, and about 20% of kids were killed by this method in the Edo period.
Something else that has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years is chattel slavery and our more modern eyes don't think that's such a good thing, after all.
Despotism and feudalism were both major forms of government for a very long time, and instead we've all collectively decided that democratic republics or constitutional monarchies are the most just forms of government despite all that history. Ancient Egypt featured a god-king as its head of state for longer than Christianity has existed, but most people today would be appalled at the idea of living under such a regime. Empires such as Akkad in Mesopotamia celebrated forcing a father from an enemy camp being forced to grind the bones of his wife and children into dust.
Another way that the ancient world could be considered much different than the world today and thus we must be careful of using it as a model is that often it was extremely patriarchal. At the worst of times, it might be legally and even socially be considered perfectly acceptable for a man to kill his wife and kids if circumstances called for it. In ancient Rome, the concept of "pater familias" granted the male head of the family extensive authority over his household, including the power of life and death over his wife, children, and slaves.
The key is to learn history, and to learn from history, but don't become a slave to antiquity. Also don't become a slave to novelty, just because it hasn't been tried doesn't mean it's good either. And the opposite is true as well, just because something is old or new doesn't mean it's bad either. It's essential to think for yourself and make your own decisions, and to be willing to change your mind if you realize you were wrong whatever that outcome is.
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal:
I played it on the first day, and played it for days. It was actually really fun and I had a lot fewer issues with it than I had with Dragon Age 1 that I played a little while beforehand.
Supposedly the console releases were particularly bad. I played it on a laptop with a 2060.
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal:
It took like 15 years for Daggerfall to not be totally broken, so it isn't really a "new" normal.
I remember SiN was unplayable when it first came out, but a couple years down the line it was a pretty decent game (as long as you weren't opposed to its aesthetic, which I wasn't)
- Comment on 🦋🦋🦋:
Or for the pretty ladies, but that's different.
- Comment on Exploring the available CAD software:
I love tinkercad, but it leaves me reliant on Autodesk which I'm not happy about. I would like to find something simple to use that doesn't rely on a server someone else runs to operate, and that includes activation servers.
- Comment on Welp, guess I'm going to hell:
lnsfw3@lemmynsfw.com
Ew......
- Comment on Wisest Upgrade from Raspberry Pi:
I can vouch for the power of a nuc, they're basically laptop grade hardware.
Dominant failure modes are fan failure and ssd failure. The latter can be solved by using a quality ssd, the former by keeping your nuc out of dirty areas. You can clean it up if it gets dirty, but it's a high risk operation, I've seen fan blades break.
- Comment on 'Outstanding' 2,200-year-old child's shoe discovered deep underground in Austrian mine:
I don't think there's much of a chance we find the child alive at this point...
- Comment on One of my favorite 3D printed organizations. Custom silverware drawer:
It seems to me like missing the forest for the trees as well.
A stationary chunk of solid plastic will probably give off negligible micro plastics, but unless everyone is wearing 100% natural fabrics there's going to be tons of tiny synthetic fibers floating around in the air from clothing...
- Comment on One of my favorite 3D printed organizations. Custom silverware drawer:
The sort of prints that become part of your life are my favorite.
- Comment on Do you mind if I ask you some personal questions Andreja?:
She'll never be the head of a major corporation
- Comment on Follow the Money: Investors are rushing toward clean energy companies—and leaving the GOP in the dust:
Yeah, lots of crony capitalism and corruption out there. And nobody in any party is actually going to do anything about it.
- Comment on Follow the Money: Investors are rushing toward clean energy companies—and leaving the GOP in the dust:
I like green energy, I support green energy, but anyone calling the current green energy market "free market" doesn't know anything about green energy or free markets.
The whole market is propped up by massive government money and regulation on a global scale. Investors are piling into it in part because they know full well that's where the government money lives.
Honestly, it's pretty reasonable for most people not to realize how much it's subsidized and supported, because most people don't really know much about the where all that money goes and how, including most of the government.
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post.:
Since most redditors fail at voting and use the buttons as "I agree" or "I disagree" buttons, it becomes pretty easy to have a normal mainstream opinion and get absolutely crucified because you accidently wandered into yet another echo chamber. Let's say hypothetically that you were a new reddit user and not a user for over 10 years, and you walk in and say a normie opinion, and then get downvoted into oblivion by an echo chamber. What does that look like to the victim of the downvote brigade?
Originally downvotes didn't matter, they were just imaginary internet points. With automod minimum karma limits, for a brand new user, now not only did your post get piledriven into the dirt for what would normally be an uncontroversial opinion, but now your ability to interact elsewhere on reddit has been compromised.
After that, lots of people who might otherwise be good users will just say "forget that" and leave, further enforcing the echo chamber.
- Comment on How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy?:
Meet people in real life doing real life things.
That's not just better for privacy, it's better for your life.
It's harder, but no amount of followers on twitter will help you move a couch.
- Comment on what did I miss?:
Something about defederation, definitely. Seems like every second day I'm seeing another post about defederation like it's a more core feature than posting.
- Comment on WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon:
I think it's key to know "some" blogs. Depends on if that plugin is installed and working.
- Comment on New Indonesian industrial park on Borneo, feted as 'green,' will be powered by coal, report says:
That's how this works.
Real effective change is boring stuff that doesn't make anyone filthy rich.
- Comment on Just noticed yesterday pfsense upgrade to 2.7.0 was out:
I've used opnsense in other applications since where I've wanted a good firewall that runs on x86 hardware.
- Comment on Just noticed yesterday pfsense upgrade to 2.7.0 was out:
Really, the same reason I didn't upgrade for 3 months, it's a piece of invisible infrastructure unless something is wrong. I only noticed the upgrade because I was going in to add another static dhcp binding for a new server.
- Comment on Just noticed yesterday pfsense upgrade to 2.7.0 was out:
I got it all configured before I figured out the benefits and haven't bothered to migrate since both of them basically do the job for me.
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- Comment on 3 men found not guilty of supporting plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer:
Leftists still claiming to be liberals ought to be terrified at the implications of the levels of corruption on display.
- Comment on How the IT guys see the users:
My blood pressure is rising just thinking of things marked "resolved" that are STILL FRIGGIN BROKE!
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post.:
I was on reddit for a long time, and at first it was a great place to discuss and debate, but over time I noticed it became more and more locked down until the only thing you were allowed to do was agree with the stated opinions or you'd face mod actions and downvote brigades.
I tried some alternatives like voat, but I just felt like going from being free to agree with one set of opinions I don't really agree with to being free to agree with another set of opinions I don't really agree with.
I have gone all-in on the fediverse because it feels like the one place where I see all kinds of people being themselves, and that's what I want to see. I might hate people's opinions, but with the structure of the fediverse at least I have a better impression that they're authentic opinions and not just what it's acceptable to say.
- Comment on How the IT guys see the users:
One thing that's really interesting is that general technological aptitude seems to have peaked with the millennials. A lot of employers are now complaining that gen z lack technology skills of all things.
I can absolutely believe that because personal computing went from being something where you basically have fully powered computer hardware with all the positives and negatives of that and the learning curve to being carefully sculpted and focus tested black boxes.kids aren't good with computers, they're good with facebook and YouTube.
- Comment on How the IT guys see the users:
Some IT guys.
Sometimes users see IT guys as mordac the preventer of information technology from Dilbert. Thank you for breaking my perfectly functional workstation again.
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I notice that hexbear is defederated from exploding-heads.
Let's just say "similar reasons manifested differently"
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post.:
Its reddit, so what you really mean is "karma requirements pretty much just force you express opinions the botfarms and terminally online agree with for a while"
I could deal with the doxxing and such by just routinely deleting my account to maintain opsec (deleted a bunch of high karma accounts). The reason I finally left reddit was the downvote brigades for any opinions that weren't specifically aligned with the zeitgeist.
What's even the point? If I want my opinions artificially implanted in me, I'll just go watch cable news.
- Comment on Neelix calling Tuvok "Mr.s Vulcan" Is actually Tuvok's fault!:
I still don't understand why they thought Neelix would be the breakout character when every breakout character has been something like a Vulcan or an android who looks in on humanity from the outside and acts to comment on the human condition from the point of view of someone with a completely different way of being.
Oh and look at that! The breakout character in Voyager ended up being a former Borg struggling to deal with humanity and individuality! (People go "hot girl in catsuit" but there were plenty of hot girls in Voyager)
I guess it just goes to show that by this era the people running trek didn't really understand it.