Katrisia

@Katrisia@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My first Nicole message was today. You’ll join the club eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Sorting Hat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it, but the test would need to ask our preferences about federation and if that’s a priority. In my case, I’m in this instance because it lets me read a lot of other instances (even the infamous triad). I don’t know if we have a certain personality; I just like to lurk diverse communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Mexican United States.

  Also, it’s not about the name but how that name came to be. Mexican United States (Mexico) are called that way because they’re the region around the mexica territory (today part of Mexico City). They’re not ‘stealing’ the name from anyone.

  The United States of America (U.S.A.) are called that way because they were the first independent states in America, the continent’s name: a well known fact at the moment. But today, most American countries are independent, so the people from the United States have been rewriting geography and even history saying there are two continents, that there isn’t a continent named America, etc. Sorry, but many countries and thousands of historical documents tell us that America was and is the name of the continent, and that it is not okay to take it for one country alone.

  I imagine the outrage this would cause for centuries if France (just to name some country) tried to pull this off. “United Communities of Europe”, “we are the only Europeans 🇨🇵”, “Europe is a country”, “there’s West Europe and East Europe, the Europes, but that’s it”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even by itself, the first statement might not be the case. I don’t remember the book that well, but I remember thinking it was a good introduction to this topic. Philosophy of Science: A Very Brief Introduction by Samir Okasha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet, it’s not as simple as “scientists are under capitalists’ interests”, but “the ideologies within capitalism permeate the way we do science”. A common example is how we measure functionality (and therefore pathology itself) in medicine.