Grail

@Grail@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  A new study published in The Lancet shows 6.5% of deaths in this country are attributed to cold weather, compared with 0.5% from hot weather. Most deaths will be from cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as it’s the heart and lungs that struggle when we are outside our comfort zone.

  Cold weather causes twice as many deaths (proportional to population) as in Sweden. Australia’s cold weather problem is, when measured in deaths, twice as bad as Sweden’s. People DO die from extreme cold here in Australia, much worse than they do in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't subscribe to a community I'm unbanned from⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Looks like My theory was wrong, The unban still hasn’t federated. I’ll just wait for the original ban to time out, thanks for helping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't subscribe to a community I'm unbanned from⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I realised I was wrong when someone else in this thread subscribed. I started seeing the posts on the community update, but not the modlog. I was hoping it would just take a few hours for everything to federate, but no dice. The ban is about to time out in a couple hours anyway, so I think I’ll just wait.

• I can't subscribe to a community I'm unbanned from
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨meta@aussie.zone⁩ | ⁨4⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young people these days only use the word "slut" in dirty talk, such that calling someone a slut in polite company is now unacceptable. The sluts stole the word for themselves. Great job, sluts!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be. Politeness is a social construct and changes over time. I could name all sorts of horrible things that used to be polite. And even today it’s polite to casually talk about paying for a dead body to be cooked at a restaurant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young people these days only use the word "slut" in dirty talk, such that calling someone a slut in polite company is now unacceptable. The sluts stole the word for themselves. Great job, sluts!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to mean a woman who has sex with lots of people, and it was derogatory. You’d call a woman a slut to shame her, because old people hated sex.

• Young people these days only use the word "slut" in dirty talk, such that calling someone a slut in polite company is now unacceptable. The sluts stole the word for themselves. Great job, sluts!
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨22⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• Boimler is the One Punch Man of Star Trekmedium.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking the big problems⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a degree-holding job-working scientist and I love science. I also love magic. Magic can be proven. Scientists have published hundreds of papers on the powerful placebo effect, also known as magic. Don’t tell me you’re going to deny the existence of the placebo effect?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking the big problems⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientism is so pervasive and so ridiculous. For example there’s people who say magic isn’t real because science can explain it. No shit science can explain it, that’s the point of science. It’s people defining science in opposition to magic based on cultural values instead of actually knowing what science is. medium.com/…/tautological-denial-of-magic-0e311ca…