Grail
@Grail@aussie.zone
They/Them, capitalised
Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: medium.com/@viridiangrail
- Comment on Just found out I wasn't registered as an organ donor 4 weeks ago:
Are they still allowed to do that if you haven’t spoken to them in years, or do you have to legally disown them to get them out of the equation?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Death is a social construct 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I’m still on team “Janeway is a racist and a transphobe”
- Comment on Death is a social construct 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the praise. I actually had the idea for this article while watching Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. There’s a plot in there about someone seeking to permanently end the condition of death for the human species. Late in the show, it’s revealed that everyone who died already can be brought back through some science fiction nonsense the villains have been working on. For a japanese children’s cartoon in the genre of power rangers, it’s remarkably philosophical. It got Me thinking about the meaning of death, and thus, article. I decided to make it about Tuvix because that’s a very well known and clear example of what I’m talking about. The episode with the planet that dumps all their corpses through wormholes would also qualify, but it’s way less fun than arguing whether Janeway is a murderer.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 7 comments
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 5 weeks ago:
What I have heard from indigenous people I’ve spoken to, and I have no idea if this is the reason for all Aboriginal cultures, is that it keeps dead people from getting into the afterlife and staying there. If people in the mortal world keep saying their name, they’ll get distracted and have a harder time staying in the afterlife where they belong. They’ll be stuck coming back to the mortal world to see who’s calling their name.
It’s like the western concept of ghosts having unfinished business. An emotional tie that prevents them from moving on.
Once they’ve been dead for a hundred years, it’s fine. They moved onto the next phase of their existence in the universe a long time ago.
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 6 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 6 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 6 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.
- Submitted 6 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! 6 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! 6 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.
- Submitted 6 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 1 comment
- Comment on Attacking the big problems 11 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 11 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…