LibertyLizard
@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Cold War science was somethin' else. 2 days ago:
When’s my handjob?
- Comment on Are users data protected on the fediverse? 4 days ago:
Unfortunately I think it must be assumed in this day and age that any content posted online publicly may be stored indefinitely, on any platform. Even if you delete it, there are bots scraping all your comments, and you won’t be able to delete from those databases. So I’m not sure how much utility this feature would have today.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 5 days ago:
Yeah I think it’s way beyond what I would know how to do… I’ve also got some pretty crazy things happening in my life right now so I’m not looking to take on any big projects at this time. Maybe when things are back to normal.
Or I’ll ask around and see if anyone else is interested in doing it.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 5 days ago:
Wow great comment. But I’d have to figure out who is going to host a local server first. I’m not super tech savvy personally, especially compared to Lemmings.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 5 days ago:
Oh wow this would be huge. The local sub is the main thing that keeps me coming back to Reddit.
However, it probably will take some local organizing to get it to fire in each area. Getting a critical mass for these is tough by just having randomly distributed global internet users join. Even with thousands of users, the California community on Lemmy is way less active than the sub for my city on Reddit.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 5 days ago:
Well, I had this issue from drinking too much orange juice. I did drink it often but not an extreme amount I’d say. But even lower levels of acidity can cause your teeth to weaken over time.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 5 days ago:
The quality of the food only matters because our bodies can’t handle it. If we could improve our teeth (and other body parts) to be more resilient and adapted to available food resources then it wouldn’t be considered poor quality anymore.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 5 days ago:
Acidic food can dissolve your teeth. I’m aware of the involvement of bacteria but I didn’t want to go into too much detail for this one-liner. The point is our teeth are very poorly designed to stay intact in the face of the dietary environment they are used for.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 5 days ago:
When do we get teeth that aren’t made of a substance that our food literally dissolves? Seems like a major design flaw.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.
The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
You’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that’s why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There’s bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 6 days ago:
Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.
- Comment on YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine 1 week ago:
I don’t think even that would work. He could certainly hamper the war effort but the US isn’t the only ally Ukraine has. I don’t think they would capitulate unless there was major movement on the front line and a total defeat seemed possible.
- Comment on YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine 1 week ago:
Why would they fold though? This idea that Ukraine was merely a puppet that would concede to literally any demands from the US was always ridiculous.
- Comment on Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 1 week ago:
I have absolutely zero faith that the US government will side with people’s safety over a new toy for the oligarchs. And these companies are openly saying their whole business model is urban transportation. So they will be lobbying to change those laws as soon as they can, and, as we’ve seen with self-driving cars, it will be difficult to stop them.
- Comment on Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 1 week ago:
This is exactly what terrifies me though. Cars are already incredibly dangerous. Now make them 5x as fast and more difficult to control and imagine the carnage.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
So critical you’ll be instantly banned for saying anything critical of Russian imperialism.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Sure, if you have total power over the media ecosystem. But we don’t.
So the question has to be asked–are you banning Zionism from the public square or simply exiling anti Zionism into a small echo-chamber where no one will hear it anymore and Zionism will go unchallenged? This is my problem with this approach.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Another user mentioned that feddit.org may have been consistently censoring anti-Zionist voices. If that’s true it would make this a lot more reasonable in my view. However the post doesn’t seem to explicitly make this claim, so I am curious if it’s true.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Maybe… this is where I guess the instance rules get in the way because I’d like to know what exactly that looks like. Because it’s well known that communists and others tried to violently resist the Nazis in the lead up to the third reich. So you’d have to articulate how your strategy was different from what was tried and failed.
My reading of history is that sporadic violence is a very ineffective anti-fascist tactic.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
OK, if that’s true then I what I’m saying here doesn’t apply.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I would agree with that. However there are a number of ml users who are very deserving of that treatment based on their individual behavior. But insofar as that’s used against other random users on the same instance it’s probably not appropriate.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
What worked was the might of an entire empire waging total war against another. I don’t think any Lemmings have that power at their disposal.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Depends completely on the impacts of that decision. Zionism is the predominant viewpoint in my country, so if I were to refuse to ever be around them, I would be a complete shut in, which would be counter-productive to my larger political goals. Which include defeating Zionism.
But I don’t believe it’s true that this instance is full of zionists/nazis.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Well there are many examples but yes.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Well I don’t think that’s very effective either but if we can’t have a discussion then we’ll just have to disagree.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
It’s mostly marketing honestly. They’re both total ass.