[-] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 5 days ago

Independent of that sign, riding your bike on that road would be hell I'm sure basically no one uses it.

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[-] Liz@midwest.social 62 points 4 months ago

A donkey is ill-equipped to give even a passable blowjob.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 145 points 4 months ago

Good. We shouldn't be afraid of anatomy.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 159 points 4 months ago

I say again. The defense budget nor any other current spending is preventing us from having free healthcare. Medicare for All would be significantly cheaper than our current healthcare costs. We're already paying for both defense and healthcare. Switching to M4A would save us money and improve our healthcare experience while completely ignoring the defense budget. We can easily do both. The insurance companies, big pharma, and hospital executives are the ones preventing M4A, not Raytheon.

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[-] Liz@midwest.social 86 points 6 months ago

Really we just need to standardize sizes for consumer goods. For example: drinks can come in 250, 500, 750, 1000, and 2000 mL sizes. Sold soap must be sold in units of 100, 500, or 1000 grams. And so on...

[-] Liz@midwest.social 71 points 6 months ago

I've argued with people who claimed being overweight isn't bad for your health. It's not a common position, but it's not exactly a strawman either. It's more like focusing on the crazies.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 103 points 7 months ago

Ask a man his salary. Do it. How else are you supposed to learn who is getting underpaid? The only way to rectify that problem is to learn about it in the first place.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 111 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The concept of a mushroom being generally similar to humans is total horseshit. What they're probably referencing is a mushroom with some signaling protein (or saccride or steroid or something) that is coincidentally similar some human equivalent and your immune system (for some reason) freaks out about it when you eat it. Then, as is referenced, the response to the mushroom happens to also be able to target some of your own cells, and now you've got an autoimmune disorder.

That behavior is not normal for your immune system to do, by the way, otherwise cannibals would all die from allergic reactions to their unfortunate meals. But, the immune system is complicated, so shit happens sometimes.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 74 points 7 months ago

Almost certainly because the most common opening sentence for an article follows the "[subject] is a member of [broader group]" structure and the more generalized you get, the more you get into entire areas of study, which are eventually classified as a kind of philosophy, which is just fancy-speak for "high-skill thinking."

[-] Liz@midwest.social 59 points 8 months ago

What's the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?

It's a billion dollars.

You've still got way more in common with the players than the owners.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 155 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I'm serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don't have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can't come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

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[-] Liz@midwest.social 145 points 10 months ago

Physical buttons in cars

Repairable phones

Repairable laptops

Resoleable shoes

Hand-crank drills (for those quick and easy projects where dealing with batteries or cords isn't worth it)

External frames on hiking packs

Actually tough jeans that need to be broken in and last a while

Headphone jack

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Liz@midwest.social to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

Ecosia is a German search engine company which donates 80% of its revenue to planting trees. They take Bing, reskin it, and spend the profits from advertising on planting trees. They're up to about 175,000,000 trees so far.

https://info.ecosia.org/what?_sp=c00c1905-82ee-49a9-a802-904ebfaef758

Edit: This is just a convenient way to turn something you do every day (use a search engine) into a force for good. It's a slow process, 1 tree ≈ 45 searches, but you were going to make those searches anyway, might as well plant trees! Think of it as the digital equivalent of buying local food.

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A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of an Indiana man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame. The app flagged one of the family's devices as having accessed Pornhub even though it didn't, and this was the only evidence used to throw the man back in jail. They didn't even try to prove he was the one who caused the app to flag Pornhub as visited, they just assumed it was him. The article contains multiple levels of "oh my god our system is messed up."

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