Schadrach

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Right, but because most of humanity has been mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history there is a correlation between expressed phenotype in the handful of things that we think of as "race" and a boatload of other assorted genetically linked things.

Like how dogs with certain eye colors are more likely to go deaf.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

How ks the drill baby drill crowd going to compete against mini stars in a can?

Nu-Cu-Lar Bad? That's...about as far as they'll make it. To be fair, that might be as far as they need to. It's all the oil companies will approve of them learning, at least.

Of course, it sounds like the big problem of how to remove more power from it than you spend keeping it reacting remains an issue, presuming they can continue to extend reaction lifetimes to be functionally unlimited.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

How do those food stamps work anyways? Can you use them like money? I’m not American so it’s a foreign concept yo me.

You get an EBT debit card with an amount of money based on some calculations that can only be spent on certain things (in the case of SNAP aka food stamps, you can only spend that balance on food). WIC is another subsidized food program that sometimes gets included when talking about "food stamps" targeting people with small children, which has a more restrictive list on what you can buy with it.

Some of the guidelines have been painfully dumb, even if there was an intended logic to them - like "no hot food" where the goal was to disallow restaurant purchases and purchasing pre-cooked meals because they are generally a less efficient use of the funds, but led to dumb shit like Subway noting that they sell subs cold and so could hypothetically still sell, then just offer to toast the sub post-sale so that the division was meaningless.

Then you have the abuses of the program that really do need fixed, like stores that are well known to be willing to buy certain stock from just anyone, at a stupidly low price. The idea being that you go to Walmart or wherever and buy up a bunch of product that you can buy on SNAP, take it to the store and resell it at a massive loss to launder your SNAP funds into regular cash. In my area it was certain convenience stores that were known to buy certain brands of soda in cases of cans for much less than they could be bought through legitimate channels as a way of laundering SNAP funds.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

biologically no

Biologically still kinda yes in that most of the world was mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history, and as such something as hypothetically meaningless as skin color correlates with likelihood of a whole array of other genetic things.

For example, the bigger a threat malaria was in your ancestors' part of the world the more likely you are to inherit sickle cell (which has a bunch of downsides but also makes you resistant to malaria). It's the reason frequency of lactose tolerance varies based on where your ancestors are from. It also impacts organ transplant availability, because the organ compatibility markers are not uniformly distributed across all racial/ethnic groups.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

...which is amusing because my first thought was At the Mountains of Madness, which apparently was an inspiration for The Thing.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, got my racist propaganda films that still show up in film school because they used revolutionary techniques in film making and are thus important pieces of cinematic history mixed up. The Birth of a Nation is the US one, Triumph of the Will is the Nazi one I was thinking of.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

(and no I am not glorifying those monsters)

You don't have to glorify their beliefs to admit they were fantastic at propaganda and aesthetics. Birth of a Nation was used in film schools for decades afterward for a reason and that reason wasn't that film schools were all secretly run by Nazis.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Take the upvote. You beat me to it.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

I mean, don't they functionally own the mayor of NY? Like, wasn't there a whole interview where it was all but stated openly that if the NY mayor doesn't do what Trump wants he's going to be charged with crimes they have evidence of but are holding back on prosecution for?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, it's not. Because it's not a tweet at all. Trump posted that on his own little unfederated modified Mastodon instance he calls Truth Social (seriously, it's built on Mastodon). Note the red check instead of blue and them being called "retruths" because he calls posts on his instance "truths."

It's an important distinction if ever you need to find the original source for any reason.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...which was done to give her the best odds she could have in the speedrun campaign by a party that avoided having a real primary and instead pushed a candidate that did abysmally in the last primary.

Biden should have committed to being a single term president and we should have had a real primary in 2024. Or at least just the usual degree of Democrat primary ratfucking.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You support the message that attacking a group people are born into and a group people choose to identify with are equally bad?

Q: Are Not All Proud Boys Like That? Or does it only extend to groups you support?

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