“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoWitches VS Patriarchy@lemmy.caDamn right
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    3 months ago

    Astrology is pseudoscientific, objectively false garbage. It should be othered and seen as lesser just like any other pseudoscientific personality trait garbage. “Witchy” stuff like crystals etc. is also complete nonsense. We as a society should seek to identify beliefs and practices that aren’t grounded in reality and treat them that way. Even if they aren’t inherently harmful in isolation, that kind of pliability where it doesn’t matter what’s true and what isn’t as long as it makes me feel a certain way is a recipe for a dumber and more dangerous society.

    Live laugh love? I mean sure. It’s super basic, and I’d just as quickly make fun of a guy for having a “man cave” sign, but it’s at least harmless. The meme though is specifically talking about pseudoscientific horseshit and equating it to feminism, inherently equating calling it out with antifeminism. It’s asinine.


  • Hey, Sunshine, if you’re interested, I highly recommend contributing to OpenStreetMap if/where you can. The built-in iD editor for desktop web is phenomenal and very easy but powerful, and the third-party Vespucci app for Android on F-Droid works very well. OpenStreetMap is still missing data in relatively large cities (let alone probably out in rural areas), and that especially includes sidewalks, residential buildings, addresses, and contact information. Even just making sure the information is complete and up-to-date the next time you visit a business, park, etc. (and marking the ‘Last Checked Date’) is profoundly useful. I’d be free to answer any questions you might have!




  • The great thing about RISC-V if you care about sovereignty in an age where CPUs run the world is that it’s an open standard. Contrast this with x86 which is owned in some part by US-based Intel and some part by US-based AMD as well as ARM which is owned by Japanese-owned, UK-based Arm Holdings. If you want to use x86, you’re shelling out license money to Intel and AMD, and if you want to use ARM, you’re shelling out license money to Arm Holdings. You never truly “own” what you’re producing.









  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoconservative@lemmy.worldTrans is Trans
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    4 months ago

    Hey, OP, this “transgenic vs transgender” thing actually is disinformation. The White House (ignore the Trump-brand petulant diaper baby bullshit) has presented easily verifiable receipts. They’re:

    1. Correct about the level of funding (easily audited per page).
    2. Correct that each of these was related heavily or wholly to the ways exogenous sex hormones affect mice.
    3. Completely, utterly wrong for treating them as superfluous. Even if you don’t believe trans people deserve medical study for their own health (which is nonsense), and even if you seriously believe $8 million is anything more than a drop in the bucket for the US federal government (we’re talking an actual millionth of the annual budget spread across several years), studies such as the $1.2 million one on androgens’ effect on female reproductive health can objectively help non-trans people such as people with PCOS. It’s good even if you’re a disgusting bigot.






  • It’s so weird to me that people who defend China’s treatment of Uyghurs turn it into a US vs China thing. You can look through my recent history and find me saying that Biden, Harris, and everyone in Congress who clapped for Netanyahu have committed genocide and can rot in hell. Trump, of course, is even worse. This isn’t a “muh both sides bad enlightened centrism” thing because this isn’t a “sides” issue to begin with. Three of the four major superpowers on Earth right now are authoritarian hellholes, and the EU is on its way to joining them with its shift toward neo-Nazism.





  • Bruh what? 💀 I chose the highest-profile and arguably best emulators for each major system, let alone that almost every other modern one uses GitHub too. If all of these emulators are flying under the corporate radar, I will deliberately inject myself with rabies and die a slow, agonizing death. I couldn’t come up with this shit if I got cross-faded on meth and fentanyl.

    Legitimately shocked that this abject fucking nonsense got three upvotes. Want to know how I know Sony knows PCSX2 exists? Two former PCSX2 developers are working on “ports” (read: shitty, subpar emulation) of PS2 games to the PS5. They got their jobs because of their work on PCSX2.


    Edit: I’m going to go off a bit more, actually, because I’m sick of living in an era where zero-information dipshits can just say any unresearched, unsubstantiated bullshit online and put it into immediate contention with obvious, demonstrable facts presented with sourcing by a subject matter expert:

    • I’ve included a Wikipedia article where applicable; these articles will often have links to these emulators being discussed in popular gaming outlets.
    • This doesn’t even count emulators like Snes9x, PCSX-Reloaded, and Project64 which are no longer top-of-class but which have their own Wikipedia articles, were wildly popular in their day, and host their code on GitHub.