If non-human animals cannot consent, isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the phrase “made with no artificial colors” being printed on something has never influenced my purchasing decision.

But maybe I’m an outlier in that regard.

But this seems like a bit of a nothing-burger to me. From what I can tell, it’s not that Titanium Dioxide was banned and now he’s allowing it. It’s that it’s always been allowed, but now he’s letting products that contain it to put “no artificial coloring” on the package.

Naturally derived dyes obviously aren’t definitionally healthier than artificial ones, and some natural ones can in fact be bad for you. But the label doesn’t say “no bad for you dyes,” it says “no artificial dyes.” It’s something of a useless lable in the first place, no?

This may be shocking to you, but there are actually Republicans who aren’t members of Congress.

Just because MAGA has captured a majority of the party and therefore wins most of the primaries doesn’t mean there are no non-MAGA republicans.

Also, there’s Susan Collins in the Senate, so that’s at least two.

I mean, in addition to what everyone else said, disabilities can in fact disqualify you from being a good president.

If someone is non-verbally autistic with an ID diagnosis, it’s not ableist to say they aren’t a good candidate to be president.

Obviously this is a spectrum, and ADHD shouldn’t be, on its face, disqualifying. But if it’s so bad you’re literally illiterate, then it’s no ableist to say that makes you a bad candidate to be president.

It is in fact possible to be both Republican and vehemently against the current regime. There are plenty of die-hard Republicans who have vocally hated Trump for the past decade.

That doesn’t mean he has good politics, but you can have bad politics and still hate the out-and-out Nazis.

To be fair, the “change one” part is wrong. Two particles that are quantum entangled maintain the same quantum state when separated. But if you change the quantum state of one it doesn’t propogate. They are just in sync.

Weird. Not sure why. It was definitely this account. Here’s a permalink:

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/21824312

It it? I feel like anyone paying attention knew this is how it was going to go.

Heck, look at my post history. I offered 3:1 odds on this over a week ago.

This supreme court has some loons on it, but if you thought they were gonna rule against California here you haven’t been paying attention.

There’s a lot of unjustified doomerism here. The article even says that Alito has basically already called the California gerrymander acceptable.

I’d give 3:1 odds that they don’t overturn it.

Honestly, I’d be surprised if the results were any worse than 1-8, and that only because Clarence Thomas is a literal psychopath. Maybe 2-7. Alito is two-faced as all hell.

Why did they use a picture of SCOTUS that’s two justices out of date? This article was posted today. And they captioned it with all the justices names and locations in the picture, so it had to be intentional.

The disparity is because 4yrs vs 1. It’s less under Biden year over year.

I mean, I don’t think there’s never a scenario where we can interdict shipments. Sanctions are important. If Venezuela had been shipping nuclear fissile material to North Korea and we stopped that boat, I’d probably be on board.

The argument for this one was that it was oil being sent to sanctioned nations. I’ve not seen any convincing evidence that that was the case though. And, even if it was, I’m unconvinced oil shipments rise to the level of interdiction.

But I say all that to say the world isn’t black and white. While I agree this interdiction was wrong and Jessie Waters is an idiot, that doesn’t mean that we can paint all US interdictions as obviously bad. Each must be weighed on its own merits.

I feel like their analysis is, “it would be costly and risky so they probably won’t do it,” which could be said for literally any war ever. I’m not sure I find it a particularly compelling argument.

Is it accurate?

Before I even looked I said, “I bet it’s Russell Moore.” He’s been vocally anti-Trump since before his first term. Even got fired from the SBC ERLC for it.

So he’s been there the whole time, basically. This isn’t a reversal for him.

Edit: I hadn’t actually read the article yet. That quote is David Brody. I just assumed the whole article would be about Russell Moore.

Hooking a whole desktop to a TV is intrusive with most desktop form factors.

Most people who want a console don’t care about upgradability or repairability, and that’s certainly not the main thing that “makes PCs so great.”

Most people gaming on PC are equally “trapped in an ecosystem.” This has a desktop mode if need be, but hardly anyone does games outside of Steam.

“It has Linux but most users won’t notice or care” is a double positive.

“It won’t push the player base, only the devs” is a double positive.

The point of a console isn’t to make people into more technical proponents of open source projects. It’s to play games.

And if it’s competing in the console market, especially for people who aren’t terribly interested in the “Call of Duty” type AAA titles of today, it seems like a perfect fit.

Oh, I was just quoting: https://youtu.be/xC03hmS1Brk?t=40

Guns don’t kill people

☝️ Uh uh ☝️

Gunn kills people

With guns

While I don’t disagree, I do feel like people are over-quick to label any hard questions that don’t align with thier viewpoint as sealioning.

I’ve more than once asked questions about the practicality or edge cases of a particular stance and been called a sealion for it.

But the thing is, I want to know how that thing handles the practicality or edge case issues, and am trying to have someone who is deeper into the weeds on the issue than I am explain it to me, but just get called a sealion for it.

To be fair, this has only happened to me 2-3 times, but it’s super annoying, because I’m actually trying to understand, and might even be on your side if you’d address my concerns.

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