whotookkarl

whotookkarl , 4 hours ago

The people in charge of whether they can be bribed are the same people receiving the bribes. The accountability of politicians under elections to prevent this behavior depends on a well informed and educated electorate which the wealth class has undermined for decades.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

If you had reasonable copyright terms like 5 years and a requirement to release code/digital artifacts for library archival once it becomes public commons?

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

If you're asking why wealthy people run to Switzerland specifically I have to assume it is in part due to the history of banks that make disclosing ownership a crime making them useful to hide capital in offshore accounts to dodge taxes in their home country, stash money related to crime or exploitation, laundering, etc. While their money may be stored anonymously once they show up in person they themselves are no longer anonymous and subject to arrest.

whotookkarl , 3 days ago

Honey dipper, lighthouse keeper, lamp lighter, encyclopedia deliveries, phrenologist, and whaler.

whotookkarl , 2 days ago

According to people who answer polls

whotookkarl , 4 days ago

No, in essence gender and sexuality are not the same and you seem to be saying they are. If after discussing with a doctor and parents or legal guardian if the best course of action is to prescribe puberty blockers so they can make an informed decision about hormones when 18 I see nothing wrong with that or equivalent to sexualizing children.

whotookkarl , 4 days ago

If puberty blockers inhibit hormones and hormones are responsible for the development of our brains and identity:

I'm going to need a source that puberty blockers have negative effects on cognitive development to accept that if. If puberty related hormones were necessary to consider someone an adult then people who are missing those hormones or puberty by mutation, disease, etc wouldn't be considered adults which is not the case.

how is hitting pause allowing for an informed decision?

It prevents the acute release of puberty related hormones until they are old enough to be considered an adult under the law and able to make decisions about what they do or don't consent to. The informed decision to prevent permanent changes by taking puberty blockers is made by a medical professional with parental or guardian consent to allow the child to mentally mature and make their own choice about taking hormones. One literary review notes the following positive and negative effects: "Positive outcomes were decreased suicidality in adulthood, improved affect and psychological functioning, and improved social life. Adverse factors associated with use were changes in body composition, slow growth, decreased height velocity, decreased bone turnover, cost of drugs, and lack of insurance coverage. "

whotookkarl , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

None of the known risks or side effects include cognitive impairment, you are attributing to puberty blockers changes to cognitive development without research demonstrating the causal link between limiting puberty hormones and decreased or slowed cognitive development like the known negative effects. I also wouldn't accept increased cognitive development as a positive effect under puberty blockers without justification either. Until there is sufficient justification for either position we are not justified reaching either conclusion.

I am concerned there is and will be increased public resistance to what the medical consensus supports because of the political scapegoating trans people are under, and wonder if we were talking about transhumanism in general instead focused specifically on transgenderism would the resistance be the same.

The discussions you've mentioned would likely start with a child experiencing distress reported to an adult or their parents noticing their distress and working with a medical doctor to identify the causes and treatment plans to consider. In the cases where the distress is related to a lasting pattern of gender dysphoria or gender nonconformity that is one of the criteria for prescribing puberty blockers.

whotookkarl , 5 days ago

Watching the sun rise every once and a while is free. You could probably get a pen and a few sheets of paper to write or draw your experiences. By volume a daily vitamin is well below $1 per day and could have significant benefits if you're not always eating healthy.

whotookkarl , 7 days ago

What's a trolley?

whotookkarl , 6 days ago

So if the same applies to Russia Putin is okay with a foreign country invading Russia based on lies, capturing territory, targeting and murdering civilians and kidnapping children, violating treaties, and they would accept a ceasefire with the invader keeping everything they currently hold to regroup for another assault? Get the fuck out of here

whotookkarl , 7 days ago

One track lover

whotookkarl , 7 days ago

It gets very cold and snowy in the winters but the northern middle west dodge most of the serious tornadoes to the west and south, no significant risk for hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. Plus a decent source of fresh water if we can keep it clean and not let corpos take it all for free. And not so close to coastal areas to flood or mountains trapping heat.

whotookkarl , 8 days ago

I'm usually pretty good with Tuesdays

whotookkarl , 8 days ago

Crime rates dropping in US, multiple companies working with NASA for ISS access, direct observation of gravitational waves, left reddit for Lemmy, multiple COVID vaccines in like a year from outbreak, more usage of renewable energy sources, etc. There are some obvious problems we need to get together and address as communities, countries, and species, but there are a bunch of improvements and advancements being made too.

whotookkarl , 10 days ago

Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.

whotookkarl , 11 days ago

Projection as usual, they use nepotism to their advantage so they assume everyone does.

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

But it's so much easier if you just start with a conclusion instead of all the way back at observation. You don't have to do any work for soundness at all, just ignore facts that disagree with what you want to believe.

whotookkarl , 13 days ago

There's bound to be some overlap in these big ensemble movies. I'm usually up for some new Wes Anderson, but I did think the meta narrative in Astroid City was pretty silly and could have been worked into the story itself if they didn't try to cram 30 actors into the main cast.

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

If you like that you might also like vampire the masquerade redemption soundtrack that came out a few years earlier, and the deb of night radio show from bloodlines.

whotookkarl , 12 days ago

First one that comes to mind is wing commander prophecy. Opened my ears to new styles of metal and industrial music I had never heard before then. If I'm limiting to video game composers streets of rage, I still listen to it sometimes.

whotookkarl , 14 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Ah yes, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging laser because that's how it works.

whotookkarl , 13 days ago

I think you might be talking about the frames per second (fps) and not the 4k resolution. The higher resolution makes the picture clearer, higher frame frequency increases motion smoothness and reduces motion blurring.

whotookkarl , 13 days ago

Must have been getting jealous of all the millionaires in Congress insider trading, taking PAC money, etc

whotookkarl , 14 days ago

Preserving freedoms is anti freedom according to the party of personal freedom.

whotookkarl , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

It's also not one or two billion, it's multiple hundreds of billion owned by one person. I don't think you can overstress the difference in scale between millions, hundred millions, billions, and hundred billions.

There used to be taxes assessed by total asset valuation that focused more on wealthy individuals because they don't earn as much from income it's mostly assets increasing in value like property or ownership shares, that was stopped when they introduced the income tax that mostly targets low and middle class people who almost exclusively earn by income.

Loopholes like offshore accounts used to dodge income taxes by higher earners should be illegal, but the whole system is backwards forcing the least prosperous to shoulder the largest tax burden instead of the wealthiest who benefit from society the most.

whotookkarl , 14 days ago

You seem to be under the assumptions that hoarding vast wealth to the point of extreme inequality is benign and not damaging to society & individuals living in that type of civilization, and that limiting extreme wealth inequality for billionaires means they're coming for everyone next with no limits. These are some of the main ingredients in cooking an oligarchy soup.

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/67c9ecc9-5c38-4d9a-b7a4-b532df11e83a.jpeg

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

No love for paleolithic design?

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

Good thing it's not a real war or his obstruction of military promotions would have helped weaken them when they're needed. Tuberville doesn't care about anything but himself.

whotookkarl , 17 days ago

Circle with a red line through it to make it more obvious at a distance maybe? I'm no designer maybe there's a better option

whotookkarl , 16 days ago

Based on this thread peanut butter or peanuts goes with a lot more than expected.

Potato chips dipped in peanut butter or yellow mustard. Malt vinegar on eggs. Waldorf salad.

whotookkarl , 15 days ago

That's true, I meant the style of mustard that's not Dijon mustard but they are both yellow in color.

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

Cron scheduling https://crontab.guru/

It's used frequently on Unix computers to execute a script at an interval like every day, week, etc

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

Again. He's inciting violence again.

whotookkarl , 18 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7f69bbdf-1457-418f-94f0-cdf9b3cd1900.jpeg

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

Zombie outbreak movie but instead it's all p-zombies muttering this nonsense

whotookkarl , 20 days ago

Perhaps an artifact from an earlier abiogenesis event that cannibalized itself before our own evolutionary tree started?

whotookkarl , 20 days ago

Exact same propaganda as RT, not surprising coming from Putin's fluffer

whotookkarl , 21 days ago

Fark, slashdot, Penny arcade forums, something awful, phpbb, reddit, lobsters, Lemmy, ? Curious to see what comes next in public foruming

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/51338713-e339-4783-ae14-4f03cac2a6ee.webp

whotookkarl , 21 days ago

About two years too late for me to accept apologies on post pandemic price gouging, already cancelled prime and use local groceries over corpo stores. In general they have better quality of selection and prices most of the time, plus it encourages me to explore more variety of small groceries from other cultures, farmers markets, etc.

whotookkarl , 19 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bef33822-d352-4577-8db7-238b85335b50.jpeg

whotookkarl , 21 days ago

I've unlocked the secrets of the universe: two baskets

whotookkarl , 22 days ago

Pretty sure the people actually using it in a derogatory manner don't care about common usage or meaning and use it as a placeholder for the n* word when talking in public. Urban, woke, DEI, East coast elite, etc is all just bigotry and racism.

whotookkarl , 22 days ago

Don't play the game if it's rigged

whotookkarl , 23 days ago

Foreign government, moneyed interests, or domestic dipshits, taking all bets.

whotookkarl , 23 days ago

Exodus 21 20-21:
20 "Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property."

Sounds like property you can beat as long as they don't die within a day or two, nobody should treat anyone that way that's horrific.

Substitutionary atonement is the whole gospel story. Jesus sacrifices his life to atone for Adam's original sin of eating the apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that somehow infected the rest of humanity. Even if you believed it were true you shouldn't place the punishment for crimes of ancestors or parents on their children, that's fucked up.

whotookkarl , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Nobody should treat a household member or child the way the bible describes slaves should be kept, whether they use the actual word slave in the original translation they are describing how to own people you can beat as long as they don't die within a couple days. They are talking about the allowed treatment for when you keep non-hebrew slaves, you don't have to excuse it saying they were treated well because this is describing how they should be and were treated.

Edit: Of course I'm looking through it with a lens of modern ethics, but one of the selling points of religion is a dogma that never has to change because they know absolute morality from prophetic futures and can tell what is going to happen except apparently when it doesn't