bethorien
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The Domestication of Animals, 13 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
Drawing the line there is really strange. Most people that think like this, at least in the western world, are living a pretty big delusion regarding horses. A lot of people in the west have some stigma about eating horses. It goes back to the fact we used to bond with them. For a decent amount of people they interacted with their horse as often as other people riding it back and fourth as their only source of vehicle work. So in the west we don’t eat horse meat because that would be “wrong” or less moralistic folk might say they’d feel bad. In reality anyone that eats anything with cane sugar is eating a horse product. Horse bone char is used in making cane sugar so anything containing that is a horse product. Anything “jello-y” contains likely horse sources gelatin to give it that wiggle.
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Sir Francis Galton coins "eugenics" 11 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
It’s a disability. If someone is born blind that’s a birth defect and a genetic disorder. It’s not just “different” it’s actively and objectively worse. We have a word for someone with a disability that cannot accept that their disability is a disability. It’s called anosognosia, a mental disorder.
The loss or diminishment of an entire sense wouldn’t be that much different than say, the people who can’t feel pain. It’s an active objective worsening of a persons life and ability to function not even “in a society” but as an organism.
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The loss or diminishment of an entire sense wouldn’t be that much different than say, the people who can’t feel pain. It’s an active objective worsening of a persons life and ability to function not even “in a society” but as an organism.
Well duh 10 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
The issue with this is that the majority of dude that’s say this would 100% love to be hit on by random girls all day long their entire life
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Potatoes! 1 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
this is really weird for me because i read the first part and immediately my brain expected "nobody wants to work anymore so far"
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Sir Francis Galton coins "eugenics" 11 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
just to clarify what this board is advertising since the title uses the word eugenics, the lions eye institute is a non-profit "eye transplant" group.
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Big Toothpaste lies! 3 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
A thing to remember with any statistic in any marketing material. They likely surveyed a very small amount of people in the given demographic, they likely tossed out any response that wasn’t absolute endorsement or absolute disdain, and they likely threw out any demographic that had low performing numbers in responses. A lot of claims like this are a couple hundred or a couple thousand total respondents cut down to like 20 from keeping only the best possible demographics and strongest opinions.
Also specifically in this case the 9/10 number comes from specifically a really old survey in which they asked if the dentists recommended toothpaste in general, not any specific brand.
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Also specifically in this case the 9/10 number comes from specifically a really old survey in which they asked if the dentists recommended toothpaste in general, not any specific brand.
Crazy every day but one 1 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
Honestly it’s not even that weird. That’s probably the most vulnerable place in the entire house. Loud sound covering many of your forewarnings, naked and exposed entirely, door is most likely closed and there likely isn’t any windows, the sound of the shower means they know exactly where you instantly upon entering the house.
If you don’t have a means of defense in the bathroom you likely would be in a situation where there are intruders between you and your means of defense.
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If you don’t have a means of defense in the bathroom you likely would be in a situation where there are intruders between you and your means of defense.
commiefornia 2 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
"why don't the kids ever get off their electro-devices and be in the real world"
*youth enjoying the outside world in a healthy exercise driven manner*
"WAIT NOT LIKE THAT"
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*youth enjoying the outside world in a healthy exercise driven manner*
"WAIT NOT LIKE THAT"
The man really knew what was going on 1 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
I was so confused for a minute, I read that as effectively “read. I’m all about that one!”
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GENdeR iS bIolOGic 12 comments
It'd be even bigger if the Mafia weren't stealing bits 2 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
ok im know im just being the big dummy that didn't initially get that this is a joke but i saw this and internally went "waaaaaaaaaat that can't be right" and went to the true size website to check it myself.
For any other big dummies that wonder
https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ0ODQxOTY.MTEzMjI2NDE*MjM0NDE0NTM(MTUwNzg2NjA~!US-TX*OTMyODM0NA.MjI0MjM0NTU)Mw
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For any other big dummies that wonder
https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ0ODQxOTY.MTEzMjI2NDE*MjM0NDE0NTM(MTUwNzg2NjA~!US-TX*OTMyODM0NA.MjI0MjM0NTU)Mw
I Mean Yeah, What Did He Think Was Gonna Happen? 5 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
its like, the opposite of visual ASMR for me because the loop point annoys me slightly.
Chortle 2 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
"please dont find us please dont find us please dont find us please dont find us oh god what if they set it on fire what if they push us into the sea wtf are we going to do fuck im gonna die"
If it looks like a cult .. 5 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
There's also the fact that the majority of people aren't educated in formal logic, and as such will have a much harder time identifying your run of the mill cult tactic logically fallacies and incorrectly assigned burdens of proof, resulting in people flustering and trying to argue against unfalsifiable claims or trying to formulate arguements against unsupported claims with no actual substance to argue against.
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If it looks like a cult .. 5 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
The issue with specifically this kind of thing is the same issue as with the ambush political "influencers" that go into the streets and try to get people to debate them. They give themselves however long they need to prep and think up responses to any possible argument they can conceive and mentally prepare themselves for a debate and all of their opponents have none of that luxury.
At least with the "change my mind" guy its an unintrusive passive invitation to what he describes as "not a debate but a conversation." with some of these folk they go up to random people and stick a microphone in their face and immediately start quizzing them on shit and then try to intellectually bombard their no prep on the spot didn't know the debate was even going to happen until it was already going thoughts.
The people this post is talking about probably fit in there somewhere between the two, leaning slightly more on the invitation side but without the unintrusive or passive parts.
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At least with the "change my mind" guy its an unintrusive passive invitation to what he describes as "not a debate but a conversation." with some of these folk they go up to random people and stick a microphone in their face and immediately start quizzing them on shit and then try to intellectually bombard their no prep on the spot didn't know the debate was even going to happen until it was already going thoughts.
The people this post is talking about probably fit in there somewhere between the two, leaning slightly more on the invitation side but without the unintrusive or passive parts.
The truth hurts 5 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
honestly both the context of it being a fairly plain rock and the word "unassuming" being used that sounds more like she's telling the man he looks "normal, average, etc" rather than telling him he's ugly.
Potatoes! 12 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
Side note: thinking about it getting hit in the head by a baseball bat seems to be a lot more common than it should be. I realized after posting this comment that i have not 1, not 2, but 3 friends from different regions of the world that have been hit in the head by some equivalent to a baseball bat by either a girlfriend or an ex.
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Potatoes! 12 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
One of my friends had a very poor choice in women in his younger years. Saying the majority of his Exs were crazy would be generally correct. Things that have happened because of his poor ability to pre-discern the crazy include: getting hit in the head with a bat, attempting to become pregnant during sex by breaking the condom so he could be hers forever, stalking him online after they broke up potentially still to this day because we can't actually know if she stopped or just wised up her tactics. Each of these being from a different of his exes from his youth. Nowadays he's SEEMS more careful. Im guessing having a head injury that could have been fatal if he had been unlucky was the hint he needed to be more careful with who he let's his initial feelings guide him towards.
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I'm not a socialist but .. 8 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
saying nobody is forcing anyone to work a job that isn't paying them enough is like saying no one is forcing you to breath, the system as a whole is forcing it, the way things currently are are forcing it. For "the poor" they have effectively 2 choices
1. starve
2. work a job that pays them so little they still skip meals to make rent.
Not only that, in the modern day an entry level job pays proportionately less buying power than it did even 20 years ago. We raised the minimum wage in 2009 and inflation to date has made that 7 dollars an hour worth LESS than the 5.85 minimum wage was in 2007.
Not only that that, modern poor have to deal with an issue that past generations of poor people didn't, retirement age people competing for entry level jobs because they feel bored/unfulfilled but don't need the money. While this sorta thing did happen in the past, it wasn't wide spread for a mix of reasons. Usually this kind of competition was between middle class joe and man who won't retire.
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1. starve
2. work a job that pays them so little they still skip meals to make rent.
Not only that, in the modern day an entry level job pays proportionately less buying power than it did even 20 years ago. We raised the minimum wage in 2009 and inflation to date has made that 7 dollars an hour worth LESS than the 5.85 minimum wage was in 2007.
Not only that that, modern poor have to deal with an issue that past generations of poor people didn't, retirement age people competing for entry level jobs because they feel bored/unfulfilled but don't need the money. While this sorta thing did happen in the past, it wasn't wide spread for a mix of reasons. Usually this kind of competition was between middle class joe and man who won't retire.
Lifehack! 2 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
They can’t delete it but they can place it under suspension pending termination until the review is over, making it unviewable by the public and locked away from you. Also just don’t be on Facebook, don’t give them your time or data.
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Proper healthcare and not fighting wolves seen fine to me. 4 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
a much better "retort" to this would be the fact that anywhere from twice to 3 times as many women died during childbirth during pre-modern times as well as infants were relatively smaller at birth, meaning the experience as a whole was slightly less painful but also more deadly.
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Snowflakes 3 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
i mean, he's not SUPER wrong on some of that. Disney's level of control over land they own in some places is fucking insane and they've consistently bribed politicians to extend copyright duration every time something they've ever used is about to go out of copyright.
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Pumped 5 comments
bethorien
· 2 years ago
take note of the leg shape, the legs on the animal in the meme go forward after being relatively straight, thats indicative of a hedgehog. A chihauhau's legs would go backward after being relatively straight. A chihauhau's legs should also be a lot longer relative to the body than this.
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PETA shows multiple dog breeds, the selection of animals is very small and very lacking in diversity. There are no fish there. Arguably one could interpret that super uncharitably as “anything not shown is something peta doesn’t consider important enough to display as unjustly food” which would mean any dog that isn’t those specific breeds is food, any breed of cat that isn’t those specific breeds is food, any breed of cow that isn’t one of the 2 shown is food, any fish is food, any rats, squirrels, beavers, etc are all valid food.