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Peter Todd
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Fucking BASED
I find it so odd that the strong zeal for revenge and punishment if someone says anything that is perceived to be sexist or racist or discriminatory comes from liberals and progressives. There are so many violations [in cases like Stallman’s] of such fundamental principles to which progressives and liberals cling in general as to what is justice, what is fairness, what is due process.
One is proportionality: that the punishment should be proportional to the offense. Another one is restorative justice: that rather than retribution and punishment, we should seek to have the person constructively come to understand, repent, and make amends for an infraction. Liberals generally believe society to be too punitive, too harsh, not forgiving enough. They are certainly against the death penalty and other harsh punishments even for the most violent, the mass murderers. Progressives are right now advocating for the release of criminals, even murderers. To then have exactly the opposite attitude towards something that certainly is not committing physical violence against somebody, I don’t understand the double standard!
https://www.preining.info/blog/2021/03/rms-debian-and-the-world
Be inclusive as in Star Trek, not inclusive as in Woke.
....and the ship's free again, unsurprisingly. Took just six days. Maybe one more day for some inspections and cleanup.
Bet you next time it'll barely hit the press.
Peter Todd
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Great video on how NYC is dying.
Went for an early morning walk in the woods and saw a young women, by herself, meditating on the opposite side of a river in an out-of-the-way spot about 50ft from the nearest trail, without another person in sight.
She was wearing a mask.
Mental illness is a tragic thing.
@jb55 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
Heck, part of my thesis paper in university was a step-by-step description of how Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation could have conceivably been derived from first principles, purely based on what it must have been for the universe to work. The possible solution space is very constrained!
Peter Todd
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TIL people are working on vaccines for cannabis: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacsau.0c00057
Yes really: they want to induce your body to generate antibodies that will destroy the active ingredients in fairly harmless recreational drugs. I'm sure that's driven by a genuine desire to balance harms and benefits, and not a cynical attempt at extracting money from the war on drugs. 😂
They've even developed a way to administer them by vaping(!!). That could work well to give them secretly, against peoples' will...
Peter Todd
boosted
LGBTQ rights: A China Southern flight attendant lost his job for kissing a co-worker but now he's fighting back
@verretor brb, buying card stock.
@verretor If you have to wear a mask, try to wear a pure cotton bandana.
Organic materials aren't automatically safe to breath. But at least they'll almost certainly degraded quickly rather than potentially stick around to pose a long term threat. Your lungs _should_ be able to expel inorganic materials if they aren't nanoscale. We breath in lots of inorganic rock dust after all. But why take chances for no gain?
Peter Todd
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My friend who is an auxiliary nurse is really pissed that her daughter had to wear those “potentially toxic” masks. They're the ones that they gave to children at her school.
She's not allowed to say what she thinks on social media so I'm relaying messages.
Peter Todd
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Potentially toxic masks distributed in schools and daycares in Quebec
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387
@verretor 2.5hr curfew is 💯 science.
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