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you can’t just not have levers.

I had to eat in that shitty country for a bit this summer, I will show them the kindness they showed me.

It honestly feels like ableism how often often terms for phobias intentionally trigger them, or speech impediments include the letters/particles which cause the problem.

this map is complete nonsense because some of these groups only exist as a result of interactions with europeans, and even some of the other ones are from completely different places before europeans came in.

not entirely, as leather is still a wildly useful fabric and material for many uses which synthetic leather can serve(to a greater or lesser extent, granted), but only in specific cases can meat not be replaced/not replaced effectively

French colonialism caused Haiti to be the birthplace of Vodou, because they Christianized Native Americans and Africans they had enslaved, and the blending of religions and magic ideas caused the belief system vodou to exist. The people practicing this system were brutalized by the french, having to pay them for theri revolution. And so, they would be likely to use the curses in their system against the French.

I don’t think it’s insane to say a people that engage in vodou and hate France would put those two things together.

vodou is inherently interwoven with Christianity, so this isn’t a contradiction at all. It’s a blending of Catholicism, West African religion and magic, and some Native American beliefs and practices.

at teh end of the day we don’t have a definition of consciousness, so issues that would come down to it can’t be decided.

I was specifically talking about forwards time travel to distinguish between someone’s mind existing in the world and them being alive as two separate states. In teh backwards timetravel example, what makes them different people? I would say legally they are the same person, and the same ethics and morals apply to them, and many people who know the version of them in the past would probably recognize them as the person they know albeit a bit different. Are you not the same person you were yesterday? Or a minute ago?

so much better than america, where it just wouldn’t be made in the first place

If you stepped through a time-travel portal, your conscience would effectively not exist between the original time and the time the portal leads to, yet no one would call you dead. If you could somehow install your mind into a new body, let’s say you download it into a flashdrive and plug it into someone else’s brain while your original body lays without a mind, people may call our body dead but not you. So when there is a continuity of self between the person who steps inot the teleporter and the person who steps out, I will never call that a death, that’s silly.

I don’t see that as sad. Also, even if we lived four hundred years we’d still need to write things down because we’d eventually die.

I love labs were they are like “we use three tools. A toothpick you can get at any restaurant, a device invented in the middle ages that hasn’t changed and is still made by like 30 people tops, and the million dollar magic machine that we don’t really understand”

Conservatives are liberals based upon the meaning of words. Do you know what liberalism is? It’s not gay rights and lattes.

it’s actually short for petite peeve, because it’s something small and unimportant. Or maybe it’s not, but you don’t know.

such an odd thing to do.

I don’t know why you would go on the “people talking about events” platform and being surprised people are talking about events that aren’t happy. That’s just poor planning. I mean yeah, be there for your friends, but you should be able to have light or pleasant conversation pretty often, and steer away from troubling topics when you aren’t up for it, far easier than online.

The bare minimum you can do is listen when someone is in pain and stand witness when they are under attack. I want to see when people are suffering, so I can figure out how to help, or at very least show solidarity. Obviously I can’t take this in at all hours of every day, but that’s time I spend alone or with an IRL friend, not on an online messaging board.

so you admit that you get mostly leftist death threats because you avoid groups that would send more?