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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Thank FUCK you edited that horrible FUCKING word, so that my innocent eyes aren't FUCKING desecrated.

Tits.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

I suggest autoreplacing it with a more technical term.

~~fuck~~ sex

SEX

That's a sexing dolphin.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

Fuck the fucking fuckers.

[–] maya_the_good_apple@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Fun fact: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.

Depending on what species a foetus looks like, you can make a guess for how long it has been present inside a womb.

Source: Haeckel's Embryos.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

You are never going to convince me the biggest vilain in the whole world is fucking religion. I hate religious people with all my heart

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

isn't fucking religion

Or

You are never going to convince me; the biggest villain in the world is fucking religion.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lot of faith in that analysis, I guess.

I do honestly think land ownership is the greatest evil. Because if houses aren't a commodity then a lot of problems (homelessness, hoarding, environmental damage, corporate bullshit, etc) start to be a lot harder to justify.

[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's in the top 5:

  1. Capitalism

  2. Patriarchy

  3. Racism (I consider this tied with patriarchy tbh)

  4. Religion

  5. People who take two seats on public transit with no justification

[–] groet@feddit.org 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Religion is a rationale for other evils. It is in itself not evil.

Patriarchy and racism (and many religions do that too) are all the same thing - chauvinism, the belief in the superiority of the own group. This also includes nationalism, homophobia, xenophobia and any other "I hate you because you are different"-isms

So I'd go with:

  1. Chauvinism
  2. Capitalism (greed)
  3. People who blast music on speaker in public transit
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 hours ago

I think people blasting music on hiking trails is slightly above public transit.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Wildly better list. One of the failings of liberal/left minded people in recent decades has been to become list makers. "We will stand up for the rights of women [pause for applause], blacks [pause for applause], the elderly [pause for applause], etc...." sounds real nice until someone listening says "what about me?" It's a losing political strategy in a world where the words "All Americans" and "everyone" exist. At the absolute least, tag those words on the end.

To be clear since this keeps coming up from people who like to put words in other people's mouths then tell them those words are wrong, I am not saying laws can't protect/benefit marginalized groups. This is about communication.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Even though you hate religious people with all your heart

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Somebody do better please. Sources are Wikimedia.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

90% of scientists agree

Even if that were true these kinds of people are notorious for discounting the vast majority consensus because some lunatic said otherwise. It's almost like science has no bearing to them unless it validates their preconceived ideas.

[–] Zebrafive@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 11 hours ago

Exactly the problem and they all cite a paper written by a pro life conservative who works at the Hamilton foundation which is a conservative 'think tank'.

The paper itself is abysmally stupid. He emailed about 60 000 people with 5 or so confoundingly, unnecessarily complex question (manipulated) and about 30 000 or so responded and then he interpreted the answers and made the conclusion that like 90% of respondents agree that life begins at conception.

Morons say 90% of scientists agree, which is not even what the paper claims at all which itself is not good.

He could have just asked 'does human life begin at conception'? Also he complained (author) in a podcast about the paper about how so many faculty at the college he was st during the paper writing urged him to continue with the project and then spins that to baskcally say pro women's rights advocates are in a conspiracy against life and were all democratic demons in a death cult (more or less)

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

90% of scientists agree you pull random percentages out of your ass.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 217 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Here you go OP. It’s actually ok to swear on the internet.

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here is a not weirdly censored and un-censored version:

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[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate it. I downvote every censored post.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

mUh EnGaGeMeNt StAtS

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I don't get at all this trend of badly censored words.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

Yes, **** the fuck.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

They try to be a rebel, but still wanna please facists algorithms. American puritanism BS. Fuck that.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One theory is that it's done intentionally to farm engagement from people pointing it out. Also I think most mainstream platforms heavily push down in the algorithm content that isn't sanitised. This is to make the platform more appealing to advertisers because the platform's userbase is the product.

As for why the words are partly censored instead of completely censored I'm not sure. I'd guess it's to game the algorithm while also making the word completely obvious.

Either way, if this is the behaviour that you engage in on a platform, that platform is terrible and you are an attention obsessed idiot.

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[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

MY EYES! NOOOOO! MY INNOCENCE!!!!

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago

Pfft, we have a hard time proving people under 1 billion net worth are human live nowadays.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 69 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Even if it was a human, Chris would be wrong with his lie about "90% of scientists." Not sure why people think a lie will help their argument in cases like this.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Eh... A Human fetus is human, but it is not "a human". Your toenail clippings are human.

Plus, the humanity or personhood of a fetus doesn't really matter for the pro-choice position. Simply put, there is no (other) legal situation that can compell you to give up your bodily autonomy.

Example. I can shoot someone in the street in cold blood, and they could die without a blood transfusion. The courts cannot compell me to do something as harmless as donating blood to save that person's life. A fetus, despite arguably being a person, does not have a right to your blood, your breath, your nutrients, or a space inside your body. Full stop.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 10 points 20 hours ago

Wow. I have never heard this argument articulated in this way. Thanks!

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

Am scientist (not in life sciences). If someone showed me this image, I'd have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at. So that's one for the 10%, I guess.

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had a...call? survey? at some point from an entity that probably gave rise to this data. It was basically a push-poll that used question order and positive reinforcement to try to get people to agree that abortion is murder.

Mostly, it tried to conflate "human" with "a human," starting out with things like "are cells isolated from humans still human?" "Can cultured cells be called 'viable?'" "So would you agree that tissue cultured from a human donor is viable, human tissue?"

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I do love the "blank slate mammal" look we all seem to share at this stage.

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

A just a few less cells and it compares to birds, reptiles and fish.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

We all start off as weird worm-like gilled things, huh

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Amazing how we (or any organism complex enough to have organs) are just a pair of cells that underwent a sequence of protein-controlled division, folding and diversification. And excretion and consumption that formed and maintains non-cellular parts like fluids and bones. Plus the microbiome but arguably that's not you, much like mites.

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