[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 0 points 21 hours ago

Oh, are we allowed to point out media bias now that it's against neoliberals? I can't keep up with the rule changes, progressives have always been attacked for pointing that out.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Not sure who's downvoting you for asking for clarification. I think the person you responded to misinterpreted the first figure in their second link. It says among validated voters, 48% voted for Clinton and 45% for Trump.

Nowhere in those links does it say the percentage of voters by party registration that voted, and I can't find it in any other searching either. Your 60% turnout of voting-eligible population comes up all over the place though.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

It's been imported into English as just a standard word, no capitalization necessary anymore. Most English speakers probably aren't even aware it's originally a German acronym. We just say "flak" like we say "scuba" and "laser."

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

I itemized for the first time this year so I couldn't use it, but I did fill it out completely as a comparison point to make sure itemizing was worth it. It was pretty painless, not very different from free filing through various other companies.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

Using racial slurs isn't only damaging and insulting to the person being directly talked to or about. I suggest adopting a blanket position against racial slurs in any context.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago

They claim Hillary lost because she went a little left and it is the fault of... left wing voters? Hmm.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 weeks ago

For those of us in the US, we're more likely to encounter the Spanish "verde."

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'd definitely recommend working in a quick step of thinking "is it reasonable to expect the people who read this to know what this acronym means?"

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...NARB? I feel like it should be pretty obvious that whatever that is, it's not a well-known enough acronym to use without definition. I can guess the B is boner but I haven't a single clue what NAR is.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago

I'm getting a kick out of this hypothetical person responsible for correcting AI mistakes looking at AI image gen with deformed hands and saying "looks fine to me, totally normal."

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 month ago

As I said in another thread where this was posted, that original post has the distinctive voice of ChatGPT. Could be another similar model, but I'd bet money that was written by an LLM.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

How are those the same? You need to define "religion" and "sport" rigorously first.

Since you haven't provided one, I'll just use the first sentence on the wiki page:

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.

"Atheism," without being more specific, is simply the absence of a belief in a deity. It does not prescribe any required behaviors, practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctity of places or people, ethics, or organizations. The only tenuous angle is "belief," but atheism doesn't require a positive belief in no gods, simply the absence of a belief in any deities. Even if you are talking about strong atheism ("I believe there are no deities"), that belief is by definition not relating humanity to any supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual element. It is no more religious a belief than "avocado tastes bad." If atheism broadly counts as a religion, then your definition of "religion" may as well be "an opinion about anything" and it loses all meaning.

If you want to talk about specific organizations such as The Satanic Temple, then those organizations do prescribe ethics, morals, worldviews, behaviors, and have "sanctified" places. Even though they still are specifically not supernatural, enough other boxes are checked that I would agree TST is a religion.

I have no idea what you're on about with not golfing being a sport.

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