For context for everyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20200405172817/http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2001/PSCF9-01Miles.html

Parasitic wasps that ate caterpillars from the inside out were one of the main reasons for Darwin to become increasingly skeptical of religion.

https://youtu.be/aDfp-QsH51w?t=2018

Sorry, Piped and other frontends isn’t working right now, so you’ll have to use normal YouTube or go through VLC.

1. When people in the modern day call someone a social democrat, they generally refer to the modern definition. The modern social democrat aims to reform capitalism to be more fair, as opposed to democratic socialists, who want to achieve socialism.
2. Social liberals like FDR are rather similar to modern social democrats. They have a different lineage, but in terms of policy the main distinguishing factor is a distaste for state-owned enterprises.
3. While I do not discount the possibility that he is intentionally moderating the positions he espouses publicly, he does not want to do away with private ownership, which is the goal of socialism. That being said, he goes much further than most social democrats in how much he wants to nationalize, how much he wants to incentivize coops, and how he wants 20% of major companies to be owned by the employees.

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Wasn’t this said on graffiti in a concentration camp?

In lefty circles such as most of Lemmy, “gender” refers to the social norms and expectations that are attached to sex.

Personally, I think choosing the word “gender” to describe gender roles was a mistake. A call to abolish gender norms seems pretty reasonable, but if you’re uninformed about this definition the call to abolish gender sounds utterly deranged.

Check the post history. The lad(ette) is real.

What do you think the dish is made of? Rabbits?

In both cases, the powers that be created a situation where the populace was very vulnerable, leaving them in a position where one bad harvest was all it took. In both cases, the elites then proceeded to make the situation worse because of a combination of immense incompetence and intentional imperialist shenanigans aimed at squeezing out wealth and putting down the rowdy colonized folk.

I’ve come to see the Great Famine as the free-market capitalist equivalent of the Holodomor. The more I learn about either, the more parallels I see.

If you have common sense, you do not need a dedicated program.

If you want to be extra sure, then of course you can download ClamAV and/or rkhunter. Still, the average user does not need them.

Ireland :)

I hear Poles like putting Popes in boats

The damn scolopendras have left mate of mine permanently scarred. They are the demon spawn of Bill Gates himself.

“Salman Schocken, a Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the Nazis had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in Brit Shalom, also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, Gershom Schocken, became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990.” From the English a language Wikipedia article on Haaretz.

The Schocken family continues to own 75% of the paper’s stocks, hence the position.

Could be worse. The neighboring country doesn’t have a proper electric grid in most places.

Tap water in my country is undrinkable :(

Olivie is delicious and no one will tell me otherwise

We have avatars?

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