This is a false equivalence. We regularly “throw away” remains (by burying or incinerating them) that could have been donated to science or organs that could have been donated to patients in need. Eating discarded meat seems more morally equivalent to ensuring that grandma is an organ donor. It’s not as if discarded meat in a landfill or buried Grandma’s in a cemetery are contributing in any meaningful way back to the ecosystem.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?
51·1 year agoThe first rule of jury nullification is that we don’t talk about jury nullification.
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News@lemmy.world•Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries
13·2 years agoSure the brain may survive, but will the consciousness that you identify as you survive?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video CombinedEnglish
544·2 years agoYeah that competition really did demonstrate what an awful service all those media monopolies provided.
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News@lemmy.world•Scientology tried to 'derail' star's rape trial by harassing prosecutor, suit says; church calls claim 'false'
29·2 years agoYou can just hire cops to be private security, no tax dollars necessary. The neat part is that even if they aren’t acting in an official capacity, they can still use police resources (like squad cars), wear police uniforms, and they’re still police (with all the same privileges, lack of liability, and license to murder).
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully UnraveledEnglish
2·2 years agoLiterally the only reason I’ve ever used it is so that when I start typing a web address in front of someone, Google doesn’t “helpfully” autocomplete.
Aren’t there any other sites that start with p or x?
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Lemmy.world Support@lemmy.world•Feature request: Actually getting a message when banned.
3·3 years agoThese kinds of opinions cannot be held by rational adults without being racist and hateful. Squashing that kind of fascist rhetoric early isn’t banning free speech; it’s not an agenda. It’s just demonstrably true that his rhetoric is intrinsically racist and hateful. So the troll, comes whinging around here trying to stir up so more drama because that’s what they feed on.
LonelyWendigo@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•What VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP?
21·3 years agoSelf hosting a VPN isn’t going to help hide traffic from your ISP though. Even if you “self host” on a cloud instance or rack elsewhere, you’ve still got ISPs there who will see all your traffic. Unless there’s some other magic implied that I’ve overlooked?
Yes, I thought I was very clear that I was explaining my rationalization for why Fahrenheit is my preferred arbitrary system for a specific use case. Fahrenheit is arbitrary and centered around human existence. Celsius is also arbitrary and centered around the phase changes of water. I made no mention of season because again, that is totally arbitrary, not universal, and depends wholly on geography. The only temperature scale that even gets close to trying to not be arbitrary is Kelvin, but I don’t see you bullying for it’s everyday use.
Because of its scale, Fahrenheit works better for describing the temperature as it relates to people and how comfortable or dangerous it is. Celsius obviously works better for science and engineering. Both systems are arbitrary and either will work once your used to them obviously. Fahrenheit is anthrocentric. Celsius is centered around the phase changes of water at a standard (arbitrary) pressure. The only temperature scale that approaches universality and attempts to not be arbitrary is the Kelvin.
Fahrenheit is my preferred scale when dealing with weather and heating/cooling my home because with Fahrenheit, you can describe almost the entire range of normal human experience from freezing to death to burning to death with (almost always) only two digits and no sign change. If you see an extra digit or a negative sign on the Fahrenheit scale you know shit just got real. And as for the numbers in between 0-100, you can conceptualize them as a simple decimal range like we do for lots of other statistical things like movie ratings, school/exam grading brackets, political polls on TV, percentages, etc.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recent upgrade to my PLEX home serverEnglish
6·3 years agoYou don’t need insane hardware to get started with Plex, but you’ll soon realize why some go a little nuts with it.


Moving files to the recycle bin and deleting files should take the same amount of time, both are essentially just a rewrite of the pointer to the data and don’t copy any data at all.