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4 days agoCandace Owens doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, he may as well think this, we live in profoundly stupid times
LustyArgonian
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Lol, I don’t cause you to argue in bad faith (with entire comments full of fallacies), that’s you who does so of your own “brainpower.”
You’ve not once made a valid counterargument or even provided evidence. What evidence? The only content I’ve seen is your ableism and ad hominems. Can you actually form an independent, good faith argument backed with valid evidence? I haven’t seen evidence of THAT being able to happen yet.
Again, you seem to think Lemmy mods are in charge of who is and isnt a Nazi, that’s so strange lol. But I dont usually report to mods, I’m an adult who can handle an argument (are you?). I also am an adult who can read what people write and form opinions about them, without needing another adult to intervene or tell me how to think. Maybe that’s your issue? No mod or big friend to tell you how to argue in good faith here?
13·4 days agoNormally I would just mock you by pointing out that liberals stay in the tweets while leftists get out on the streets, but you’re obviously suffering from mental illness
Here’s an ad hominem and ableism. Your refusal to debate the argument here is a fallacy and bad faith.
and I don’t think it’s very nice to make fun of people who are clearly having a mental breakdown, judging by your totally normal reaction.
2nd instance of ad hom and ableism in this comment alone.
As for BRICS,
Thanks for reminding me you failed to answer any questions and lost this debate completely.
Also, hey @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com, turns out it’s uh checks notes BRICS that’s censoring Wikipedia to convince you not to drink your own pee.
Strawman, that was never said. I also have a longform comment to that user already explaining why the science of the pee drinking stuff is bogus, so somehow you did a double strawman.
Yup, bunch of totally normal people in these comments.
3rd instance of ad hom and ableism
Now for this comment.
you’re very clearly dedicated to whatever this wonderful and deep narrative is that you’ve crafted
That’s literally just having integrity and debating a position. You can’t argue because you don’t know how to argue this topic in good faith and apparently too childish to admit it.
and also, argonians have stinky fish breath
This is an ad hom, it is being used in an argument to strengthen your side, and further, you are basing the entirety of your refusal to discuss in good faith on ad homs in the previous comment.
you’re wrong, because your arguments suck
This is also a fallacy and bad faith argument, it would be dismissed. Circular reasoning.
An ad hominem is an attempt to refute an argument by using a personal attack
That’s what you did. Literally. Don’t gaslight. I quoted it so you can see. You then changed the exucse to not argue in good faith in this most recent comment to lack the ableism, which is why it looks hilarious, like you’re upset I’m able to argue and think.
Oh, and if you’re going to call someone a nazi, at least make it someone the average person would believe is a nazi
You are one or you support them which makes you one.
If I was anything of the sort, I personally know three admins of my instance who would not hesitate to ban me in an instant, and one or two of them could probably dox me if they wanted to.
Really bad application of appeal to authority - fallacy. Lemmy mods dont determine who is a Nazi lol
2·4 days agoIntolerance is only an issue when it is equated with violence. There’s no real issue or paradox of intolerance if you equate intolerance with asserting boundaries nonviolently - this is the literal basis of unconditional love.
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That would probably be Ray Peat. Ray Peat was friends with Linus Pauling, and he had a special diet he recommended (and lived to be 86, died in 2022). It focused on fat soluble vitamins A, E, K, and D, and promoted low low PUFA (fatty acids, eg seed oils), and high vitamin C. He did have a little PUFAs later in life in his diet though as he became elderly. He wasn’t a quack, but it is likely his extreme diet was missing some obvious important components like omega 3s and 9s.
He is also the person who talks about proportions of fats to each other, eg taking vitamin E to combat negative affects of vitamin A, which is still used to treat vitamin A toxicity in ERs to this day.
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
https://raypeat.com/articles/nutrition/oils-in-context.shtml
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6406961/
Joke’s on OP, turns out he was right and helping people (very mildly)
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Strawman, literally no one said that.
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It’s probably more that each BRICS nation was originally promised something big in this plan, usually related to gold which is mainly what BRICS currency will be backed with along with oil and other precious metals.
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Russia wants all land the Arctic ocean touches, plus access to other seas/ports, plus precious metals and oils in those lands (Canada produces a LOT of gold).
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India (joined later) wants the gold in the Indus river between it and Pakistan.
- China has “found” massive gold deposits recently too in their country, but my guess is they want Taiwan, South China Sea rights at minimum plus main control of the management of the BRICS currency and banks. China also likely has accurate gold maps of the US west coast, because Chinese miners came during the gold rush to get it, they were all over mapping it etc. Not that old mining claims are a secret per se (plus we have public USGS maps now), but it is hard to know if they really did get the gold from those claims or if they stole it and laundered it through a gold claim (common). So China likely has their own records of where gold is. That’s why Trump wants to log the national parks/forests - they are all in areas with lots of gold (and mercury injected into ground to get it, water contamination), logging is the first step to mining.
-Iran likely WANTS some kind of war in the middle east for dominance. They have to make the Israelis look like Nazis if they want to take that area over. They have to have justification for it or the world will be upset and start sanctioning etc. Plus, Abraham accords, UAE, Saudi Arabia, are all financially threatening to not just Iran, but the world, due to their wealth and how they accumulate it.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/iran-bets-big-on-gold-as-it-weathers-trump-turmoil
https://www.tronweekly.com/gold-backed-stablecoins-could-rival-usd-tokens/
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Chat GPT reduces critical thinking, because it can literally “think” for people. If someone isn’t a critical thinker, it’s not that they consume Wikipedia, it’s that they lack critical thinking skills. They will approach ANY TOPIC or writing the same, because they aren’t a critical thinker. Wikipedia is great and doesnt reduce critical thinking.
No, we aren’t- the current solar maximum while we have record heat and while the ozone is diminishing means we have mass death speeding up.
This is actually worse than you realize, because normally the solar maximum in the past DID mean peak crop yields and more food for animals and people. So much so a farmer in the 1800s predicted much of the stock market peak and troughs based on the solar cycle. The PEAKS were at solar maxiumums.
https://www.therationalinvestor.com/blog/how-the-benner-cycle-predicts-100-years-of-market-movement
So we should actually be at a food surplus/peak but climate change etc is so bad (we are past 6 maybe 7 of 9 boundaries to live on earth) that we are dying and animals are dying. Mass, MASS deaths of insects and birds and sea life. We probably don’t have enough food worldwide any more, not this year at least. In the past, yes, sure. But presently, I’m not so sure. Maybe. But a lot of animals have died including from bird flu.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
https://www.livescience.com/heatwave-cooks-sealife-to-death.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/nearly-billion-monarch-butterflies-vanished-since-1990
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/declining-bird-populations-report-cornell-lab/
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/climate-change-triggers-earthquakes-tsunamis-volcanoes
That’s cellulose, not sawdust, and it’s added to this day in all sprinkle cheeses so they dont stick together. Cellulose isn’t a problem to eat. Sawdust is.
Also, and this is a spicy one but backed by basic economics, regulations are a required element to capitalism
Indeed the free market itself has demanded regulations, hence why they exist. And the regulations don’t actually per se stop crime, they simply give a quick mechanistic action afterwards to getting retribution when the regulations are violated - they bankrupt corrupt businesses over time.
Business and government do different things. The government is like the brain of the body, it receives info and dispatches messages to various areas to have the body respond.
The economy is our blood, it literally transfers resources like food to various areas of the body.
They do different functions. They do different things. How can you run a brain/nervous system like a circulatory/blood system? They are different and for different things. They mean they want to run the country BY businesses, as if businesses had control, not as if it was its own separate business.
Further with this analogy, the peripheral nerves are like our communications systems, the lymph is like the military combined with 501cs (mix of attacking and helpful resources, eg vitamins in chylomicrons). And the people are all the individual cells, do their best in their specialized roles and communicating with the brain what needs they have so the brain can dispatch or change things to keep everything running well in homeostasis.
A group of cells (like a business) who demands too many resources/blood supply will kill other cells. It can be hard for the brain to figure out why cells are dying and may attack the wrong cells to correct it, and give resources to the wrong cells. This is how the US has started to die.
You don’t own your land like that, you basically rent it from the government for the price of property taxes, and because you do it that way, you get better protections and deals and things you can do for your “ownership” than a typical tenant/landlord. You also get the money you pay into the mortgage/land when you resell it, another huge advatange over real rentals.
Whatever you put in the ground, including mercury for gold mining, has broad impacts and we should indeed regulate that for everyone. No one wants mercury in their well water.
Idk what’s going on with your mom/her county, but usually structures like that just mean the property isn’t able to get financing. What specifically is their issue with her sheds? I’ve never heard of such a thing, even for partially collapsed barns, unless they live in a HOA. And further, why would she pay the COUNTY anything? Are they building it?
It depends on the state and what you built, but there are people who have entire houses they live in built illegally. Property just can’t be insured and can only be sold for cash. They dont get fines though.
Wait until you hear about mercury contamination from gold mining practices