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  • What you’re advocating is called genocide. Genocide is bad.

    We’ve tried this ‘separating mentally ill from society’ before - they were called asylums. We stopped doing that because they’re inhumane. (There is an academic debate on if they’re inherently such or simply attract/foster abuse, but were not having that debate today.)

    What you’re suggesting is an international crime and violation of human rights. Please reconsider.



  • Did they?

    I can’t recall anyone ever being anything but nonplussed and skeptical about paper straws. From what I can tell, it was a product of a think tank that pushed into the news, which then caused businesses to treat that as though it were public demand and pushed it out to everyone, and most people shrugged, used the obviously inferior product (because it was free and the alternatives require attention), and then people got on with their day.

    On the wider scale this was pitched as ‘the only thing you can personally do to combat climate change’ - but I suspect it is the literal strawman of a figurative progressive position, purposely pushing a manufactured defective solution as a means to distract and suppress more substantive change and organization thereof.









  • Sucks that our society is structured to make marriage such a large gamble. While the asexual wife thing sucks, I hope you two can connect on other levels for a rich and fulfilling relationship (since it’s not all about sex)

    To your larger thesis - I agree. The labels we use - “straight”, “gay”, “bi” rarely match what people think of their own sexuality. Sometimes even when accurate we can chafe at such harsh categories. It’s just more complex and nuanced then that. But society just loves it’s labels.

    What would you think of the term heteroflexible? It carries the idea that as a prince, you might have a harem exclusively of women, yet as a pauper ‘any port in a storm’ as the expression goes. Or it could mean that you prefer women, but a good blowjob is a good blowjob - regardless of the sex of the lips giving it.


  • In my opinion, the original post was “some guy” reviewing their pics and asked “which of these beverage container photos is most photogenic?” - a super casual question, and @[email protected] said “Coke-Cola is evil!” - which is absolutely true.

    I tried to carefully reword the question to ask it in an unbranded way - what is @[email protected]’s thoughts if we push past the corporation=bad thought stopper. However I failed - and you, @[email protected], jumped on the new thought stopper “sodastream”. I can’t say I believe sodastream is as evil as Coke™, but they’re also certainly not angels. I’m sure you can argue that case.

    But the question wasn’t about really about Coke. The question definitely wasn’t about SodaStream. The question @[email protected] was asking is “Which drink vessel of mine do you like?” And I don’t think you two answered that part of the question. I do love the anti-capitalist messages - but would it hurt either of you to throw Armond1 a bone in your reply to address the aesthetical question they’re asking?


  • TeddE@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBest way to drink coke?
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    10 months ago

    A) Your point? Just because a government has done evil things doesn’t mean its people are evil. Unless you want to demonstrate that sodastream is under direct influence of their government, this is just guilt by association.

    B) Did I say we were using a Sodastream? We’re using a home made CO2 device connected to a food grade bottle that we use to fizz the drink - we just use the same screw thread size as the sodastream product because it’s currently popular.


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    Okay - how about if it were a homemade cola prepared in a sodastream style and the aluminum can in the right were sourced from a recycling center to reduce waste (and the others vessels are thrift ware)

    Can you express a preference in that case? (I get the point you’re making, fine; but at least answer the question they’re about the aesthetic of the containers)