Preach just listened to “With Teeth.” Good for him!
Lemmy Shitpost
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
then you would get what we got in the whitehouse
I think I need to move to the Midwest and become a preacher. You work for like one hour a week on Sunday morning, and take everyone’s money, which you then live off of, tax free.
My favourite lies:
- There are only two genders
- Biological sex exists
- Species has a scientific basis
- 99.9% of your body isn't empty space
- Objects exist
- We evolved to perceive the world around us accurately
- Believing in objective truth is good for society
- The USSR practiced communism
- The Beatles were any good
Biological sex exists
Do you mean gender? I'm confused because of the chromosomes and the gametes and stuffs.
Significant proportion of people don't fit into binary sex definition, however much you cut and define it, people have all sorts of crazy combinations. And if your strict binary definition doesn't include all the subjects, it's not strict, not binary, and signifies not a lot.
"The observable universe is either Hydrogen or Helium, we don't let small percent of exceptions destroy this nice model we have"
Sure, the chromosomes and gametes exist, and are supported by biology... but how and why are we using those to define sex? Pinning down a precise definition of sex is incredibly difficult for biologists, the best definitions we have are a vague cloud of all of these vaguely related things. The only common thread is that all of these things differ between different humans, and have some (often tangiential) relation to fucking.
For any rigorous definition we come up with, that actually produces a distinct number of sexes, we can throw some curveballs at it that require the writing of exceptions and special clauses and caveats. We end up oversimplifying dozens of different variables into these broad categories that then lead to worse outcomes for the people who deviate from the dogmatic oversimplifications. And if we actually count each intersex condition and permutation and stage of transsexual transition as its own sex, then we end up with thousands of different sexes, and next to no predictive utility! It's a nightmare!
My philosophy is: If you can't create a model that is accurate, fair, and useful... maybe you're trying to create the wrong kind of model. Go back to the drawing board and reevaluate your foundational assumptions. Come back with a different core idea.
What we have ended up doing with the idea of biological sex would be absurd in any other scientific field. Imagine if chemists said "There are two elements: Hydrogen and helium. Together they make up 99% of all atoms, and everything else is a defect." That's what we're doing with sex.
The Beatles were any good
George Harrison was a Beatle, and he was objectively a great musician.
I’m also personally obligated (happily so) to like Paul McCartney, because he befriended my cousin while he stayed at Sloan Kettering and taught him to play the guitar (my cousin was already skilled with string instruments, so he picked it up pretty well) over a period of months before he died. I’m not aware of him publicizing that (and my cousin was a rando in his late twenties- definitely too young to die, but not young enough to make a great news story, given that he was unmarried and had no kids) or getting any personal benefit from it other than being able to increase joy in a horrible situation.
So at least 2/4 (or 2/5, if you’re a Pete Best fan, I guess) are/were good in some way.
Plus, at least Blackbird and Eleanor Rigby are great songs IMO, but that’s less objective.
All four of them were/are quite good musicians. Yes, even Ringo
Hmmm... Blackbird is better than their average, but it's not quite good.
The problem with the Beatles is that their beats suck ass. Their songs feel lethargic, meandering, aimless, and depressing because they have terrible beats. Blackbird actually has a beat, which is more than I can say for most of their music. But it doesn't have a good beat.
UNBELIEVABLE! YOU GUYS FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF WRITING A CATCHY SONG! It's gotta have a beat.
That’s a reasonable opinion, and I honestly don’t know how to determine why I like the songs I like, nor do I feel qualified to identify a good beat (I was in the percussion section of my middle school band class for three years, but I’m a special case of nonmusicality, and nothing sank in), but there are a couple of Beatles songs with strong beats that occur to me. Maybe Love to You or Eight Days a Week, though the former is a more driving beat, imo.
Definitely don’t feel obligated to listen to music you don’t like, though please. I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles, I just grew up on them and find many of their songs enjoyable (if you ask me, Octopus Garden should be erased from our collective memory, though).
I was one of those kids who didn't play an instrument (other than piano lessons I hated), but absolutely knew what instrument I'd play if I was in a band. And it was the drums. Well, a couple months ago I got some drums of My very own and started learning. And a few weeks ago I played My first open mic and rocked the whole house. And a friend was talking about it days later. All I played was a beginner rock beat and fill, but I guess I've got a lot of rock.
And I don't think the Beatles have any rock.
I'm sorry you're gonna need to provide a bit more citation on these.
- Biological sex exists
What do you mean by this?
Biological sex - as in physiological characteristics borne of sex chromosome differentiation - is absolutely real, and playing about with that could quite literally get you killed from a medical care perspective (as in wrong dose of drugs, etc.).
Now if you want to discuss whether sex is truly binary, that's much more debatable - especially due to the existence of intersex people, and those with sex-related chrosomal disorders.
- 99.99% of your body isn't empty space
If you're talking about atoms in the body being 99.99% empty space, then by that technicality everything that exists is 99.99% empty space... Which isn't so much an interesting lie, as it is just an interesting physics fact.
- Objects exist
I'm not calling this one out, I just want to know what technicality this is borne out of.
- The Beatles were any good
This one's just offensive. Or that is what I would say if I didn't also think they're a bit overrated.
Objects exist
I just think the entire idea of distinct supermolecular objects is an arbitrary human convenience, rather than a scientific construct. Science doesn't have an answer to philosophical problems like the Ship of Theseus problem. I think that's because objects are not a scientific concept. Objects are a vibe.
Objects clearly exist. My code loves to complain when they don't.
Your fault for using object-oriented programming, also known as OOP.
You should try God-oriented Programming, or GOP for short.
Tried GOP. now the president shits himself on live tv. 0/10
-
all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration
-
we are merely the universe experiencing itself
toke
- we...
I can understand the idea behind 8 of these?
But “biological sex exists”… is a lie how? Unless its a variant on “objects exist” as a lie to refer to the rejection of material reality but its weird to list it twice.
It exists, but like, in the same way species exists. The variety and frequency of intersex conditions indicates that it's two clusters of traits that most species that show this characteristic fall into one or the other of and certain components are remarkably mutable.
That understanding is just fundamentally different from the traditional understanding of two entirely distinct bins that anyone who doesn't fall into one or the other is a strong outlier and the only alterations are castration or divine intervention (at least in euro-christian tradition).
The two bin model is going to work ok on most humans, it's not like it's an obviously wrong one. But as society and science have advanced we've found more intersex people that either didn't know (my cousin would have just been understood as barren, and nobody would've noticed my ex's mom having XY sex chromosomes) or didn't understand that it wasn't just some weird quirk that you either hide in shame or just don't feel is worth mentioning. And anywhere you try to draw a firm line or any trait you try to point to try to ignore the gray is going to leave you with an awkward grouping in some way