erin 19h ago • 100%
It's not racist to point out the systemic biases present in systems. Private schools have overwhelmingly white students from affluent families. It isn't right, but it isn't racist to point it out.
erin 19h ago • 100%
I feel like your ire could be much better aimed, when we have corporate level food waste on the scale of what could feed countries. It's like when people disproportionately focus on an individual celebrity's private jet usage, when the oil lobby is destroying our global climate on a scale many orders of magnitudes bigger. Two things can be bad, but let's direct our responses proportionately. Additionally, many of these growing contests do go to being food afterwards.
erin 24h ago • 100%
I believe they were being sarcastic.
erin 1d ago • 92%
I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian, but I don't need any supplements to be just fine. I know plenty of vegans who are happy and healthy without supplements. It isn't that hard to find sources elsewhere in your diet. I've never understood the malnutrition argument, when we've known that you can be perfectly healthy (and statistically healthier than otherwise) when eating vegan. You can't just eat salads and expect to be okay, but doesn't that sound like such a bland diet anyways? I prefer making stir fries, burritos, stews, and other mixed dishes where I can hit all the macro and micro nutrients my body needs. I'm very healthy and haven't eaten meat or animal products outside of humanely sourced eggs (my friend has chickens) for years.
erin 2d ago • 87%
I think the other comment covered it but I believe this demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes photography such an amazing artform. People study and practice, for a long time, to take photos like this. This isn't a cell phone pointed in the general direction of a subject with conveniently optimal lighting for its tiny lens, though that could produce a good picture, this takes a great deal more experience, preparation, and creativity to frame and capture the subject in a certain way with extraordinary timing to get a dynamic, emotion-filled result.
erin 3d ago • 100%
whether they are ever released or not
This is the most important line. They might not ever be able to be rehabilitated. Maybe there's something broken in them that can be fixed with therapy. Maybe there isn't, and they never can be released without significant danger of reoffending. Either way, it isn't our place to execute anyone for their crimes. If there is a crime, there will be innocent people convicted of it, and if there is a death penalty, there will be innocent people that receive it. The entire point of the post is that the definition of "pedo" continues to be expanded, until it's really just being used as an ever expanding label to apply to political out-groups.
Where you draw the line may be different from where others draw the line, but no matter where you draw the line, some innocent person is dying, and maybe someone that committed no crime but being marginalized. As the post said, conservatives have been trying to expand the definition of pedophile to include queer people for decades, and ramping up the violent rhetoric as well. The more we advocate for violence against those we consider deserving, even if their crime is heinous, the more we assist those trying to expand the definition in their attempt to wield that hatred as a weapon against their chosen targets.
In summary, if you're okay with the death penalty for pedophiles, then you're okay with innocent people that were convicted wrongfully being executed too, and maybe for political reasons if the right gets their way.
erin 5d ago • 50%
Yikes. A world without artists would be a dark, dark place. What an incredibly terrible take, unless you're implying that the only art that counts as labor is when it's for a corporation, in which case, even worse take, yikes again.
erin 5d ago • 66%
It's Lemmy, and it took maybe 5 minutes of scrolling for this to be on my front page. Your comment irked me and I want to increase engagement on the site, sue me.
erin 5d ago • 75%
They never said they're in the left lane, and in fact specifically specified against it. Sounds like you're both defensive and an aggressive driver.
erin 2w ago • 100%
Unfortunately not an option for most stores where I live.
erin 2w ago • 100%
I missed the original comment and this discussion now makes no sense. Why would you edit the content of your comment when you don't care about the points or the outrage?
erin 2w ago • 100%
It isn't 90 degrees because the image is misleading. 60+40+y=180. y=80
erin 2w ago • 57%
I don't know how much you can trust the narrative when the media is all state controlled and anti-party speech is at best minimized, at worst censored. Total state control of the narrative is not conducive to free and fair elections, not to mention a police state. Before you whatabout, I'm well aware that the US is a police state and is controlled by two parties of neo-libs. I'm no supporter of the US, but I'm also no supporter of any autocratic regime. Calling the PRC a fair democracy is at best willfully ignoring the extreme state control over information, at worst denying a tyrannic despot twisting socialism into an autocratic, capitalist dictatorship while silencing opposition.
erin 2w ago • 100%
Self checkout isn't supposed to be for more than 10 or 15 items in most stores... obviously it would be less convenient in those cases.
erin 2w ago • 100%
Isn't this satire?
erin 2w ago • 100%
Yes
erin 3w ago • 100%
I'm not arguing with your statements, I'm arguing against the content therein. Also, it's not a productive comment to tell people discussing the ethical benefits of a reform to human euthanasia by saying the obvious, which is that it isn't yet legal.
And for the record, I didn't downvote you. That information is public. The flag of Israel probably isn't helping in that regard on Lemmy.
erin 3w ago • 100%
The Jungle was a book exposing the nightmares of the industrial revolution, especially in the meat packing industry.
![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.blahaj.zone%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fd40d3a75-f66f-4abe-ab53-83c6f8e73702.png) The calligrapher's guild pages were very informative. My name is Erin (pictured top), and my fiancée will remain anonymous.