I only use non-GMO kidneys because the premium I pay for my organic kidneys is simply not enough.

You almost wrote a song or a poem.

Everybody move left,

they’re trying to flank.

Bart! Where you going?

Get in that tank!

Not the Apache,

you wank.

However, an exposed camera sensor and a bit of americium is an interesting way to create a decent random number generator.

You ask the people on the call if they can hear you. If not, adjust volume. Repeat as needed.

Sign language and video only is an option as well.

It’s completely plausible and similar to the ancient meme of the KIDSEXCHANGE sign.

It’s usually only stocked in stores around the holidays and I am too lazy to make it on a whim.

So, because of that, yes. It is only a holiday drink for me. It’s unfortunate, because I love the stuff. (Even when I drank, I didn’t care for it with alcohol.)

I skimmed it, and it went from something about ToS to moderators rule to something about jury nullification(?). The whole thing probably could have been done with some strategic bullet points.

Unless it has changed, the lemmy.world ToS is about as broad and obscure as it gets. I can sum it up though: Admins are gonna do admin things, moderators are gonna do mod things and users are subject to whatever rules get applied to them in the moment.

It was overshadowed by the first bit where you said “by definition, impossible”. It kinda boned the delivery, TBH.

Earth-like is a very broad term. If an organism has something similar to DNA or shared any kind of chemical processes it could be “earth-like”.

As an odd hypothetical example, there is a theory that fungi could potentially spread from planet to planet. Even with a billion or so years of independent evolution, fungi on Venus and fungi on Earth could still share some of the same traits.

NSFW filter works for me.

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What are we going to use for “no” then?

Religion is seriously fucked up, actually.

If you can get people to believe in magic they have never seen because of stories that never happened to explain an afterlife that nobody knows about, you can easily get them to also fork over a considerable amount of their income to avoid a fate that will never happen.

Nevermind that you can also produce some fearless soldiers who will gladly hand over their life for no real reason.

Eesh. Humans are weird.

Cheap Chinese electronics come with a ton of caveats. There are reasons why you can get $150 dollar drills for $23.

(Just search for any name brand drill on any large online retailer site, if that link doesn’t work.)

Fucking hell you are tapped into the weirdest news sources in the world.

The is literal content farm garbage you spew. It takes about 2 or 3 mins of searching to dig into this stuff to find a cyclical mess of fake companies and AI generated trash.

Are you really that fucking stupid?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

18 U.S.C. § 242: Makes it a crime to willfully deprive someone of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States

Ok, that is a ton of reading. However, the point of this is to actually define what freedom of speech actually is.

You are free to tell your employer to fuck off and pound sand, but you will get fired. That is a consequence of words. The government won’t step in if you weren’t threatening anyone. You and your employer have specific rights in that regard.

In the US, you can go on the news and call anyone in the government stupid and they can’t do their jobs or that one party is incompetent. You might lose or gain friends from that, which is still a consequence.

Also in the US, if you directly threaten a person with physical harm and if intent of action can be shown, you are going to be arrested. Your words have now become an infringement on the rights of someone else.

I am just clarifying things, s’all.

Having a mouth and being able to speak words is a thing. You are “free to say words” and nobody can legally sew your mouth shut and make you incapable of talking.

When those words become a threat, someone else must now have their rights protected. This is mostly where the limitations on “Freedom of Speech” come from.

I am pulling this conversation back a hair to define what we are talking about as it’s easy to mix terms on social media.

What we are saying is that you can say anything you want but there should be reasonable limits.

Freedom of speech covers most opinions and ideas except when words present a direct threat to others.

China can and does censor things on a broad scale and as an example, calling the government or dictator stupid would probably get you tossed in jail. That is not freedom of speech.

Anyone can say anything they want at any time. What people forget is that words may come with consequences.

Schools must have rules for a number of reasons, mainly because they are full of kids. Dress codes for schools apply across all students and must not discriminate. So, if a school has a rule that any words can’t be on shirts, no child can have words on their shirt.

Here is a breakdown for you: https://www.freedomforum.org/school-dress-codes/

What you are talking about has been in the courts a number of times.