Themadbeagle

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[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always got to love victim blaming. It's always a class act.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago

Be mad then I guess lol

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I really hate the idea of saying corrected in this context. There is really no right and wrong in language iself. Standardized language is not some "correct" way to speak, but a common guide to try to help an individual be understood by more people. Someone not following standard is not wrong, just maybe difficult to comprehend due to not following convention. I think in one off mistakes that are hard to understand, it is better to thinking in terms of asking for clarification. In more consistent problems of understanding, I think explaining (which is not the same as correcting) to them a more conventional way of speaking to easy future communication is the best path.

Also equating individuals unique linguistic quirks to cancer is gross.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been trying to answer you question for like an hour using my limited understanding of cancer, viruses, and long term, low dose, chemical exposure. Honestly I'm not a biologist or anything so I really don't have an answer either the most I can say on the matter is that these problems are really not compatible. The way you "target" a cancer cell, or "target" a virus, or target chemicals are whole different and don't really share anything in common. I can also say that BPA is more a problem of long term, low dose exposure that we don't really expect to see a realistic end to anytime soon. You can target it in the body, but we are going to keep being exposed to it for years to come, even if there is a ban on it. The oceans are full of it, the waterways are full of it. Much of the world is already contaminated with it.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

I knew exactly what video that would link to before I clicked. Great video, glad to see someone else reference it.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Had a dude come around in my neighborhood a few times. It was the middle of the summer and it can get above 100 where I live. Gave him pbj and some water because if was all I had at the time. He only asked for food and water. Haven't seen him in a year now though.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I agree with the idea, but I highly doubt this is why they are not there in practice. I could be wrong as this is just purely speculative on my part, but I don't have a lot of faith in most US politicians.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Teachers can just be cruel sometimes. Some of my worst bullys in school were teachers. One of my teachers meowed like a cat at my friend in front of the whole class to mock my friend for him meowing.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As opposed to your evidence based approach of using divination to determine the person you replied to in your original comment was in some sort of minority of opinion?

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry some of us have empathy. You ever been in a room with someone dying an early death? Also thinking something is invalid because of spelling mistakes is incredibly childish.

[–] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No one is admitting defeat, they are just telling you to stop focusing in on the symptoms and start focusing in the problem. You want to address drug misuse problems in western society? Start by addressing the problems that actually highly correlated with it. Help for unhoused persons. Better mental health systems. Those two things alone could curb a huge majority of drug misuse. If you take care of the symptoms then the problem will be mostly solved without need for any criminalization, be it criminalizing supply or demand. For the rest of people I think more funding of rehabilitation and drug education (and no, just telling people to abstain from drugs is not good education, just like abstinence is not good sex education).

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