Death to fascism, freedom to the people!

Do you follow laws, and if so, why?
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! This probably seems like a pretty stupid and obvious question, I'm just interested whether people tend to act morally out of
- Pure automatism
- Fear of punishment
- Conformance to authority
- Conformance to the majority
or do they actually act according to their own moral principles? How deeply does the average person think about morality? Are their moral principles derived externally (by internalizing laws, religion etc.) or internally (by constructing them through purposeful contemplation)? !<
Not sure whether the spoiler is working or not lol
Biology isn't even relevant here, we've surpassed evolution, there is absolutely no reason why someone shouldn't change their gender if they want to. Apart from that, I find it hilarious how confident conservatives are about this, the situation isn't that simple, there are a number of naturally present aneuploidies including the sex chromosomes. Even in the usual XX and XY variants, parts of the Y chromosome are homologous to X and the expression of sex-specific genes is modulated by epigenetic factors. In practice the concentrations of the sex hormones are not on/off and can vary fluidly. With these simplifications, you are just displaying your ignorance of biology.
It's under your profile > personalization > memory, but I think it's off by default
I guess I'm not very original, but Meshuggah just beats everything else for me lately, Future Breed Machine or pretty much the entirety of ObZen (though Bleed is overrated and possibly the worst song on the album apart from Pravus), I think it's something about how the vocals interact with the riffing, though I'm not sure this is exactly the kind of heaviness you mean...
Otherwise maybe check out Flood by Boris, that has some massive riffs (Flood III is where the shit goes down if you don't feel like listening to the whole thing)
Huh, that's interesting, reading the wikipedia page, it didn't even seem that terrible, I don't really understand how "effective altruism" and "hyper-utilitarianism" can lead you to that
Yeah, I did not know that existed...
I think rationalism is more about even being able to acquire true knowledge rationally and that rationality should be our main source of knowledge (in contrast to spiritual revelation for example, or empiricism for that fact, but that doesn't exactly hold up well). In other words it's an epistemological position about being right, not an outright proclamation that rationalism itself is right.
There are legitimate uses for a knife besides using it as a weapon, for example slicing bread for a sandwich, opening packaging, slicing fruit etc., stuff that I could see myself doing at a beach...
My point was that even if you ban knives, that won't prevent people from carrying them, and this is confirmed by the fact that knife crime has been rising in the UK since the regulations have been put in place.
Tbf I thought it was a complete ban on knives in public, but apparently small pocket knives under 7cm are allowed, and you probably don't have any legitimate reason to carry anything larger than that, so I don't think the law is harmful, but it fails to address the core of the problem. And yeah, carrying a steak knife "for protection" is pretty strange...
How I see it, stabbing someone is far more illegal than carrying a knife, so if someone is open to stabbing a person, this law won't stop them from concealed carrying. Now what is more dangerous, someone having a knife and you can see it, or someone having a knife and you can't see it?
There are also usually separate laws in place that prohibit brandishing a weapon, so I think apprehending potential attackers isn't a huge problem.
I guess it might reduce the amount of knives involved in random confrontations as you mentioned.
Looking up the stats, the laws weren't effective in decreasing knife crime, in fact it rose by over 50% in England and Wales between 2014 and 2019.
But then again, apparently carrying small pocket knives under 7cm is allowed, and you probably don't have any legitimate reason for carrying anything larger than that.
Nowadays every country is involved in capitalism, whether they like it or not. Also, non-capitalism doesn't imply authoritarianism, take for example democratic socialism.
To be fair, I don't really understand what they're trying to achieve with these laws. A knife is just a tool, the issue isn't carrying one, but intending to use it to hurt someone, and if you intend to hurt someone, you will find some way to hide it anyways. If people are going around stabbing each other in the streets, the problem is much deeper than "they shouldn't be carrying knives in the public", perhaps your education system failed to teach them morality.
Classic capitalist brutality, whoever dares to speak out is crushed.
Step 1: start with noise
Step 2: make it look a little more like a crab
Step 3: repeat step 2
Well, they don't actually sequence your genome, afaik its a SNPchip type of thing, so only some select polymorphisms, probably not much useful data, especially if the stolen data was already processed results.
What this fuck is this even. Not a single coherent sentence spoken, I wouldn't say you can even call this a conversation, just unintelligible babbling from both sides.

Biblically accurate dehydrogenase


For context, the enzyme (complex) pictured is pyruvate dehydrogenase, taken from this amazing video. Looks absolutely wild with the symmetry and the lipoamide swinging around like that. To think there are billions of those working away in our cells right now...
Won't work if the card has multiple partitions, also might not copy symlinks properly. dd is the way to do this if you want an exact copy, you just need to be very careful. You can take a disk image, that way you only need one slot.
Why would anyone put mould on such a delicious treat anyways
The way the movement is captured is incredible
Portal - Swarth probably
jk, idk

Gorguts - Obscura (1998)


Looks like a huge pig's head at first, but really it's just a photo of a man with a beard meditating, reflects the music perfectly imo.

Today's tea


Had BTTC's Misty mountain oolong for the first time today.
Nose - dry leaves: floral
Nose - wet leaves: buttered vegetables, hot milk, floral
Liquor: smooth, floral, milky, slight vegetal and honey notes
The flavour was decently strong and there was absolutely no adstringency or bitterness. There were some stems in the tea, but that's to be expected considering it's machine picked. Otherwise the leaves were pristine and almost completely intact. Would make a fantastic daily drinker if you like gaoshancha.

Maruja - Thunder

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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)


Had to include the back of the cover with this one too, since it's just epic

First cups of tea from my new kyusu (Kirishima shincha gyokuro okumidori)


Replacing Join websocket API calls with the v0.18.0 update
When the websocket API is removed in Lemmy v0.18.0, how should applications that need constant updates about new posts, comments, etc., be designed? Should polling be used, or is there a better alternative? If not, how should it be done to minimize load on the servers? Thanks in advance!

Soft Machine - Bundles

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Dysrhythmia - Seal/Breaker/Void

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Exivious - Deeply Woven

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Gorguts - Rapturous grief

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Obscura totally blew my mind when I first heard it. It's definitely not for everyone, but it's unlike any other album I've heard.

September - Potop

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An interesting album I discovered today, reminds me a lot of Canterbury scene.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra - Dawn

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Ne obliviscaris - Suspyre

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From their recent release Exul, really like how the clean vocals and violin cut through. Might be my favorite album of this year so far!

Hella - Biblical Violence

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Lye By Mistake - The Condition

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