Which will be the time to ditch planetary-level patriotism as well.

For now, it’s good enough.

Moreover, the entire concept of ownership is really just “you’ll face violence from other people if you try to take that away, one way or another”. That’s it.

Universe doesn’t care who owns what, those are just objects in space.

Sometimes this concept is helpful; you probably want the police to step in if someone breaks into your house (universe couldn’t care less). Sometimes it’s extremely dangerous, like when country leaders threaten others with nuclear war.

In either case, we should seriously revamp our relationships with land and property - that is for certain. Current ways are not sustainable and may lead to a disaster.

Refrigeration slows down development of molds, but at the same time expedites starch retrogradation, leading to the bread going stale quicker.

At the very least, yes.

Patriotism also sucks, because it implements a bias that can then be exploited, and brings very little to the table.

State-level patriotism also makes you complicit in the division of people by countries and nations, as opposed to classes and other valid groups of people.

And there is no valid reason to have some special relation to your country. It is natural to feel ties with the place you were born or the place you spent a lot of time in, this is human psychology, but your country is nothing but a piece of land that was marked by somebody as belonging to some virtual entity.

We should ditch state-level patriotism as a concept and treat local-level patriotism as a natural bias. We should strive to help people of all places and origins, and come together as one.

I think what people here miss out is that it’s not meant to immediately become a retail choice.

First, some specific industries might be interested, then others, then, maybe, common consumers.

I’d even go as far as to say your data is way less likely to hurt you when abused abroad than domestically.

And we know American hardware does, indeed, have backdoors.

I see, thanks!

TIL but I don’t know if I’m happy about it

Thanks for the share though!

Nah, it was rather in a context of how cute and nice-smelling babies are, not that it was an immediate new discovery

This is so screwed, too.

Like, I was once tasked to explain to my nephew how to properly clean a penis at, like, age of 7. C’mon, parents, what are you there for?!

Just literally teach it alongside cleaning every other body part, what’s the issue? Why should another man show this in particular to your kid?

I feel.like we generally give women a pass on A LOT of weird behaviors about children.

That does include elevated attention to the genital area (seriously, why? Leave our genitals alone ffs), borderline fetishizing breastfeeding, and also a lot of other stuff.

Like, for example, I had several women independently telling me how baby feces smell nice and milky. Like, what the hell and why do y’all feel it’s appropriate for a casual conversation???

Or that they love to smell baby feet. Huh? Funny thing I first got those stories after seeing a TV ad (was a while ago) with a woman burying her face in baby feet.

I can only assume this is either a result of hormonal shifts throughout pregnancy, or that there’s plenty more female pedophiles than we knew.

Of course, you’re technically very right - what they see is not vagina.

But in the culture, the word often simply refers to female genitals as a whole.

That doesn’t mean anyone using that word is not aware of the words “labia” and “vulva”, they can even differentiate between labia majora and labia minora etc.

But for the sake of brevity and simplicity, people just say “vagina”, even if it’s not necessarily a technically correct term.

Institutuonals like governments and businesses do embrace Linux, too, and I don’t find many regular users running Linux on their machine for anything but IT work

Yes, this was big news all over Lemmy when it happened.

Thanks for bringing it up though! Not everyone might have known that.

I wonder if Bible ever says God is the good guy

He’s almighty, and that’s why people follow Him without question, but is He good?

Well, if they are return customers from some other offering…

Otherwise nah, they don’t.

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Smell, color, clotting?

It’s alright when you mean a water meant for drinking by children; it’s actually a bit special in its content, and it’s good to have that.

It’s very much not alright when we mean child bathwater :D

Though, if you want to go a full rabbit hole, I have a special thing for you from one of Chinese provinces…