Stanford and Harvard both have all sorts of interesting lecture series online! Harvard has stuff like urban design, religious history, art history, the relationship between cooking and physics, biology, Chinese history and much more!

https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

Haven’t taken any with Stanford but here’s a link to their catalogue:

https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses

You’re welcome!

That’s the point of the song! (The sarcasm might translate better if you listen or watch?) Apologies if you’re just restating the song’s message!

Fair, I play more RPGs and whatnot where a knife takes 4 years to injure someone. (Though, a bad sword can take just as long because, I dunno, it’s too dull to chop through this peasant’s leather tunic? Goddamnit Ultima.)

I’d like to think it’s just because online skews young. I remember (with some shame) my stupid teenage anarchist days. Though I do worry that if I had, as so many do nowadays, ensconced myself only in views with which I agreed, maybe I wouldn’t have grown out of it. The more smart people you meet, disagree with and learn from, well, the bigger and more interesting your world becomes.

I love the idea of Lemmy but goddamn, a good chunk of our userbase need to grow up and I’m not sure they ever will.

The guy had a knife, which might have injured one of the cops, maybe.

Holy damn, this has got to be the worst take I’ve read all day/week.

I know in video games, a knife generally doesn’t do much damage but… Just… Wow.

Go outside.

If it wasn’t for insane ideas they’d have to say the cops were maybe not wildly in the wrong here so insanity it is!

I don’t know how weird it is but my cat seems to understand that when faces are talking from the computer screen my hands will be free for the more important duty of skritching.

She has become a hit during team meetings, to the point where one time she was sleeping and didn’t come prompting half the team to send concerned DMs.

Check at the state level. A few states have introduced ranked choice, your state may have someone in the mix trying to make it a thing where you live!

If people vote in the primaries for candidates who support ranked choice voting, then yes.

Sure, same but that kind of defeats the poiny of the whole exercise…

Once he turned me into a newt! . . . . . I got better.

Oh my, I haven’t watched the second one since, oh, November 2016, completely forgot that. Thank you, that’s amazing.

I keep waiting to see Ass. Anything that wins that many Oscars has got to be worth it.

I was trying to remember the name and am so glad you brought Angels w Filthy souls.

Well at the point of kicking, I don’t think many people are saying abortion is still an option.

It absolutely is and was under Roe v Wade. Babies start to kick and move as early as 16 weeks. While Roe did allow states to regulate the second trimester (14 - 28 weeks) many states had no restrictions on abortions during this period:

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/14/abortion-state-laws-bans-roe-supreme-court

So again, do you think any pregnant mom who has you put your hand on her belly to feel the kid kick, would they agree the kicker is just a clump of cells or a parasite? (Actually, having had many pregnant friends scratch that last one, I think all of them at one point jokingly referred to their internal parasite.)

But the point is that even the most staunch pro-choice of us should have the decency to admit that the thing inside may not quite be a person but is certainly more than a clump of cells. Then the divergence is who has the rights, the outcomes etc. I agree with you that it’s wrong to force a woman to carry a kid to term but, as I keep trying to say, those who disagree have a point.

I know it’s super uncool these days to try and understand those with whom we disagree and even less cool to empathize with them but I promise you, it’s a worthwhile endeavor.

I think this was really well written and gets at the heart of what actual compromise entails much better than my quick question could possibly do.

That’s fair. I come at guns with my weird Canadian perspective but I do think different classes of weapons is reasonable. Here, rifles are treated vwry differently from handguns which are basically allowed in a locked storage box at home (with ammo in, if I remember my firearms license training correctly, another locked box) or in the trunk of your car while you are on the most direct route to a firing range or coming home from one.

We have almost no gun crime. In America, I’ve had guns drawn on me twice by cops (understandably nervous cops, I would be nervous too if everyone had a handgun!) after being pulled over for speeding and one time a dude I met at a Sharks game pulled one on a guy who threatened us with a knife.

That just seems like a ridiculous way to live. I’ve had a blast shooting off guns in the bush, drunk and high in Oregon but as much fun as that was, definitely doesn’t outweigh the whole “guns are just around and yeah, school shootings happen” thing.

You mean “your” 3 points. I am not three points.

Anyway, I went to the Republican 2024 platform. There’s a lot of fluff but, as evidenced by tonight, their big issue is immigration, which is the first 2 items in the platform.

Then there’s generic fluff about inflation, tax cuts for the working class and boosting manufacturing, claims both parties make. (Also about energy but I already included climate change in the Dems column.)

Nonsense about stopping ww3 (yes, a level headed leader like trump is what we need to do that.) Then "stop charging donald for his crimes. Back to immigration. Then random attack on cities, despite urban voters voting Dem. Then generic silliness. Then climate, then culture war etc…

So, what would you say are the two non immigration issues on the Republican side?

Real tough. (Which kind of makes me roll my eyes when fellow Canadians criticize the American Right on immigration.

We have a points based system, you get points for education, skills etc. (And some specialized seasonal programs etc.)

That being said, we do take in a boatload of refugees so maybe you can claim asylum?