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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's easy to say as someone with a healthy brain. A blind, deaf or a paralyzed person might feel different once there truly is a way to get your sight back with this technology.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I wonder what you guys thought animal testing is about, if this is somehow surprising to you. This is just another day at the office for the people running these experiments. The issue is not "Elon doing animal testing" but animal testing in itself.

However - if you think we shouldn't do it then you should also be aware of the tradeoffs. Without this cruelty there's no modern medicine either. Also, if you complain about this but eat meat then you're a hypocrite.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Back in the days only people with a strong will to survive did, infact, survive and the genes from those people are in all of us. Many like to pretend they don't posses these features but that's only because you're living a modern comfortable life, so you never need to rely on it. Especially compared to what it would've been 10k years ago.

You can take any modern man, and put him along with his family in a house and place an angry stranger pounding at the door shouting threats at his wife and kids and you'll soon discover the violence you just thought wasn't there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hot glue can be undone with heat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Itselläkin näkyi muutama mainos ensimmäistä kertaa varmaan kymmeneen vuoteen. Päivitin selaimen ja uBlocking ja reboottasin koneen, niin näyttäisi korjautuneen, mutta kyllä tämä taitaa olla lopun alkua.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If nothing else, they would've faced the same limitations with battery capacity as we are today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Advanced tip is to remove the derailleur hanger and see against a flat surface wether it's straight or not. If not, and you don't have the calibration tool then just clamp it on a vice and use hammer/pliers/crecent wrench to bend it back straight. It's not going to be perfect but since it's already bent you're probably not going to make it worse either.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article is from Mar 13, 2018

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Economics is one of those subjects where the more you undestand the less you feel like you do. I can barely wrap my mind around index funds and compounding interests.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

When adjusting bicycle derailleur, use the second smallest and second largest cogs to adjust the shifting and the biggest and smallest ones only to adjust the limit screws. There's no point adjusting the cable tension if your derailleur is resting against the limit screw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well, my response wasn't directed at the original question but rather your comment on it. What I'm trying to say here, is that even if there is a God with a well-defined set of absolute moral principles, if He chooses not to disclose them to us clearly, it then shouldn't be a source of concern either. Trying to figure out something that can't be known is a fool's errand. Instead, we should rather focus on finding out what constitutes a good life from our human perspective and strive to live accordingly. If, in the end, it turns out that actions like a gay marriage lead to condemnation, then it frankly just raises questions about the fairness of a God who hasn't been more clear about such important matters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's a bad analogy, but my argument isn't against our search of greater morality. Rather, it's about the relevance of God in that pursuit. Morality is a challenge that we, as humans, must figure out by ourselves. Even if there exists an all-knowing God with a specific set of moral rules in mind, if we cannot know/understand them, and God chooses not to reveal them, then, by definition, those rules are inaccessible to us. In such a scenario, morality as defined by God becomes irrelevant to our human experience. Instead, we should rely on reason, science, and evidence-based research to find what behaviour promotes the thriving of our species.

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