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[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 51 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What is this meme about even?

Downplaying Boeing's poor safety record by suggesting that they're the subject of repeated attacks that aren't their fault?

Who does this resonate with even?

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is the first response that I think is actually engaging with my question.

My disagreement stems from not seeing that adding of legitimacy as worth as much as actual people's lives that are different in count on the different tracks.

It's okay, I apparently made a faux pas trying to engage to learn here on this issue but this community is clearly more for comradeship like its name suggests rather than outreach. That's fine, I'm going to discontinue this conversation here as my interjections are clearly unwelcome.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml -4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I agree with you on all the ways with which the trolley thought experience falls to reflect reality.

However, the objective isn't really to reflect reality but rather to elucidate the essence of the moral principle being examined.

The principle in this case I struggle to fully understand is OP's idea that there is a threshold of evil beyond which lesser of two evils is morally bankrupt to follow. But why should that be the case when direct action can be combined with voting with no effect? In terms of the trolley problem that would be if you could instantaneously pull the lever while simultaneously attempting to get people off or derail the train or sabotaging the track.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I read the article but I'm still confused how this works.

My understanding is the herpes virus DNA is integrated into our own. So once the gene editing molecules snip at the herpes virus damaging it, how does the chromosome get put back together?

Is it actually sniping at two places in the herpes genome in a way that the two ends match up and reform while cutting out a section in the middle?

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

North America makes its cities catered to cars rather than people and then people spread out into suburbs. Then North Americans say they can't make the cities suck less because the people are too spread out.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Seems worth noting he's not being charged with anything spying or geopolitics related, but instead he's been charged with theft. No details in the article about what he's accused of having stolen. Seems like almost the only notable fact in this whole story is his being a US soldier in Russia, otherwise there's a ton of Americans accused of pretty crimes while abroad every day.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That doesn't really contradict their premise about making modern RTS. StarCraft and Age of Empires 2 are ancient at this point. An entire generation of kids has grown up since they came out.

I don't think the fact that you could make a successful mainstream RTS way back then really says much about whether you could make one in 2024.

[–] trebuchet@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, Representative Elise Stefanik—the star browbeater of the hearings on campus antisemitism called by the House Education and Workforce Committee—has been gunning forthe resignation of Columbia President Nemat (Minouche) Shafik (a matter that is not the purview of politicians, but of faculty, administrators, and trustees). 

It's funny how even after kowtowing to right wing demands, she faces demands to resign not only from the left that she sicced the police on, but also the right that she has been groveling towards.

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