• ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world
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    Pick your cutoff age but it should be illegal to groom children into an organized religion. Frankly, since human brains are still developing until age 24-25 that would be my choice but 21 would be acceptable. “Let go and let god” is literally advocating for a trained lack of critical thinking skills.

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    Sugar and the industrial farming system are literally poisoning the food supply and driving a epidemic of chronic disease globally

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      We have an ongoing decades long war against ‘big sugar’ here in Florida. They are decimating the land.

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        It really is insidious, the money is everywhere! I wish you the best in that fight.

  • PortNull@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    We should not try to save every creature, plant, business, whatever that is threatening to become extinct. Maybe it’s just their time.

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      Businesses are obviously very different - but this is a very short-sighted view of plants and animals. It’s only their time because we’ve massively changed ecosystems in very short timespans, and their extinctions will often further affect their respective ecosystems and other species negatively, leading to further extinctions.

      The only times when this many species went extinct was when literally most species went extinct. It’s naive to think this won’t include billions of human deaths.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    This “hydration” crap.

    Up until the late 1970’s for approx 300,000 years of humans being around hydrated themselves just fine.

    Long as there was water available one would drink when their body signaled them by getting thirsty (don’t care about exceptions to the rule where someone has a medical issue or if water was limited in high school, your a big person now). All of a sudden humans forgot to drink fluids?

    Bullshit.

    It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.

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      It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.

      you know you can still drink water, right? you dont need dr pepper or airup or whatever scam is currently trending to be hydrated, just water

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        Yup. I drink water and odd fruit juice. The drink makers wish/hope otherwise and willing to advertise to do so.

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        One would think that all the medical breakthroughs would be what lengthens life. But that’s just me. Water is all dependent on whether it’s there or not. If it is, we will drink.

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      Same, but skin hydration / moisturizing. That’s 300,000 years of human history without Aveeno. The skincare industry is a scam to sell product, and our skin works fine if you mostly leave it alone.

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    The stock market is a scam, value has become meaningless, and capitalism is a slow march to societal breakdown and revolution.

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    I think education should be demanding, so much so that we should all be fine with kids failing at it instead of blaming the school for it. I think grades should only and honestly reflect the level of understanding of each student on whatever they are supposed to be learning, not make them feel good about themselves.

    The school should not be there to make the student feel ‘good’ or ‘understood’ (that’s the family’s job). School main purpose should be to make them smarter, which is something that demands practice and efforts, like anything.

    Making them smarter means making them better equipped to deal with the real world, that is not a fairy tale kingdom filled with nice people and magical animals that will make them feel welcome and where they lived happily ever after.

    Instead of lying to those kids, the school should help them prepare to become an adult person able to face a not-perfect world with a not perfect population, and teach them how to use their effing brains to solve any of the many problems they will face in their life (personal as well as professional)—and for that making them study their lessons, aka memorize stuff (even stupid shit one will never use again) and having to do their stupid homework, and get a failing grade when they don’t, is still the best and the simplest way to develop.

    Kids that are being told they’re amazing perfect little creatures (they’re not), and that they should never have to break a sweat in school (they should) are being lied to. Even more sadly for them, compared to those other kids that are still encouraged to face that they’re aren’t perfect angels and that they should put in the work, every single day, all year long, they’re the ones being screwed up. Big.

    Feel free to downvote as much as you want.

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      I always thought dogs need their human, as much as the human needs their dog. It’s a co-dependance, a mutual coping mechanism.

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      I’ve considered that it’s likely not ethical to have pets, but dogs at least have been bred over thousands of years to the point that they’ve become dependent on us.

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      I hope you mean chunks of pineapple on top of a pineapple sauce that is on top of either a pineapple slice, or (if you’re a wimp) a dough made with both pureed pineapples and pineapple juice

      Because otherwise, it ain’t a real pineapple pizza, it’s just a pizza with pineapple on it, and that is for posers.

      Real pineapple pizza for life, yo!

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      Addendum: the only wrong topping on a pizza is the one you personally don’t like.