Stovetop

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody is aborting 9 month old fetuses outside of exceptional medical emergencies, and denying women bodily autonomy is incredibly authoritarian.

Nobody is aborting 9-month-old fetuses at all. Unless that fetus is already dead or dying, 9 months is well past the point of viability.

24 weeks (5 months and some change) is when a fetus could viably survive outside the womb with medical intervention. 9 months is at the point of being fully developed, even if it is a couple weeks premature.

Almost all abortions happen at 10 weeks or less, well before the point of viability. Almost no abortions happen after 24 weeks. Definitely none happening at 9 months.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, not only anticipating that there will be another 9 world wars, but that we will even reset our dating system again to start counting the years later.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Communism as drafted by 19th and 20th century thinkers will never work, predicated on the idea that labor is inherently undesirable and will not be performed by humans without immediate incentive.

We will need to rethink our approach towards communism with consideration for the growing spread of automation. Like it or not, automation is going to lead to the end of capitalism when the majority of jobs we have today are rendered obsolete and the unemployed masses are forced to subsist through some sort of UBI.

The goal is to keep the automation out of the hands of billionaires, however. If a society begins to approach post scarcity, which will finally render capitalism obsolete, the oligarchs will do whatever they can to re-engineer scarcity and bring us back to feudalism before they'd ever consider giving power to the people.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think I understand what you're getting at but just keep in mind that there are two sort of separate discussions in regards to that.

The WHO and the health organization of various countries are usually pretty specific in their definitions. The "public health emergency" of COVID is over because:

  • There is no longer a need for a coordinated international effort.

  • The population is no longer largely at risk due to vaccinations/immunities.

  • The mortality rate has dropped significantly.

But I don't think anyone would deny that COVID is here to stay on a global scale. It's just that the health systems of most countries are now equipped to manage it without all of the lockdown precautions.

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

This is a TTRPG community

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's the default mode for some restaurants. If they update their fare relatively often, a digital menu saves a lot of money versus printing new versions for each update.

But it depends entirely on the restaurant. Some don't have a digital menu at all.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You think those homes in the frozen north are selling for less than $200,000?

I wish...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think that's OP's issue. There are no published rotations for the item they are looking to craft, namely Iron Hatchet. When I look on Teamcraft, I see the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

My man can just decant another one from the dozens in his basement.

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