pebbles @ pebbles @sh.itjust.works

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Yk thats something some religious folks gotta understand.

Nice catch. This was all one big psyop.

/s

and was very careful to bucket the demographics and causes of death to produce a desired impression that is not consistent with reality.

How different from reality? I'm not gonna put a huge difference in effort vs #1 and #2 causes of death. I think car centrism and gun violence are both pretty bad. The study changed my views from not thinking gun violence even on the radar for top causes of death of kids to now seeing it as one of the major causes.

Also that first paragraph of critique is pretty nitpicky.

Children -> Children and adolescents

Deaths by gun violence -> firearm deaths

This IS subtle lmao. Most people I talk to would not consider those different in casual conversation, and the first part comes from a meme.

I really like how that sky looks. I feel I've seen that kind of clear hazy sky so many times in my life.

I didn't belive that stat at first.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10042524/

It is sadly true.

Lol let's go.

Tea is easy to pretend it isn't a vice. Just keep telling yourself its healthy. Even if it may be a bit more borderline at our levels lol.

It is fermented using a fungus that can leave gold spots on it. Often called "golden flowers". I hear it taste a lot like puerh, but has its own uniqueness. Honesty I'm a little scared of it lol.

But I've not seen a bad review for it. Though its good to consider that this tea category is obscure, so maybe only big tea nerds ever stumble upon it.

To me none of that offsets the use of slave labor and their political presense. But I don't think everyone should boycott. Everyone's situation is different. Maybe you need McDonald's.

If ya want to look into the goals of the restraunt industry I'd look into the NRA (National Restraunt Association). McDonald's is obviously a member.

Note: McDonald's uses the US slave labor (prison labor) system in the making of their food.

Edit: and also lobbies to lower minimum wage. Fuck you McDonald's

Hell yeah lol. I hope you get some!

Since we are a few comments in, and can be sure few others are reading: have you heard of fuzhuan? Its another fermented tea category and I've only see great reviews online. Near every review has a comment being like "shhhhh, if this gets as popular as puerh then prices will rise".

Its on my radar and I'm so curious about it. And tbh one of my favorite things is a big brick of tea. Fuzhuan often comes in 1kg bricks.

Thanks for asking :) WARNING: I got excited to respond. I've gotten into a Puerh kick lately. For those that don't know, Puerh is a very dark fermented tea. My current one taste predominantly like leather with a hint of wood and dirt. High quality dirt. I adore this tea.

I've got a huge white2tea.com sampler order that hasn't been shipped yet. I'm trying like 21 different teas spread across the following categories: white, ripe puerh, raw puerh, haungpain.

FYI haungpain is known as "Farms Tea". It uses broken leaves and leaves lower on the tea plant that were/are considered lower quality. But I hear the lower leaves have a nice robust flavor, and most tea I buy tends to avoid the lower leaves. I'm excited to try it.

I'm thinking of reviewing all the tea I get posting them all on the tea community or something.

Wayyyyyyy too much tea

I love it! I'm trying to get better at lighting and this is such a satisfying piece to look at. I love the highlights and bits of purple.

Good thing we keep trust worthy fox news on the air.

Better late than never

I'm not saying everything can be ranked.

I understood your response to my last comment as a rebuttle to the idea that "any moral formula is shit from the perspective of another legit moral framework"

Therefore I assumed you thought that there is some way to objectively say, "killing people is better than not killing people." Which even though I agree with it, I've found I can't prove it without using an axiom that is just my feelings.

I think as a society we would need to understand consciousness to be able to have any hope of discovering an objective morality.

There is a gray zone, there is an acceptable zone, and there is a line, which always must exist, and when anyone crosses it, they must be removed from society.

I mean yeah I agree. It would be energy intensive to try and allow everything, so obviously we don't allow anyone to do anything. That would be unstable. But that doesn't prove that we have objective reasons for where we draw lines. It's all just power and negotiation.

Preaching hate on innocents is not legally forbidden (well, depends on the country), but it is morally wrong.

I said something similar earlier. Glad we are all sane here.

Well I'm no historian. I didn't have that number. My point is that I don't think about Stalin that much, and, without grounding, posting about how minimalist Stalin was sounds like a decently effective way to change how I view him.

It sounds like you've got a much more detailed understanding of Stalin than I do.

I think objective morality gives blind spots because it can be a bit thought terminating. If you keep asking why something is good or bad, you'll eventually find yourself at an assumption that isn't really better than, "thats just what I feel".

But also I get it if you don't see it that way. I couldn't make the phrase "good and bad are two sides of the same coin" be anything but a lie for a few years. And maybe I'm just crazy for having that make sense to me now.

But I really think that value systems and world views can't be ranked in a vaccume. Therefore I don't see any objectiveness.

Run for office?

Here's my 2¢ on how that kinda post might've been effective propaganda on me if I just saw it in the background long enough.

I grew up in America in a conservative area and everyone saw wealth as success and legitness. I now find myself beliving that if you live in excessive luxury that you are part of the problem. I can see how learning Stalin didn't have much when he died would appeal to a certain leftist in me and changes the emperor tone I originally picture him with.

I have other issues with Stalin, but maybe if I'd've lived on .ml long enough those kinda posts could've slowly changed what comes to mind when I think of him.

I guess you dont do self care then. I think this is an exhaustive list.