Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?

This is what I’ve been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it’s never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.

As for Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum being forms of broccoli, I do in fact know enough dendrology to know that it’s bullshyte.

Same. There was some initial confusion when I first switched over to Lemmy that resulted in the creation of superfluous accounts. I am better now thank you.

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I won’t name any specific organizations, but the upshot is that you need to consume a variety of news sources from different countries and in different formats. It also pays to get into very specifically focused news organizations.

Right, no doubt, but still totally irrelevant to the fact that if you’re of a certain age, Hulk Hogan is way more famous than the Tiger King guy and Dog The Bounty Hunter.

I’m not here to defend his historical significance; that’s something you brought in and has nothing to do with my position.

I’m not arguing that he was more significant, just that he was pretty fucking famous. What part about this do you not understand?

It probably depends on your age. To people my age (gen x) he’s definitely more famous than either of those guys. He was all over the place in the 80s.

Describe your “aversion” to death any way you want to, if in the end it results in something that very much looks like fear, I think you’re making a distinction without a difference.

You would have a point were I simply speculating, but I’m not.

I am simply stating what the most well-informed and knowledgeable sources are saying.

You would know this if you had sanitized and healthy media consumption habits, but you obviously don’t.

Doubt it. The smart money says that he did it because he does a ton of business with the Chinese and is very nervous about being seen to actively take sides in a way that would cause them to see him as a potential security threat.

It’s not rational. Evolution has hardwired us and every other organism that has the necessary neural architecture to fear death and seek to avoid it. A species that didn’t have an instinctive and heritable aversion to death would not last very long.

You say that like it’s a bug, not a feature.

Where, oh where are all of our apologists?

Maybe still figuring out what the “talking points” will be?

We’re all waiting for the inevitable bullshit.

Man, I have an iPhone for work, issued by my employer, and I fucking hate it. Sure, it has a fancy camera and a slick-looking user interface together with a suite of proprietary apps that we use to track production, man-hours and the like, but apart from that, it really is a “walled garden,” and isn’t something I would ever consider for personal use.

Again, I fuckin’hate it.

I don’t think “skill” is the right word here. It’s more of a basic competence issue.

Yeah, fair play.

I think she suffered from clinical depression all her life, but that’s just what I’ve been told, so maybe it’s not true?

I don’t know. I’ve never been a big enough fan to look into it and am only reporting what I’ve been told by my wife, who is a big fan.

Also, say what you want about Islam, but it’s just a simple fact that for the vast majority of her life Catholicism would have had a much bigger impact.

And I say that advisedly, as an American of Irish descent, who grew up in the Catholic Church and had some close friends affected by very unpleasant aspects that I won’t go into here, but that were part of what drives my current aversion to organized religion.

Clinical depression is what I’ve been told. Not sure if true.

I’ve said for years that the deniers and fossil fuel barons will be looked upon by future generations as some of history’s greatest villains. They will be seen in much the same light as a Hitler or Stalin or Mao.