WoodScientist [she/her]

If this were KSP, I would drop the station with the kerbonauts inside, just to see if any kerbals manage to cheat the physics engine enough to survive reentry and landing sans parachutes.

Thanks!

We accept that you as a trans woman are indeed, a woman. Here’s your hijab. And you damn well better be straight!

If you’re gay and you sleep with a woman, then you will burn in the PIT! Repent sinner! For such a vile act, only Christ can save you! You have gone against God’s plan for you! It is a mortal sin for a gay man to sleep with a woman!

Blahaj: Goes out of its way to defend chasers and transphobes at the cost of a significant portion of lemmy’s trans users

What did they do?

I want to see the woke religious bigot.

God wants trans people to transition! In fact, he DEMANDS it! If you’re trans and you don’t transition, you will burn in HELL for all Eternity!

It’s just positive racism. No different from thinking Asians are all good at math. Positive racism is still racism.

Don’t forget the Roman human sacrifices that they insisted totally weren’t human sacrifices!

The Romans made a big deal about not performing any form of human sacrifice. They saw it as barbaric. And yet, a culminating part of any Roman triumph involved something that was human sacrifice by another name. You ever seen recreations of a Triumph in a movie, where they’re escorting captured war prisoners bound in chains? Sure, some of those ended up as slaves. But a fair number of those marching were marched in front of the Temple of Jupiter and executed in front of it in an elaborate ritual ceremony. But no…it totally wasn’t a human sacrifice to Jupiter!

Give me a break. The Romans were no different than the Aztecs. The Aztecs were just a little more flamboyant about their human sacrifices.

It’s ultimately going to take multiple lines of evidence. Yes, there are compounds that we think are strong indicators of life; we don’t know how to explain them except for life. However, we can never rule out some other abiotic origin for that compound exists that we simply haven’t discovered yet. We don’t know what we don’t know. Abundant life however is likely to cause all sorts of these biosignature compounds to be present in an atmosphere. If we find a planet with many of these compounds, we’ll have many independent lines of evidence pointing at life being present there. That is how we are likely to finally accept that life has indeed been detected.

Another pathway that may result in the acceptance of a detection of life is us learning more about the origins of life. It’s possible as we learn more about how life started on Earth, we will discover that mechanisms to get it going make it a near inevitability where the necessary conditions exist. That would make its detection much easier to accept.

Pina colada, not to be confused with a pollo colada, which substitutes the pineapple for raw chicken.

Oh just have a heart attack already, you old coot.

Do they still give out membership cards? The only reason I might want to join the ACP is so I can literally be a card-carrying Communist.

I suppose there’s also a timeline where they sent 1980s Trump up as a publicity stunt.

Little known fact. In the lead up to the Challenger launch, NASA considered sending Big Bird up on that flight, full sized puppet, puppeteer and all. There is an alternate timeline where Big Bird died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.

Yup. “Autism” is simply the new “Untermensch.”

Please. At least use his full and proper name, Secretary of Transportation Booty Judge.

It sounds like he’s confusing autism with cerebral palsy or severe Down syndrome.

I also went to Buenos Aires. I had my face rebuilt there!

because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.

This is when you’re so capitalism brained that you’re willing to shoot yourself in the foot. So much unnecessary complexity, so many ways for things to break, all just to keep a random pedestrian from throwing a sandwich wrapper in a random bin. So concerned about someone getting a service they ‘don’t deserve’ for free that they would rather live in filth than just eat the minor cost and live in a sanitary city.