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  • Muehe@kbin.socialtoReddit@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    When ridiculing the dystopian mess that is the “social credit score” system in China it is good to always remember that it is called like that because it was based of the “credit score” system used in many libertarian countries, where it is regularly used to deny access to essentials of societal life, like housing, energy, and communication.





  • Scientist for the first twenty years of my life:

    We are destroying the only ecosystem supporting human life, it’s going to start being really bad in a hundred years.

    Scientists for the last ten years of my life:

    Haha, we might have been a bit optimistic on that estimate, this new data looks really bad. Oops.

    Anti-doomers the whole time:

    Hey don’t be alarmist, you will just make the public apathetic and nothing will get done.

    The public:

    The fuck are these fucking idiots sitting in the god-damn road for? I gotta get to work, move it!

    Politicians:

    *doing nothing*





  • Actually you are both wrong, since the Balkenkreuz and the Eiserne Kreuz are but two of hundreds of variations of the same symbol, the black cross of the German Order of knights, dating back to the 12th century. It’s the same symbol.

    And not only that, the particular variation you are going on about, the Balkenkreuz, black cross with a thick white and small black outline except for the endings of the cross, isn’t a Nazi symbol. It was used in the first world war already.

    Which is all completely ignoring that it’s a simple cross with a single outline, one of the most basic shapes there is, used by a medical company.

    All to say, I see how it’s easy to mistake, but you are wrong on the facts and you are airing your grievances on the wrong venue. Write to the company, maybe they will even agree with you and change it.









  • For those that were as confused as me:

    Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[7] which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.[8]

    From Wikipedia:Sealioning

    P.S.: the comic in question:

    Wondermark webcomic