Haha, it’s a fruit tree so it smokes similar to an applewood.

They make fantastic smoke though. Absolutely the best free meat smoking wood out there, because you can always find it in piles at the ends of people’s driveways for the trash to pick up.

Honestly one of my favorite trees for exactly this reason.

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This is the correct answer. There’s even a slight plastic indentation to let the user know that both of the buttons in question are “start” buttons.

I think the design is fine.

Yup, if you’re depressed, all you need to do is CONSOOM!

It’s a good name in my humble opilion

Then all you’d need is collusion between a sufficient number of people to get someone you don’t like convicted of any crime.

Yeah, because the courts are clearly biased toward male rape victims. 🙄

Yes, I absolutely did miss that part somehow. I still think you’re being too hard on the guy, but the tone of my comment was out of line given that context. I apologize.

That’s just like Lemmy, ignoring years of hard work in pursuit of positive change because someone doesn’t pass the right ideological purity test.

How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

I also thought Louis’s choice of Clippy was a bit odd, but the fact that there is a symbol people can rally around at all is more important than the symbol itself in many ways.

Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.

Fun fact about the Greeks thinking Prometheus’s name meant “forethought” - that’s actually a folk etymology. The pro is a much older use of the prefix that meant “away”, not “before”, and the root is actually meth-, “to steal”. Prometheus is “the one who steals away, the thief”, and seems to go back to a Proto-Indo-European thief/trickster myth.

Pro-meth- also has a perfect cognate in Sanskrit pra-math- “to steal”.

It’s just hilarious to me that the Greeks built an entire mythology around Prometheus being the foresighted one, to the extent that they even made up a brother for him meaning “afterthought”, all based on a folk etymology!

There isn’t “feminist dogma”

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Lots of good comments here pointing out problems with feminism, but one that I think hasn’t been mentioned enough in this thread that’s also directly relevant to the OP is the harmful idea that “if you believe in gender equality, then you’re a feminist by definition”.

While the term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the core dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy in which people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

it just signifies you are in favor of equal rights among genders

It doesn’t “just signify that” though, as much as feminists act like it does. The term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, but using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the harmful dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy that makes people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are plenty of other more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

Newclams can’t triforce

Russia and China, on the other hand? Entirely straightforward and transparent in their reporting. No disinformation campaigns there, no sir.