I’ve read it.

Orwell was socialist my dude.

Ever read one of his other books Down and Out in Paris and London?

It helps explain why he is a socialist.

Could you post your social security number, please?

Work colleague crystallised their losses during the GFC by selling their 401k and changing the asset allocation to Cash.

They didn’t convert it back to stocks until 2018…

This has to be stopped. Just look at what Napster did to the music industry. That’s right, there used to be a music industry and now it’s just…gone. No more music, no more money to be made in music. Don’t let these evil streaming services do the same to poor defenceless Hollywood, bastion of women’s rights!

Dark wing duck!

Vacuums there really are only two BIFL brands.

Miele or Sebo.

Moo body cared who I was until I put on the mask.

Fido the zombie movie?

Make sure you get me a head coffin.

The H in H2O stands for homosexual, it’s true, look it up.

Start a club then.

Call it ‘Social walking in the park’

The purpose is to make new friends and get to know other students. It’s free and you regularly meet a a local park at XX day at YY time to walk around together before getting an optional lunch/brunch/afternoon tea etc.

You’re at uni?

You’re telling me there are no clubs you can join?

He said ‘lots of men’ not all.

Two words.

Fully automatic gay space communism.

It was his video on IQ tests that set off alarm bells for me.

IQ tests are not some method of determining intelligence they are very much linked to relative education/socioeconomic standing. His complete lack of criticism and neutral/positive support of IQ tests make me think he likes the result of his score…

The principal that is causing all of these issues is a power tripping psychopath.

She needs to be put in solitary confinement, not an 11 year old child.

You’re right we can’t.

What we can do though is make educated guesses about the biological structure required to support the thing we call consciousness I.e. a brain.

A mollusc does not have a brain so it’s reasonable to conclude it is not conscious in the same way as humans.

Now if you’d like to argue that the biological structures contained in a mollusc still are capable of containing a complex consciousness I’d be interested to understand that hypothesis and your evidence.

I implore you to prove animals have a rich inner world filled with emotions as you’re describing.

Observing behaviour that you think is ‘inner life’ is not satisfactory evidence to prove that the fish have a level of cognition required to experience complex emotions.

To suggest that a mollusc has an ‘inner life’ is unscientific and goes against our current understanding of living organisms.

People tend to way over anthropomorphise animals.

Depends how generous or cynically you apply ‘bad faith’.

I’ve never experienced it on Lemmy but then again I don’t usually entertain people who, to me, obviously have little understanding of the topic at hand.

When it’s something I have little knowledge about I tend to lurk if I can or I’ll be more easily swayed one way or the other. If I care enough I go do my own research.

Let me guess, ‘woke green loonies who use cancel culture’.

Rodney Dangerfield.

Still the king of one liners.