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[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 299 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Here you go OP. It’s actually ok to swear on the internet.

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 99 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here is a not weirdly censored and un-censored version:

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I mean… could I have gone and found the original, maybe. Did it cross my mind, no I jumped straight to do it on my phone and make it look as natural as possible, but of course this was the harder option. 🤦‍♂️

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

I also like to reinvent wheels, it's basically a hobby at this point

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I like to go the extra mile. I uncensor shit emphatically.

A censored "shit" in a post about Star Trek? "SHIT" in big Star Trek font.

"Cunt" in a post about the UK? Enjoy your "CUNT" dressed in a union jack.

The censored word is "cock"? Here's "COCK" in flesh tones with bulging purple veins on it.

Fucking lean into it.

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't get at all this trend of badly censored words.

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago

They try to be a rebel, but still wanna please facists algorithms. American puritanism BS. Fuck that.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One theory is that it's done intentionally to farm engagement from people pointing it out. Also I think most mainstream platforms heavily push down in the algorithm content that isn't sanitised. This is to make the platform more appealing to advertisers because the platform's userbase is the product.

As for why the words are partly censored instead of completely censored I'm not sure. I'd guess it's to game the algorithm while also making the word completely obvious.

Either way, if this is the behaviour that you engage in on a platform, that platform is terrible and you are an attention obsessed idiot.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's to get by censorship algorithms on certain sites. The picture is copied as-is, so it stays even when not needed.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, **** the fuck.

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[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

MY EYES! NOOOOO! MY INNOCENCE!!!!

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate it. I downvote every censored post.

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Unless you’re a part of .ml, apparently. They auto-censor that stuff for some reason.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

They got more problems than censoring bad words tho…

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 94 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Even if it was a human, Chris would be wrong with his lie about "90% of scientists." Not sure why people think a lie will help their argument in cases like this.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eh... A Human fetus is human, but it is not "a human". Your toenail clippings are human.

Plus, the humanity or personhood of a fetus doesn't really matter for the pro-choice position. Simply put, there is no (other) legal situation that can compell you to give up your bodily autonomy.

Example. I can shoot someone in the street in cold blood, and they could die without a blood transfusion. The courts cannot compell me to do something as harmless as donating blood to save that person's life. A fetus, despite arguably being a person, does not have a right to your blood, your breath, your nutrients, or a space inside your body. Full stop.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Wow. I have never heard this argument articulated in this way. Thanks!

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had a...call? survey? at some point from an entity that probably gave rise to this data. It was basically a push-poll that used question order and positive reinforcement to try to get people to agree that abortion is murder.

Mostly, it tried to conflate "human" with "a human," starting out with things like "are cells isolated from humans still human?" "Can cultured cells be called 'viable?'" "So would you agree that tissue cultured from a human donor is viable, human tissue?"

[–] frazw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of this... https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/yes-prime-minister-questionnaire-design-matters

They are asking the questions in a way that gets the answers they want just like in yes prime minister.

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't care about facts data or science. They use it to argue in bad faith, not to have a serious convo.

If you call that out they'll just ignore you and try and get you with some other made up gotcha fact.

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

Also, even if 90% of scientists did say that... what percentage of those scientists are not biologists?

Do we need to know a geologist's or physicist's opinion about "some sort of weird meat-science"?

Like the old "Yeah, sorry, I am a Doctor, but I'm a Doctor of Jazz, not medicine"

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Am scientist (not in life sciences). If someone showed me this image, I'd have absolutely no idea what I'm looking at. So that's one for the 10%, I guess.

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Because they aren't arguing to persuade the other party but to persuade the readers/listeners that won't bother to research if its actually true.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Because they are stupid enough that they believe appeal to authority has any meaning.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 82 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I do love the "blank slate mammal" look we all seem to share at this stage.

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

A just a few less cells and it compares to birds, reptiles and fish.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago

We all start off as weird worm-like gilled things, huh

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

"Tube that's lumpy on one side and tapers off on the other"

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeh it's peak, really goes downhill from there.

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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Thank FUCK you edited that horrible FUCKING word, so that my innocent eyes aren't FUCKING desecrated.

Tits.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I suggest autoreplacing it with a more technical term.

~~fuck~~ sex

SEX

That's a sexing dolphin.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

90% of scientists agree

Even if that were true these kinds of people are notorious for discounting the vast majority consensus because some lunatic said otherwise. It's almost like science has no bearing to them unless it validates their preconceived ideas.

[–] Zebrafive@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly the problem and they all cite a paper written by a pro life conservative who works at the Hamilton foundation which is a conservative 'think tank'.

The paper itself is abysmally stupid. He emailed about 60 000 people with 5 or so confoundingly, unnecessarily complex question (manipulated) and about 30 000 or so responded and then he interpreted the answers and made the conclusion that like 90% of respondents agree that life begins at conception.

Morons say 90% of scientists agree, which is not even what the paper claims at all which itself is not good.

He could have just asked 'does human life begin at conception'? Also he complained (author) in a podcast about the paper about how so many faculty at the college he was st during the paper writing urged him to discontinue the project as for various reasons and then spins that to basically say pro women's rights advocates are in a conspiracy against life and were all democratic demons in a death cult (more or less)

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 23 points 1 month ago

Pfft, we have a hard time proving people under 1 billion net worth are human live nowadays.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

No, it's a dolphin embryo

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Somebody do better please. Sources are Wikimedia.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

90% of scientists agree you pull random percentages out of your ass.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Were these scientists dentists ?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I doubt even 10% of the scientists can tell a human embryo apart from a dolphin.

I really expect nobody from the physics, math, social sciences, history, geology, or almost every other department to do it.

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You are never going to convince me the biggest vilain in the whole world is fucking religion. I hate religious people with all my heart

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

isn't fucking religion

Or

You are never going to convince me; the biggest villain in the world is fucking religion.

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[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think it's in the top 5:

  1. Capitalism

  2. Patriarchy

  3. Racism (I consider this tied with patriarchy tbh)

  4. Religion

  5. People who take two seats on public transit with no justification

[–] groet@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Religion is a rationale for other evils. It is in itself not evil.

Patriarchy and racism (and many religions do that too) are all the same thing - chauvinism, the belief in the superiority of the own group. This also includes nationalism, homophobia, xenophobia and any other "I hate you because you are different"-isms

So I'd go with:

  1. Chauvinism
  2. Capitalism (greed)
  3. People who blast music on speaker in public transit
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[–] maya_the_good_apple@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.

Depending on what species a foetus looks like, you can make a guess for how long it has been present inside a womb.

Source: Haeckel's Embryos.

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