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[JDTAY]

Oh man, here’s another person who saw the afterlife during their wisdom teeth removal.

Irish sixteen-year-old boy leaves body during wisdom teeth extraction

IANDS, International Association for Near Death Studies

iands.org

I didn’t see any afterlife during my wisdom teeth removal, but I also didn’t see the doctor yelling at me to breathe.

 

[FBnil]

Oh man, here’s another person who saw the afterlife during their wisdom teeth removal.

Irish sixteen-year-old boy leaves body during wisdom teeth extraction

IANDS, International Association for Near Death Studies

iands.org

I didn’t see any afterlife during my wisdom teeth removal, but I also didn’t see the doctor yelling at me to breathe.

My poor dentist... When mine were pulled out I had 3 instead of 2 roots on my molar. She got into every position (no, get your mind out of the gutter) in order to wiggle and get it out. It took around half an hour (not inclufinhj da injection in yer gums), but felt like half a day... and the jaws... the jaws kept hurting for months on end, even longer than the sore holes. I had nightmares about it. And when it was time to do the other side... well, I did not appear; but after 2 years, when my teeth were getting skewed due to the pressure of the other side, I succumbed and got the other 2 pulled.
I did not see the afterlife though. Just the assistants hands holding my head still, and a big metal contraption to pull out teeth. And heared encouraging chit-chatter from the assistant to the dentist... which I sometimes wish I could get out of my mind.

 

[FBnil]

Kinda like this: https://9gag.com/gag/aM4KYVG

 

[Null]

some say that the Jehovah's Witnesses got send to camps even before Jews did.

Poor folks, they just couldn't resist knocking on the front gate.

 

[ElPoco]

In humans, "race" is a social construct. There's no scientific base behind it. And while, today, we often associate "race" with "skin colour", it hasn't always been the case (and even nowadays it's not that clear-cut). That's why many people use the term "racialised" to talk about people who are victim of racism: these people don't belong to any different "race" but their oppressors assign such a "race" to them, they "racialise" them.
And in the first half of the 20th century, Jewish people were definitely racialised.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

humans, "race" is a social construct. There's no scientific base behind it.

So, you can't identify different populations based on different genetic traits or combinations thereof?
I can be aware of differences without deeming one subset of humanity inherently more or less worthy than the other. Can't you? Like, seeing there being two sexes doesn't make one a sexist. Or do we just not use the word race when talking about humans for some reason? Do we have to say strains then?

 

[Null]

I have to say I'm very impressed by Best Girl's 3d model, it looks almost human.

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[ElPoco]

So, you can't identify different populations based on different genetic traits or combinations thereof?
I can be aware of differences without deeming one subset of humanity inherently more or less worthy than the other. Can't you? Like, seeing there being two sexes doesn't make one a sexist. Or do we just not use the word race when talking about humans for some reason? Do we have to say strains then?

Short answer: you can't reliably use genetics to identify different populations. There are too few variations and too much mixing to be able to do so. Even if you disregard the ethics of breaking people into races, it's just not scientifically possible to do so reliably.

Of course, you can decide to arrange people by the presence of some gene or other, but in that case your races could be "the race that has wet earwax" and "the race that has dry earwax" and the only certainty you'll have about your two races is the difference of their earwax.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

I'm just acknowledging that there've been populations cut off from each other for hundreds of generations and that that shows in the genes. I don't get what's unethical about that.
How high would you deem the probability then that any couple native South Americans have a biological child one couldn't genetically discern from maybe being Han Chinese?

 

[JDTAY]

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This woman who leaves her body regularly is predicting that the US will be attacked. I used to keep a good eye out for near death prophecy, but I haven’t seen much lately. The main things I’ve seen from multiple sources are that the US falls to a foreign power, then later in time a meteor hits near Asia, triggering a megatsunami.

 

[Null]

The main things I’ve seen from multiple sources are that the US falls to a foreign power, then later in time a meteor hits near Asia, triggering a megatsunami.

...and then the wolves came.

 

[matzesu]

My Plan for today evening: Testing the OLD Loghithec USB Headset on Pyra, and looking for some more SNES Games as this Emulator works awesome ^^
My Dad made a small Tour yesterday whit our E-Bike, and seems like the Front Fender was the Only broken part, whe fixed it whit the Fender of another Bike, but i still wait for the Answer of my Bike Shop if they can get a Original New one, ..

 

[Null]

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[JDTAY]

Feds want Nintendo Switch Team Xecuter hacker to serve five years and cough up US$4.5 million in landmark case, defense argues US government indicting only to send a message

The U.S. government recommended a five-year prison sentence and US$4.5 million in damages against Team Xecuter's Gary Bowser citing that his actions of finding loopholes and making mods cost the video game industry and gamers dearly. Bowser's defense was cognizant of the offence but pleaded for...

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The US government wants a guy to spend five years in prison for modifying Nintendo Switches. I’m torn. Piracy sucks, but the idea that I don’t even own my hardware sucks too. I have heard it said that this guy was specifically promoting piracy by charging an extra fee for enabling it within the modified OS. Overall, five years still seems like too much to me.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

I recently replaced the broken 3DS circle pad with a metal one. I hope that they are not coming for me, too.

But yes, we are obviously not supposed to own our own Nintendo consoles. The Wii has security repairs meant to secure the Wii against it's user doing what he wants with it, and the 3DS is also encrypted against it's user. It is as if I sell you a car but I keep the keys and you have to request the keys from me every time you want to use your car.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

In humans, "race" is a social construct. There's no scientific base behind it. And while, today, we often associate "race" with "skin colour", it hasn't always been the case (and even nowadays it's not that clear-cut). That's why many people use the term "racialised" to talk about people who are victim of racism: these people don't belong to any different "race" but their oppressors assign such a "race" to them, they "racialise" them.
And in the first half of the 20th century, Jewish people were definitely racialised.

Race is just the idea of grouping people together based on a set of shared characteristics. For example, if you know that someone is dark skinned then you know that he probably is not blonde because every dark skinned race has dark hair, too. You can also narrow down what the shape of his skull will be, where his family originates from, and many other things. Race is not a social construct, it is a real thing based on real patterns in humanity. It can easily be observed.

However, the distinction between races is a bit arbitrary in many cases because race is more of a spectrum than it is a bunch of discrete classes. But that is exactly how it works in e.g. dogs and cats as well. With cats and dogs the distinction between races is just as vague and arbitrary as it is in humans. Many dog races and many cat races have been created slowly, with individuals of that race slowly becoming more like their modern counterpart. In these cases there is no objective standard for when individuals of those lineages became their modern race. One could even designated the earlier members of such a lineage as being of a entirely separate race both from what came before it and from what came after it.

Race also does not have to be associated with racism or oppression. Some people acknowledge that races exist but simply do not care about it, instead seeing it as something comparable to eye colour, height, or other characteristics that have no bearing on someone's value as a person. People have been oppressed for race; but also for religion, sexuality, gender, and other things. That does not mean that e.g. acknowledging the existence of religion or sexism makes you a "religionist" or sexist, respectively? I think not. Not every difference matters.

 

[ElPoco]

The scientific consensus is that such classification of races is either impossible or meaningless.
What you're talking about is called typology and it has been completely discredited.

But hey, feel free to think you know better than the scientific community.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

If all that the "scientific community" has for arguments are appeals to authority, then I certainly will.

 

[levi]

Do you change race every time you get a sun tan?

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

No.