True. Lots of pronatalists tend towards eugenics, so doubt they’re huge fans of adoptions.

OTOH, even nurture-over-nature pronatalists would be problematic. “I’m better than everyone else so I should have an outsize impact on the next generation by adopting as many children as possible” is only slightly better than the eugenic variant.

I see where you’re coming from but no, I’m very much not pronatalist, and my opinion of them is literally what I put in the comment.

I was going for “amusing juxtaposition” but the vote balance on my comment shows you were not the only one who didn’t take it that way, my bad!

Edit: I also do not hate ducks

In cartoon ducks: overly simplistic but cute, naive, and innocent

In humans: pronatalism. weird disgusting pseudo colonial bullshit that’s the dark mirror to “just” wanting kids.

Edit: sorry for throwing cynicism into a cute comic’s comment section. Promise I’m fine 😅

I’m sure being the leader of a modern society doesn’t require any interactions with technology.

I mean, the way he’d probably want to govern the country into the ground, it probably doesn’t to be fair.

Because America is a trusted ally and… hmm. My news feed seems to be stuck let me just refresh it…. Oh, hmm.

New idea: give china half of Americas fortress, let them sort it out together, it’d be good for them

UK sent some troops to Greenland (along with the other European countries) to discourage the US from any bad ideas

As a middle class parent: agreed, this bullshit is helping nobody

“Moon” is more an indictment of the mediocre fusion product of the mass being orbited than any statement about the orbiter.

For the uk? Yes. For the world? Probably a minor nuisance.

A weak theory, but Poland being one of a handful of countries with a reasonable claim to “inventing” the computer probably helps, mostly indirectly. When deciding to invest in tech education things like that can make a big difference by stoking some national pride. The UK has absolutely benefited from Turing’s legacy keeping us involved in tech (despite everything).

Having strong opinions about how people should behave that doesn’t align with everyone else’s is a natural path to authoritarianism, regardless of political alignment.

The best defence is accepting multiple ways to live, some hippies are open minded that way and I’d I expect them to be immune, but of course there’s always been the “oh you must not ever put unnatural chemicals in your body” or “we need to return to hunter gatherer dynamics which definitely existed in exactly the way I dream of” nutters, who are ripe for radicalising.

If I’m reading this right, the court only decided if the hospital can decide to give a blood transfusion after the operation. But the kid is still free to decide if they’ll accept the operation in the first place (or you know, just never show up), the kid knows about the court case, so they know if they accept the operation they are accepting a potential transfusion. So whilst everything you say is true, it doesn’t change the original issue I pointed out.

The camera bump sure isn’t going away for a folding phone. cameras have fundamental volume requirements to maintain quality, if they don’t think they can justify making the normal iPhone thick enough to enclose the camera then there’s no way in hell they’ll think the folding phones doubled width can include it, if anything you’d expect it to be more prominent on a folding model

Sure, that’s why this went to court, but the end result is the same, that the kid must now decide whether to have the operation knowing they might get a “sinful” blood transfusion, or refuse the entire operation.

Maybe the low risk of needing a transfusion will be enough to convince them it’s fine, or maybe the doctors don’t really care about the child’s welbeing and just wanted to be covered for all eventualities, but it’s still a bit of a perverse incentive

Whilst I certainly agree with the court that the blood transfusion is in their best interest, I do worry that they might just decide to refuse the entire operation now, seems like they’re now playing chicken with the kid and hoping their sense of self preservation overrides their faith. Not sure I’d play that game, religion is a powerful drug

Ah the plug unification fiasco, truly the Unicode consortium’s greatest error

I feel like most cats don’t really have opinions on universal healthcare, and most are already castrated

Ah, but that’s a US power plug, do you want to wait 8 minutes for the meagre dribble of volts they provide to eventually boil the water? Not like our glorious high speed kettles. How about:

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They did indeed, which is sort of the point you’re missing. Now you’re letting Israel dictate your messaging by supporting its use, bad plan.

If you want to help Israel, make an anti-Israel message that conflates Israel and Judaism (or just appears to), that’s their entire gambit right now, and it shields them by making anti-Israel messages trigger racism alarms and get ignored.

The more clearly anti-Israel messaging distances itself from anti-Jewish racism the harder Israel has to work, and combining a Star of David and a swastika is straight up zero effort for them. They probably don’t even need to throw any bot comments into the mix, real people will reach the conclusions they want without any help at all.

You’re all welcome, glad our object lesson in idiocy has been understood. Now that the point has been made, we can rejoin and pretend that never happened right? … Right?