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@hulsey_ryan @JohnWakefieId By establishing reasonable doubt? It’s not really gaslighting lol

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@Sir_Longshank @QuandaleMinnis @sneedallthetime @JohnWakefieId The movie has a direct discussion of how the crime happened when they talk about the angle of the stab wound. And the entire point is establishing reasonable doubt, which they do. This take doesn’t make sense to me

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@Blackfang108 @j3ffacakes @sapphyreblayze I’ll never forget one of the first times I was out driving on the highway I was going like 75 in the middle lane, left and right lane wide open, and a guy in a BMW whipped around me doing like 90 and flipped me off.

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@hallucinex @HeapsofSteam @ShitpostRock Worst person you know just made a great point etc etc

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@Sekai35535406 @HeapsofSteam @ShitpostRock Ok but you do realize history has progressed past the year 313 AD, yes? The Catholic Church was the most powerful institution in Europe for hundreds of years. Christian churches still exert huge influence today. So what if at first it was suppressed? History has moved on

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@hecubian_devil Young healthy 71 year olds don't just suddenly die of heart attacks. Something is up……

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@baqupaccount @idek_tb

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@baqupaccount @idek_tb Then it’s a case of intent=/impact. The idea that “some people just do” it is kinda a cop out imo. People can have plenty of entrenched bad behavioral habits, but a lot can change with an effort to be more self-aware and to change one step at a time. But they have to care and try

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@SilasDogood @ChrisGloninger Oh well if you say so lol. My bad for reading beyond a dumb gotcha that takes literally two minutes to disprove.

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@megawhelmed @ChrisGloninger @trudylynch64 Is it really more likely that some mysterious undiscovered mechanism is more likely to be the cause than emissions of gasses we know cause warming? The measurements of how much we’ve emitted and the amount of warming line up.

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@megawhelmed @ChrisGloninger @trudylynch64 We know it because scientists have modeled and tested basically every other explanation they can think of (e.g. solar activity, volcanoes, Earth’s orbit, normal variability, and so on). None of those explain the warming we’ve seen. Accounting for human emissions does.

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@megawhelmed @ChrisGloninger @trudylynch64 Because there is no other way to explain the warming we see now without accounting for the gigatons of greenhouse gasses that humans have emitted. Any explanations that omit human activities come up short.

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@SilasDogood @ChrisGloninger None of those saw *global* average temperatures rise more than around 1° C. There were some spikes, but they were regional.

Current warming is global and already over 1° C. It is directly the fault of humans, and it derailed the remarkably stable Holocene climate.

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@JxnW @xXMaddiMaladyXx Framing it like gay and straight people are both straight socialized but that gay people just “fail to take the treatment” isn’t how it works. They have different experiences of socialization, since the way they interact with heteronormativity is fundamentally different

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@JxnW @xXMaddiMaladyXx But the idea that socialization is just the “application of norms” and a “treatment” is not the whole picture. It’s part of it, but so is the agency of the person being socialized and the way they relate to those norms. (1/2)

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@JxnW @xXMaddiMaladyXx Socialization isn’t a one-way thing that’s just done to people. Gay people may be labeled as straight, but they aren’t socialized as straight because, well, they aren’t straight. The question is more whether they internalized those norms, but it’s a two-way street

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@Johnsmithrxoc @xXMaddiMaladyXx What you’re saying is closer to labeling than socialization. Trans women are labeled boys as kids, and that affects how they are treated, but that’s not the same as socialization. Internal experience absolutely matters, since socialization is a two-way process involving the kid.

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@d_shasha_ @BelovedBluv It doesn’t even make sense in a lot of cases. I know everyone is different, but deep convos very very often start with small talk, even with close friends. There’s a lot of situations where it’d just be bizarre if not straight-up self-centered to jump right into the deep end

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@iStayLegendary @BelovedBluv Maybe people just enjoy conversation? Why does it have to be an inability to sit within silence? I’m not even a huge talker myself but it just seems condescending and kinda miserable to frame it in this way, as if there’s something wrong with people for liking to chat