https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/green-party-s-jill-stein-people-don-t-trust-vaccine-n620216

https://www.uab.edu/studentmedia/?view=article&id=779&catid=23

Are you seriously trying to compare the 2?

You're a fool if you think that the lives of queer people aren't in danger from GOP policy.

Having concern isn't the same thing as comparison, or even statement of equality. Quit assuming bullshit.

Get this, we can fight for more than one thing at a time, even if certain things have higher priority.

Queer lives are at stake too, and it isn't just about living.

OP post is concerned about LGBTQ rights

Which they should be, because they are being threatened.

we are not under threat of life.

This isn't true, and is a moving the goalposts fallacy.

I wonder what the chances are of him living just long enough to see Harris inaugurated before his rotted brain gives out on him.

I'm looking forward to this. I quite enjoyed subzero even though I didn't enjoy it as much as the original. So I am hoping they've learned from the difference in love the community has for them.

TBH half of the problem with subzero was the sea truck. I get that they wanted to innovate and do something new, but the original sub was just so much cooler. IMO a better innovation would have been to focus on building a nomadic, cooperative fleet with friends.

Maybe friend A has a boat on the surface, friend B has a sub, friend C has a factorio-esc spidertron, etc. The boat friend could have a laser weapon, and the undersea friends could paint a target for the boat friend. I imagine it would be a load of fun to shine a little laser pointer through the glass of your sub and then a few seconds later your friend annihilates a leviathan with a blinding beam of light coming from above.

a person either is concerned about all human rights or they’re concerned about none.

'Very all lives matter of you.'

Yeah, this place is a very

• Grape fucking

• Endless politics

• Meta memes/drama/shitposting

pick two kind of place

Not really.

And?

Yes, I am aware. What's your point?

You're not being creative enough. You could have a bowl/cup of grapes, and use that. Or maybe alternatively you could blend/mash them up, let them dry out a bit to stiffen up, then use that.

The real estate cartel, the landlords themselves are stopping this. If housing is treated as a human right, their profit evaporates, so they'll never willingly let that happen. They intentionally make zoning harder, kill government initiatives to make housing cheaper, etc.

It's like asking a dictator to install democracy. Nothing short of a leftist takeover of the DNC, coupled with large scale local level cooperation, tenant unions, etc will solve this.

That’s based on species though, so it would overrepresent unlikely encounters.

That is fair, but also consider that an intelligent species isn't going to be limited by chance encounters. I regularly eat bananas, but I don't live in India. I regularly eat pineapples, but I don't live in Costa Rica. Very little of my diet is comprised of food that is native to my area. As an intelligent species, we farm food en masse, ship it around the world, and plant things outside of their natural habitat.

I do wonder how that data compares with other mammals though. Is it just average, or is it significantly higher?

Purely speculating, I'd wager slightly above average as a result of the thing I said about omnivores being a precursor to becoming intelligent.

"I can't save them all so I choose to save nobody"

Potentially. But think of it this way, there are somewhere around 400,000 plant species out there.

https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/many-plants-world-scientists-may-now-answer/

Based on this list, something on the order of like 99.5% of plants are either not safe, or not useful/beneficial. If other species on our planet share a similar rate without complete overlap, then it's practically a guarantee that there will be thousands of plants that are safe and useful for us but not for other species. That doesn't feel particularly strange or unlikely. So even with a specialized diet, I don't think the numbers would be much different.

It also could be the case that being scavenging omnivores is a strong precursor to becoming intelligent. If your species is on the rise in terms of intelligence, you're probably using that to expand your food sources wide and far.

It's almost like having guns freely and widely accessible with few restrictions leads to a lot of death and injury, and the group with higher empathy has a problem with that.

Would aliens actually be weirded out by this quality of humans?

I feel like any sufficiently intelligent species living on a planet will have some degree of biodiversity on said planet. And the chances of something being made to be a poison/deterrent for creatures other than the intelligent species is probably a large one, because it's pretty hard for plants and animals to make a poison/deterrent that kills everything without also killing itself. So if there is a gap for itself, there is a gap for other life to coexist with the toxin. And that's before accounting for the fact that something can be safe at low levels, provide benefits/stimulation/good feels at low levels, and toxic at high levels.

So I'd think it would be pretty natural for intelligent life to consume things that are harmful to huge swaths of other creatures.

Using slurs that disparage mental health issues in your memes doesn't exactly a good way to paint yourself in a good light.