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- on First-ever case of euthanasia on very young child, 2, was handled well in c/europe@feddit.org · 22h ago
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on First-ever case of euthanasia on very young child, 2, was handled well in c/europe@feddit.org · 1d ago
You are dramatically downplaying the suffering of this baby though.
He was in constant agony. Constantly drowning in his own mucus. Severe seizures that would not respond to treatment. He was functionally blind, and also could barely move his own body due to the severe cerebral palsy.
Have you ever been close to drowning or waterboarded? It’s one of the worst feelings imaginable. It’s extremely painful to not be able to breathe, and you have a massive wave of primal fear from the feeling of death. And this baby was in that 24/7. He was also in severe pain because of the constant epileptic seizures. And trapped in a body that he couldn’t even move.
They didn’t just up and say “fuck it, kill him”. They tried for nearly two years, since birth, to do everything they could to medically help him. Nothing worked. The baby was living in hell. Constant extreme pain.
I feel for his parents. I can guarantee that it was a horrific decision they had to make. But at the end of the day, letting the baby they love continue to exist in pure constant agony with no hope of ever alleviating it, is far less humane.
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on First-ever case of euthanasia on very young child, 2, was handled well in c/europe@feddit.org · 1d ago
Well the child was so severely disabled and had such severe brain damage, that he could never, ever in his life, consent to anything in the first place.
His entire existence was hell. Drowning in his own lungs just trying to breathe, constant seizures with no treatment, an underdeveloped brain that couldn’t even form thought but only feel pain.
There’s truly no good answer here. On one hand, you are indeed ending a human life.
On the other hand, that life was nothing but a hell you couldn’t even imagine, 24/7. His entire life had zero joy in it. Ever. And no matter how long it lasted, it never would.
Prior to modern medicine, the answer would have been to leave the poor baby out on a hill and let the wolves eat it. Or just watch him die slowly and in pain because there’s nothing you can do.
The only “wrong” answer is to unnaturally keep him alive, in pain and suffering 24/7, just because “human life”. Of all the options, euthanasia is by far the most humane. That baby was NEVER going to grow up and live any sort of semblance of a normal life. That baby was in extreme suffering every second of every day of his short life. Suffering you could never imagine.
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on First-ever case of euthanasia on very young child, 2, was handled well in c/europe@feddit.org · 1d ago
All palliative care is, is making a person so high that they can’t feel it while they die slower.
It often involves removing feeding or water to speed the process up, when the body doesn’t want to die but is terminal.
I’ve seen it. My grandmother went through palliative care after a severe stroke. All it was was they stopped feeding her or giving her water so that she would die, and just jacked her up on morphine so she didn’t really feel it.
It’s not any more humane than euthanasia. It’s just more humane than the old school alternative of slow and painful death.
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on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Get proven right about what? Plenty of Amish sects explicitly use technology if it’s in the course of their work or business. They use power tools for furniture making, have computers to handle payments, cell phones, trucks, etc.
They just don’t use it in their personal lives.
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on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
ourworldindata.org/…/annual-co2-emissions-per-cou…
The US has been decreasing emissions for 20 years now. While China, as of 2024, was still exponentially increasing emissions.
cotap.org/per-capita-carbon-co2-emissions-by-coun…
Same with per capita emissions. The US has been cutting per capita emissions for 20 years, while China is still increasing.
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on Showerule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 Sep 2026
The idea is that twitter users don’t shower. And this would entice them to go get in the shower to try it.
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on Rule Hunting in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026
Ok yeah that is cronyism.
But every single job I have ever had in my career has been through reference from someone I had worked with or for before. Someone I worked with moved on somewhere else and when there was an opening there, they threw my name in.
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on Rule Hunting in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 Sep 2026
Or, you know, good old fashioned networking. Unless that’s what you mean by cronyism.
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on Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
The robotaxis are just regular consumer model Ys. They have 5 seats. They’re literally exactly the same as every other model Y on the road. They just have a dumb “Robotaxi” paint scheme in the cybertruck font on them.
They’ve been operating those for about a year and have about 10x as many of those as the new cybercabs.
I was just in Austin where there are a million of them. Like every 10th car on the road was either a Robotaxi or a Waymo. I rode in them.
They’ve explicitly stated their plans. The two seater cybercabs, regular model Ys, and an autonomous 20 passenger van.
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on Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
So then you would call one of the other robotaxis with 5 seats….
Which they already have more of
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on Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
You doubt something that already exists???
Regular Model Ys are already on the road as robo taxis. They have far more of those than the cyber cabs.
I’m in Austin right now for a race, and there’s a million of these fuckin things. I rode in a regular autonomous Model Y taxi last night. You can call either of them in the app, so you’re not limited to the two seater if you have more people.
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
The paper bags are actually superior to fabric in almost every way.
The old fabric sacks let in bugs a lot easier, and you’d end up with weevils. Paper sacks are far better at preventing bugs. It also prevents dust explosions at the industrial level from static electricity. Flour is surprisingly explosive.
You can still get flour in cotton sacks though. Blue Bird flour comes in reusable cotton sacks.
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on Your smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
because apparently we humans are all differently efficient in converting calories into watts.
We’re not that different though. It doesn’t vary that much between people. It’s pretty universally 20-25% of energy gets converted into mechanical energy, with the other 75-80% lost as heat.
What does differ is how mechanically efficient the bike is. A commercial gym stationary bike might only be 80% efficient at converting the energy put into the pedal down into the flywheel, and that is what gets read by the power meter. A high end race bike is above 95%.
Due to the roughly 25% efficiency, the math of kilojoules to calories burned is almost exactly 1:1.
Outside of a clinical lab where you get hooked up to a machine that reads the actual CO2 from your breath as you exercise, a power meter is the most accurate you’re going to get though.
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on Your smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
I mean, you set it up like that lol. When you set up the activity, it specifically asks how active you are and then sets the default goal based on that. And you have to manually confirm the goal too on the slider.
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on Queen of the Hill in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Nah she got her first boob job at 22 lol. Then kept going bigger.
She had somewhere around 1000cc implants by the time she stopped going bigger.
She’s been very open about all her plastic surgery.
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on Queen of the Hill in c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
She specifically got big boobs for it lol. She has always been quite open about her fake tits.
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on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Same. It builds ansible playbooks for me pretty reliably. And saved me a fuck ton of time on the contract I’m on now converting our entire chef baseline into ansible.
Easily done, but doing it all by hand would have been a pain. Did it in a couple of days for the first draft, then manually tweaked it for the weird shit Claude hallucinated.
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on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Just like the dumbasses say “the Soviet Union wasn’t REAL communism”?
Except I’m correct. A government implementing protectionist policies to control economic sectors is not capitalist.
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on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.
Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.
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on Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
That has literally nothing to do with what they said….
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on New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Have you ever met humans? That would be a recipe for “no I’m not calling about that, I want a human” just to get to a human and say you’re calling about exactly that.
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on Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
Yeah. They haven’t raised prices for several years.
The iPhone 12 was $799 in 2020. The iPhone 17 was $799 in 2025. Inflation alone should have made the 17 $999 but they kept the price the same for 5 years.
Same for the pro lines. 12 pro was $999 in 2020. The 17 pro started at $1099 but they dropped the lowest 128GB storage tier. Same price as the 256GB model for the 12 pro. Inflation would put that at $1399 for the 17 pro.
Between inflation and AI making memory cost your firstborn, they’re going to have to raise the prices.
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on Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
It’s the exact same thing that cars have been doing forever.
It’s meant for the people who are constant upgraders.
They do that with euthanasia too. Just faster and more deliberate than getting high on morphine and dying slowly of dehydration.