[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Some religions, for example Mormonism, picked up a taboo of coffee and tea alongside other abolitionist sentiments popular at the time, with similar reasoning to alcohol - caffeine is a psychoactive drug, so it's not "pure." Mormonism was founded when early puritanical and evangelical Christian movements grew rapidly in the US, and you'll see a similar taboo among other Christian sects originating in this time period.

Yoga probably has the same taboo in American Christianity as Dungeons and Dragons once did during the satanic scare era, and that taboo is likely only due to the link to spiritualist practices in yoga. To the brainwashed evangelical, since it's not Christianity, it's Satan.

Edit: a few words added for clarity

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago

I don't think you even read the summary in the OP that describes exactly what this feature does. This is a feature for users for their owned devices. You can remotely install apps already. Now you can do the opposite.

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Only a guess, but maybe the stress of the introduced vaccine causes the plant to spend it's resources on an immune response?

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 60 points 5 months ago

He is the Lorax. He speaks for the trees.

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Funnily enough, I remember reading that many of the people who claimed to have seen the golden plates, when pressed, said they witnessed them "spiritually", not physically.

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Wait, so you think the phrase "shrewd business practices" is negative?

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago

Perhaps, now that the vaccine has been around for years and there's plenty of data on its efficacy and risks, you might cite some of those risks? Because the data I've seen shows that infection is still much worse for your health than vaccination, regardless of whether or not you are "young and healthier." I would be very interested to see what data you have that shows otherwise. I quite like being proven wrong.

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I think the greater fear is that anything done against him becomes fuel for the Republicans/conservatives to elect an even worse human being.

[-] terabytes@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have to tell you, there's plenty of farmed land on the entire west coast this map does not depict. Less than half of the areas labeled timberlands are forested, as a generous estimate.

Edit: as the comments under this state, I just didn't understand what was being represented and how.

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