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  • Same with pretty much every saying that regressives steal to justify their shit.

    “Blood is thicker than water” does not mean family is more important than friends. The full saying is “Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” So it means the exact opposite.

    “Spare the rod, spoil the child” is actually from a poem by Samuel Butler in the 1600s. The poem is about spanking your lover. The actual bible quote that the poem is satirizing is, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” Nuanced difference, but doesn’t advocate beating the same way the shortened one does.


  • Yet another terrible thing about prisons - they target policing in urban areas where the population is high and tends to vote Democrat. Once arrested, tried, and convicted, that person is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere - and now counts toward the population of that area, but cannot vote themselves.

    Population is used to determine how congressional districts get allocated, and they haven’t increased the number of congressional seats in decades. So as the prison population rises, they are gaining seats at the expense of urban areas losing the same number.

    It’s literally an updated version of the 3/5 compromise.





  • This. Cryptofascism relies on being able to scream, “It was just a joke / I didn’t know!”

    Mistakes can happen and you might accidentally engage in a dog whistle as a normal person.

    A dozen mistakes all pointing to the exact same thing are unlikely.

    And to be fair, it could be one person at the top putting all these wink wink indicators in, and the majority involved might just be normal folks.

    I still won’t be buying the game.




  • flipht@kbin.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldSecond Cousins
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    7 months ago

    It’s not hard.

    Cousin # = # of generations back to your shared direct ancestor - 1.

    So if you share a grandparent (2 generations away), you’re 1st cousins.

    removed is how many generations away you are from each other.

    So if your parent is first cousins with someone, you’re first cousins once removed. You’re second cousins to their kids. You’re second cousins once removed to their children.








  • flipht@kbin.socialtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldRestaurant Bill
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    8 months ago

    Very unlikely. There’s a statement at the bottom that explains what the fee is. There’s a QR code at the top for more information, which OP cut off.

    I doubt they went through the effort of updating their POS system, providing links to info on the receipt, and chose not to post a sign or put a note on the menu. Everywhere I have been with a service fee like this posts it, which would negate any legal issue.

    Caveat emptor.