argon

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[–] argon 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

I get that. That's why I made a comparison to the term "gay", which is also frequently used as an insult without actually trying to refer to homosexual people.

I think the literal meaning matters, especially when being a (literal) incel is still something many are insecure about.

That's what makes it different to e.g. the term "bastard". That term also refers to a specific group, but nowadays noone (in the western world) would be insecure about being born to umarried parents.

As long as involuntary celibacy is something people are insecure about, we shouldn't use "incel" as an insult.

[–] argon 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's certainly true, yet I still disagree with the post's claim that cocaine is "no worse than whisky".

[–] argon 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you make cocaine legal, you effectively make crack legal, since the conversion is trivial.

And no, methamphetamine existing does not make cocaine less harmful.

[–] argon 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The most abused substance is caffeine.

How often a substance is abused has very little to do with how dangerous or addictive it is.

[–] argon 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Kommt schon noch drauf an wen man fragt

The same graph, sourced from Ipsos, showing the Left at 4.0%

[–] argon 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Acting as if the terms left and right aren't completely arbitrary.

[–] argon 22 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year

Not doubting them, but I don't understand how that's possible.

Storing the email addresses and expiration dates takes an irrelevant amount of storage space, even if they had billions of cutomers.

Sending the emails should also not cost thousands, even if a significant amount of customers regularly let their certificates expire (which hopefull isn't the case).

So where are the tens of thousands of yearly costs coming from?

[–] argon 63 points 4 months ago

Going to court might result in an official court finding that it was indeed a nazi salute.

[–] argon 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Facism is when no drugs

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