FWIW, and I’m only mentioning this because of the phrasing of the question, plastic surgery isn’t named after ‘plastic’ (the noun), but for ‘plastic’ (the adjective). Plastic surgery was used as a term decades before plastic (the noun) was even invented!

But anyway, to answer your question, people tend not to use silicone in implants so much nowadays, preferring saline instead (as another person said). The main reason is that it is much less problematic if there is a rupture.

Leaking silicone is not immediately dangerous, but does need to be removed - which is difficult as it can squidge about under other tissues, causing mischief as it goes. Saline, by comparison, will just get absorbed by the body, usually harmlessly.

You know, this makes total sense.

I was searching online trying to work out what Ireland had done, but a typo explains everything.

People die.

In cases where someone meets an unfortunate grizzly end, like being eaten, there’s an obvious reason. But more often than not, people just stop being alive.

Imagine you have no knowledge of science, how would you explain this? An hour ago, this body could move, could breathe, could do normal things. Now it can’t.

Something has changed. Something is missing. What was once a person is now a thing, a body.

It stands to reason that the missing bit is the key to what makes people human. It’s clearly not a physical thing - the body looks the same - so it must be something intangible.

Tie this to the fact that people are very good at detecting other people around them. We’re especially good at sensing when we’re being watched (in person, not through cameras, obviously). We also find ourselves in situations where we feel like we’re being watched when no one possibly can be watching.

So we have a fundamental element of human-ness as something intangible, and we also have situations where it feels like someone is there when there’s no-one around.

It wouldn’t take a massive leap to associate the two.

Once you have human spirits established as a fact, it’s not such a stretch to imagine other intangible beings are responsible for other unexplainable elements of the world - the weather, crop yields, health, fertility, etc.

Oh, yeah - I 100% agree. I was just trying to convey how ludicrously easy it is to grow your own. There’s no way you should base an entire survival strategy on just potatoes, despite how plausible Matt Damon made it seem.

Get yourself a patch of soil, even if it’s just a couple of growbags, and grow potatoes. They’re like a magical self-replicating food. When you harvest them, keep some aside to plant later. One potato produces 5-10 potatoes easily, scale up for infinite potato glitch.

If you live in the UK or EU, you can even literally just plant ones you buy in the vegetable section in the supermarket. In the US, they often treat these with a growth inhibitor to extend the shelf-life, they won’t grow as easily.

Seed potatoes are guaranteed to produce healthy plants, but cost slightly more. You can buy them from garden centres or online.

Saw this in !autism@lemmy.world but it was removed before I could reply.

What country are you in? What part of the country?

Once we know that, it’ll be much easier to direct you to useful services.

I think you’d be surprised at just how few Catholics follow this specific rule! According to the NCHS, 98.8% of sexually experienced Catholic women had used contraception at some point in their lives. (“sexually experienced” in this context means ever had vaginal sex, and the sample size was 10,122 people)

Here’s the direct quote:

Across religious affiliations, 99.7% of women with no religious affiliation, 99.3% of Protestant women, 98.8% of Catholic women, and 97.6% of women affiliated with other religions had ever used a contraceptive method

8% of people think contraception is morally wrong?!

Yikes - that’s practically 1 in 12 people.

Both produced in South Korea? 🤷‍♂️

I used to enjoy Penny Arcade when I was younger and much more into the game space. I still have a couple of Penny Arcade t-shirts in the rotation which have got to be over twenty years old by now!

Back then there was lots going on - starting the Child’s Play charity, starting PAX, the whole Jack Thompson saga. Also I got the gaming references in a way that I no longer do…

I dip into the strip now and then, but don’t follow it like I used to. The art has gotten really good now, but I do miss the 2005 style.

Maybe another thing worth considering is that rectangular flags are just bigger and easier to see than other shapes.

Also, maybe it just became “normal” to have square flags. The Romans conquered most of Europe, and they flew rectangular banners from their standards. Following the fall of the empire, the different parts of Europe were at war with each other for one and a half thousand years. I suspect all having had this original template, then the subsequent fighting / conquering / reconquering / reconquering, probably lead to this shape becoming normalised.

Not just mass-manufacturing - because of how they work, the rectangle is the default shape of cloth produced on any loom.

A coworker once told me a trick for knowing where the line is when referring to marginalised groups.

(Please remember that this is before the big Hamas attack in 2023 led to the current state of affairs).

His advice, replace the group you’re referring to with jews, and reread the sentence. His reasoning is that we have a much better feeling for what’s acceptable. So, this would be:

Is it antisemitic of me to completely filter out jew-related topics from all the media I consume?

So how to answer?

If you’re blocking a ton of topics that don’t interest you, to create a highly personalised feed, then that probably wouldn’t seem that weird. If it’s the only thing you’re blocking, then that might be more easily explained by prejudice.

At the end of the day, though, you’re the only person who knows whether you’re transphobic or not. It’s easy for someone to say that being indifferent to a marginalised group’s suffering is as bad as actually persecuting them, but that ignores the fact that some people are barely keeping it together as it is. We live in horrible dangerous times - your feed is your own business, but I’d suggest trying to keep abreast of the broad strokes of what is happening in the world.

I see four white rectangles there. If that’s not proof of snow, then I don’t know what to tell you.

I mean, the red robes and glowing orb do have a certain appeal.

Not surprising. Keeping these clubs going requires a lot of paper work.

The world (or at least the Anglosphere) has always called the # symbol the hash sign. I have no idea why Americans called it the pound sign - most places call the £ symbol the pound sign.

The term “hashtag” was not invented by an American. For the rest of us this makes sense - it’s a tag denoted by a hash sign - but I can see how it seemingly came out of nowhere if you used different words.

Not to anywhere near the same degree. Also, just a few decades ago, you guys didn’t have them at all. The 1980s is where everything went bad for you guys.

In the first Robocop film, there’s even a scene where the board members of the evil megacorporation OCP are discussing traditionally non-private sectors where they’re making inroads, and prisons are listed.

The UK has a handful, and the contractor that runs them, G4S, is the name everyone instinctively listens out for in news reports about escaped prisoners, event security disasters and probes into site mismanagement.

This hits the nail in the head.

I have a friend who grew up in the USSR. From what she’s told me, the social pressure around pulling your weight can’t be overstated.

For example, her school uniform had a scarf, and the punishment for most offences (being late, not doing homework etc) was to have your scarf taken away for a day or two. Instead of being trapped in detention away from everyone after school, you had to spend the day publicly marked out as someone who’s let the side down. You’d spend the day subjected to disapproving looks, and then when you got home have to explain to your parents why you had your scarf taken away.

Yep, second one is the worst by miles. There’s lots of cool bits in it, but the overall narrative is a mess. The basilisk is also seriously dodgy-looking in several shots.

The first one is significantly more kiddy than the others, but it’s really well-executed.