Hegar

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 4 points 33 minutes ago

He has multiple credible rape allegations going back years.

He supports ideologies that encourage hurting others.

His peers are known rapists.

He's active in an explicitly pro-rape social scene.

He's rich and famous, which neurologically reduces your brain's capacity for empathy and encourages more harmful behaviors.

Russel Brand exists in a social environment that permits harming others and specifically encourages rape, and he has reduced cognitive barriers to harming others. As an organism, his social and cognitive environment is a strong incentive to commit rape and multiple witnesses say he has.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io -4 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Incorrect. He's definitely guilty. He has resting rapist face. When he walks into an elevator, everyone is like phwoah, what smells of rapist? Because Russel brand is definitely a rapist.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 24 points 16 hours ago

a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism

Putin is pulling US troops out of Europe. This will allow the US military to focus on it's one consistent strength: making the world hate the US.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 8 points 21 hours ago

for four years

Someone's an optimist.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

He paid people to vote, that's just very clearly what he did.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 135 points 2 days ago (9 children)

It's already illegal. Unless the rich do it, of course.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 32 points 2 days ago

Almost as ironic as blithely accusing a large collection of disparate communities of having a culture of hate, negativity and rudeness.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

I browse 3-5 times a day, and see something unnecessarily rude maybe once a week or so. I've not noticed any change in rudeness or negativity recently.

Without hard data, mood trends identified on social media usually say more about the identifier than the community.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

The "ken" in "Kentauros" is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There's no obvious explanation.

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would've told us, I'm sure.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Personally, I say sen tore.

According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can't know how "au" would've been pronounced in the greek.

He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it's much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn't stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 30 points 3 days ago

I presume it's 4 days to live without medical intervention. The article quotes her father as commenting:

“Virginia my daughter, I love you and [am] praying for you to get the correct treatment to live a long and healthy life.”

It could definitely be true that doctors said she's got 4 days to live ... without dialysis. That could have been made clearer in the article. I suspect someone is being a little overly dramatic - to be expected of headline editors and to be forgiven of a recently car-crashed victim of sex trafficking.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 10 points 5 days ago

In Australia it's shortened to "Sepo".

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