What’s boring about the magic system in Harry Potter? Can you give specific examples?

I thought this was going to be a trans joke, must have been conditioned from lemmy.blahaj.zone

I thought it was open source? Presumably a FOSS project can’t go too bad.

Why not use SimpleX then? You mention it but provide no real reason to use Signal over SimpleX

Good game

That’s very anecdotal, do you know any studies that investigate thumbs up prevalence IRL and online?

Fruit is also a culinary term that is not identical to its meaning as a scientific term

You mean a coffee or chocolatl?

“Mr. Makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold?”

“No, of course not. No one can do that. But if people think you’re foolish enough to try, they don’t bother to look at what you’re really doing. They leave you in peace.” - Lyra’s Oxford, Philip Pullman

When did I say that only certain types of people shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce?

I’m antinatalist, I don’t think anyone should be allowed to being life into the world, which is filled with so much suffering, without the consent of the child.

Regardless, I was just disputing the claim that intelligence is in no way a heritable trait.

People evolved from ape-like predecessors. Would you say the children of a predecessor and the children of a modern human are equally likely to be of a similar intelligence?

In programming, for sure. But that’s just the semantics of the language you’re using.

Well, evidently.

Oh, no, the leopard ate your face.

Why are you using Google in the first place, if you don’t want things like this?

Yay, more invasion of privacy and censorship

Nonexistent is different from death. You have to have previously been alive to die.

Does that have updated verses?

Is this something American I’m too British to have experienced? Also, I use adblock so I probability wouldn’t see it anyway.

Pitting ‘generations’ against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don’t fall for it.