bingidingi

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by bingidingi 5y ago
yeah it’s a little bleak tbh, the scents are an attempt to influence your memory and make you hungry, and things like magic bands are meant to make you spend as much money as possible by making money more opaque
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by bingidingi 5y ago
it might go back to the american superiority complex; african and asian homeless people are different and distant enough to make us feel good about ourselves (poor foreigners), american homeless are “like us” so they shouldn’t have an excus
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by bingidingi 5y ago
it was always a subsidized by the suffering of other people
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by bingidingi 5y ago
would you not report unsolicited child porn to the FBI anyway?
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by bingidingi 5y ago
some small cities literally buy their homeless bus tickets to get rid of them, and their politicians point to the places they send them as liberalism run amok… how do you even undo such callousness
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Using the green cross for a pharmacy supports the suggested use as a generic symbol for health... I didn't exclude Asia, I stated that my experience there is more limited than the continents I listed. The US isn't a reliable autho
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by bingidingi 5y ago
It's objectively true. The US ignores many widely accepted international standards, and in multiple cases stands alone in doing so. It's not the defacto world view and shouldn't be treated as such.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Asking works of fiction to stop using a symbol doesn't seem at all like a moral panic to me. What they're saying is "this symbol has a specific meaning, and it's important to us that it's not diluted." They&#x2
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by bingidingi 5y ago
This falls under the appropriate case as defined under the Geneva Conventions, because these would be used by people administering aid in armed conflict.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
It's about the ubiquity in fiction. If every police box in fiction was a time machine, it stands to reason someone may be confused when encountering a real police box for the first time. The misuse of the red cross, especially in vid
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Because it's used generally as "health" and not "protected health worker" in video games. I suspect the red cross would not take issue with a game using the red cross to depict untargatable aid workers.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
These are medical units that fall under the protections of the red cross as outlined in the Geneva Conventions. "Under the Geneva Conventions, the three distinctive emblems of the red cross, red crescent and red crystal are intended to
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by bingidingi 5y ago
If I start putting the toilet symbol on doors without toilets behind them, eventually you're going to stop expecting toilets behind the door. You don't need an example to know that. This also isn't about trademark, the red cr
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by bingidingi 5y ago
The argument is that diluting the mark can cause confusion, and that confusion can cause death. "Videogames cause death" feels like a bad-faith oversimplification of the point they're trying to make. It's understandable,
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by bingidingi 5y ago
>Where do you get this confidence that there's no confusion with the green cross? The continents of Europe, Africa, Australia... I've also seen it used in China but I'm not as familiar with Asia because I haven't live
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Well, I suppose with healthcare the way it is in the US... maybe smoking cannabis before going to a hospital is a good idea.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Yes, it's used in many places. It's very commonly used to indicate pharmacies throughout Europe. I've also seen it used in the US on various medical supplies and defibrillator stations.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
A green cross would confuse no one. It's already used all over the world. You've probably seen it and the color hasn't even crossed your mind.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
It's not an insinuation of anything, they're trying to emphasize the gravity of what they do to discourage casual use of the symbol. Their intention is in the headline.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
The green cross is generally the recommended alternative. Note that this isn't normal copyright, the red cross is protected under the Geneva Conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_R.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
>they are burning VC capital to offer a service that is either fundamentally unsustainable or mispriced this is like half of all businesses in SV
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by bingidingi 5y ago
That's pretty normal for the advertising industry.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
compared to the inevitable drought and famine
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Right but if you quit a job you're not quitting all jobs. That's not true with social media outside of fringe options like Mastodon (Which is like quitting a FAANG job to work at Wendy's... and this is coming from someone tha
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by bingidingi 5y ago
I wish. I feel like this is the epitome of a specific type of slide-based presentation. This information could be covered in a single page of text, but ironically no one has the attention span to actually read... so instead we get low-densi
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by bingidingi 5y ago
it is promising, but note that it doesn’t apply to ambulances - so we’ll still be ubering to the er
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by bingidingi 5y ago
the monthly premium isn’t even the worst part, deductibles keep getting higher and it’s not uncommon to be surprised with a bill for services that weren’t covered by your plan (and it’s very difficult to ensure you’re 100% covered before re
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by bingidingi 5y ago
what can be done about these chan sites? can they be further deplatformed or are they all hosted in safe havens now? just last week I was reading about how the bsnes creator was driven to suicide
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by bingidingi 5y ago
they can’t play themselves because their only goal is chaotic harm
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by bingidingi 5y ago
that’s an incredibly bad idea, 4chan posters have actually assaulted people, people have died from swatting, some of these people are very unstable

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