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  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSpectators
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    3 months ago

    The first woman in space was a lesbian and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

    No, the first American woman in space was a lesbian.

    Valentina Tereshkova, who beat Sally Ride to space by twenty years and two days, isn’t a lesbian (as far as we know). She’s been married twice, both times to men.


  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldLeo
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    3 months ago

    Leo is a pedophile. He won’t openly date a child but he will go as low as he possibly can without going to.jail

    Leo’s behavior isn’t very socially acceptable, but he isn’t a pedophile.

    His explanation is that he doesn’t have any interest in starting a family or having children, and he thinks that the drive to do so for women kicks in in the mid-to-late twenties. Women he dates know this going in, they know it’s never going to go anywhere real, they know there’s an end date. They get to participate in his lifestyle, they get to meet a bunch of important people, etc, in exchange for a sexual relationship with a very wealthy, attractive man.

    They’re young, but they’re adults capable of making decisions for themselves. Maybe some will regret it later, others won’t. But regardless, it’s a mutual agreement between adults.

    Gross? Creepy? Yeah, especially the older he gets. Sexist? Oh absolutely. 100%. Pedophilic? No.

    Edit: fixed a formatting typo


  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldComedic license
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    3 months ago

    Here’s the thing. You said a “chimpanzee is a monkey.”

    Is it in the same infraorder? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

    As someone who is a scientist who studies monkeys, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls chimpanzees monkeys. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

    If you’re saying “monkey infraorder” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Simiiformes, which includes things from lemurs to librarians to humans.

    So your reasoning for calling a chimpanzee a monkey is because random people “call the monkey-shaped ones monkeys?” Let’s get raccoons and koalas in there, then, too.

    Also, calling someone a jackdaw or a crow? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A chimpanzee is a chimpanzee and a member of the monkey infraorder. But that’s not what you said. You said a chimpanzee is a monkey, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the monkey infraorder monkeys, which means you’d call librarians, humans, and other apes monkeys, too. Which you said you don’t.

    It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?





  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlConservative Maoists?
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    3 months ago

    From there it just talks about a lot of things we could do with a fraction of the wealth of the wealthiest 400 Americans. Things like ending homelessness in America, ending malaria worldwide, and many others. By mildly inconveniencing 400 people, who would still all be absurdly wealthy billionaires even if 60% of their wealth were taken, we could dramatically improve the world.