As far as cults go, they don’t sound like a “literal cult” when reading about them on Wikipedia:

Ian Johnson argued that applying the ‘cult’ label to Falun Gong effectively “cloaked the government’s crackdown with the legitimacy of the West’s anticult movement”. He wrote that Falun Gong does not satisfy common definitions of a cult: “its members marry outside the group, have outside friends, hold normal jobs, do not live isolated from society, do not believe that the world’s end is imminent and do not give significant amounts of money to the organisation … it does not advocate violence and is at heart an apolitical, inward-oriented discipline, one aimed at cleansing oneself spiritually and improving one’s health.”[74]: 224  David Ownby similarly wrote that “the entire issue of the supposed cultic nature of Falun Gong was a red herring from the beginning, cleverly exploited by the Chinese state to blunt the appeal of Falun Gong”.[63]

If you want to maintain some sort of privacy when voting on any platform in the Fediverse:
Create an alt account, do not make any posts/comments with it, only use it for voting.

Otherwise we would need an instance that generates a bunch of voting accounts. Then, when you vote on something, the instance randomly assigns that vote to one of their voting accounts and sends out that vote information to other instances. Then only the Admins of your home instance would be able to view your voting history.

You must be very young,
haven’t seen many movies,
only seen the worst movies,
or else you really need to get into directing and make a movie that will put everything else to shame.

Or maybe that’s the translated name of some movie I’ve never seen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Although, I am curious, what would it take to make a good movie in your opinion? Or what do current movies seem to be lacking in?

The “Natural Flavors” ingredient in the U.S.

Just because something claims to have natural flavoring for strawberry, doesn’t mean it actually comes from strawberries.

Something “vanilla” flavored may actually come from chemically processed wood pulp, or even the anal castor sacs of a beaver.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/the-truth-behind-the-clean-label-myth-what-natural-flavoring-really-contains/ar-AA1RSQBb

• “Zero calories” or 0 grams of [blank] in the nutrition information. The regulations let them round down if it’s less than 1 gram.

For example, take a look at the “Serving size” of some cooking spray. 1/3 of a second of spray means 0.25g… So everything is zeroed out in the Nutrition facts.

Some other countries build up math skills a little differently. For instance, in Portugal, they teach a little bit of Algebra, a little bit of Geometry, and a little bit of Calculus every year.

In the U.S. the students focus on Algebra, one year, then Geometry the next, then Algebra again, and finally Calculus (if they did well in the previous math courses).

So, if a student transferred for their senior year of High School from the U.S. to Portugal, they would have a different experience compared to their peers. They would find all of the Algebra and Geometry sections very easy and be able to help tutor the other students, but then they would struggle with the Calculus portions and need help from the others.

I’m not sure how common this is among other european countries. I would be curious to know how math courses are taught in other countries.

This isn’t a problem that’s unique to “capitalism”. It’s a monopoly problem. Even in other economy types this problem would exist. For example, with communism almost everything would be a monopoly.

A free market is supposed to provide us multiple options to take our business, but we need regulation to keep capitalism in check.

We do have laws against monopolies, and there is already a case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Live_Nation_Entertainment

The way to really fix this is through our legal system and representatives. We need to pressure our representatives to pass better laws to prevent this from happening again as well as electing officials who actual care about issues like this.

Make federal service required for anyone to obtain “full citizenship”.

The only exception to this would be for motorcycles. I get that they want to be heard so that some driver doesn’t pull out right in front and cut them off, or attempt to change lanes right into them.

It’s a potentially life saving tactic.

When it comes to the economy, capitalism with a heavy dose of regulation is the best option we have right now.

Attempts at communism have failed miserably and just led to dictatorships.

Unless you’re proposing something better than either of those?

My favorite use of the “speak to a manager” trick is to use it in cases where an employee has gone above and beyond. I want their manager to recognize that they’ve got a great employee.

I was thinking the same thing, but then I realized that @stepan@lemmy.cafe is probably referring to the bottom comment in the image.

dogmatism

noun

dog·​ma·​tism ˈdȯg-mə-ˌti-zəm

: the expression of an opinion or belief as if it were a fact : positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dogmatism

I have the feature enabled, but I don’t have any vote history for you.

If the Ally leadership knew, why didn’t they use that information as propoganda for their war efforts?

User instance checks out.

I tag users with extreme views in any direction.

It helps to recognize them in most discussions.

I’m not sure that there’s any aspect about this news that’s truly “uplifting”.

One thing that bothers me, and what everyone should know, is proper placement for defibrillator pads if you’re using an AED.

It’s not 2 pads on the chest, it’s one pad on the upper chest (almost shoulder) on one side, and the other pad goes lower on their side. You’re trying to have the current go through their heart (not skip over the top of their skin).

The AEDs found in public locations are all very easy to use and all have pictures for the proper placement. Just open it up and it will tell you everything you need to do. Have someone nearby look for one at the same time you’re asking someone else to call emergency services.

They should all have razors if you need to get a little hair off (in case the person is especially hairy for one of the pad placements).

He does give money to politicians and the Gates Foundation does as well:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bill-melinda-gates-foundation/summary?topnumcycle=2024&toprecipcycle=2024&lobcycle=2024&outspendcycle=2024&id=D000031958&contribcycle=2024

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=&cycle=&employ=Gates+Foundation&name=William+Gates&order=asc&sort=N&state=&zip=