Cryophilia

It strikes me as pretty low to hand wave away the grief of these real people

Grieving people are stupid people. Call it low if you want, but ignoring them is sound policy.

I mean...you're kinda arguing that stupidity is just a different form of intelligence here imo. It gets a little epistemological, but I can't agree that "intuition" is a valid way for a sapient being to live their life.

I disagree with your main point. But the idiot reply you got does kind of support it. He literally did exactly what you said people do, and he didn't even realize it, and he got loads of upvotes.

My counter to your main point is: lemmy is not reality. Lemmy is full of morons. Also, the entire right wing is full of morons. There is, however, a decent fraction of Democrats who are not morons, and they can tell centrists from right wingers pretending to be centrists. Most centrists are either pretenders, or they're just woefully ignorant people. Sure you have the occasional true centrist who has actually throught about politics more than once in a blue moon (and it sounds like you're one of those) but most are not like that.

"From MY point of view the Jedi are evil!"

It's all about perspective, and some perspectives are more reasonable than others. Saudi Arabia likely views the US as having a left wing and a far left wing party.

I think it's reasonable to call Democrats centrists with a slight lean to the left, compared to parties globally.

Found one!

Good. Chicken is exponentially less bad for the environment.

I hope they get huge pay raises and job security, but I can't support their anti-automation stance. This generation of longshoremen will likely be the last - soon it will all be robot technicians.

I agree, but it definitely puts the union in a tough spot.

The fucking hilarious bit is that the great majority of TP is produced in the US, from Canadian trees. It was never in any danger of shortages.

Ah, the middle child of the generations.

Hey, you asked man.

I'm surprised that anyone is surprised. School admin is ridiculously, absurdly corrupt. Nationwide.