20th percentile, surely

It boils down to this. You want to ban something you don’t like. There is clearly disagreement in this thread about whether the content you want to ban is inappropriate, and you dont seem to be anywhere near in the majority on that.

So if we went and banned everything in school libraries, public libraries, or whatever other space we are calling under the control of the public (loosely paraphrasing you) on the basis of extremely vocal minorities, then we will have very little left on those shelves. The least common denominator of things so inoffensive no one thought to ask for them to be removed.

If you think there should be a conversation about whether a particular book or book series is appropriate, and you want to submit your thoughts in the correct forum to help decide that one or another book shouldn’t be there, great. Participate in the process.

Here, though, you seem to have tried hijacking a post about a book on a very different topic and turning it into your own soapbox for railing against a book you declared to be smut.

You’re not changing minds in this Lemmy thread. You’re not making friends. What you are doing is making a lot or noise a out a topic you seem to be widely disagreed with on, and you seem to be badly reacting to it. Among other things, you repeatedly declare everyone who disagrees with some of the specific things youre declaring isn’t a parent. That’s rank horseshit. It makes me wonder how well you understand parenting yourself, if your solution to being disagreed with is to yell, flail, call people names, question their morality, and so on.

Take a breath, re-examine your reasons for thinking what you do, and remember to occasionally check reasonable scholarly authorities on what has been found to be harmful to children. Something may seem perfectly obviously harmful that actually isn’t harmful, its just distasteful to you and some others. That isn’t the same thing.

Like letting someone else reorganize your house without your involvement. Where’s all my shit, how do I live now?

Computers famously love prime numbers greater than 2 as a foundation for structure and logic.

I’m good with intuiting 1-3 meters, and I have a decent estimate for 1 centimeter. Beyond that, about all I got (yes I know this is all very rough estimates) is “a kilogram is a couple pounds, a kilometer is a short mile, a liter is basically a quart”. But I guess I don’t even have a good intuition for a quart because that in my head rests at the crossroads of “4 cups or ¼ gallon”.

Make metric meaningful early in life, or actively make referencing real metric measures a part of your life, if you want it to stick.

The ones he then drops on magnets to break them?

High-royalty, low-equity that sounds better than it is.

Jesus that man looks like he was invited to NO parties and he is going to attack the people he thinks are responsible for that.

Conveniently, unusual is not equal to immoral.

*sign* It was never a direct democracy. That is but one sort of democracy.

Much like there is “water”, which as a pure chemical is H2O - but most of the water we encounter isn’t actually pure water.

That sentiment reminds me of this:

Strong agree. I would love for the folks who properly align with progressivism and other actual Left stuff to recognize what a blight “liberals” (in the political sense of "pro-capitalism, broadly pro-“freedom”) are when left alone.

I am happy Libs are often allies or at least not enemies when it comes to equal rights. But their fascination with capitalism and letting big business have a loose (if any) leash is dangerous.

You have no fucking idea what it’s like to be Not Sure in real life.

This guy?

And you’ve lost what might be your only chance on the fedicerse to ask someone…

Oh nooooo

I’m inclined to respond. Not because I’m cynically and spitefully driven to fight you or prove you wrong.

But because I’m skeptical that you are this naive and unempathetic to how other people can function differently from you.

Found the Richard Dawkins :P

How much do you trust Republicans to be the only ones shooting?

We aren’t going to get anywhere good by not resisting.

I wouldn’t say I’m ignoring it, but that I’m usually choosing not to publicly engage with it.

The net negative reaction my comment received suggests I’m not well-placed to respond to your question.