Notices by Michael Gemar (michaelgemar@mstdn.ca)

@jeffowski @LillyHerself Does this stance rule out incarceration for legal infractions?

@petealexharris @jeffowski @LillyHerself My question wasn’t meant to be a “gotcha” — I’m genuinely curious as to the tension between bodily autonomy and legitimate state power.

@LillyHerself @petealexharris @jeffowski It’s a fascinating domain (I’d add vaccination to the list). Like many rights in the social area, I’m not sure that an an absolute right to bodily autonomy can be maintained, although under what circumstances one can have that right superceded is sticky, and having a framework for questions like this seems critical.

@livinghell @LillyHerself @petealexharris @jeffowski I’m very pro-vaccine, but I think it’s questionable to say that forcing someone to get one because it will be better for them in the long run takes a rather paternalistic view of bodily autonomy. Other, more drastic medical interventions have been justified that way.

(I think universal vaccines are justified because they let *others* act without fear of infection.)

@livinghell @LillyHerself @petealexharris @jeffowski That account of vaccines still seems to challenge bodily autonomy to me. We don’t force diabetics to take insulin, or a cancer patient to undergo chemotherapy, even if in both cases it would be objectively better for them in the long run. I think vaccines are about *public* health, and requiring them justified because of how that impacts others.

@markvonwahlde @livinghell @LillyHerself @petealexharris @jeffowski Exactly. It’s a minor violation of their bodily autonomy for a greater good.

@ernie I like the guy, but he pretty much always does.

@holyramenempire @gemelliz @lowies @GottaLaff There are gonna be a lot of surprised Log Cabin Republicans when the roundups begin.

@NanoRaptor So, just to summarize, in your ancient house there is a spot with a deep pulsing noise that disturbs your pets and you think may be an old well.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this as Act 1 in a horror movie.

@AkaSci This is a *really* informative thread — thanks!

@AkaSci That’s not great news. However, Ingenuity has done vastly more than its original mission, and it’s hard to imagine any future surface mission to *any* body with an atmosphere not including a copter of some kind.

It’s perhaps the biggest bang for buck vehicle in planetary science.

@tchambers How can this possibly be legal? I presume the producers don’t have the rights to use his image/likeness.

@roberttsai @NewsDesk Biden might want to take advantage of that…

@nutjob4life @TheBreadmonkey I keep trying to make this scan to the opening of “When Doves Cry”.

@TheBreadmonkey @nutjob4life “This is not my beautiful octopus!!!”

@shoq @mmasnick It’s dark times indeed when Godwin’s Law gets revoked…

@GottaLaff @Brandi_Buchman Apparently it’s not a coup if it is disorganized and unsuccessful.

@schrotthaufen @StillIRise1963 @hannu_ikonen Agreed, and I also think that they are a demonstration that the movement is not about consistent ideology, but instead naked power. Making its followers declare contradictions is a way of expressing that.

@StillIRise1963 @hannu_ikonen This is especially true when they are apparently contradictory or hypocritical. Consistency doesn’t matter to them.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GottaLaff The problems with Artemis management is arguably all around the traditional contractors (Boeing, Northrop Grumman, ULA) building the Space Launch System, which is *vastly* over-budget, ridiculously delayed, and will be unaffordable to fly. The SpaceX side of Artemis has run reasonably smoothly and cheaply by comparison.

Musk is a terrible human, but SpaceX is by far the leader in launch on the planet. Unfortunate, but true.