AndroidSoul

52273 pts ยท August 30, 2018


Nah. Honestly, it makes sense to give smaller states some kind of power to not get fully steamrolled, just like it makes sense to require more than simple majority on most votes. Low pop states have very little chance to pass legislation specifically beneficial to them, but a reasonable chance to block legislation actively harmful to them in favor of larger population zones as a trade off

15 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But the original already did that. Christmas past showed the crappy childhood that turned an isolated, fearful youth into a jaded and selfish old man.

The story is about how we shouldn't let ourselves become isolated and unconcerned with the plights of others. They can make scrooge's outcome justified by his experience, but they can't make it a morally correct outcome without obliterating the entire message

15 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If they're not skeptical of all information, scientific or pseudoscientific, they're not actually a skeptic. They're someone who knows what they want to believe and are simply looking to invalidate anything that goes against that.

It's why they'll magnify any pinprick in accepted knowledge and cover their eyes while they walk past the gaping hole in their own framework

17 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Age of the internet. People have been conditioned to put their unsolicited opinions on everything. At least it's subtitles and not someone's dumb chud face actively live reacting and commenting the whole time

18 hours ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He does, though. He may be a dumbass scumfuck narcissist, but since he's always been all talk, no substance he's good at talking. Less good now that his brain is mashed potatoes, but his success has always been in being confident and entertaining to certain people

18 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Trump lying to and ghosting his contractors!? Inconceivable!

4 days ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It cost them 8$ to process your order? Must have had to use 800 Claude tokens to generate a text to speech asking an unpaid intern to run the card

4 days ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Choosing a bad slogan instead of a long one isn't helpful though. If the slogan for an initiative to shift to bike based travel is "ban all cars", or a slogan for prison reform is "empty the prisons", it isn't just going to be conservatives who misconstrue the message. Because the slogan isn't representative of the actual goal. And anyone who reads your slogan and is not then read in by somebody who actually knows what the slogan is trying to say is going to assume the slogan is what you mean

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But you do? If you own a cd or game or book, you don't own copy rights, but you do own that specific copy to do whatever non-commercial bullshit you want, irrevocably, forever. The whole complaint is the difference between purchase meaning you permanently own one private copy that belongs to you, and purchase meaning you own a license to borrow the data until the company decides to stop sharing it.

5 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Because it wasn't obvious. It was a terrible slogan. I just don't like notating sarcasm

5 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Because it was obvious he didn't actually mean just give the police less resources to do police work, even though that's exactly what the slogan says he wants. That's why he rolled his eyes.

5 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

#2 guys, we've really got to just acknowledge that 'defund the police' was a bad choice for a pithy slogan. If the slogan on its face sounds like some wild shit and you've got to explain what it means before it sounds good, you've already poisoned the well.

No matter what the actual policy is, if the simplest explanation sounds bad, the simple people will think it's bad, and the simple people are an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the electorate

5 days ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 8

Nature loves to create creatures that are aesthetically goofy little goobers and practically horrible death machines

5 days ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

#17 man included in satirical game taking down the excesses of modern culture where everyone is a perfect scumbag or absolute moron excited for appearance

6 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nobody is going to engage with your point because ai is involved. Shitting on ai has a much better upvote return than having to come up with a response to anything you actually said

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Does it have slurs, or is it just the only thing you can think of, being one of the only heavily queer-centric movies released recently, with heavy online discourse within the community over whether it is or is not transphobic?

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 13

Who cares though? People aren't paying to post these, and most of what gets reposted are exploitables that aren't even relevant to the original comic. I don't understand why there can't be nuance or death of the author in anything these days, just everything perfectly good or fully banned, no exceptions

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#1 as someone with a wife and daughter who have anxiety disorders, the coping mechanisms aren't convincing yourself there's nothing to be anxious about. It's recognizing when the levels of anxiety are unwarranted and moderating your response. Because what anxiety disorders do is magnify through feedback loops until every anxiety inducing thing is an all-consuming 10/10 threat

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Terfs or gays for trump are are certainly the right forming hateful and exclusionary lgbt subgroups.

Now, are there extreme leftist lgbt spaces that expect everyone to pass unreasonable purity tests and pillory anyone who doesn't agree with the echo chamber? Of course. But those are terminally online brain melted goblins and the vast majority of lgbt and allies are pretty ibertarian in their support of people following their hearts so long as they aren't being shits to others

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nah. If they're so indoctrinated that they aren't coming out saying "fuck trump I'm never voting republican again this party is garbage", any complaining they're doing is performative or directed at their perceived enemies and they're just going to turn around and vote for the leopard party next time.

They get to do the lifting. Anything else is wasted effort. If their eyes and experiences haven't convinced them, words certainly will not. I know this from personal experience.

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Doesn't work, no. All the democrats are socialists already, but they're also fascist scare tactics, so they are both impossibly capable and perfectly incompetent. That way, they're a scary threat and also casual to overcome by the power of the party.

Also, what if basically doesn't work on people too unimaginative to come up with things without being told, and too self centered to imagine that any group of leopards have the capacity to eat *their* face before it happens

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I believe stalking needs to be directed. It isn't stalking if you have the capacity to follow a single individual throughout their entire day, only if you intentionally target that single individual. That's why cctv all around your house is treated different than exactly one camera coincidentally pointed at one of your neighbor's bedrooms

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I liked my lizardkin picked up by a traveling band of minstrels as a baby and taught to be a bard. He doesn't understand flirting, is only attracted to other lizardkin, and can't really tell genders apart, but the bards made it clear that flirting with every barkeep, shopkeep, and random selections of strangers is the done thing.

Between him, the openly evil yuan ti, and a warforged that called all biological creatures including sapients "meat", the rp got unhinged fast

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The only real way flock could work against central park crime would be if it was doing individual person recognition and tracking, which flock assures us it isn't doing

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The real kicker is that anyone who says ignoring the infinite political upvote farm is "burying their head in the sand" forgets how the human mind reacts to seeing the same shit over and over.

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wild that the generic anti-ai post got six times the upvotes as anyone actually engaging with the dump

1 week ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Kinda, although I've found I'm the kind of customer who makes them change processes and discontinue coupons. Loyalty programs are designed to get people to come in and buy more than they intended, and too many min-maxers using the coupons to get the absolute maximum value cut into profits. Which is part of the reason virtually every coupon is hot garbage

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It is truly wild to me that he crashed out because he realized getting rich and popular off of making fun of black people and especially black stereotypes was not shining a light on a problem, but just normalizing demeaning black people and supporting stereotypes, and then doesn't understand what normalizing jokes and stereotypes about trans people will do

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So much this. An idiot would think they're going after a certain group because they're a problem. Someone actually paying attention knows the whole conservative political apparatus requires outgroups to scare or enrage the base with, preferably ones that are very small or otherwise have minimal political agency so they can't disagree or fight back

2 weeks ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0