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- Comment on $1$ 9 hours ago:
- Comment on wat 6 days ago:
That’s intuitive but actually completely wrong. There is no “absolute” reference frame, and nothing can move faster than light in any relative reference frame.
The only thing that gets around that is the expansion of space itself. It’s not that the objects are moving away from each other, it’s that the distance between them is expanding, causing them to become farther apart.
The best analogy is to picture an ant crawling on the surface of an expanding balloon. If the balloon keeps expanding fast enough forever, the ant won’t be able to make it from point A to point B. It’s not really that the ant is moving away from point B, it’s just that the distance is expanding faster than it can move.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
It’s wild how ideas like this continue to exist despite being so contrary to evidence and reason, just because it shifts blame away from systemic issues and the ruling class.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
That sounds like one of the deeper circles of Hell.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
That’s still not as fast of a development, and the conditions aren’t really comparable. China used to be among the poorest countries in the world.
And while their government has not always been ideal, it was undoubtably the best option on the table historically. The corrupt Nationalists didn’t do shit for the people (and pocketed foreign aid). Before that, with no central authority, was the warlord period. Before that was the backwards Qing dynasty. In all the thousands of years of Chinese history, nobody really did anything for the rural people until the communists.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Marx… is convincing with his way of argumentation (at least if you’re a bit stupid)
I’m sorry, what? Have you ever actually tried to read Capital? Most of Marx’s works are dense and academic, drawing intellectual traditions that are often unfamiliar to modern readers (classical economics, Hegel, etc). Marx’s way of argumentation isn’t really geared toward the lowest common denominator.
It’s kinda funny how you can’t even keep your criticism straight through a single comment. In one sentence, reading Marx is a “chore” that nobody would want to slog through, in the very next one, Marx is so persuasive, his honeyed words easily swaying the minds of any who stumble across them, like the Sirens calling ships to their rocks.
As for “no good goal exists anymore” or “it’s hard to see what good goal tankies ever had” maybe we just like it when this sort of thing happens:
lemmy.ml/…/86eca1ab-0d3d-4d7e-99fa-a7a3ddb4c3dd.j…
The revolution that feeds the children gets my support.
When you figure out a better way to do that, get back to me.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
This is the absolute worst part of site culture, particularly on .world.
If you talk shit about another user or instance, then checking up on whether it’s actually true or not is not “following around and harassing” it’s just basic fact checking.
This is why I always say, “If someone says something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.” At the very least, it should be disregarded as hearsay. But somehow the culture is that people get to talk shit and if you check them on it you’re the bad guy. How anyone can stand that BS is beyond me.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 2 weeks ago:
People do call him out on reddit, lemmy, and other social media. As for bigger names, it’s not just a matter of what’s true, but what the practical consequences would be.
Because Trump is so petty and vindictive, people tend to not want to say things that will tick him off. Foreign leaders might be of the mindset of “weathering the storm” in the hopes he’s replaced by someone better, while domestic media outlets risk being cut out of press briefings if they say anything critical of him.
As for the Democrats, they have all kinds of screwed up priorities. They’re constantly trying to appeal to the “center” and be accommodating to a fault. The right has criticized them for “promoting violence” when they do call someone a fascist or similar. They’re all about bipartisanship and you can’t really do that while calling the other side terrorists, regardless of the actual truth.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
Fight Club, but the protagonist and Tyler Durden are two different people, rather than being different headmates of one plural system.
- Comment on Remember, they are the good guys. These are just the US ones. 2 weeks ago:
Mk ultra sounds pretty smart. And it is. If stimulants could reduce your risk of death would you not use them?
I have no idea how these sentences are connected.
There is no van of cops following you at all times.
No one said there was?
- Comment on Remember, they are the good guys. These are just the US ones. 2 weeks ago:
Technically, that was with Germany, but a similar idea.
- Comment on Remember, they are the good guys. These are just the US ones. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get it right too soon or people will call you a conspiracy theorist.
Remember, we don’t do that stuff anymore, it’s totally crazy to suggest that’s even a possibility. Wait 20 years, it’ll come out that we did, in fact, still do that stuff - but only back then. But by then we’ll have stopped and it’ll be totally crazy to suggest that’s even a possibility. Until you wait another 20 years.
- Comment on Remember, they are the good guys. These are just the US ones. 2 weeks ago:
Funny you say that, guess what happened after the war, when they were captured by the Americans?
Total immunity for all their war crimes, in exchange for their research. Apart from a handful who had vivisected American pilots, anyway, but the ones who experimented on Chinese victims got off scot free.
The US would go on to employ chemical and biological warfare extensively in Korea shortly after, as well as in Vietnam.
- Comment on Remember, they are the good guys. These are just the US ones. 2 weeks ago:
Saying this from a German instance is certainly a choice.
- Comment on Remember, they are the good guys. These are just the US ones. 2 weeks ago:
No, we know the US government is stalking us more from the Snowden leaks than what’s listed here.
But also, “absurd but promising ideas” is whitewashing this stuff to a truly ridiculous degree. This stuff wasn’t like, “We think psychic powers might exist so we’ll test if people can tell what card I’m holding.” We’re talking about intentionally infecting black men with syphilis to use as guinea pigs. Was that “an absurd but promising idea?”
How Donald Ewen Cameron, who was paid by the CIA to pose as a legitimate doctor and abduct Canadian citizens who came in with everyday symptoms like headaches, and he’d put them in months-long comas and electrocute them and inject LSD and do God knows what else to them because he burned his research notes?
That’s only the tip of the iceberg. You might as well say that Josef Mengele just let his curiosity get a little bit out of hand.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
I know, it’s absolutely tragic, the sacred flame of truth extinguished by the sinister, authoritarian mods, controlling the unwashed masses of users by keeping them ignorant of such enlightened comments as, “lol hexbear sux.”
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Man I have no idea wtf is going on inside that head of yours, but I’m glad you’re having fun with whatever the fuck this is.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
That would be funny if it weren’t true.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
Lmao.
Hey, did you know that Hexbear literally has a clock saying the time in Moscow? Clearly, those Russian bots are just so dumb they don’t realize what a dead giveaway it is! Zero self awareness!
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
The fact that you think the replies weren’t self aware is the funniest part of all this.
Like, you actually think they just randomly decided to describe banning you (for 24 hours btw) as “putting you on a list” under a post about a banlist, and it wasn’t an intentional reference?
If you actually stopped and thought about it for like two seconds, you’d get the joke, but you’re so caught up in your original thought of, “I’ll get myself banned to show how hypocritical they are” that you missed it completely.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
It’s a joke that went over OP’s head.
He came to Hexbear to sling shit and get banned so that he’d have something to whine about.
One user, recognizing the irony, made a joke about Hexbear having it’s own list. A mod thought the joke was funny and decided to commit to the bit by putting it in the modlog, while also limiting it to a 24 hour ban.
That way, he got the ban he went looking for and he gets to make this post, but he also looks completely ridiculous whining about it to anyone paying attention.
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
Likewise.
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
More cope, as expected.
I don’t even know that you do think you’re smart though. Like there’s has to be some degree that you’re aware you can’t actually defend your position, or you’d be trying to. I think it’s more that you’re just a sore loser.
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
If that’s not your position, I legitimately have no idea what it was, because you keep refusing to tell me in favor of these snipes.
The reality is that it was your position, it got completely destroyed, and you’re really, really bad at taking an L.
Keep posting cope, because it’s clearly all you know how to do.
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
“If vegans care so much about reducing harm to animals, why don’t they extend that to plants? This proves they’re hypocrites.”
“But vegans do reduce harm to plants.”
“Uhh uhh uhh but if you used logic somehow it still shows uhh you’re dumb”
Ok dude.
- Comment on I guessed 2 weeks ago:
Well, you certainly haven’t used an ounce of it this conversation.
