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- Comment on Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party 1 week ago:
Not very related but I hate the XINO label and similar ideas. No, they're not "Democrats/Labor/whatever in name only" that's just how your (royal you) favorite influence laundering machine for the capitalist class works.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Potato potato, the point still stands: It's impossible to come up with a new, say, car engine design without centuries' worth of thermodynamics and assorted physics, millennia's worth of metallurgy and the labor of hundreds if not thousands of people providing the food, water, electricity, manufactured goods, etc to make the act of innovation possible, and all those people have a claim to a piece of the pie.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
why shouldn't I get to profit from that idea?
Why should you exclusively get to profit from that idea? In any case all innovation stands on the shoulders of giants supported by society at large. The idea of owning an idea in the first place is absurd, but setting that aside if someone will assert exclusive rights to an idea they should first repay society for all its indirect contributions to that idea, from past innovators to the workers whose labor makes it all possible. Or course this is impossible, meaning owning an idea automatically becomes absurd. And this is before we get to how pretty much all parents are based on publicly funded research.
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
Yes I know the cliche saying of “every president is war criminal” blah blah blah. But last president atleast were attacked or provoked by recognized threat.
And there you are. What you're now doing for Obama, Bush and Biden the establishment is willing to do for Trump. Either they're all terrorists or none are. For the record I believe "terrorist" as a label does more harm than good; I prefer terms like "fascist," "imperialist" and "war criminal," but also half the things you just listed have nothing to do with terrorism and the other half has clear equivalents for past presidents.
No other president has caused this much global terror in the modern era.
Uh... ever heard of the War on Terror?
- Comment on Not all heroes wear capes 2 weeks ago:
I mean things can get damaged in transit or go bad or anything else, so not really. Maybe if everyone in the MCD did so (since 10 to 11 is a ~9% reduction in sales), but if it's only this guy it'd easily go unnoticed.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Even with everything going on in America right now, it definitely doesn't suppress free speech more than Germany or Britain. I mean the Palestine Action thing is still happening (while Reform gets to yap all day long, mind you).
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the free speech folks have been seriously vindicated by Zionist crackdown on Palestinian solidarity in post-Oct 2023 Europe, Germany and Britain being the most famous culprits. And it's not like the far right in either of those countries has been meaningfully impeded by hate speech laws, so why even bother?
- Comment on Zack Polanski declares two-party politics dead after Hackney mayoral win 3 weeks ago:
I mean even in the best case scenario it's just gonna be a two party system with Greens vs Reform instead of Labour vs Tories. Also damn that's some terrible turnout.
- Comment on What a world 5 weeks ago:
No, but hipsters to have hips, meaning hips are hipstersters.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 5 weeks ago:
Okay not to your extent but having been thrown into the deep end in a foreign country with zero survival skills I can relate. First yeah I don't think most people have this kind of trouble. The key I've found is to beeline towards the thing closest to instructions (written or verbal) you can find. While getting panicky probably isn't normal (no judgement though, fuck normalcy), not knowing how to do things is perfectly normal and there's 99.9% going to be someone or something easy to find for people who have no idea what they're doing. Well, in the developed world anyway, but you don't exactly give me "I'mma go to Mozambique" vibes so you should be fine. Anyway yeah, I for one can say that help desks and clear signage absolutely hard-carried me through my first (and second, and third...) time at the airport; just don't be afraid to ask for help and pay attention to signs and you'll be fine.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 5 weeks ago:
Phew.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 5 weeks ago:
... Wow. I'm going to hope for the sake of everyone you'll ever meet that you're just 14 or something.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 5 weeks ago:
I hope you have the same opinion regarding philosophy, pure math and string theory, but also: Then don't fucking answer the question. Clearly some people, including the OP, see value in discussing beings whose existence cannot be verified in reality.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 1 month ago:
Because nobody actually answers the question. "Because it's bullshit" is the least interesting, least informative answer you can give to a question like this, and it does nothing except make the commenter feel clever. It gets especially annoying when legitimate answers are buried under dozens of "because God doesn't exist I'm so smart." Now an answer could reject the premise that a creator exists and sitll be interesting, but it'd have to do better than the armchair anthropology everyone here seems so fond of.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 1 month ago:
So first, asking religious questions on the Fediverse is a fool's errand, but that aside: Why not? Hell, if anything it'd be the other way around: An all-powerful being without emotion wouldn't create anything, because they wouldn't gain anything from doing so. Any creation by an omnipotent being would have to be an emotional affair.
- Comment on today's massive sunspot looks like a dancing gorilla cmv 1 month ago:
Infinite sunspot theorem moment.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
Like the other person said. The social vs antisocial thing is just the modern manifestation; that's why depending on issue the left will argue for personal autonomy while the right will be pro-tradition and "family values."
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 month ago:
I would strongly contest the idea that tankies are durther left than anarchists. This only make since if you're a shitlib.
- Comment on Porca miseria! 3 months ago:
If I had a nickel for each peninsula that's shaped like a boot I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on moo 3 months ago:
Subtility: 0.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
Probably because all the criminals are too busy posting about scary Muslim knife attacks on X.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I mean, it has. The history of liberalism is the history of the 1% violencing the bottom 50% into submission.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
You don't need more than that.
Counterpoint: Homes in many places cost more than that. Retirement too. There's a good cutoff for a wealth maximum, but 1 million ain't it.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
Aren't women's pants (other than leggings) with pockets very rare? How do you even have enough of a sample size to draw conclusions about this? Besides, women who decide (or never got to decide) against getting pants aith pockets wouldn't complain about the pockets, would they?
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 4 months ago:
ICE don't care about the law, as evidenced by everything they've done ever.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
That's a fair point, I could've said that in a less condescending way, but "customers don't know what they want" is an important piece of the puzzle here.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
I mean, customers not knowing what they want is a thing. When someone says "I'd like it if this thing had that functionality," they're not necessarily considering all the externalities that might make their preference less desirable. What women have now sucks, but according to a large majority the alternative sucks even more, so the status quo persists.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
I mean sure, that's why I said "most women" and not "all women." There is real demand for women's pants with pockets, but (especially after the more committed folks buy unisex or men's pants) the scale isn't enough to sustain a large business. That aside, do cargo pants not work if you want pockets?
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
My source here is basically Reddit so I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard multiple times that businessmen occasionally try to invest in women's pants with pockets but they don't get enough demand to make a profit. There are still some who have managed to make money this way so there are places that sell pants with pockets, but it's a small market. And no, I have no idea what those places are.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 months ago:
At least for the pockets thing it's a difference between what women think they want and what they actually want. When most women say they want pants with pockets, what they mean is pants that look the same as the ones they already have, but also with pockets. That's impossible to make so, so women are forced to choose between tight pants that highlight their figure and pockets and they choose the former. As for bras, after a quick google my less than educated guess is that because bigger bras have rapidly increased in demand in the past two decades (and even then many wear bras that are too small), at the turn of the century business execs were right to consider bigger bras to be a marginal market with no point in worrying too much about it. Now, however, they're just out of touch. If I'm right hopefully this will correct itself once someone wakes up to the business opportunity.
