WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 days ago:
No, you’re like one of the folks ratting out their neighbors to the gestapo.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 days ago:
If you wear this, you’re an agent of the gestapo.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 days ago:
When the law abandons the people, the law of the jungle returns.
- Comment on Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty 2 weeks ago:
“Vaccines aren’t the solution to polio. I support behavioral changes and personal responsibility instead.”
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
I mean, you can masturbate about all laws, contracts, and agreements being a “threat of force,” but I don’t give such libertarian dogma any credence.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
Respectfully, you’re painting with far too broad a brush. I don’t consider it authoritarian to not want my next door neighbor to turn their front lawn into a junkyard. Again, it really depends on the HOA. I know that goes against the Lemmy party line, but it’s my lived experience and the experience of millions of American homeowners.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
IDK. I’ve had good and bad experiences with them. But overall more positive than negative. It’s all about which HOA you’re talking about. Yes, you can say you should be able to do what you want with your land. But that isn’t how any kind of land ownership works anywhere on Earth. There are always some entities regulating how you can use it, as you inevitably have neighbors and you don’t have a right to damage the enjoyment of their property.
Can they be overbearing? Sure, the wrong ones can. But they also keep mean that I don’t have to worry about my next door neighbor turning his property into a junkyard.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
OTOH, your town planning councils tend to be a lot more restrictive.
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
I mean, with modern drone armies, there’s less and less need to restrict the draft to they young…
- Comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Dies at 86 3 weeks ago:
The word you’re looking for is “murdered.”
- Comment on No u 🫵 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if you think about it, the null hypothesis really should be that the Earth is flat. That is after all what the human eye perceives at first examination. It was proven conclusively to be round millennia ago, but it still required proof. But if you had no other evidence than your eyes, Occam’s Razor would suggest the Earth is flat.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
Before he’s set for release, they’ll put him in a cell with someone already serving a life sentence. Another jailhouse killing.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
They’ll kill him.
- Comment on Make a note 3 weeks ago:
No. You’re high. You think it’s the year 1999. It’s actually closer to the year 2199. You’ve been living in a dream world.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
It also works for metaphysics. Reincarnation is real and there’s only one soul, just bouncing around through all of time and space in an endless loop.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
I always liked the idea that the genie rules, when they’re presented, are not laws/rules so much as hard physical limits. You can’t wish for more wishes because the genie just doesn’t have that much power. They’re powerful, but they’re not God with a capital G. The genie tries to add a electron to every atom in the universe. If fails and collapses with exhaustion before it’s even finished adding one extra electron to every atom in your body.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 weeks ago:
They’re making the electrons gay!
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just getting into a little bit of Troubles 4 weeks ago:
Well, the IRA tends to bring people on more as independent contractors rather than full-time employees. Hence the preference for IRAs.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, if there were alien craft zipping around, I can imagine why no government would want to disclose them. It would basically be an announcement of, “these damn craft are flying around the atmosphere and the space around Earth. They’re utterly beyond anything we’re capable of. We’re not sure if they’re aliens, time travelers, beings from another dimension, literal angels or demons, or something even stranger. But we are utterly at their mercy. They’re spying on us constantly, for purposes unknown. Oh, and occasionally they’ll just abduct people and carry them off for God-knows-what reason. I’m sorry, but there is literally nothing we or any human being can do about this. They’re basically gods to us, and we know next to nothing about them, where they come from, or why they’re here.”
What leader would ever want to give that speech? I don’t consider it likely we are being visited by non-human intelligences. But if we were, it wouldn’t be anything like Roswell and Area 51. We wouldn’t have a base full of downed or crashed alien craft. They simply wouldn’t crash, and we would have no ability to shoot them down. A real announcement of alien visitors wouldn’t be the reveal of some vast secret government project, a revealing of secret strength. It would be us saying, “we’ve been working on this problem for nearly a century, and we’ve learned nothing. All we know is that they’re there, and we can’t do a damn thing about it.” It would a confession of weakness and utter helplessness, a government openly admitting it’s completely powerless to protect its people from an unknown outside threat. Can you imagine a president telling the public, “yeah, you might get abducted by aliens. Sorry, that just happens sometimes. There’s nothing we can do about it.”
It would represent a complete shattering of our species’ sense of value and security. And voters tend not to like politicians who tell them the unvarnished truth.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 4 weeks ago:
New crazy conspiracy theory: we’re being quietly targeted for extermination by a hostile alien species.
They could wipe us out in an afternoon if they wanted to, but they can’t just come right in and bomb us from orbit, as that would cause an interstellar relations incident, maybe mass unrest back home. But they also want us gone. We gotta go because we’re an advancing young species, near their territory, and are a potential future problem. We’re not dealing with an alien army attacking us; we’re dealing with an alien equivalent of the CIA. They’re here to do the dirty work quietly.
They know species at our level often run headfirst into environmental catastrophes as their technology becomes great enough to threaten the planet they live on. Instead of helping us, however, they’re throwing gasoline on the fire. They’ve brainwashed/replaced with clones the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. And their behavior was psychologically programmed to maximize the chances of them leading us right into a climate apocalypse. Most species eventually get their shit together and place limits on extraction and pollution, less they all die. But if the right type of crazies are running the place, a species can just slam the accelerator as it drives off a cliff.
And when we eventually do burn ourselves alive in a climate Armageddon, the aliens will run news stories, lamenting the tragic tale of a poor primitive planet that couldn’t right its ways in time. No threat of war between great interstellar powers. No mass protests movements back on the homeworld. Just a potential future rival nipped in the bud, no muss, no fuss. Mass murder dressed up as death by natural causes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you’re willing to throw one minority under the bus, you will throw all of them under the bus.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
You have piss poor reading comprehension. I suggest you enroll in an adult learning class at your local community college.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
Wait, which is it. Are Palestinian supporters too few to care about, or were they numerous enough to blame for the election loss? Cause you’re doing the classic fascist “our enemies are both incredibly weak and incredibly strong” bit.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
Politics has always been a popularity contest? Did you not learn this in your grade school student council elections?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
You’re right. Liberals do love their straw men.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
Not voting for them has done just that! We’ve seen real change at the DNC, and that is only because the neoliberals have been completely discredited. They can no longer claim the narrative of being the adult in the room, the logical choice for electability.
Party power structures only change after the party loses.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
People don’t like being insulated and taken advantage of. Why is that so hard to understand?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
I remember debates on Reddit. I kept pointing out that the official inflation figures fail to measure the pain people were figuring. But I just got downvoted to Hell by a bunch of troglodytes mindlessly parroting the CPI figures, as if that was the only thing that matters.
There is a severe strain of Orwellian magical thinking among liberals. Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil. Ignore all bad news and try to give your way to victory.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 weeks ago:
In other words, she lost because she was a Limousine Liberal.