kkj

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please don't deny that women are obsessed with shoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of shoe autism before, but I support him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most important question from the election is whether Democrats will just sink back into old habits or self-actualize and destroy Nazism for good in the USA? The ability to protest goes deeper...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… kind of the point. People often see the election as a win unto itself and stop pressuring. Electing Democrats is just an opportunity. You still have to bully them into actually doing anything with the power. The only thing we’ve accomplished so far is slowing the fascists down a bit so we can try to catch our breath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨¿How communism actually work in practice?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Charging money for things is not a prerequisite to tracking which things are being acquired. You’d still have something roughly equivalent to stores in a moneyless society, because things still need to get from the people who make them to the people who use them. It’s inconvenient and inefficient for individuals to go to a bunch of different farms for different foods, different factories to get different tools, and so on instead of each farm and factory loading giant quantities onto trains and shipping them to centralized places.

  2. Look up Catalonia during the most recent Spanish civil war. Incentives aren’t nearly the problem that most people assume they are. Those happy chemicals actually work quite well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the perfect cola for closure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a relief. It’s no good diddling kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a U.S. president premptively pardon themself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What did John Quincy Adams do? I thought he was cool :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And it's not unsettling at all⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you break a tooth and you suddenly have 50% fewer intact teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨His mother is very proud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can he get a Guinness World Record for the most Guinness World Records held by a US Senator?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This guy already voted, did you ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but most of the races were uncontested. For the ones where the single candidate was a Republican, I wrote in “No Confidence”. That didn’t accomplish anything, but it made me feel smug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The tuna in the refrigerator, on the other hand, is suddenly worth less. Where’s the consistency?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people claim they know of but really don't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people really love to condescendingly pretend that other people are wrong for talking about the general concept of freedom of speech instead of conflating it with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What, because we haven’t torn down a massive stone monument from 1941? The vast majority of us weren’t even born when it was completed. Are you going to condemn Chinese people for not blowing up the Terracotta Army?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather eat Detroit pizza than anything served in Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen a native 5:4 CRT. I imagine it’s a lot harder to make a different aspect ratio with CRTs, since LCDs are essentially cut out of a sheet, while CRTs are molded glass.

  With LCDs, though, 1280x1024 was a fairly common native resolution. If you were getting an LCD above 1024x768 that wasn’t a widescreen, it was almost certainly 1280x1024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1280x1024 is a pretty common size for old LCDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Find a partner who doesn’t mind doing laundry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m doing stupid bullshit with $4 microcontrollers instead of doing stupid bullshit with bigger machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This makes so much more sense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a solid start, but what’s your threshold for an isthmus? Does Panama count, or is there only one American continent? Same question for the Sinai.

  And if they don’t count, Australia’s inclusion seems a bit arbitrary, given the massive size difference between it and the next-largest landmass (the Americas are nearly 6x the size).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 reasons why we should move Israel to Utah⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Elohim is the name of the Mormon God, although his name is not to be uttered (oops!). The Jewish God bears the same name, amongst various other names, depending on which Rabbi’s argument is presented.

  If I recall correctly, the Jewish god’s name will change to Elohim once the Messiah arrives. Mormons believe that the Messiah already arrived in Missouri, so they call him Elohim, but to Jews he’s still Yahweh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This makes so much more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So islands belong to the nearest large landmass? I guess you could do that, but then where’s the threshold? Obviously, Africeurasia has to be a continent if you want there to be any continents, and America probably is too, but then is Australia a continent that includes NZ and some other islands, or is it part of Africeurasia? How about Greenland? Are the Diomede Islands really on two different continents? Indonesia would be too, if you count Australia as a continent.

  I’ll give you that that’s geologically consistent while being culturally independent, but it’s pretty inconvenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This makes so much more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d appreciate if you could answer the question. Do you perhaps have another geologic feature to propose? If you want to use large landmasses, then islands don’t belong to any continents at all. If you don’t set a minimum size, then there are far too many continents to remember. So what is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This makes so much more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Approximately, yes. Russia also spans both, with the smaller European section being much more populated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This makes so much more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Southern boundary is the Mediterranean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This makes so much more sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you think that Hokkaido is in North America and Somalia isn’t in Africa?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you wearing his tee-shirt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll see that and raise you someone who doesn’t have a ton of videos titled “you won’t BELIEVE how awful this communist group was!”: youtu.be/sB5-yxDrDQk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you wearing his tee-shirt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he left (and abdicated all of his own titles and citizenship) to go fight against imperialism in the Congo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fox News stars attend China’s State Dinner despite ranting about communism in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that was a total, not just his base salary, but I didn’t look into it too carefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neoliberal is the new woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does McCarthy calling everyone he didn’t like a communist or socialist mean that communism and socialism don’t exist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fox News stars attend China’s State Dinner despite ranting about communism in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re paid very handsomely not to. Watters is estimated to make $5 million a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And if the roads are 400% driveable, you stick to them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a dungeon master⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because neoliberals tolerate gay people doesn’t mean that gay rights are inherently neoliberal. Democracy, maybe, but we don’t know if they were doing elections with unlimited campaign spending by property owners or if they were voting in workers’ councils. Classical Athens, the United States, the PRC, the DPRK, and the Republic of Ireland all have/had democracies in some sense, but they vary massively in implementation, and anyone who calls all of those neoliberal is either very confused or not being sincere.

  Furthermore, trying to change the world is central to nearly any RPG. A crusade to obtain human rights doesn’t prohibit whimsy or enjoyment, but when you do the fantasy equivalent of traveling to modern Gaza to organize a festival, you shouldn’t be terribly surprised when you get a bad ending regardless of whether you accomplish your goal.