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- Comment on Anon pets a dog 6 days ago:
No, your dog has Williams Syndrome.
- Comment on Nice 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nice 1 week ago:
There are more Christian Zionists in the United States alone than there are total Jews on the planet.
Most Jewish people are Zionist to some degree (though the number has been plummeting since Israel’s last major escalation in its genocide), but most Zionists are not Jewish.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 1 week ago:
Why is Mickey surprised? Walt Disney was incredibly racist.
- Comment on What exactly is a third party launcher? 1 week ago:
I would disagree. I think Steam’s definition is reasonable. The launcher you are intentionally using (i.e. you bought the game there and initially launched it from there) is the first party. Any other launchers are third party.
Now, if you’re looking at the game’s product page on the publisher’s website, that changes things. In that case, I’d say they’re justified in saying something like “available on these third-party launchers: Steam, GOG.”
- Comment on Alpha AF 2 weeks ago:
Andrew Tate is a convicted sex trafficker (of women). I’m pretty sure he’s seen a naked woman.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And both the fun and the realism suffer because of it. 2077 is a great game, but it could be even better if they cut the car stuff from inside Night City. Leave the Aldecaldos and Claire’s quest, maybe have Delamain specifically for moving around the exurbs, but make everything else more dense.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Most people attempting to be influencers aren’t remotely successful, even if they’re hot.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 2 weeks ago:
iPhones only have USB-C because they were forced to, but MacBooks were some of the very early adopters of the connector, and iPads also picked it up well before the requirement.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
I’d call that a failure of capitalism, not of patents specifically. Any system stops working if you change the rules enough.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
The solution to this is supposed to be the time limit: if your invention builds on a very recent invention, you may have to get permission from that inventor, but older inventions become common property and can be freely built upon.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
Patents are supposed to be pretty specific and open to alternative implementations that don’t infringe, but the USPTO has made some pretty awful decisions, especially around early home computers.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
The original idea behind them had some merit: in exchange for showing everyone else exactly how to do a cool new thing, you got to temporarily be the only one to profit from it. They’ve devolved into parenting general ideas (see the shopping cart patent) and fucking over anyone who finds a way to make the idea work though.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 4 weeks ago:
Because infants are larger than penises. Hope this helps!
- Comment on What ever happened to Ipecac? Why is it rarely used today, there was some side effects but not to warrant most hospitals to abruptly stop the use of it. 4 weeks ago:
If you’re already in a hospital, why wouldn’t they just pump your stomach?
- Comment on The horse knows the way home 5 weeks ago:
Horses are smarter than cars or bikes, faster than walking, and more available than public transportation in many places.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
OP’s was literally called “NXE,” for “New Xbox Experience.”
- Comment on I hate when people call me a "hero," but I get the inclination. 🫡 🇺🇸 5 weeks ago:
And plenty of selection bias. There’s very rarely a pleasant reason to mention your partner’s occupation to a service worker, so anyone who’s going to be normal slips under the radar.
- Comment on Its a circus and we're the clowns 1 month ago:
So your technical interview was a regular interview and not a technical one?
- Comment on The Great Ice Ball Earth Theory 1 month ago:
So, the Discworld. Yes, it is very cool.
- Comment on When you see someone crying about the Virginia redistricting, show them this. I've used it hundreds of times today. 1 month ago:
Communewealth?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Unsigned jumps from 0 to 4,294,967,295. An overflow won’t get you to 2,147,483,647 unless you have a 31-bit uint for some reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
-2,147,483,649, actually. A signed int32 can represent -1 just fine.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 1 month ago:
I recognize her face, she’s pretty prolific.
- Comment on It's been a tough month 1 month ago:
Under the silicone chest-plate with the fake breasts on it.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 2 months ago:
Well, yeah, all you have to do is look at Iran under Mossadegh to realize that reactionary forces often stem from colonial oppression. What doesn’t make sense is denying that those forces are reactionary. You can understand why something is happening and still call it what it is.
The US is largely at fault for how reactionary Iran is, but Iran is still reactionary. If you never learned to swim because your parents wouldn’t let you near water, it isn’t your fault that you never learned, but you still shouldn’t jump in the deep end.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 2 months ago:
There is no way to be a leftist or progressive dictatorship. There is no leftist or progressive way to have unequal laws for women, or to prevent gay people from marrying, or to deny people medical care. It’s a contradiction in terms. You may believe that Iran or India becoming more powerful is an overall good thing, but it is objectively and definitionally not progressive or leftist.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 2 months ago:
India is well to the right of e.g. Norway. Brazil only recently moved to the relative left. Argentina is also very right-wing (and also a lot more settler-colonialist than most of the countries not allowed into the White Countries Club). Iran and Afghanistan are about as far-right as they come, despite being very much opposed to the global order as it stands today. I wasn’t discounting the so-called “Global South,” I just also don’t think that an imperialist past is the only factor in determining whether a country is right-wing.
In fact, I’d potentially go so far as to say that the majority of poorer countries are farther right than wealthier ones. The exceptions that come to mind are Cuba, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Bolivia, and Mexico, but on the other side you have the ones I’ve already mentioned, plus Qatar, Lebanon, El Salvador, Pakistan, and more. Not doing imperialism is good, and refusing to do it is better (as opposed to simply being unable), but it doesn’t singlehandedly make an extremist theocracy leftist. If your country does not interact with others at all but is still an absolute monarchy with laws that explicitly discriminate against marginalized groups, it’s an isolationist right-wing state, not a leftist one.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 2 months ago:
The global status quo is liberalism. Social democracy is to the left of liberalism.
And I never said that socialism was fascism, I said that the USSR gave way to fascism. Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is fascist. The USSR collapsed, and fascism followed, much like the Weimar Republic collapsed and was replaced by the Nazis. That doesn’t mean that the liberals in the Weimar Republic were fascists.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 2 months ago:
Anarchist Catalonia, modern Rojava, more than a few pre-Columbian North American societies, the Paris Commune of 1793… Maybe read some theory instead of making arguments from ignorance.
And you can care about results without having historical results. Anti-monarchism in general had basically zero results post-Industrial Revolution until the liberals won in North America in the late 18th century, but that didn’t mean that they didn’t care about results, just that they hadn’t achieved much yet. The American Revolution was pretty quickly followed by the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, several more French revolutions, Brazilian independence, and eventually the October Revolution, the most recent Chinese civil war, the Cuban Revolution, and so on.
Between 1775 and 1925, the general concept of people voting on matters of statewide policy went from a relic of the Classical Era that had ended more than 1800 years earlier to the norm in North America and Europe. 1800 years of obscurity, then 150 years to ubiquity in the world’s wealthiest states and another 50 to expand to most of the rest.
Sure, anarchism has had a longer period out of the spotlight, not having been the norm since roughly the invention of agriculture ~8000 years ago, but you never know when it might return. Having a concrete, achievable plan to get results is good, but you also want to make sure that the results you’re striving for are just, otherwise you end up with liberalism again. And we all know how that ends up.
