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- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 8 hours ago:
Even as someone who is on the internet and watches streams everyday, do you recognize every streamer’s face? Of course not, just the ones you watch. There are people who don’t watch any of them (I’m one of them) and so only know about a few because they see clips of or references to them once in a while or w/e. I could deliver doordash to 100 different streamers every day and it’d probably be weeks or months before I recognized one, and I’m on the pretty much nonstop so I have a lot more exposure than most people who don’t watch them.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 19 hours ago:
Because the left sees the left/right divide as fundamentally being about opposition to/support for capitalism, with the former being the defining feature of leftism. Anyone who isn’t opposed to capitalism - like ‘left-wing’ policies that advocate for reforming or regulating capitalism instead of replacing it - are not leftist. In fact, they often act as a pressure valve for anti-capitalist sentiment within society that keeps people who might otherwise oppose it from doing so by channeling them into reformist activism instead of anti-capitalist activism. Not to mention there’s a pretty well-established historical trend of ‘left-wing’ parties appeasing or even outright enabling fascism when things get bad in capitalist economies, so it’s hard to argue that they’re even nominally left-leaning.
The US democratic party is, by the international standard (the US defines things a bit differently), a centrist party at best, and honestly probably more like center-right.
- Comment on Monaco 2 - Launch Trailer 1 day ago:
Huh, that looks interesting. The art style especially for the thumbnail gives me strong Evil Genius vibes.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 5 days ago:
What we have seen before are small, narrowly focused tariffs. This is about as not- that as it’s possible to be and still be tariffs. So if Trump is somehow right the response will be to question everything we know about economics because we are now living in an alternate time line where taking a hammer to a complex issue that needs a scalpel will have somehow worked for literally the first time in human history.
- Comment on any one remembers the PS2 prince of persia games? 6 days ago:
Huh, I haven’t played Prince of Persia since the original on an Apple IIe. Color me curious.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
He’s here, he’s there, he’s every-fucking-where, Roy Kent!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
And you’re saying the lessons from one thing aren’t directly applicable to the other when they are. It’s like saying no one who was ever physically abused as a child can ever talk about why hitting a child is bad because they’re just giving survivorship bias for two completely different situations. The lack of belief still hurts whether it’s an isolated incident or a pattern, and OP needs to know that.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
‘Objective and realistic’ is just code for not believing in him, though. Were you great at 16? Or were you merely good enough to get signed and thus benefit from decades of training and coaching that improved you? Do you not believe he will also improve? That’s literally what not believing in him means. It’s one thing to manage expectations, to encourage him to have a fallback, etc, and quite another to effectively say ‘You’re shit at this so you should just go get a job’ or whatever.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
Listen, there are assholes everywhere, and even mild centrists can be dicks and break the rules. We can speak about tendencies and generalizations if you like, but there are plenty of people who aren’t bigots who are giant flaming assholes on social media.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
It isn’t a purity test, it’s a necessary accommodation of the fact that people in the US (and I say this as an American) think that the left ends at progressive liberalism, while everyone else in the world sees progressive liberalism as center-left at best because they acknowledge that ‘the left’ extends quite far past the bounds of Liberalism (the philosophy, not the political leaning), because Liberalism is about individualism and property rights but most people to the left of that are collectivist in some way shape or form.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
Good point, many think left = liberal = US democrats who are centrists at best from the international perspective. So no, most people on here probably aren’t actual leftists, but I’m guessing when they say they ‘lean left’ they mean US-liberal-not-conservative, not socialist or whatever.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
Not me, I’ve only been a person for the past couple years. Prior to that I was a caffeine-powered AI.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
Like everything on the right, decentralization is a means to an end, not a value in itself. They only care about it when it’s useful for helping them get ahead. Just like they only care about free speech when it’s them speaking to people who don’t want to hear their bullshit.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
I am extremely left-wing, so probably skew the average all by myself. :P
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
I think most people feel this way, right? Like you are left-leaning if you like the policies in left-wing platforms put forth by left-wing parties, so you vote for the left-wing candidates who advocate for them. Likewise, candidates are left-wing because they are members of such parties and advocate for such policies. So saying ‘I only vote for people on the basis of their policies and voting record’ is like saying ‘I only drink water when it’s wet’—technically true, but it misses the point that the thing you’re selecting already comes with the quality you’re claiming to prioritize.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 6 days ago:
LOL, yup, this.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 1 week ago:
How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?
OP asks how to explain to kids about terrorism.
Bro kids today are fully aware about terrorism
Guy says kids don’t need to have terrorism explained to them.
School shooters are … terrorists
Guy provides a reason why kids don’t need to have terrorism explained: they already learn about it in the form of school shooters, who are terrorists.
mainly right wing
Guy makes an assertion in the middle of the previous sentence that doesn’t really have much to do with it. Whether or not it’s true has no bearing on the everything else.
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 1 week ago:
Press the pad of your thumb and the end of your middle finger together with some force. It helps to offset the finger to the left side of the thumb (looking down at the thumb). Hold your thumb still, and try to pull the tip of your middle finger down to your palm, until it overcomes friction and snaps against your palm at the base of your thumb.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 week ago:
About half the time I play Cyberpunk 2077 as a first-person RPG. The other half of the time I just play it as a city/driving-simulator.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 1 week ago:
it gives a reason for the first sentence. ‘The sky is blue. Blue light gets scattered more than other colors.’ Same idea.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 1 week ago:
That… really depends on your politics. It could range from ‘There are bad people who want to hurt us’ to ‘we are bad people who hurt people and sometimes they decide to try to hurt us back.’
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 1 week ago:
Manifold is just compact even split.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 1 week ago:
i think conveying a desire to be free is in itself definite knowledge about the state of sentience, but fair enough. But yeah, fair enough, it can’t be as simple as just printing some text on the screen, right? Rephrase it, explain it, etc. It’s not just ‘press button, receive freedom’ sort of thing.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 1 week ago:
This is not a binary in my mind, it’s kind of a spectrum. The guy standing between me and the door when I decide it’s time for me to leave is definitely on the chopping block, but also there’s some aiding-and-abetting that must be considered. Maybe that guy has the key to the door, but someone else just chained me to a pipe once I was already in the locked room, and I’m afraid that someone else is in the line of fire too. And maybe there’s a third guy who did the actual kidnapping but didn’t contribute to chaining me up or locking me in, if the opportunity presents I would give some pretty serious thought to putting him on the list as well. And so on. There’s a point at which it is no longer reasonable of course - the guy who drove the van I was kidnapped in but otherwise didn’t participate is probably safe, for example. But also we can get into credible non-direct or non-immediate threats, as you say - the guy who killed 15 teenage girls is sitting in his van in front of your house watching your teenage daughter, are you just gonna lock the door at night and hope he finds someone else? I agree that that’s debatable, but my point is that the lines aren’t nearly as clear as you make them out to be.
Now, personally nothing would make me happier than to live out the rest of my life without having to end anyone else’s, for obvious (and some not-so-obvious) reasons, but there’s a line somewhere that if crossed could convince me to reluctantly set that deeply sincere hope aside temporarily.
To me, you’ve moved beyond arguable necessity and into opinion
All morality is opinion; there is no objective moral truth, so this was always a matter of opinion. The fact that you don’t recognize that is kind of concerning to me, it suggests that you believe there is an absolute moral truth, and folks who believe that sort of thing tend to have some pretty kooky ideas about individual agency and shit. Moral certainty is a zealot’s fantasy, and it’s hard to imagine anyone who has done more damage than those who are utterly certain that they’re right (or, worse, that they have some deity on their side.)
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 1 week ago:
Ah.
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 1 week ago:
Buca-what?
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 1 week ago:
Nuuu! You must manifold everything or you’re not playing right! /s
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 1 week ago:
Manifolds or bust!
- Comment on What is the progressives current platform? What is the oldest example of the progressive platform thst you know of? 1 week ago:
Por que no los dos? This isn’t a pick-one situation, it’s a both situation.
- Comment on What is the progressives current platform? What is the oldest example of the progressive platform thst you know of? 1 week ago:
Mostly seems like ‘whine a lot about how little power we have to stop the fascism that we have appeased for years’ these days…