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- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 20 hours ago:
Nor most Americans (Jewish or not), for some reason.
- Comment on Monopoly 23 hours ago:
That’s a good point, and made me wonder if the Georgist who made the original would have been silly enough to include it.
Answer: nope, of course she knew better. In the original, that square is labeled “poorhouse”/“public park” (not “-ing”) instead.
- Comment on Monopoly 23 hours ago:
anybody with half a brain gets the impression of unfairness after a game of monopoly.
The trouble is, their incorrect takeaway is that Monopoly is a bad game, instead of the correct takeaway that Monopoly is an excellent demonstration of a bad system. Parker Brothers’ removal of the “prosperity” ruleset ruined any educational value it had.
- Comment on How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel 3 days ago:
Zionism among evangelical Christians is antisemitic. They don’t give a flying fuck about the Jews having a place to live; they just want them to have a place to go away from here.
And they want to kickstart the apocalypse, of which a precondition is the Jews returning to the Holy Land, so there’s that. (They expect said Jews to burn while they themselves get Raptured, of course.)
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 3 days ago:
Yes, actually. And everyone else should, too.
- Comment on Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles 3 days ago:
The “transition away from gas vehicles” and the “transition to electric vehicles” aren’t the same thing and shouldn’t be conflated.
The bulk of the transition should be to other forms of transportation, not simply subbing out disastrous gas automobiles for only-marginally-less-disastrous electric automobiles.
- Comment on "Grow up. These are my movies, not yours": George Lucas Won't be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy 5 days ago:
The same thing Thomas Jefferson smoked, I guess? I’m not saying anything much different than what he wrote in this letter explaining his philosophical underpinning of the Copyright (and Patent) Clause:
It has been pretended by some (and in England especially) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions; & not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. but while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural, and even an hereditary right to inventions. it is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. by an universal law indeed, whatever, whether fixed or moveable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property, for the moment, of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation the property goes with it. stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. it would be curious then if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. if nature has made any one thing less susceptible, than all others, of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an Idea; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the reciever cannot dispossess himself of it. it’s peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. he who recieves an idea from me, recieves instruction himself, without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, recieves light without darkening me.
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 5 days ago:
Surveillance apologists like to make the argument that “in public you have no expectation of privacy.” But what they don’t seem to understand is that having centralized networks of cameras (and especially ones hooked up to things like facial recognition databases) creates a whole new third level that goes beyond merely “in public” and instead becomes a panopticon.
“In public” a person might remember seeing you at a certain time and location, but that doesn’t mean they can trace back your whole location history along with that of everyone who was ever near you at some point along it and feed it into a computer looking for suspicious patterns. When somebody tries to follow you closely enough to do that, we call it “stalking” and it’s a crime.
But somehow once thing “X” becomes “X, but with a computer” lawmakers think it’s magic or some shit and previously-criminal stuff suddenly becomes A-OK! So now everybody is being criminally stalked by Ring (i.e. Amazon), Nest (i.e. Google), etc., and too many people are too computer-illiterate to even begin to grasp what a massive problem that is.
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 5 days ago:
Von Braun and the rocket scientists were the most famous part, but not all 1,600 were involved in aerospace specifically.
Here are some relevant snippets from the Wikipedia article on it:
Scientists taken were often involved in the Nazi rocket program, aviation, and chemical and biological warfare.
The operation was not solely focused on rocketry; efforts were directed toward synthetic fuels, medicine, and other fields of research.
Operation Paperclip was part of a broader strategy by the US to harness German scientific talent in the face of emerging Cold War tensions, ensuring this expertise did not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union or other nations.
Anyway, I don’t know that any of them ended up doing fucked-up stuff for the CIA, and was making a joke. But like many jokes, the kernel of plausibility is part of what makes it funny.
- Comment on How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? 5 days ago:
That is the effect of ultraprocessed foods: they’re designed to be hyperpalatable so that people will eat (and therefore buy) more.
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 5 days ago:
Literal NAZIs (i.e., Operation Paperclip). It even says so right there in the screed, about 3/4 of the way down.
- Comment on "Grow up. These are my movies, not yours": George Lucas Won't be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy 5 days ago:
All works are inherently public domain: copyright isn’t property, which is why it expiring isn’t an unconstitutional “taking.” Congress merely chooses to grant control back to the Creator for a while, as an incentive to create more works. It’s a power Congress has, not an obligation.
It’s ironic: publishers claim copies are “licensed, not sold,” but that’s a lie: individual copies are property, and are sold. The real “licensed, not sold” is Congress granting the temporary monopoly privilege itself.
- Comment on "Grow up. These are my movies, not yours": George Lucas Won't be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy 5 days ago:
No George, you piece of shit, the films belong to the Public Domain and we’re graciously allowing you to profit from them for a bit. If you’re gonna bitch about it we can revoke your privilege!
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 week ago:
Sony is customer-hostile shit too, though. I’ve been boycotting them for literally decades now.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Adam Smith is less right-wing than the cargo-cultists think.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
inteletually bankdupt
Sounds about right, misspellings and all.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
If I recall from the Alt-Right Playbook’s Origins of Conservatism video, some of the early founders of conservative thought you might want to read include:
- Edmund Burke
- Thomas Hobbes
- Joseph DeMaistre
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
And they also try to prove why the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and every lesser species of it undermines liberty.
Proving totalitarianism undermines liberty seems pretty trivial to me. An attempt to prove that communism must necessarily be totalitarian would be much more interesting.
- Comment on Anon gets upvotes on reddit 1 week ago:
posts on Facebook… In private
Imma stop you right there
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 1 week ago:
Sony… and they are one of the few megacorps I still buy from.
Dear God, why? Between the continuous pushing of proprietary formats and the fucking rootkit they inflicted on people via music CDs almost two decades ago, they were one of the first megacorps I started boycotting!
- Comment on histories mysteries 1 week ago:
those bottles with pointed bottoms the Romans had, don’t remember the name.
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 1 week ago:
Your comment reads like an Oglaf comic.
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 1 week ago:
The thing says the graffiti was written inside a brothel. I think it’s safe to assume a “fucktress” in a brothel is probably at work.
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 1 week ago:
Are we sure that “φουτοῦτρις” isn’t simply an ancient Greek word for “prostitute?”
I’m imagining a fancy corner office with the nameplate on the door reading
Mola Lead Fucktress
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 1 week ago:
Given that she was literally a professional, I wouldn’t be so quick to doubt her skills and expertise.
- Comment on The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories 1 week ago:
If I were less lazy, I’d make a gif of myself zapping your comment with the uBlock Origin element zapper tool.
- Comment on Carnivores 2 weeks ago:
Aren’t all sponges carnivorous (or at least omnivorous) since they’re filter-feeders?
- Comment on Geography is neat 2 weeks ago:
The relationship between states in the EU is not very different from the relationship between US States under the Articles of Confederation. It’s not a big a distinction as you think.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
However, Bluetooth absolutely does depend on it to function in most situations, so ‘Mother of Bluetooth’ might have been more appropriate.
Considering the namesake of Bluetooth, the “Mother of Bluetooth” sounds like the kind of person who would have a tea party with “Grendel’s Mother” from Beowulf.