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- Comment on well? 2 days ago:
What’s wrong about it? It seems like the obvious assumption that running into intelligent alien civilizations would be extremely dangerous.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 days ago:
What are the criticisms? Genuinely curious, have no idea what problems anyone might have with it, other than some quotes from the Ubisoft exec trying to act like implementing user run servers is borderline impossible
- Comment on Anon wants robux 4 days ago:
Or black hat hacker confirming that a stolen credit card works without raising red flags
- Comment on Travel reporter accuses Hyatt of $500 smoking fee scam 5 days ago:
The crazy part to me is how the sensors company advertises as a selling point how much “smoking fine revenue” increases with their product
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 1 week ago:
This is just being a freelancer, with extra lying.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It can get kind of old seeing stuff on social media that’s just using every easy trick available to fish for engagement though, especially when now a lot of it is probably bots and various propaganda campaigns. Especially if it’s being posted somewhere that people can otherwise have more thoughtful and interesting conversations.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 week ago:
One thing I dislike about streamers is when you can tell they are using their voice in a “hey you should take me seriously, I am obviously right” kind of tone, and are good at that, but the actual words are just repeating a common opinion and devoid of any substance or argument. Like they think adjusting the way they say something makes them more right.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 2 weeks ago:
Could this be done such that a person cannot prove that they voted a certain way (the source of the problems people mention, like vote selling becoming viable)?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well what I’m seeing in this thread is two metrics, BLS and LISEP, with the argument being that the distinction between them doesn’t matter because unemployment is right now historically low by both measures (I don’t really know the difference between them myself, or whether these are the only meaningful ways to measure it). And you’re reiterating that there exists some measure where it is high, but I think for that to be a convincing counterargument you would need to say more about what that measure is, show that unemployment is high by that measure, and make an argument why that way of measuring things is more relevant than the other ones.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The comments you’re responding to are not making that kind of general argument though, they are only talking about whether a specific claim makes sense.
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We’re on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 weeks ago:
I would like that to be true, but I don’t think the numbers really support it, at least for the approval rating:
Last updated on July 2nd 2025
He was 6th lowest approved president ever for his first term, but that was with an approval rating of 34%, which is lower than it is currently. Top 3 are Truman, Nixon, and Bush, with 22,24,25% respectively.
- Comment on "My HOA Sent Me GORE PHOTOS After Complaining About the AirBnbs" [5:39] 3 weeks ago:
The exact logic behind why in the world they thought this would be a good idea will be a better question answered in court
I sympathize with the guy’s situation but that’s a hell of a bait and switch headline, no explanation of what happened there is offered beyond it
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 4 weeks ago:
It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.
Even more nuts that they specifically want it to be that way to coerce people into working
- Comment on Dreamsettler, the follow-up to early internet inspired browser game Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 4 weeks ago:
This is a multiplayer freemium game though, I don’t think there are any cracked servers for it, and supposedly there are options for Epic users to retain their accounts with things they’ve bought (the game is also apparently kind of p2w).
- Comment on Bottoms up 4 weeks ago:
I don’t regularly drink coffee, one time I had a big cup made by someone who drinks a lot of coffee, what happened was my face went all tingly and numb and I felt like I was gonna pass out (I was on the highway and there were no bathroom stops so it was extra bad). People who don’t think of caffeine as a drug are just incorrect.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 5 weeks ago:
I once had a deal with my landlord to provide wifi to the other tenants. Of course I didn’t snoop, but it’s not like they had any real assurance of that. You’d think there might be some privacy concerns but nobody had a problem except when the internet was down. I think in general people don’t tend to care about that, though if you do there’s the option of using a VPN.
- Comment on Virginia safety activist charged with vandalism after drawing crosswalk at dangerous intersection 1 month ago:
Kind of sounds like they are just out to get him because he keeps protesting the lack of crosswalks
He also reportedly wrote an email to Charlottesville’s city manager which read: “There is a marked crosswalk now [at the intersection in question] in spite of you … It’s chalk[,] not paint[.] Please replace it with a real one.”
A police report that Cox shared with the news station alleged that officers were unable to determine whether his improvised crosswalk had been created with permanent paint.
Like he explicitly told them it was chalk and also you can just look at it
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 month ago:
Unfortunately at the end of the day people like this will still be rich and not have to worry about the problems the rest of us do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
if it were me I’d be conflicted about whether to respond with just “k” or demanding a conversation about boundaries
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yet another reason to own a bidet
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 1 month ago:
Maybe not as huge as it should be but
In 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the Met Police and NPCC to pay a total of £229,471 to Ms Wilson “by way of just satisfaction for the breaches of her human rights”
- Comment on Anon goes for a walk with a girl 2 months ago:
ah right I guess I misinterpreted
- Comment on Anon goes for a walk with a girl 2 months ago:
Imagine you’re walking with someone and they get shit on by a bird but they try to pretend it didn’t happen. That would be way more awkward right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s really hard, I tried for a while and gave up. Way too many things to pay attention to and get right at once, while doing something dangerous.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
When people get scammed, it’s not their fault just because there are conceivable ways they could have learned it was a scam.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
Not everybody has all the information to know whether a company is known for this kind of shit. I’ve heard a lot of stories about PayPal screwing over sellers in particular by freezing their funds for no justified reason, but I can see people falling for the “they must have been doing something bad they aren’t admitting” you always see in response to anyone complaining about some authority imposing arbitrary punishments on them.
My personal gripe with PayPal is, I was once relying on income from sales through them, and had withdrawn money to my bank that I needed to pay my rent. A customer filed a spurious dispute (later resolved in my favor) on a sale that was only a tiny portion of that, and their response was to immediately reverse the whole completed bank transfer. So I almost missed paying rent and had to scramble to figure it out.
Anyway, fuck PayPal, sympathy to all their victims.
- Comment on Anon describes currency 2 months ago:
I think the other answers people are giving are wrong. It’s backed by debt and the enforcement of that debt.
- Comment on New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back 2 months ago:
Besides the climate implications, this highlights the centralization risks in Proof of Work mining; the only way to mine Bitcoin profitably is if you have some kind of privileged access to electricity with effectively low ongoing cost, and that access is gated by government regulation.
