saltesc
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- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 14 hours ago:
Oh, wow. You really triggered them this time.
- Comment on Sure, mom, liberals are racists 2 days ago:
Always? The “classical” in your article does not mean what you think it does. Just like post-modernism doesn’t mean “the future”. Capitalism didn’t even exist in the era it’s referencing, rightfully referring to laissez faire instead—something capitalism would eventually arise from.
One of the strongest criticisms of capitalism by liberals is its failure to achieve a moral and equitable distribution of resources. The violation of social freedoms for sake of a market’s freedom. Markets obv play a vital role in driving economic growth but persistent issues such as corruption and institutional weaknesses prevent social justice.
Even Adam Smith criticised laissez faire in the end because, surprise surprise, it was yet another great idea on paper that was incompatanle with human nature. The result is the freedom of some encroaching on the freedom of others; i.e. fundamentally anti liberal.
A liberal will support freedom in a market but never support the exploitation or inequality of individual freedoms, such as the outcomes of pure capitalism. Someone that claims to be a liberal while their ideals strip people’s liberties is a fucking wolf in sheep’s clothing.
- Comment on Selling as is. 2 days ago:
That pricing. It’s like someone challenged him to count to 8.
- Comment on Dealing with health insurers 2 days ago:
X = Twitter for anyone wondering what the redacted part was.
- Comment on Sure, mom, liberals are racists 2 days ago:
It’s quite clear to me that almost no one in the US—or those “educated” by US politics on social media—has any fucking idea what a “liberal” fundamentally is and always has been. It’s going to become another one of those great terms ruined by a takeover of idiots—not that I’m directly calling your mom an idiot.
But ffs, when the French gifted that statue, it wasn’t because they were pro-capitalism, burning books, fucking off women’s rights, and bringing the legal system into every facet of society.
- Comment on Simple spelling rule. 2 days ago:
Ah, that makes much more sense. TIL
- Comment on How many more flatearthers? 2 days ago:
True. It ain’t cheap. I got all the gear for it and thought about doing that recently because it’s geographically much closer than the Eurasia Alps.
Nope.
That boat from Australia is VERY expensive. Without expedition sponsorship or a science grant, not happening.
- Comment on Updated artwork for the 4K release of "Constantine", coming February 18 2 days ago:
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 2 days ago:
I enjoy the Marcus Aurelius quote paraphrasing Epctetus…
“You are a little soul bearing about a corpse.”
- Comment on Simple spelling rule. 2 days ago:
Not wrong. For me, Grey is a colour, Gray is an American surname. Except for Grey’s Anatomy. The Americans had to consider with that one because of the book, but I’m sure Americans thought it was exotic. That’s why they called the other show House and not Condo. Marketability.
- Comment on Male vs female birds 2 days ago:
For as far back as I can remember, my mates and I have used the term “peacocking” to describe the more "physically focused* males. And it works. Not for anyone is have found attractive, but they get “chicks” and “birds”.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 days ago:
PEGI and many other groups are private groups. They’re not an authority of any form. They’re not associated with government, public regulation, or public election. They’re a group of people that create their own standards outside of the ISO or any actual regulation representing the public.
Some countries do have actual public systems, but many just have these private groups that know best.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 days ago:
The same Canaanites from Noah’s son because after everyone was killed by a flood, God deemed them all to be good people worth saving?
He sure seemed to fuck it up and have to wipe out humans quite a few times. But that’s what you get for putting a tree in Eden for no other reason but to introduce sin to the innocent and trick humans into thinking Lucifer was the evil one.
And now he loves America. Just don’t tell the Italians.
Starting to see a pattern of bad outcomes for whoever makes a deal with this guy at the time…
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 6 days ago:
Fuck this is gold.
Well, unless people realise the actual worth of gold… But until then.
- Comment on Seut 6 days ago:
I pet store franchise in Australia recently just rebranded themselves at “Pet-O”.
With the Australian accent, it’s “pedo”.
Dunno how it got past that many people without someone saying, “Maybe Fat Balls isn’t a smart choice.”
- Comment on Texas Sues New York Doctor for Mailing Abortion Pills | The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, appeared to be among the first attempts to stop doctors from mailing the medication to states that ban abortions 1 week ago:
Politicians are so smart they’re also expert medical doctors.
- Comment on Memory is a fickle mistress 1 week ago:
Now it’s still all WW2 revisited with “never before seen” enhanced footage, usually centred around Hitler. Clone, clone, clone.
I’d like to see them challenge themselves to have to actually dig up some info for once.
- Comment on Achilleis NOOO 1 week ago:
There needs to be a term for someone that ignores everything like a sieve, but manages to catch the smallest of morsels off which to launch a fallacious diatribe, as though nothing else happened.
They’re not.a.troll; they’re something quite different. A mix of insecurity, hyperfocusing, a tendency to exercise many argument fallacies, a resolve that can deny itself, no clear purpose in its behaviour beyond either “winning” or perhaps just seeking social interaction.
I’d go with “Teflon” because nothing sticks, but it doesn’t cover their wannabe polemicist nature.
- Comment on This happened today at a company in India. Better keep a smile on your face 1 week ago:
And that’s how disinformation killed the Information Age.
- Comment on When you fail to plan ahead 1 week ago:
This is why she’s been spending a heap of time over at her friend’s house these past 9 months, Jo.
- Comment on Woolworths says workers still blocked from returning to Melbourne distribution centre 1 week ago:
“The actions of these picketers are continuing to have an impact on Victorians being able to access essential grocery items such as nappies, drinks and toilet paper from our supermarkets across the state.”
Omg, I can smell the bullshit from here. Like Victorians have no other locations for “essentials” lol
- Comment on Woolworths says workers still blocked from returning to Melbourne distribution centre 1 week ago:
I’d join you if it weren’t for the six hour drive. Start something local. Get it going!
- Comment on What happens when a prominent person is assassinated and the perpetrator cannot be identified? 2 weeks ago:
It becomes an accident or suicide. Like with Russian windows and Epstein’s cell.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of these could be grouped into a handful of now well known terminal illnesses.
But not the wolves.
Could well have been the opening phases of using canines to early detect illnesses. Just a few understandable methodology kinks in the early days.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
hopeful-weirdo just needs to be told to consider what increasing by 500% means and it’ll click.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Someone vomitted to death. I’d probably rather the cancer and wolf combo.
- Comment on Corkscrew 2 weeks ago:
Well someone’s never had their Jimmy in a duck’s mouth. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I think you’ve made that clear lol
- Comment on 5x Evolutionary Winner 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It sounds more like he could be Ant-Man and is able to pick up on the trails. If he can communicate with them by twreking his butt into the ground, I’m convinced.
- Comment on Republicans Built an Ecosystem of Influencers. Some Democrats Want One, Too. 3 weeks ago:
Great. More US politics…
