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- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 6 days ago:
I mean, that’s why people believe Newsmax too. It’s not that they’re particularly dumb. It’s that most people prefer confirmation bias to facts.
- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 1 week ago:
Not immediately realizing this is obviously false has the same energy as when my dad quotes Alex Jones at me.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re undervaluing the form factor. I don’t have unlimited space under my TV, and I don’t think you’ll be able to find a mini-pc that’s appreciably cheaper with the same specs.
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Boss, please pick up 5 weeks ago:
Though the fact that you’re asking me this gives me cause for concern that you don’t have that now.
- Comment on easter crack 2 months ago:
I feel like it hasn’t aged super well as a template, lol.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 4 months ago:
If non-human animals cannot consent, isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?
If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 4 months ago:
To be fair, the “change one” part is wrong. Two particles that are quantum entangled maintain the same quantum state when separated. But if you change the quantum state of one it doesn’t propogate. They are just in sync.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 5 months ago:
As opposed to the US which has a famously inland capital. :P
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 7 months ago:
Ngl, I saw this and was like, effing chatgpt garbage, and down voted.
Then I realized the joke and upvoted. You got me on that one.
- Comment on Age check 10 months ago:
In 1997? From Arkansas? That seems… exceptionally unlikely. Or, at least far far less likely than that he was just cheating.
- Comment on Age check 10 months ago:
Combine that with the fact that someone commiting adultery should be disqualifying for them becoming president.
Look, I get that all the social norms have been completely ground to dust, but character does in fact matter. We should want a good person who refuses to cheat on their wife as a leader.
Reducing this to just a fun fling because you like the guy is the same thing the hypocrites who support Trump and all of his scandals do.
If he’s willing to betray his wife for a quicky from an intern, why would I trust him with anything else? For the person who’s leading the entire nation the bar should be higher.
Also not to mention that he was 49 and she was 22. If this was anyone less “likeable” than Bill we’d all be calling him an absolute creep. He was pushing 50, and she could barely drink. And he was her boss.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Just a little squat. More than tall enough for an rj45 to plug in though. I think they look a little tight because it doesn’t have the same amount of bezel as a lot of boxes will have around the ports.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Yeah, those are both definitely normal Ethernet jacks. Neither takes a phone cable. You should just need a normal Ethernet line.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Hey man, you should be happy and live your best life. Do things that make you happy with people you love.
Hahahaha, now if you do it, you’re just doing what I told you to do like a little lapdog. Stupid sheep.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 11 months ago:
Man, it looks like sheer laziness that they can fit “Kentucky” into its state, but “Alabama” gets a pointer line. You’re telling me that you can’t do the exact same thing you did with “Georgia” there?
- Comment on Anon breaks up 11 months ago:
While preventable child deaths are obviously terrible, I feel like this could be overextended.
Like, how many child deaths has McDonald’s caused vs guns. I’m too lazy to do the math like the other guy, but I’d presume it’s comparable. (Although I suppose by the time it catches up to them they’re no longer children.)
Idk, you see things like, “leading cause of death in children” and it makes the number seem huge, but it’s less than 100 kids a year. And it looks like around 400/yr die from drowning in swimming pools. So if we really care about the children, we should bad swimming pools? They kill 4x the number of kids than guns.
I’m not saying guns are great. But using child deaths as part of the argument just feels like a great excuse to ban literally anything you just don’t like.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Just because it’s generally possible for the bladder to rupture before the muscles give out, it’s certainly not impossible. A myriad of conditions or even just genetics can lead to a physically weaker bladder.
I think it’s a bit bold to say that absolutely 100%, no exceptions, that the muscles will always fail first. Even if that’s true 99.99% of the time, there’s just far to much variance in human bodies to rule it out, I would think.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 1 year ago:
I mean, it kinda just looks like boiled chicken, so it’s probably fine? Probably not tasty, but not raw by a long shot.
- Comment on Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise 1 year ago:
This is satire.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 year ago:
Sure, I agree that it’s a stupid idea from an effort vs reward perspective. It’s at best unnecessary.
But your initial position was that it couldn’t be done without being easy to prove that it was a fabrication, and I think you’re wrong about that.
I think that they are more than capable of doing it in such a way that it’s wholly word-vs-word, with no forensic evidence pointing to it being doctored. And the idea that they would do that is outlandish enough that most reasonable people would assume the post was legitimate and that the “offender” was lying about it to try and deflect blame.
It’s the classic, "No, I didn’t post that list of porn search terms to my Twitter! I was hacked!! Totally somebody hacked me and did that. Wasn’t me at all!!” But in this case it’d be something that was a pretext for the government to arrest them.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 year ago:
Sure, but then it’s a question of narrative not proof, right?
Because the response from X would just be, “we aren’t sure why Mr so-and-so didn’t/couldn’t immediately delete the post, but we froze it in short order because we believe the fact he would post such a thing is a matter of public interest, and we refuse to let him sweep it under the rug.”
Yeah, he could say that he posted something completely different and X changed it, but how do you prove it? Everyone would just assume it to be a lie trying to cover their ass after posting something terrible.
Not saying this is at all likely. Just that it’s possible.
And this assumes they notice it was doctored immediately anyway. Most people don’t verify that the post is correct after hitting “submit.” A good 90+% of people would probably never notice if the text was changed post upload.
- Comment on If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated? 1 year ago:
You could just replace the text of a post as it gets submitted. Keep all metadata otherwise unchanged. Lock the account from being able to make edits.
- Comment on broscience go brrrrrrrrr 1 year ago:
Impossible Creatures was a masterpiece. I still go back to it every now and then.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 1 year ago:
I will say, the longer I look at that, the less confident I am that there is any difference at all, lol.
- Comment on Using the honor system 1 year ago:
If I saw this, I think I’d take and eat one? Like, I do love a good raisin…
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 1 year ago:
It kind of depends on the facts and your jurisdiction. With the button, maybe? With a death note book, almost certainly not.
When proving the elements of attempted murder (or any non-statutory crime), the state has to prove both “mens rea” and “actus rea” (that you intended to do the thing and that you tried to do the thing), but when you’re being charged for something “attempted” you have the defense of “impossibility,” when the actions you are trying to take couldn’t have possibly worked.
Now, that doesn’t cover cases where you were only wrong in point of fact. For instance, buying fake drugs from a cop. But it does cover instances like using a voodoo doll.
There’s more detail on all the above in the illustrated guide to law, which is a pretty solid resource for stuff like this. Here are the relevant sections:
Actus Rea Explanation: lawcomic.net/guide/?p=261
Attempted Crimes: lawcomic.net/guide/?p=344
Impossibly Defense: lawcomic.net/guide/?p=416
- Comment on Indiana is a great place to hire child labor 1 year ago:
I should have been more clear I suppose. I support all of the restrictions that were in place, and I think it’s bad they were rolled back.
My response wasn’t intended to say the changes were bad, but was rather in response to a general sentiment that I was seeing in the comment section. Both on this post and others when the topic of minors in the work force comes up.
- Comment on Indiana is a great place to hire child labor 1 year ago:
My brother in Christ, I literally say in the comment you replied to that all of the protections that were rolled back (including all the ones you just mentioned) are important, and that it’s a bad thing they were removed.
Who are you even arguing against?
- Comment on Indiana is a great place to hire child labor 1 year ago:
That’s not the only comment taking a similar position though. Just an example. I made my own top level comment to address something that seems like a more general trend when this issue comes up.