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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, the people most invested in hierarchy have fears of loosing status not an assumption of gaining more. Poor white racists understand they’re poor, that’s why their afraid of any social program that may help black Americans, even when poor white people would benefit too.

  they’re not “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, they’re jealous dragons guarding a shitty treasure.

  And it’s not just the poor. Middle class people often view a slide into working class as a life-or-death threat. amidst all the talk of “economic anxiety” around the 2016 election, average Trump supporters earned 20-30K more than Hillary voters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  From natural reasoning,

  You mean from fallacy

  either gender is a fixed biological reality, or it’s completely irrelevant, non existent and a man-made concept.

  False dichotomy, it could be a third thing. Also the idea that “socially constructed” things are somehow unworthy of consideration, or irrelevant is not true. Consider some things that we know are “man-made”: sovereignty, laws, borders, language, authority, religion, democracy, human-rights, and class. Think those things are “irrelevant”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Trans people’s existence isn’t a political position or a logical puzzle.

  All you have know is:

  people who deserve respect = people who deserve respect.

  The project of inventing your own gender theory based on Bio 101 is pretty myopic. As though people don’t count as people until you’ve fixed the taxonomy in your mind. You don’t have to read Judith Butler, but have the self awareness that dismissing the literature before engaging with it is not the product of critical thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T2 butter mold⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks neat, but the wrist is going to set off the fire alarm before his thumb even melts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I expect to hear nothing from the right when the US goes all out celebrating Trumps inevitable departure from the realm of the living.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t wrong because Maduro is a good man, or even the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

  He’s actually sucks shit and stole the election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨easy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I could hear this before I clicked thru. There are two kinds of people. The ones who hear the name Eratosthenes in Sagan’s voice, and those who can’t pronounce it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when conspiracy people were funny and their beliefs marginalized? Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing to see here.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in America, we celebrate rapists. And that has never had any negative consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who was the aggressor in cold war?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The belligerents in a cold war are limited to being passive aggressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ranked games by revenue, none of these games would be on the list. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans would fire their CEO if their revenue was pathetic as Activision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confused over here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever notice that the manosphere dudes who think relationships are an Econ101 function of how rich a dude is divided by how hot a girl is are the same people who get shocked and offended when women act shallow and materialistic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The labeling on OTC pain relievers, etc. This is why I just pop 3 and hope for the best.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When you exceed the recommended dosage: aspirin fucks your stomach, ibuprofen fucks your kidneys, acetaminophen fucks your liver, and Aleve fucks your heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Is Kind of a Video About Filters | Angela Collier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Angela Collier: come for the physics, stay for her calling Elon Musk a dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Electric Bills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI data centers are paying their electric bills

  This bears repeating. Datacenters do have to pay the light bill. Even when the VC money dries up. It’s a beautiful thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So like you want President Gavin Newsom to order the Justice department to charge Tucker Carlson with mortgage fraud?

  Corruption and abuse of power actually get worse if it’s “both sides”. Don’t you think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.

  As you can tell, I’m waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SOMA is a great game. But I’m not going to watch for 2 and a half hours unless it ends with uploading Zoltan Istvan’s consciousness into a broken robot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The dangers associated with Meth production have been exaggerated by ignorant media and lying cops.

  A person with a serious meth addiction is dangerous and likely to cause accidental harm even if they aren’t playing around with volatile chemicals. But these chemicals all have legitimate uses and are safe to use by sober adults. Stuff like Coleman fuel, ether, and acetone. You can create runaway exothermic reactions while venting flammable gas with some weaponized incompetence, but it’s still a “low” explosive, and unlikely to harm anyone not in the same room, much less the neighbor.

  90% of meth lab “explosions” are small events that only harm people in the immediate vicinity and most of the structural damage will come from the resulting fire. Compare that to a simple natural gas leak that can turn a 3 story McMansion into confetti in under a second.

  Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a thought about authors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there was any connection between an author’s work and their actual life, I’m grateful that Cormac MccArthy has been stopped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solidarity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's basic science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Semantics are to reasoning what puns are to comedy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody understands that men have issues. The problem is that the people promoting this use it as a stalking horse to oppose feminism.

  Because that’s what they believe. The male loneliness epidemic, to them is explained by female autonomy and civil rights. Most of them won’t come right out and say this, so they bitch about suicide rates and the draft instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like to think all cops are like this in private and the news only focus on the bad. One can hope⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to change my opinion of the whole police force based on the isolated actions of a few good apples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, for I am watchful. You have been chosen.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like when your a kid and run into a teacher at the grocery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is audiophile bullshit cheating?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Audiophile is a misnomer because what they love is the equipment, not the music. Technophile would be more apt. (and it could apply to the identical condition in 10,000 different hobbies).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, they pulled this shit on me with the “Shogun” series. Two or three episodes in and BANG! rugpull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨and i took that purrsonally⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is funny, but it implies that the cheetah goes on to defeat the tiger in battle and… nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The constituent parts of gunpowder are sulphur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite cop jokes:

  1. how many good cops does it take to change a lightbulb? I’ll let you know when good cops change anything.

  2. The cops are like a box of chocolates. They’ll kill your fucking dog.

  3. Cops be like: You can’t call me a racist! Look, my wife’s eye is black.

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