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- Comment on How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk? 8 hours ago:
Most scripts in Hollywood are worth less than than the paper they’re printed on. And if you can separate the value from the slop, you’d make more money working for the industry than stealing from it.
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- Comment on I worry that reading through Marxist books would be boring. Are there any fun and exciting ways to study without losing focus or getting bored quickly? 3 days ago:
Why do you want to study Marxism in the first place? Most people do that because it’s interesting to them. The chances that that knowledge will help you in your life is vanishingly small.
You don’t need to understand Marx to criticize capitalism. All you need to do is exist under capitalism.
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 3 days ago:
If your writing is being spied on because you use AI, that’s not a privacy violation because it’s not your writing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Concentrate on your experience. You don’t need a diagnosis or clinical jargon to understand yourself.
- Comment on Stephanie Sterling - "YouTube: The Online Predator's Best Friend" 5 days ago:
This is the first time I find myself in disagreement with this channel.
Meaning is not held inside words. The proof of it is that more than one language exists. Therefore it’s foolish to try to police the words as though they had some inherent connection to meaning. You can’t drive home in the word car.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 6 days ago:
Working people paying for the mistakes of the ownership class. What else is new?
- Comment on Today in history: Ronald Reagan and the SS attempt to open a stuck car door. 6 days ago:
Nobody calls it the SS for that reason
- Comment on How to stop a parent from jumping into the nearest religious rabbit-hole to cope with a divorce? 6 days ago:
One of my core values is that people get to decide for themselves what to believe. And it sounds a whole lot like you’re disrespecting your parent’s agency.
Imagine the thread: My son is talking like an atheist, how do I make them change?
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 week ago:
Of course science is political. Knowledge is power and all power systems are political.
But ignoring philosophy, Science is a charity. By in large they must beg for their money. You don’t suppose that the people providing the money have any influence?
And I’m not talking about junk science, biased studies, or even fraud. A perfectly run study may still be political simply because it was chosen for funding over something else.
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 1 week ago:
Maybe your talking about Rick Sanchez, Sherlock Holmes, or James Bond because the asshole genius is a trope in media, not real life.
In real life they’re just assholes.
- Comment on horseshoe theory? 1 week ago:
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 week ago:
Conspiracy theories are a trick by big Dumb to make people think less.
- Comment on Should I use a "proper" password manager instead of Firefox? 1 week ago:
Browser integration with password managers is overrated. It’s a lot of trouble, breaks all the time, and has security issues. Plus you’re trusting your logins to a third party which makes me sad.
I use a vanilla encrypted DB (KeePass) and just save the logins manually and copy/paste to log in. It’s not that hard.
- Comment on Chelyabinsk liked your Post 1 week ago:
When I was a kid I thought that any asteroid hitting Earth was bad. Now I gotta ask “where is it going to impact” first.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 1 week ago:
I read somewhere that there was an app developed by some organisation in a big city to track ODs and help addicts avoid known areas where drugs are adulterated. They had to shut it down when addicts would actually seek out the OD causing drugs using the app like yelp from the upsidedown.
- Comment on But I'm a Nice Guy(TM)! 2 weeks ago:
“freindzone” is a self-inflicted wound. Nobody can make you cower in the corner waiting for your “opportunity”. Nobody made you look at friendship with the opposite sex as something that must be suffered so as to be due a reward.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Those DNA kits work differently than what you might expect. When they say “you’re 20% German”, what they mean is that you’ve got 20% of the genetic markers they’ve identified in modern people who identify as German.
This might not seem like a big difference, but it is because genetics doesn’t respect political boundaries. Ancestry will not tell you that you’re 60% Texan because “Texas” isn’t a recognized biological origin. Even though people have been there as long as they’ve been in Mexico.
You also have to accept that 20th Century Germans who’ve participated in DNA testing is the absolute standard for what a “German” is.
Nonsense. The idea of “national DNA” is incoherent leftovers from race-theory.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why people drag on sugar-babies like they’re the stupid ones in the situation.
- Comment on Name this Paper 5 weeks ago:
Safe, clean, and renewable. It’s the energy source of the future.
- Comment on Kellogg ---> Epstein 1 month ago:
The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.
- Comment on News these days 1 month ago:
Gary Webb killed himself. He was divorced, unemployed, and his professional reputation was ruined. His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.
But his article was published and is still available to read. The idea that the CIA assassinates people 20 years after they “spill the secrets” stretches credulity. Makes since he’d punch his own ticket.
The idea that he was shot twice “in the back of the head” is a myth. He did shoot himself twice, but that’s not so unusual. 42% of gunshot and penetrative wounds to the brain are survivable.
This meme irritates me because it depends on the misinformation that suicides are unusual or suspicious. Suicides are common as dirt. To the tune of like 40K people/ year in the US. It’s a major public health crisis but gets ignored because of taboo and because it’s a gun issue.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 1 month ago:
Because WWII is the only history.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 1 month ago:
What you’re being distracted from is the fact that rape and sexual assault, especially of children is normal and accepted in our society. You may be confused by all the hate and demonetization pedophiles get, but like all rape, the status of the perpetrator matters most.
Until 1971, married men were immune from charges of raping their wives. And several States protected them after that. For every 100 rapes reported to the police, only 18 charges will be filed ^1^. And of course their are incompetent pigs and timid prosecutors. But it’s also the public at large who won’t convict rapists. (because nobody believes women)
Epstein wasn’t hiding anything. And all those people around him knew what he was up to.
But forget about Epstein. What powerful men are snatching teenagers off the street today? Nobody cares.
The Epstein scandal is about embarrassing powerful men. Nobody gives a shit about raped little girls.
- Here is a reference to that figure, but for some reason, the referenced study isn’t on the DOJ’s website anymore.
- Comment on But bro please 1 month ago:
Who you gonna shoot? I’m serious. Stalin was a bankrobber. Haitians drove Napoleon’s army into the sea with machetes. The Black Panthers took several pigs off roll-call. What’s your plan, revolutionary?
- Comment on Little quick question: what do you think of advertising from a Marxist perspective? 1 month ago:
Advertising adds cost but no value. Advertising, along with profit are the largest capitalist inefficiencies.
The tragedy of a potential customer being ignorant of a product is something must learn to cope with…somehow.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 1 month ago:
Kid Rock is music for dudes who can only see their kids on the weekend, but don’t.
- Comment on Important Announcement 1 month ago:
Miss Rachel is not a radical activist, that’s Zionist propaganda. Portraying her that way, even as a joke, makes Mossad laugh.
- Comment on PSA 1 month ago:
The American war for Independence is a pretty sad example of revolution.
Think of the average American, how much did their material conditions change? Now compare to the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Bolshevik revolution.
America by comparison, was just an “under new management”.
- Comment on Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are 1 month ago:
Well, he has defended pedophilia in the past.
Recently, his essays were in a volume edited by Kraus, titled the “War on Science”. And you probably think the war is anti-vax, RFK jr., or the dismantling of federal funding for basic research. No, it’s holding professors accountable for sexual misconduct actually.
