ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on When We Are No Longer Needed: Emerging Elites, Tech Trillionaires and the Decline of Democracy 17 hours ago:
There is a very good reason for the super rich to support the rule of law: it protects their own wealth and power. Even if they may want to be aristocrats in a highly stratified society like, for example, 19th century Britain rather than a modern democratic welfare state, they don’t stand to benefit from the transition to a modern autocracy. 19th century Britain was very much a nation of laws where the government would protect the rights and property of the super rich whereas modern autocrats quickly co-opt them into personal lenders whose well-being is entirely at the mercy of the autocrat.
Thus, while some super rich individuals may support populist autocracy either due to idiosyncratic personal beliefs or short-term political expediency, transitioning to it is not in the best interest of the super rich as a class. Rule of law isn’t the same thing as democracy but I don’t see a global movement towards rule of law without democracy - the two are in the present day apparently inextricable.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Ah, Robin Hood (2010 film). That famous bulwark against oppression.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 4 days ago:
I don’t think they stomped loudly (except maybe when they ran) but I don’t see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 4 days ago:
I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He’s going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 5 days ago:
Yeah, as far as I’m concerned most AAA games might as well be part of a totally separate hobby that I don’t pay much attention to. The way I see it (and this is an oversimplification) games used to be made by nerds for nerds. Then normies started making games for normies, but there are also more nerds than ever making games for nerds.
- Comment on Anon plays ff14 6 days ago:
I didn’t realize that I have a weird laugh until someone found me by listening for it. Apparently normal people don’t laugh by inhaling rather than exhaling.
- Comment on What's the matter Aquaman? 1 week ago:
No kid wants a toy Aquaman.
- Comment on Anon dreams of onigiri 1 week ago:
Well, on the plus side OP will have a lot less trouble living out his wildest dream than he would have if he had normie dreams.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 2 weeks ago:
The Uyghurs in Guantanamo didn’t want to go back to China.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 2 weeks ago:
Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn’t a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.
Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don’t exist anymore.
- Comment on Anon finally finds a girlfriend 3 weeks ago:
I was talking to a friend of mine about whether or not we would get along with exact copies of ourselves. He didn’t think that he would want to spend much time with his copy, but I thought I would love my own company in that sense. We would have the same values, the same goals in life, the same likes and dislikes, the same hobbies, the same sense of humor, etc. And all that is just with a same-sex copy of myself that I would have no attraction to. An opposite sex (but also heterosexual) copy would also have the same sex drive and the same weird fetishes.
Anyway, it’s still probably not worth fracturing one’s psyche for but with good arguments for each side. Reasonable people can disagree.
- Comment on Anon is the youngest grandson 3 weeks ago:
All that good fortune in exchange for one 4chan shitposter seems like a really good deal.
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 3 weeks ago:
That would have worked! I should have searched for
serial gender change
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the time I was at work searching for a particular connector I need.
serial cable female female
serial female female coupler
serial female female coupling
And so forth. I didn’t find the part I needed and so I had to solder it myself.
- Comment on Anon works at a warehouse 3 weeks ago:
Who does he think is monitoring these searches? Also, if someone is monitoring and actually cares about this for some reason, how will OP not get caught?
- Comment on Anon is looking for a new video game 4 weeks ago:
At least a woman laughed at him. That’s worth good money to some people.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oh darn. 4 weeks ago:
You’re still capable of feeling joy on the inside?
- Comment on LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking more of the Orz.
That is funny. You think you see Orz but Orz are not light reflections.
Maybe you think Orz are many bubbles too. It is such a joke.
Orz are not many bubbles like campers. Orz are just Orz.
I am Orz. I am one with many fingers.
My fingers reach through into heavy space and you see Orz bubbles
but it is really fingers.
Maybe you do not even smell? That is sad.
Smelling pretty colors is the best game.
- Comment on Anon keeps it classy in the comments 4 weeks ago:
17th century ladies were powerlifters? I’m going to need to update some mental images…
- Comment on LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon keeps it classy in the comments 4 weeks ago:
I actually had to be given smelling salts while having my blood drawn like I was some 18th century lady.
- Comment on I love you 5 weeks ago:
When I got my dog at the shelter, they told me two things about him:
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He liked to eat garbage.
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He liked being held like a baby.
He was a good size for it too, about 30 lbs. Big enough for a real hug, but not too heavy to lift comfortably. He would press his neck against mine when I held him - I think that was the way he reciprocated. The funny thing is that he was jealous about my hugs. If I hugged another person, he would whine, stand on his hind legs, and try to push that person away from me with his front legs.
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- Comment on Anon takes an exam 5 weeks ago:
True self-sacrifice.
- Comment on There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues 5 weeks ago:
At least they’re not hiding that the solution is generated by AI, but the random usernames make me suspect that they’re trying to avoid blocking or banning.
- Comment on We are so cooked 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a bee, you’re not a bee, so it sounds like a them problem.
(On the internet, no one knows you’re a bee.)
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 5 weeks ago:
I think that is the most based I have ever seen a machine be. Truly technology is amazing.
- Comment on Calm your tits 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re making the exact mistake he is asking you not to.
- Comment on Blot me out! 5 weeks ago:
I like the inclusion of the graduate student’s stubble. Very realistic.
- Comment on i just wanna live 5 weeks ago:
I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.
