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- Comment on "Meritocracy" 2 days ago:
Had to be a sick ostrich.
- Comment on "Meritocracy" 3 days ago:
Trump has no idea what signal is. He basically has no real concept of what this scandal is about.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
And older guy said sometimes people would season and bag steaks and keep them submerged in hot tubs in the 80s.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing the cheaper ones don’t have sine-wave inverters (they use a dressed up square wave which can be produced by purely digital electronics) so quality of the output waveform is bad. The power supply of the laptop (or PC) ends up having to work harder to cut out the extraneous bits of the waveform (that is it’s job) but all that extra crap is just turned into heat. Laptop PSUs are small , so have less heat dissipation and likely aren’t built for this.
If it’s a sine-wave inverters and the generator is working properly then idk why it would matter.
- Comment on Low Budget Terminator 3 weeks ago:
The sausage steering wheel is pure gold.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure I had that same mouse movement thing happen. That was a deeply buried memory until you mentioned it .
- Comment on The science is divided 4 weeks ago:
Okay but all monkeys are sharks.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 2 months ago:
Cool sentiment, but they all vote every time and we don’t so it doesn’t matter. Or you can become a 2nd amendment person.
- Comment on Adolf Titler 2 months ago:
To anybody curious why he isn’t big, you still need the exercise to gain any noticeable amount of muscle
Damn it, I knew I forgot something.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 2 months ago:
To some extent, political parties are naturally occuring . The group dynamics of a legislative body will naturally result in groups forming around specific issues and even philosophies. But there is definitely a strong argument to be made that we’ve made them far too official, and far too entrenched.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 2 months ago:
Cool, but half the country supports this shit. And no, people who don’t vote don’t matter.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders : I attended Trump’s inauguration yesterday. Here are my thoughts. [7:00] 2 months ago:
America collectively doesn’t deserve Bernie as president. People go on about how the DNC shafted him in 2016 but honestly, I don’t think it would matter. I don’t think he could win. The same country that elected a wretched sack of shit like Trump (twice) could never elect Bernie. Not to mention that if he got the nomination, the forces that would align against him (every single rich person and all of corporate America, and 95 percent of the media) would ensure that he wouldn’t win.
- Comment on BDSM 2 months ago:
But not old enough for this to be about Windows ME.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The ADL took a break for bashing anti-genocide protesters to tell everyone not to worry about this.
- Comment on 小红书 2 months ago:
Most people do not care about digital privacy to the extent that they’ll ever give anything up to achieve it. Online communities are not in any way representative of the general attitude towards these issues.
If I ask people whether they’re willing to put a mic in their house to let me spy on everything they’re saying they’ll say no. If I say it’ll also turn lights on and off and play despacito on demand the vast majority say yes. In isolation people prefer privacy, so long as it costs literally nothing. As long as they have to give up nothing. That’s where we are, unfortunately.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 2 months ago:
You just have to control it by buying a gun and shooting in the air every other day.
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 2 months ago:
Is it easier than not doing that?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 2 months ago:
The existence of scalpers means demand exceeds supply. Pricing them this high is a countermeasures against scalpers…in that Nvidia wants to make the money that scalpers would have made .
- Comment on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business 2 months ago:
Next time they won’t announce it.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 months ago:
Others have explained it (places where social interaction is the primary intent - not home and not work) but I’ll add - old European cities (and most smaller towns) have some sort of public square. Many have lasted to this day and are still used. We can still build them, we but our chosen form of urbanization isn’t that conducive to it so we don’t. In North America in the 80 and into the 90s, malls we’re 3rd place. Then they started aggressively going after loitering in malls since simply sitting in a mall doesn’t produce economic activity. Many malls died and many are still dying. Those that survived achieved the - nobody goes there to chill anymore. Just to buy what they need, maybe eat, and then leave. Nobody plans to “meet at the mall” anymore.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 months ago:
Does that even work?
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 months ago:
PaulRuddWTFHappenedHere.jpg
- Comment on Anon misfires 2 months ago:
I’m sure there’s a curator at the Tate Modern that would entertain this argument.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 3 months ago:
None of that amounts to this:
If things are okay just because we like them and not okay just because we don’t then what kind of morals are acting on?
The reasons this was justifiable have been explained to you ad nauseum. You insist on pretending like its an arbitrary whim despite that. Do you cry every time a drug cartel kingpin gets shot?
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 3 months ago:
See better.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 3 months ago:
If things are okay just because we like them and not okay just because we don’t
That’s not the situation, nor what anyone is asserting. Who are you talking to?
- Comment on Depressing awful town 3 months ago:
That passage explains the what , but nothing can explain the why.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 3 months ago:
Most of the media seems committed to ensuring that this focus on abusive health insurance companies evaporates as soon as possible.
- Comment on Sounds like grapes or some shit 3 months ago:
This meme would be better if they managed to get Larry Bird to be the guy in it.
- Comment on Dentist the Menace 4 months ago:
A concept doesn’t become acceptable just because the French have a term for it. Usually that’s a red flag.