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- Comment on BDSM 8 hours ago:
But not old enough for this to be about Windows ME.
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 1 day ago:
The ADL took a break for bashing anti-genocide protesters to tell everyone not to worry about this.
- Comment on 小红书 3 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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) 1 week 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 weeks ago:
Next time they won’t announce it.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Anon misfires 4 weeks 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 😭 5 weeks 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 😭 5 weeks ago:
See better.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
This meme would be better if they managed to get Larry Bird to be the guy in it.
- Comment on Dentist the Menace 2 months ago:
A concept doesn’t become acceptable just because the French have a term for it. Usually that’s a red flag.
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 2 months ago:
Is commander in chief an active military position?
I think it’s specifically not a military position. The president being a civilian is how in theory the military must operate under civilian control.
- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 2 months ago:
I didn’t watch the whole thing but Paul’s shots didn’t even seem like they had any power behind them. He won on points obviously because Tyson was drained but it felt like even old man Tyson could have just stood there and tanked those weak-ass punches.
Disclaimer: all I know about boxing I learned from Rocky movies.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 2 months ago:
JVM is like a gas. It expands to fit it’s container, however large that is.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 2 months ago:
Why on earth would you even for a moment think you’re allowed to do that?
Because OP actually lives in that building and the rest comes down to proving his intent which is extremely difficult in every situation.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 2 months ago:
Name the law.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 months ago:
I think this is just a roundabout way of blaming the Jews.
- Comment on I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to [1:00:14] 2 months ago:
Lol. In this case you don’t really need to take it apart since the guts of it are exposed on the bottom . Otherwise I think he would have.
- Comment on Anon cuddles with his first gf 2 months ago:
Well it involves dick so it’s gay in my book.
- Comment on Pee posting? 2 months ago:
Still a better love story than twilight.
- Comment on Mom of the year 2 months ago:
NGL if HBO made this into a 6 part miniseries I would watch. I would hate myself as I watched but I would watch.
- Comment on ‘Hysteria’ Star Bruce Campbell Calls Out Tom Cruise For Doing His Own Stunts: “It’s OK For Stunt Guys To Make Money, Too” | Decider 2 months ago:
It’s definitely true that if every actor did their own stunts, stunt workers wouldn’t get jobs. But here’s the thing - there’s not at all in danger of happening. More than that, Tom Cruise doing his own stunts, in many cases, makes his movies better. Hanging on the side of a plane or running on the Burj Khalifa - in both cases the shots they can get are far better than they otherwise would be if they have to obscure the stunt guys face and use camera trickery and CGI to take his face.
Not to mention that the other actors in his films use stunt doubles so making those films more successful keeps stunt workers employed. It’s not like there were no stunt doubles in the mission impossible films.
Overall I just don’t see how this is a real problem . Most actors, especially A-listers, like themselves too much to seriously attempt doing their own stunts. Most of their reactions to seeing what Tom Cruise does is “fuck no”. Tom Cruise has the commitment of an actual crazy person to do the shit he does. No other actors who “does his own stunts” does what he does. Are stunt doubles really in dangerous of becoming extinct as a profession?
Given this, I guess I find it hard to see this as an issue worth worrying about. Why must this one crazy guy’s obsession with stunts be squashed? Is there there really not room in the wide landscape of filmmaking for one obsessive dude doing his own stunts?
- Comment on Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18 3 months ago:
The battle for work-life balance is in a far better state in most western economies (including the US) than it is in many developing economies like India. The middle class in India is like 2 generations old. The grandparents of the current middle class are still around and they remember how poor they were and how much has changed. Basically , for many Indian workers, hard work and perseverance on its own (from their perspective at least) had actually been a path to a better life. That social contract hasn’t yet broken the way it has in the west.
The problem with this is that it results in the workplace culture in the private sector in India being utterly abysmal. Somewhat comparable to western economies a century ago.
There is awareness of this of course, but change on this scale takes time.