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- Comment on Anon misfires 9 hours ago:
I’m sure there’s a curator at the Tate Modern that would entertain this argument.
- Comment on Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias 20 hours ago:
Brian whatshisface killed more Americans than Bin Laden .
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 days ago:
You absolutely suck at articulating a point. Here, let me do it for you: the problem with vigilante justice is that the lack of a process around who gets got means that eventually someone is going to kill someone who didn’t deserve it. While Brian Thompson was a worthless parasite who literally thrived based on how much he could increase human suffering, the answer is to reform the systems that allow him to exist, rather than calling for random people to take matters entirely into their own hands and kill whomever they deem unworthy of life. The answer is to bring genuine health care reform into the democratic realm and get to a point where health insurance companies that have a direct profit-motive to deny as many claims as possible either do not exist, or are regulated to within an inch of their lives.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 days 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 😭 6 days ago:
See better.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 6 days 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 Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 6 days ago:
Just because you can’t tell the difference between this guy and a school shooter doesn’t mean other people can’t, or that the distinction is arbitrary. This guy killed more Americans than Bin Laden and his death was celebrated.
- Comment on Depressing awful town 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Name the law.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 month 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] 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Well it involves dick so it’s gay in my book.
- Comment on Pee posting? 1 month ago:
Still a better love story than twilight.
- Comment on Mom of the year 1 month 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 2 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.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 2 months ago:
Flour is flammable and light. If the fan makes a bunch of it fly around in your oven the heating element could ignite it. Search YouTube for “flour fire”.
Probably not super dangerous at if you’re just baking a sheet pan of flour, but good to be safe.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 2 months ago:
If you bake dry flour , remember to NOT use convection.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 2 months ago:
You can make safe edible cookie dough pretty easily . The eggs aren’t the only issue, it’s the flour itself. If you bake it at like 275F for 30 mins in a sheet pan it’ll sterilize it. For edible cookie dough that won’t be baked you don’t even need eggs.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 2 months ago:
Time Cube is much older than AI bruh .
- Comment on We lost Keanu 2 months ago:
Here’s one for your time : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
- Comment on We lost Keanu 2 months ago:
Everytime he’s asked for any kind of reasoning or evidence he goes straight to victimhood and how “mainstream archeology” doesn’t want you to know the real truth.
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 3 months ago:
Here’s the best possible history video on the topic: