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- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 8 hours ago:
We’re already engaged in the mass incarceration and extrajudicial murder of immigrants and dissenters. People seem reluctant to rebel.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 14 hours ago:
The cruelty is the point.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
The second fetus may have been terminally underdeveloped, and small enough to be delivered without realizing it was a second baby. They may have told her there was no second baby or that it was part of the afterbirth, or she may have misunderstood what they said.
Doctors have been known to lie to patients in the past, but the practice is not very common anymore in most cultures.
- Comment on Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going? 4 days ago:
My kids get their assignments, turn them in, and receive their grades on four different apps, plus there’s a version for the parents.
- Comment on Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going? 5 days ago:
Where? Fuck you, that’s where. You want your kid to be on time for their activities? Surrender all privacy, because what are you going to do? Keep your kid out of sports and clubs?
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 5 days ago:
Seems to have worked then.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 5 days ago:
On the contrary, I’d say it’s a smashing success. First, the author was deeply engaged with Facebook to write the article. Second, everyone who saw this article and discussed the findings was engaged with Facebook even if they didn’t have the app open. You and I are engaged with Facebook right now. And third, many many more people logged into their Facebook to test the findings either out of curiosity, to disprove the theory, or because they are horny goblins thirsting for smut.
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 6 days ago:
It’s called pillaging when it’s an invasion force.
- Comment on CONTACT LEFT! 6 days ago:
So he stole a chicken, which is actually a war crime, and he’s just casually admitting it on social media. Says a lot about the state of the world at the moment.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 6 days ago:
Ummmm the Facebook feed is an advanced algorithm that knows a shit ton about what to feed you to keep you engaged. It’s not just the cookies from sites you visit. They track what thumbnails get you to stop scrolling. They track the way a human eye moves and how far your thumb glides across the screen.
Point is, if it’s all scantily clad thirst traps, thats what gets your attention. If you see one, and you stop to take a screenshot for an article you’re writing about how it’s all thirst traps, then every third item will be another thirst trap.
Facebook doesn’t care if you want to see that content. Their goal is to keep your eyes on Facebook. If it makes you mad enough to comment, that’s engagement.
- Comment on We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer 1 week ago:
I was hoping for a decentralized version of discord ever since they started requiring phone numbers.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Combat always ages poorly, because anything happening in real time requires muscle memory. As developers develop new combat mechanisms, it is constantly getting incrementally better. It’s like trying to compare a modern performance car to a Model T, or an '89 honda accord. The 65 Shelby Cobra doesn’t have bluetooth or antilock brakes or passenger airbags, but there are many enthusiastic fans of the car today. The modern Shelby Mustang is essentially a remake with modern tech trying to capture the spirit of the original.
That’s what we want. We want Morrowind, but better. The classic is still the classic, so we don’t need that again. Modders can reskin the game with better graphics.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 4 weeks ago:
I can understand the appeal of a piece of bread that’s been soaked or buttered or even just toasted and salted. I bet that’s delicious, if done right.
My question is, why the other two slices of bread? What’s the thinking there? Why not have three slices of delicious middle bread? If the bread is good enough on its own, why not eat it alone?
It’s like if you made a drink of tepid water by adding ice cubes to a glass of warmed water and then letting them completely melt until room temperature. Who is this recipe for? “Oh, but maybe the ice cubes are flavored” OK then why freeze them before melting them? “Maybe the hot water is flavored with herbs that rele-” Bitch, that’s tea.
I’m so confused, I’m getting mad at imaginary arguments I’m having with hypothetical morons about analogous situations that only exist in my head.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
I don’t believe you’re honestly anything.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
See what you’re doing now is called sea-lioning, where you pretend you have been misunderstood, and you’re just trying to have a civil conversation. You shared a nazi arguement, and if you feel you’ve been misunderstood, you’re free to clarify what you meant to say. I’ve said my peace, so if you want to keep pretending you’re not a bigot, then you’ll need to do more than insist others prove it.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
I feel like I was fairly clear about that. It’s the one where you use bad science to justify bigotry and crimes against humanity. For example, your comment earlier in this thread about how certain people shouldn’t exist because ova and sperm are the only gametes.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
Which is it, you don’t want to defend the nazi argument, or you do want to defend the nazi argument?
- Comment on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" 4 weeks ago:
Holy libel suit, Batman!
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 4 weeks ago:
Literally every sentence you typed is entirely inaccurate. It’s bad science promoted by bigots to create a convinient lie that permits them to discriminate and oppress people.
- Human genders are not defined by gamete types.
- Sex is not defined by gamete types.
- Sexual development charts are generalizations across average humans, and do not necessarily represent any one individual’s sexual development.
- You can’t hide your bigotry behind peer-reviewed biology papers and textbooks. The actual science doesn’t support it.
- Gonochorism is not relevant to the psychosexual development of humans. It’s a term used to differentiate animals that change sexes due to environmental factors, like alligators and snails. Nobody is claiming that transgender individuals are simultaneously hermaphroditic. It’s a biological strawman argument that belies the insincerity of your argument.
In short, fuck off with your nazi bullshit.
- Comment on US | Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule 1 month ago:
I dunno, this feels like the cars that require subscriptions or the TVs that show people ads over whatever they are watching. On the one hand, I just would never buy anything with those restrictions.
On the other hand, I don’t expect everyone to become an expert on anti-features and technology, especially when capitalists are constantly seeking new and creative ways to profit from deception.
Consumer protections exist because there is no limit to greed, and no threshold too terrible that someone won’t cross it for profit. Locking phones is a small inconvenience that pales in comparison to the bullshit cell service providers try to get away with, but it is also anti-competitive and monopolistic, not to mention deceptive marketing when common sense (not to mention experience) dictates that any phone ought to work with other carriers as long as they operate on the same frequencies.
- Comment on Concert encores are like adult peekaboo for a crowd. 1 month ago:
Imagine if the whole show was like that. Maybe not every song, but maybe after a 45 minute set, the band walks off, and if the crowd is still into it, they come back out. As a fan, you remember all the shows where everyone was disappointed that the band didn’t keep playing, but I bet the bands remember every show where the crowd couldn’t care less.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 month ago:
Cuts both ways. They have included both, but they treat them the same. This allows them to handwave away any reasonable objections that they are not the same thing, because it doesn’t make a difference to them.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 month ago:
So the arc speed increases as the radius decreases, both in cutting and reading.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 month ago:
I always assumed that the initial cutting of the record accounts for the variation in speed as the needle moves towards the center. If that’s the case, the information density would be relatively consisten, because the size of the bits of information would get smaller as the speed increases. But I don’t actually know if that’s how it works.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 1 month ago:
You don’t need to be particularly intelligent to see it. Case in point, I can see it.
- Comment on Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles. 1 month ago:
Ok, but do you actually think that every bicycle rider should be licensed, inspected, and insured?
- Comment on I'm looking for the best free online storage site my files. That is heavily encrypted and respect people's privacy, what would you suggest? 1 month ago:
If something is free, then you’re the product. Your data will be used for whatever the storage provider would like. For example, Google Photos was initially very generous with storage, because they were using your photos to train their recognition software. Gmail is reading your emails to build our your advertising profile. Your data is a commodity, and your privacy, if you protect it, is valuable.
The best way to do what you’re asking for, to ensure privacy and security, is to self-host. There’s an initial cost, and some maintenance fees over time, but you’ll also be investing in learning valuable skills in your free time.
- Comment on Has anyone seen thier stuff getting sold on Storage Wars? 1 month ago:
Not for nothing, but those reality shows are often staged. If they “find” something interesting and potentially valueable every episode, you can bet it was probably planted. Most people store old furniture and clothing in storage units, and people probably wouldn’t even recognize their own stuff. A box of old coats? A generic cherry armoire from the 1980s? Old documents? Even bulky sporting goods like skis and golf clubs don’t have any actual value.
That’s not to say they never find something valuable, but they might obfuscate where exactly it came from to try to reduce lawsuits. If they find anything that could be easily identified by the original owner, especially if it is extremely valuable, they aren’t going to put that into the show at all.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
If that were true, they would be on every jug of milk, and they would all be the same size.