agamemnonymous
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- Comment on [Rec] "REDLINE" is one of the best and bizarre animated movie I have ever seen. 1 day ago:
Redline (2009)
Space Dandy (2014)
You’ve got it backwards
- Comment on ICE Shot a Man While Trying to Detain Him. He Had No Criminal Record. 2 days ago:
Materially, you’re right. Having a criminal record doesn’t matter. Rhetorically, however
- Comment on ICE Shot a Man While Trying to Detain Him. He Had No Criminal Record. 2 days ago:
It does in that it erases the “They’re only going after criminals” angle. It’s not that it’s an acceptable metric to excuse their actions, it’s that they’re failing to meet their own metrics.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 days ago:
Guillotines are too tame for modern audiences. Wood chippers are fresh and exciting.
- Comment on 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech 4 days ago:
No no no, hope that it’s long. Hope that he lives out his term, getting increasingly feeble, bungling the real powers’ carefully laid plans and destroying the morale of his fascist fans who have to sieg heil a pathetic invalid.
An old demented dictator, too stubborn to step down, is honestly probably the best case scenario at this point. If he dies, he just gets replaced by boring, competent fascists.
- Comment on Trump is right, America is too soft on crime 6 days ago:
America is soft on white collar crime. It’s tough as nails on anyone with a net worth under 7 figures.
- Comment on Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds 6 days ago:
I always thought the brain was more like a dump truck.
- Comment on The problem with overeating is that it feels really good 1 week ago:
The problem with most problematic habits and behavior is that they feel really good. People don’t generally engage in harmful behaviors that also feel bad.
- Comment on James should have used his money 1 week ago:
I love the implication that pokémon are intelligent creatures that could learn to speak if we trained them for that, but most people would rather use them in casual animal fights for money and prestige.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
One of the big things is their robust appetite for murder. Domesticated cats destroy bird populations. At minimum they should have a collar with a bell.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
Common misconception. Not all of them, just the ones that change colors around radiation.
- Comment on ... 1 week ago:
I’ve got some martial arts training, but only did like a month of BJJ with no other real grappling training. A girl-jock friend of mine, super active in BJJ and pretty big and buff for a girl, wanted to do a little playful sparring.
I pinned her so fast, with so little effort, it wasn’t even funny. She’d been training for years, and she was in great shape for it, but my amateur ass absolutely destroyed her.
Also, I did do some powerlifting for a while, and everyone who actually lifts heavy looks like a chubby farm boy.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 2 weeks ago:
How so?
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 2 weeks ago:
I wonder why they can’t see that?
My guess is that everyone who thinks being gay is a choice regularly feels homosexual attraction, that they have to choose to repress. They think that’s normal, they feel that way therefore everyone else must too.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
I know what consent is. I’m saying that applying the concept of consent here is nonsensical. Consent is so logically impossible that it’s irrelevant. This is the part beyond understanding.
That’s why I bothered to go into any of the rest of the concern. The prior consent angle is meaningless, so the next place you go is retroactive consent.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
I do want a biological child or two, but I do also agree with prioritizing adoption. I plan to adopt/foster several children after my biological children grow up. Personally, I feel that’s a bit more ethical, as I’d like to establish my parental skills with the benefits of raising from birth and biological similarity, before I presume to handle the additional complexities of a child with a past.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
My point is the anti natalists have the perspective that the risk of suffering is not worth imposing on a new human.
You saying that assessment is overblown does not change their perspective
The real part I didn’t understand is the “prior consent” part. Like I said, before you have the child, there’s nothing to ask for consent. It doesn’t make any sense.
But as to the rest, I’m saying that the assessment is so overblown that it ceases to be rational. A fraction of a fraction of a percent of people will never get fulfillment from life, so no one should ever have children?
There’s always some risk associated with everything. To never do anything because there’s a minuscule chance it could be disastrous is ridiculous.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
You have luxuries like a communication medium and some electronics that you use to your liking.
As do you, as does everyone else on the digital platforms on which the anti-natalist sentiment primarily resides.
And you can always revoke consent.
I want to be clear that I don’t recommend it. I think in the vast majority of cases, it is a permanent solution to temporary problems. I think the vast majority of people who consider it can live to change their minds.
I do think there are those who are so irreversibly disabled that their lives really are mostly suffering, and I support the right of those people to revoke their consent to life. But I think those cases are very rare.
Assuming the environment is reasonably stable, and there’s no serious history of irreversibly disabling conditions, I don’t think there’s a moral compunction to anti-natalism.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
I cannot understand this kind of anti-natalist perspective. My life isn’t perfect, and I’ve definitely had my share of struggle and suffering, but I’m elated at the experience overall. There’s absolutely a lot of cruelty and ugliness in the world, but there’s also profound beauty. Not even physical beauty like landscapes and sunsets and stuff, but moving, personal beauty: selfless generosity and compassion, performing artists in flow state, unity and cooperation, real love.
There wasn’t a me to consent to sentience before I had the sentience to consent with, so by your ruling no one could ever be born. Now that I have sentience, I’m glad of it and give my enthusiastic retroactive consent.
- Comment on Shh 2 weeks ago:
Where do you think the river goes?
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 2 weeks ago:
Yeah Exile was fine except for the pixel-hunting bullshit in the forest world. Riven is still the best though.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
The funny thing is, thanks to fever, this “cold war” is both literally and figuratively a hot war.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 3 weeks ago:
I see you know your goose-step well
- Comment on The song that never ends announces what it is in the first line, then expects us to believe some people started singing it without knowing what it was 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but that’s from curiosity, not ignorance
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 3 weeks ago:
In other words, before a change can be made in the name of Progress, it needs to be demonstrated that the change actually is Progress. To progressives, this feels like standing in the way of Progress. To a conservative, this is safeguarding Progress, the Progress previous generations achieved, from changes that, again, are more likely to be bad than good.
That’s not what we see with Conservatism with, and is much more in line with 20th century Progressivism (i.e. leveraging empirical knowledge to moderate political change).
Conservativism in practice, as I’ve seen it almost invariably, says new is always bad, traditional is always good. It’s a bicycle that’s all brakes and no pedals.
Sometimes a system that took centuries to build, like chattel slavery, should be destroyed in months or years, and inaction does more bad than good. Progressivism took off after the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution because empirical data showed that traditional structures were ill-suited for the quickly evolving world.
Conservativism in the modern era is akin to trying to fill your gas tank with oats and hay. Cars aren’t horses, and the longer you drag your feet in updating your policies, the more damage you’re going to do to your engine.
Conservatism holds that if things are pretty good, most changes are likely to make things worse and not better
The problem is that things aren’t pretty good for most people. The system is in shambles and most suggested changes probably would make things better for everyone who isn’t a millionaire.
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 weeks ago:
The most respectful thing we can do is honor his beliefs:
“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” - Charlie Kirk
"“I think empathy is a made up New Age term that has done a lot of damage” - Charlie Kirk
“Guns save lives” - Charlie Kirk
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 4 weeks ago:
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
- Comment on Found my spirit animal 4 weeks ago:
The picture looks unusually HD, and the font looks like a common AI font. Seems like there actually is a particularly fat bear named Otis though, so idk. Maybe it’s a real, high quality image with an unfortunate font choice, maybe it’s a fake image inspired by the real bear, who knows.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 4 weeks ago:
They generate a lot less bullshit when deliberately trained on a specific dataset, and they’re only getting better with time.
