warbond
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- Comment on Trump Directive Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” and “Anti-American” Views as Domestic Terrorism 3 days ago:
I think capitalism is pretty terrible for bringing us atrocities like the slave trade. I think Christianity is pretty terrible for encouraging children to not ask questions. And I think America has done a pretty shit job of protecting what little reputation remained to us over this last year.
So come and get me, I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly, you’re talking about an exchange like this?
Person 1: It sure is hot today.
Person 2: I know, right?Thinking about some other conversational ways to respond, I think saying, “It sure is, isn’t it?” or, “Don’t I know it!” feel pretty similar. I wonder what it is that makes us ask rhetorical questions like that.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve been looking into this recently because The Algorithm wanted me to (I don’t always do what The Algorithm wants, but sometimes it’s really fucking spot-on so maybe I’m just institutionalized) and I simply don’t see why this is really any different from anything else available.
Is it really that much better? Is it the same thing just with better execution? As we’ve seen time and again, popular doesn’t always mean good.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 2 weeks ago:
Knowing very little about the national guard in particular, I would argue that the standards are there but the enforcement isn’t.
In the Navy, at least, physical training was never a serious priority except for more specialized commands. The standards were identical, but the commands where PT was emphasized were the only places where a majority of people were fit. There’s way more to it than just standards.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 3 weeks ago:
They’re adding multiplayer, actually. Lots of fun to be had when everything can be destroyed. The workshop mods introduce a lot of new weapons, levels, and vehicles, too.
- Comment on What is the best advice you've ever been given? 4 weeks ago:
One of my instructors while I was learning how to shoot said, “Just remember: keep breathing.”
I think he was just talking about overcoming my literal tendency to hold my breath while shooting, but man I thought about that one a lot over the years.
- Comment on What is the best advice you've ever been given? 4 weeks ago:
More like unrememberable
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 5 weeks ago:
Dumbass freeloading babies…
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 1 month ago:
I bet it has a few vibrate modes
- Comment on bro who tf invented the SPOON 💀 like u see a puddle and thought “yeah imma scoop that” 1 month ago:
In that case maybe the single chopstick was the first utensil…? I feel like a two-pronged stick would be ridiculed at first, much the way heliocentrism was. Imagine being the Copernicus of stick technology, lol
- Comment on Trump Admin Warns GOP: Demanding More Epstein Files Is an ‘Act of War’ Against the White House 1 month ago:
There were adrenochrome WMDs on that boat, they had to do it
- Comment on WATER! 1 month ago:
I went to a restaurant in Dallas near the stadiums where asking for “water, please” got us a glass bottle of whatever rich-people water they served.
Everything was expensive and the food was super whatever. It’s called Soy Cowboy, if anybody’s curious.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 months ago:
A weird form of arrogant elitism
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I really like the idea of playing dumb with this.
“Why would I get a gun?”
“Protection from whom?”
“Why wouldn’t I trust her to make smart decisions regarding potential romantic partners?” - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Personally I wouldn’t wait to get to that point. Had I made it clear early on that “used to be okay” jokes or comments were not, in fact, okay, I probably would have saved myself a lot of heartache.
Confronting loved ones over unacceptable behavior is a necessary skill that takes practice to develop, and I would have been better served if I had done so from the start with my in-laws.
Perhaps I wouldn’t repeat OP verbatim, but there are a lot of ways to get the basic point across.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 months ago:
Just finished the musical episode in Season 2, which was quite silly, but it’s all so fun that it’s hard to criticize. This is a show that knows what it is and revels in it.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 2 months ago:
Not too gross? Good god, man.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 2 months ago:
It was very in the open, but Trump said he didn’t know anything about it, so the sycophants believed him.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
Are you kidding? Always dodge twice!
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 2 months ago:
We’ve only been married for 20 years. How can I be sure she really likes me?
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 2 months ago:
Sometimes it be like that.
- Comment on Black Holes 2 months ago:
Flash is such a hilariously overpowered hero, it’s awesome
- Comment on Trump admin to reinstall Confederate statue toppled by protesters 2 months ago:
Not really, it’s super stable. Just don’t let it get to a few thousand degrees, because then it might burn.
- Comment on bird based storage 2 months ago:
Definitely chaotic good energy. Big fan of his videos.
- Comment on They're completely serious 2 months ago:
All-powerful Pawns of the Deep State.
New band name?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 months ago:
Yeah, man, I get it. Language is complex. I’m not advocating for the reinvention of English, it was just a conversational observation about a silly quirk.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 months ago:
Do you think it’s a matter of choosing a complexity to care about?
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 3 months ago:
I think in most cases where this administration seems to have a good idea it’s important to remember that it’s likely designed to keep them in power.
A national database that the trump admin controls will 100% be exploited for their own gain, just like every other aspect of government is being exploited for their gain now.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 months ago:
Kinda dumb that apostrophe s means possessive in some circumstances and then a contraction in others.
I wonder how different it’ll be in 500 years.
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 3 months ago:
I don’t think that the semantic discrepancy is really the point.