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- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 12 hours ago:
I guess I ought to clarify my position. The line should be drawn well on the side of freedom of expression. Emotive expressions should virtually always be legal. As long as there isn’t reason to believe that a thing that someone says is going to lead to a crime being committed, any punishment for that speech is unwarranted. That includes things like “I demand the death of (insert minority here).”
Unless you can convince a jury of that person’s peers that that particular expression was going to lead to a particular crime being committed against a particular person (like, if I said “here’s a gun, go kill that guy”), that speech should be legally protected.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 13 hours ago:
They didn’t say the US has banned books at the federal level. Book bans are book bans, and the US has book bans.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 13 hours ago:
Ignoring the fact that that’s the literal opposite of what happened here… Who should decide whether that’s legal, and to what extent should they be able to decide what is and isn’t legal to say?
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 13 hours ago:
Being against genocide illegal in Australia. Actually, that tracks with my understanding of Australia
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- Comment on Bean virus 2 days ago:
Bro my vegetarian ass is like 30% black beans by volume. Someone please infect me with the beans virus
- Comment on Bean virus 2 days ago:
I need the bean virus
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 days ago:
A second user issued the weapon restriction challenge. I don’t play HD2, but apparently they specifically chose weapons that the playerbase widely agrees are underpowered, but the devs say are fine
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 days ago:
If they’re investigating someone who doxxed a user for saying a game that’s too hard and buggy is too hard and buggy, then maybe they should hire Boeing’s PIs
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 days ago:
Yeah I don’t remember the last time Steam users bullied someone into suicide. I can think of at least three people who’ve been killed by Reddit.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
Just think it could stand to be more explicit. Some people, being stupid, wouldn’t be able to figure out that they may themselves be stupid based only on those laws
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 6 days ago:
My go-to is to just beg them to play Kerbal Space Program
They argue that, if the moon landing could be done way back then, with modern technology, it should be possible to quickly get back to the moon.
In the 1960s, getting to the moon was the most important thing in the solar system. The Soviet Union and the US spent ungodly amounts of money and risked uncountable lives in this endeavor. We did the thing, and now we’ve done the thing. We aren’t willing to risk those lives or spend that money anymore. New missions have to be much, much cheaper and much, much safer.
Technology has definitely improved, but there is a physical limit to the amount of energy that you can pull out of a given mass of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Getting to space hasn’t gotten any lighter, and fuel mass has always been the biggest hurdle. Again, play KSP. It will brand the tyranny of the rocket equation into your soul.
They also argue NASA could have just reused the same designs as the Apollo missions if they actually went to the moon.
They could, in the same way that we could start sending children underground to mine for coal again
To summarise, a) Been there, done that. Anything new will involve sending more mass than the Apollo missions had to deal with. Tyranny of the rocket equation: more mass means more fuel means more thrusters means more mass means more fuel…
b) I could do some research and come back, but there is no answer to this that will satisfy a moon landing denier, because any explanation would require a baseline understanding of chemistry and also trust in the institutions that examine these moon rocks.
c) The answer to a also applies here
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
I feel like it’s worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
If it’s not important to the rest of the world then why can’t you walk down the street without seeing it? Could it be that it simply doesnt matter to you, and you’re projecting your own indifference onto the rest of society?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 6 days ago:
I’m not sure this is quite analagous to neuralink’s monkey experiments. That said,
So is this different only because those are human neurons?
To my mind, a neuron is a neuron. The only difference between your brain and a monkey brain is, again, the number of neurons and the structures they form. I don’t see this as any different from monkey or rat or ant or entirely digital neurons.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
Raises uncomfortable questions about consciousness. The only difference between these neurons and your own are the number of them and the structures they form. Of course it doesn’t know what it’s doing, but… Neither do our own neurons
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 week ago:
Yeah, my problem is that I’m too poor to shop elsewhere. So far my local Kroger is only a little more expensive, but at least I know that everyone is paying $8.49 for that six pack of graham crackers
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 week ago:
I’ve already sent feedback to Walmart about my refusal to buy anything with a digital price tag. The thing is, I believe them when they say that prices are only updated between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. The problem is that that policy could change literally any time.
Walmart has every inch of their store covered in cameras. They have facial recognition systems so they know who I am the moment I walk in the store. They know I buy graham crackers. They know I’ve put up with price increases in the past. What is preventing them from adding $0.10 to those graham crackers’ price tag the moment I walk down the crackers aisle? Literally nothing. They could, and that’s reason enough for me to boycott
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
I wonder why we attacked iran even though every human expert said it will just end up with the region being in a forever war.
Same reason I keep money in a savings account even though it accrues interest
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
I mean, if Purina had sending him letters telling him to murder people like Google here, then yeah
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
If I raise a fuckwit son, and then someone convinces my fuckwit son to kill himself, I’m going to sue that someone who took advantage of my son’s fuckwittedness
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
3.2 Concords almost sounds good. For comparison, Black Ops 2 is currently at 347 Concords
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
They should have learned from Marvel Rivals and used an already well-known IP and all the thighs and tits they can get their hands on. You can’t just make a shitty game and expect it to sell, you have to manipulate your players into thinking it’s more than just a shitty game
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 weeks ago:
The Elder Scrolls 6, only available on Xbox^® Game Pass^© Ultimate Plus™ Cloud Gaming™^®©
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
If ghosts were real, then I can think of a few people throughout history who would have been swarmed by them. Adolf Hitler would have approximately 13 million spirits haunting him by the end
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: you can set that methane on fire to make the cow 10% faster
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
It boils my fucking blood that my tax dollars are paying for this
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 weeks ago:
I can confirm that Texas drivers are the worst drivers in Kansas
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 2 weeks ago:
Yay! Lion! Good job buddy!
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 4 weeks ago:
Peanut butter too. Someone could get confused!
