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- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 20 hours ago:
No. We have our own dystopia, our kids get shot in the classroom. We don’t have them assemble the guns to kill other people.
Big difference.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 1 day ago:
The citizens, in general, don’t. We want to do the same thing every other country’s people want - live our lives and hopefully give our kids a good or better one.
I have no fucking clue what the government is doing to make these decisions.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
IMO the limited subset arguing here support authoritarianism. Generally a male dominated profession. Seems to be a burgeoning market these days.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 day ago:
I’m not as mad at the 32% that elected trump as I am at the ones that sat at home and let it happen.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
Surrounded by incels, I guess.
- Comment on Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X 1 day ago:
“Persistent spike” isn’t a spike. That’s the status quo.
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 1 day ago:
Positively dystopian.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
Again failure to discuss the substance of the argument and just making it personal. It’s crystal clear what your objectives are here.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
Way to misrepresent my argument. Thanks for the downvotes without trying to have a discussion.
My opinion is that society in general has elevated men above others. That is still mostly true, from entertainment to employment. Yes, there is no argument that there has been effort, more or less to offer others some of the same benefits men get, but it’s still token in many ways.
Now pay attention, I said society, I did not blame men for this (though they had a hand by aiding and abetting the status quo), there’s an huge cultural momentum behind male over-representation.
As far as the economy, a nebulous “we need to fix it” is gesturing nebulously at an economy that effects everyone, but it’s hard to take you seriously when you only discuss the economy needing to be fixed in the context dealing only with young men.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
That’s not what I said. That’s not what I said at all. And “falling for bullshit” was encompassed by the premise that men have been told since forever that they are special, not necessarily directly but often indirectly by omitting the difficulties others face. Of course you’d make up some redpill crap that even discussing the outgroups that somehow the act places them above men’s issues. But hey, whatever smug rationalizations you’d prefer for your narrative instead of discussing the substance of what was written.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
You’ve got a generation of young men who did what they were supposed to culturally: went to school, got good grades, went to college, never broke any laws, and their choices in life are permanent debt and struggling to afford a roach-infested studio apartment, living with their parents, or joining the military to survive. Here in the United States minimum wage won’t even buy you a cup of coffee in large swaths of the country.
And? Why should they be special? You’re arguing that because young men were given special status before we should bend over backwards by sacrificing others to their success? Women should continue to be underpaid, undervalued, treated as secondary to men’s success? Nevermind the barriers to any sort of professional and societal success as a woman to begin with.
What social contract? Again, the one that puts male wants and needs ahead of others?
That is what you’re arguing, no?
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 2 days ago:
And?
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 days ago:
Dead internet here we come.
This is the direction Reddit has been pointed in for years now.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 days ago:
Would have already overrun us?
They have.
Look who is in charge. The fascists won by courting the far right and telling them they needed guns. Now they have the guns and the government.
- Comment on Dear Leader 3 days ago:
They could be. But then they would be a dictator’s military - all about looks and shitty at everything else. The kind that gets conscripted to be thrown at enemy combatants as cannon fodder to die for the glory of their leader. The US military is a logistical fighting force, that’s what they’re good at. Not dressing up and goose-stepping polished and pretty for nationalistic display.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 3 days ago:
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 5 days ago:
Thanks
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 5 days ago:
What service.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 5 days ago:
So glad I never did this one.
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 5 days ago:
Charity is profitable.
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 6 days ago:
Bad to worse.
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 6 days ago:
The stupid is intensifying. They both a) know they can’t run a government and b) are in a rush to make something that will do all the work so they can sit back and rake in the money. No, this is not about actually making the country better because objectively LLMs suck and were never intended for such tasks.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 6 days ago:
Yeah, it can sorta be a “boredom reliever” kind of thing.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 6 days ago:
Living off flavored drinks and craving that sugar is stimulation you don’t get from plain water.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 1 week ago:
Yes. Some services are not good at accepting existing naming conventions, insist on their own naming and sorting conventions, or require a lot of third party services that will unfortunately rename your movie to something foreign or otherwise completely wrong.
It takes quite a bit of time to clean up titles and metadata that you may be migrating or adding from a personal collection. Sure, it’s free…but it doesn’t mean it isn’t frustrating or time consuming.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
The problem with them is that it’s up to the owner of the facility to make sure they are removed and cleaned in a timely manner, not simply re-rolled dirty towel, and the machine was in good repair and didn’t jam.
Quite often that wasn’t the case, so you’d wind up with dirty towel recycling or stuck.
Yes, this absolutely contributed to the spread of disease. No way it couldn’t. I had a family member in the medical field and said that the reason we didn’t see them anymore much past the ‘80s is because they were unhygienic thanks to the aforementioned issues.
So it’s not really the fault of the towel, it’s the fact that people are cheap bastards and don’t keep things serviced, clean, and maintained. It’s better to grumble and shake your hands dry rather than continue to use a jammed, soiled towel machine.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 1 week ago:
Centralized is control. Control is profit. It’s already not “well”, that’s why we’re here discussing it.
- Comment on 10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master. 1 week ago:
Bring a phone to the toilet with you and you could considerably shorten the time.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 1 week ago:
Oh good, a 60% chance you’ll get an ineffective or killer drug because they’ll use AI to analyze the usage and AI to report on it.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 1 week ago:
Lots and lots of reasons.
I’m basing this on your comparison of normal cars to currently existing exotics.
Predominantly - the vast majority of people don’t want an exotic car. They want to go from home to work and the store, maybe a drive for a leisure trip. They’re boring. They want to get their stuff and people in and out of the car easily and conveniently.
Exotics do not do this well. There’s minimal trunk space and fit two people, often “snugly.” They require some contortions to get into and out of. Now think of how out of shape many people are and see if they fit into a highly contoured and snug race seat and can crawl in behind a scissor- or butterfly-style door with a very low roof.
Engineering-wise it’s a big cost issue, both for the manufacturer and customer. Those compact, low, aerodynamic bodies on exotic cars take a lot of work to pack all the mechanicals in along with having to design a body that is crash-worthy for each new exotic style. On top of that, they’re often mid-engine, which means a lot of specialty parts like transaxles, and wildly different handling characteristics than the average consumer is used to when you shift weight to the back of the vehicle.
Manufacturers are sticking with the “boring” designs because they’re based on existing engineering that is safe, requires minimal cost to make the new iteration, aerodynamic, fuel efficient, and has proven to be sellable to consumers. Profit is king. They’re not going to take chances on crazy styles that may not sell because again, people are boring.
I know people are going to chime in about mundane cars in production today that have some of the features I mentioned and treat them as an exception that invalidates the opinions I’ve offered, but the point is that if they were economical and profitable designs in an exotic body they would be more widespread. “You could just take “x” engine and transmission and build a “y” around it” argument.
I would suggest maintenance is a cost problem, too…some exotics literally require the car be split - the entire rear of the car containing the engine and transaxle removed from the rest of the car because of the compact engineering and inaccessibility to some wear parts. However if Toyota made a low-buck supercar looking commuter car I’d hope the maintenance would be cheaper and easier.
So there you have it. Cost of design, engineering, and maintenance. Boring consumers, convenience, and safety. Affordability and profit. That’s why we don’t have exotics everywhere. The market has determined that the few Halo cars we see like the Supra or C8 Corvette, or even the Mustang, is all the market will bear.