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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
-Isaac Asimov
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 3 weeks ago:
Hahahaha I’d forgotten about that! Man, and people unironically call him a genius still.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I get that it’s a metaphor.
The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.
The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.
We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
They meant the question showed a viewpoint that seemed to center entirely around you (also a rather libertarian thing, honestly).
‘Someone who would never build something for you’ sounds a bit like you’re expecting a tit-for-tat, I-do-this-for-you-so-you-have-to-do-something-for-me in everything, and that’s just not how societies work.
I’m curious; are you using that phrase to refer to, say, rich assholes who just take and take, or Nazi assholes that would rather cut off their own hands than build something a black person might use? Or are you using it to refer to people like severely disabled folks, or say, low-functioning autistic people, who society supports but who don’t have much capacity to ‘return the favor’?
Or are you just referring to future generations, who will be around after you’re gone?
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s just your question comes off as nihilistic and a little bit libertarian, and neither of those is mentally healthy really
- Comment on Study reveals that honeybee dance ‘styles’ sway food foraging success. 5 weeks ago:
They must, since not only do they find their way back to the same flowers day after day, they also seem to remember when peak nectar production is, and when the flower will be open (in the case of species that close during bad weather/certain parts of the day/night).
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 5 weeks ago:
Clinton was in favor of abortion and women’s rights. As Trump is against both, he is ‘God working in mysterious ways’ and therefore should be seen as a sign of divine providence.
I wish I was joking.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 5 weeks ago:
With Trump, it isn’t a difference in politics.
It’s a difference in morality.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.
-Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)
Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
To be fair though, Texas seceded once already and within a year or two was begging to be taken back. They probably would have crumbled too.
- Comment on Now we know 3 months ago:
Owww
Glad he survived that!
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 4 months ago:
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 months ago:
Maybe because they’re trying to get people to pet a blue-ringed octopus?
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 4 months ago:
Dude… these guys go there because us western women are ‘too woke’, ‘too feminist’, ‘don’t understand traditional gender roles’ (i.e. we refuse to be a housebound sex slave) etc, etc.
They’re told that women in X country (Mexico, Japan, and Thailand are the usual culprits listed) are submissive, traditional, uneducated, and you can just buy one, instead of, you know, actually working at building a relationship.
They don’t bother to learn the culture. They don’t bother to even learn the language. They believe that, because they’re white, all they have to do is show up and wave money around and every woman will fall all over their epic alpha maleness.
These guys are just gross.
- Comment on hard to argue with 5 months ago:
Not in this post, true, but in pretty much all her other ones.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 5 months ago:
More damning? I would think trying to overthrow the government and trying to install himself as a dictator would be just as bad.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 5 months ago:
But they do? Along with any other animal that happens to be nearby.
That is the one insect I will go out of my way to kill.