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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said-I feel the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the real comparison is just: did she get enough votes, in states that Clinton lost, where if those people had all voted for Clinton, then Clinton would have won that state. I don’t know the answer, but even if the numbers did cover the margin, I think saying Stein is therefore a spoiler is problematic for a few reasons:

  1. It ignores the very real number of voters who chose not to vote democratic or vote at all simply because of Clinton as candidate.
  2. it ignores massive mistakes made by a hubristic campaign that couldn’t fathom losing to trump.
  3. it supposes that people that voted green, would have gritted their teeth and instead voted Clinton, which is not a safe assumption.

  Regarding OP’s argument: if Stein is a spoiler, than the libertarians are also spoilers. Since her being a spoiler assumes a majority of her votes would have gone democratic, we can take the same liberty and assume the libertarians would have instead opted for trump. If they had larger vote numbers than the Green Party got, as OP is saying above, then they cancel out greens spoiler-ness, and in fact represent a slight spoiler in favor of the democrats. I don’t really buy this read for the reasons I mentioned above, but OP’s point still kinda stands.

  I’m not personally interested in voting for stein, I’ve heard enough weird stuff about her over the years that I’m not comfortable with her as a candidate. But I don’t buy the constant messaging that “third party votes are wasted votes”. My assumption with people that post these things is that they’re not suggesting it’s OK to not vote. And assumably, they also don’t want you to vote, but vote for the opposition. So it’s just the same old thing: vote the way I want you to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Bears⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha so the idea is they’re just gonna give it a shot and try to eat you, regardless, because the stakes, they are high?

  To be fair, in a moral sense, they should absolutely try and eat every human they can get their claws on; we have done a bang up job on making their habitat and food sources disappear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Bears⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So are polar bears considered more dangerous and aggro than grizzlies? I mean it wouldn’t be too crazy, particularly since it’s probably rare to encounter one, compare to grizzlies. But just had never really heard that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain's oldest chalk figure restored to former glory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An explanation that had not occurred to me, but definitely makes sense in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain's oldest chalk figure restored to former glory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent—thanks for explaining that, makes a lot more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain's oldest chalk figure restored to former glory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda wild they built this 3k years ago. Usually this sort of thing is only done now because it can be seen from the air, but back then it would have been hard to see it in its entirety.

  Maybe they had alien friends and it was like a visual street address for the saucers to find them by.

  Or maybe they had a high point or tower nearby so you could see it from there, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched the video from the “creative scientist” has on YouTube and unless someone has further info, this looks like a completely speculative fiction project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything about this screams fake. It also all sounds like a horrible idea. They’re basically discussing traumatizing inmates at 10x speed. Given that a lot of criminals come from a background of trauma, I’d wonder here if you’d be doing more harm than good. There’s claims in this article that are absurd, without some form of clarification. What the hell is a “creative scientist” as a title—I’m not familiar with that discipline. Also, let’s uhh say am that all this was real, and possible. This tech would be a net evil in the world. If you can use it to brainwash inmates into cringing when they think about doing crime, you can also use it to torture dissenters into conformists. Given that the tech is already aimed at an element of the state security apparatus, there’s like no chance this wouldn’t get used for much worse purposes. I think they’re also misunderstanding how prison is used in many places. In NA, prison does not seem to be about rehabilitation, but just punishment and getting free labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha came here to say: this is some serious warhammer shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like originally it was a semi-safe taboo to break that made a standard porn setup seem more forbidden/risqué. It always seemed weird, like how many people have step siblings that also fantasize about them sexually, how big could this be? But it just kept on coming, so to speak.

  Now I think it’s just a meme/SEO thing, where you have to include it even if the video is not even pretending to be about that. Also it happened around the same time that websites were pushing/pivoting into more content creator type things, and so it’s probably related to that as well. Like the annoying face+exaggerated reaction thing on YouTube…

  Either way, always seemed whacky that everything the sites serve is almost completely step-porn on the front page.