BussyGyatt
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- Comment on Netanyahu signs off on controversial settlement plan, says 'there will be no Palestinian state' 4 days ago:
i dunno. maybe when america is explicitly recognized as actively hostile to their interests? maybe not tho, seems a lot of people not reading the writing on the walls.
- Comment on Netanyahu signs off on controversial settlement plan, says 'there will be no Palestinian state' 4 days ago:
- Comment on Netanyahu signs off on controversial settlement plan, says 'there will be no Palestinian state' 4 days ago:
world war 3
- Comment on Entrance covered by dreams and RNA 4 days ago:
sadaam memelord fossilesque strikes again
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 1 week ago:
be the change
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 1 week ago:
im not asking you to cut jackboots slack. i am asking you to cut children who are intoxicated by propaganda slack. get it?
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 1 week ago:
god is a quaint metaphor. you were with me until then, so it didn’t actually detract from any point i made. i was trying to draw attention to and defeat the concept of ‘empathy is a sin’ by explicitly countering it on its own terms. i can empathize with the christian perspective, but i do not sympathize with it.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 1 week ago:
friend, i think it needs to be stated explicitly that i have respect for you as a person, your opinion, and your right to express it. i also need to say that i think we agree more than we disagree. i am an atheist for a start, and as evidence i submit the fact that i do not capitalize the name of the fictitious god. i do not capitalize a lot of things, friend, but i especially do not capitalize the word ‘god.’ i was using god as a convenient topical metaphor. i think see what you meant with trans hate speech now, i was a little quick to dismiss that point. in a way i think i was doing the same thing i think you were trying to do talking about trans hate by making the comparison to ‘empathy is a sin.’ i was trying to refer to the kind of mindset that says “empathy is a sin” and say you don’t have to think that way, whether you believe in a god or not. it was clunky and clumsy if i have to explain it this much, sorry for that.
And you do that by making it damned clear that it is a “with us or against us” mindset. Either side with The People or oppress them.
we agree. what i’m trying to point out is that in there are a lot of factors that have nothing to do with empathy or trans hatred or invading countries or oppressing minorities generally that do not occur to children before they walk into a recruiter’s office with civic duty and filial pride and escape from poverty in their heads. that it is possible to be a totally normal, morally sane, apparently well-adjusted human being who walks into a recruiter for a global war crime syndicate think they’re doing a right and good thing. telling such an apparently ‘morally sane’ person that they’re about to commit evil without explaining that to them, without overcoming almost 2 decades of programming inertia first is bound to backfire. the easiest and best way i know of overcoming that inertia is empathy. no gods required. and you don’t have to sympathize to empathize. that said, considering why someone acts the way they do does not obligate you to act that way too.
you don’t need to meet in the middle, and I am 100% not asking you to. i would respect your opinion a lot less if i thought you wanted to meet midway between fascism and whatever-we-had-before-that-we-could-pretend-was-democracy.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 1 week ago:
children suffer from grandiose delusions of military service intentionally induced by state propaganda. they are victims before they are perpetrators; part of their victimization is being coerced into becoming a perpetrator: this is how a cycle of abuse perpetuates itself.
respectfully, ‘republicans talking about trans people need to die’ is non-sequitor; it follows from nothing said before in this comment chain and more importantly leads to nothing (as far as i can see anyway) that is relevant in this conversation about the reasons for military enlistment. also ‘counterargument from typo’ is a worse look than the typo itself. was it a good take on his part? no, saying you have brainworms was ad hominem insult that frankly just doesn’t stick. and yes, it is a little bit ironic to be calling another person stupid while making a syntax error. a very little bit ironic. comparing my sense of irony to my sense of elitism, i find in the balance a stereotypical human error that in no way actually detracts from any point they were attempting to make.
telling people that the military is not actually the propaganda they’ve been fed but would in fact be oppressing others for an evil orange rapist is a good thing. it does not conflict in any way with anything he or i have said; nothing that has been said by the other poster or me prevents you from making that valid observation to a potential recruit or even an active duty member. i unironically encourage you to do so. if you manage to break even one child out of the cycle of abuse and prevent a new ss member from being created, you will have done the world a great service.
i’ll take this opportunity to re-phrase something the other poster said, ‘just because you’re considering the perspective of another person doesn’t mean you’re endorsing that person or their behavior.’ now go do god’s work, and remember: empathy is not a sin.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
“if”
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 week ago:
american lumber doesn’t use standard imperial units. an “inch” isn’t the standard you’d expect on a so-called “nominally” 2 inch by 4 inch board. just attempting to use metric without accounting for the extra wackiness added by lumber ‘measurement’ on top of standard imperial silliness, you’d end up with a bunch of errors.
tl;dr: a 2" x 4" board actually measures something like 3.81cm x 7.62cm.
- Comment on Two arrested as police suspect 'corrupt' council staff allocated 'hundreds of homes for cash' 1 week ago:
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- Comment on DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files 1 week ago:
why are rawstory are the only ones covering this? not cnn, reuters, ap, fox, bbc, only rawstory has the courage to cover this bombshell reporting?
totally unrelated question, hasn’t james o’keefe earned a bit of a reputation?
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT’s page about the study instead.
Better late than never. Good catch.
- Comment on Israel weighs West Bank annexations in response to Palestine recognition push 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews 2 weeks ago:
hes rite u no
- Comment on China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build 2 weeks ago:
this, like an open casket funeral, remains to be seen.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 2 weeks ago:
wow, looks like a little slice of paradise. it’s so green.
strange, i came down with covid for the first time this year, and i spent 2020 and most of 2021 getting bounced between shelters and a halfway house. shit sucked. glad for vaccines. i think it must be complacency, everyone stopped even pretending to wear masks, and don’t get me started with handwashing, which was already an unacnowledged public health crisis before covid imho.
I read something about loofah sponges a few days or a week ago or so… aren’t they related to bottle gourds? have you actually used them for like, scrubbing? probably a silly question but i don’t suppose birds could actually nesti in the gourds?
- Comment on The Good Genes 2 weeks ago:
oh, right.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 2 weeks ago:
that sounds like a fantasy. i’m really intrigued.
may i ask, have you tried competitive species instead of insecticide/traps? if so, did you find it was ineffective? i’ve always had this idea of a native garden tending to a local species of endangered ant. i was hoping that with some management maybe i could help the relatively docile native ants outcompete the fire ants, but most people are so afraid of ants to begin with… they think all ants are fire ants or crazy tawny ants. i like social insects :)
anyway i was just wondering it sounds like you might have relevant experience and intereting anecdotes.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 2 weeks ago:
my original comment before editing read something like “they specifically asked chatgpt not to produce bomb manuals when they trained it” but i didn’t want people to think I was anthropomorphizing the llm.
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
I’ll for the both of us then.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 2 weeks ago:
I want my old-school mx518 back
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 2 weeks ago:
hey that’s pretty fuckin good lol
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 2 weeks ago:
well, yes, but the point is they specifically asked chatgpt not to produce bomb manuals when they were training it. or thought they did; evidently that’s not what they actually did.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 2 weeks ago:
when the trump admin is identical to the us federal govt, there will be no doubt about the matter.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
words have meanings. thats not what spontaneous means in this context. the definition of spontaneous in this context is independent of the nature of water. and i frankly don’t give a shit if you struggle with social norms. i care that the word has a meaning and you are abusing it.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
i know it’s offensive to see people censor themselves in that way because of tiktok, but try to remember there’s a human being on the other side of your words.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
no
