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- Comment on Beans 1 day ago:
apex predator
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Same, but I also have only really discussed moon landing lunacy with other Americans. It may be that there’s a different demographic attracted to the conspiracy theory outside of the USA.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Yep, the article mentions as much. You’d have to trust public access to NASA telescopes, which no self-respecting conspiracy theorist would, of course.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Explanation: During the Cold War, the USA and USSR competed in many areas to ‘prove’ whose system was superior. One such area was the so-called “Space Race”, wherein both sides competed for prestigious ‘first achievements’ in space. The USSR put up the first satellites and people into space, but the USA was the first to land people on the moon.
… for some reason, an enduring minority in the US has continued to believe that it was a ‘hoax’ and ‘faked’, for gods only know what reason. The USSR, by contrast, was watching the whole affair very closely - once it was apparent that the mission was a success, genuine congratulations were extended, and samples of moon rocks were shared with USSR when the mission touched down. After all, the competition was about the prestige - science knows no borders*!
*unless it has some military application, at which point it becomes classified
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oraptrer
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- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 2 weeks ago:
Why would a person want to be trusted to not do drugs?
Remind me never to have you make any deliveries for me.
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At what temperature does a normal body boil
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Switching hard 😔
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Whoosh.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
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- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 3 weeks ago:
Mood
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
My friends used to jokingly call me Narcissus, because of my Classical obsession and the fact that whenever we walked home from school, I would never pass up an opportunity to look at my handsome face in a good reflection 😎
- Comment on What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst. 1 month ago:
This is why organizations are so damn important, and why the decline of unions has been so damaging to US political culture.
- Comment on From our family to yours, merry Christmas! 1 month ago:
If this was an imitation of a happy holiday… a perfect imitation… would you know? Would I?
- Comment on Thanks :) 1 month ago:
I thought he was fond of plentiful mangos
- Comment on Fear not, for I am watchful. You have been chosen. 2 months ago:
Stand up, there you go. You were dreaming.
- Comment on PSA 2 months ago:
literally me
- Comment on Prequel dialogue 2 months ago:
THEN YOU ARE LOST
- Comment on you need to be doing this 2 months ago:
Don’t tempt me
- Comment on Hope 2 months ago:
Mood
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
Yes, that’s me. Maybe the bit you’re missing is that if you work at a company, the company’s products are your products.
I’ll be sure to tell the janitor.
It’s like you don’t even understand the core moral dilemma of being an engineer working for a military supplier.
No, that’s not what I mean, and I’d appreciate you not putting words in my mouth.
So this isn’t you?
We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.
There is a material difference between providing Israel with military equipment and with some random consumer product that is just distributed everywhere. Sure, I’d argue it’s still wrong to do the latter, but it’s still a huge difference.
Ah, of course, if you’re enabling the genocide through non-military means, it’s okay. I mean, it’s not like supplying Israel with goods frees up more of Israel’s resources for military production and action.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
You could’ve just said “yes, I think that’s where the ethical line is”, instead of linking logical fallacies wikipedia like a fourteen year old atheist.
We haven’t moved anywhere.
This you?
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
Sorry that you can’t remember what you said a whole comment ago.
We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.
So what you mean is “If you’re working for a major Western company, period, you’re evil.” Since the list of Western companies that don’t do business with Israel is very small.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
How many Eurofighters does Israel operate?
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
Weapons can be used for defense or offense. Just be sure that you can sleep at night with the potential consequences - and that your work may be used on the wrong side just as easily as the right side.
On the other hand, if you’re working for an Israeli defense company, you can be pretty certain where your results are going to go, and should maybe just… not.
