lastlybutfirstly
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- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 13 hours ago:
You’re preaching to the choir here. My point was that the anti-corporate crowd that believes companies are trying to murder their customers for profit are not normally so charitable to such a thing. It was a bizarre moment of clarity. A benefit of doubt extended to only Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson and no other corporations.
Meanwhile, the MAGA crowd that would jump off a cliff if Trump told them to, drew the line at vaccines for some reason.
It was and still is weird.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 20 hours ago:
No one “seriously lectured you” on that.
Not on that but something similar. It’s called an analogy.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 22 hours ago:
I suppose if you simply label all the people who interpret your comment a certain way as “bots”
It’s not just a label. It’s a logical conclusion. If I’m talking to my neighbor and I make a joke about how eating cookies will make them explode and they begin to seriously lecture me about how there is no evidence that cookies make people explode and accuse me of lying, I’m going to assume there is something mentally wrong with them. Any rational person would assume that. It’s like a Twilight Zone episode. On the Internet, if two or more people are exhibiting the same symptoms, they’re probably bots.
Fuck right the hell off with your trolling and your attempts to spread doubt.
Dang. I feel like I’m in an I Think You Should leave skit.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 23 hours ago:
That was absolutely not the impression anyone would get from reading your initial comment.
They do. Most people are not as irrational and simple as you are.
Lol that’s not how that works.
Yes. It is. If you pretend to be a Nazi and spread Nazi propaganda, you are a Nazi. That’s what Mother Night is all about. But I actually got the vaccine because like most people, I didn’t want to get covid. It sounds unpleasant. And if you don’t want covid, get the vaccine.
You’re actively sowing confusion and doubt and attacking people for being pro-vaccine
You keep insisting this but it’s not true. No one except you and the bots are getting confused about this. Rational humans will never believe that vaccines will make them explode.
I mind the other part, the part where you’re discouraging people from getting vaccinated.
I’m not doing that. That’s all in your head, pal.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
Yes, I’m sure bashing everyone else who got the vaccine as a brainwashed hypocrite who’s just following trends
I’m not though because the vast majority of people are not political hobbyists and they, like me, did not get the vaccine because it was fashionable.
Come on, you know as well as I do that none of your comments from the very beginning have been about encouraging anyone to get vaccinated.
This is not true. But if you insist on believing it, take comfort from the lessons of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night. Even if I’m pretending to encourage people to get vaccinated, it is still encouraging people to get vaccinated. You are who you pretend to be.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
My rational responses will encourage people to get the vaccine. Your psychotic rants will scare them away from it.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
All I can say is that I got the vaccine and I encourage others to do so too because of the evidence and not because some lunatic on the internet might call you a dickhead.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
It’s criticizing political hobbyist. I got the vaccine because it was rational to get it. You got the vaccine because it was fashionable.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
Nobody took it at face value, you lying troll.
Ahhhh. I see. Bot angry! Bot smash!
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
The way you troll is by saying more people should be antivax
WTF! I in no way said this.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
You’re just a troll. And one of the worst kinds of trolls, someone who trolls about vaccines. Your stupid little games get people killed.
This is an unhinged non sequitur. I am clearly in favor of vaccines. I am clearly pointing out how incredibly safe they are.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
I’ve never heard the phrase in my life.
Google it. There are pages and pages and pages of results for it.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
No, shit? Are you guys having a stroke? Should we send help?
It’s clearly a joke. Poking fun at the “Regulations are written in blood!” crowd who have to scream “It’s safe and effective!” in everyone’s faces because their very souls on the line if they’re wrong. They’re telling themselves. Especially when they’re yelling it at me.
For me, if evidence pops up years down the road that it has a statistically increased chance of causing cancer or whatever, it’s no big deal because I know regulations have to be written in blood because that blood is the evidence that there is a problem. We can’t act till we have evidence.
The question is are you perfectly okay with waiting till people start exploding? What if you explode?
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
Really now? It’s been thoroughly debunked that vaccines cause people to explode? I could be wrong, but I think that I am the very first person on Earth to propose that.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure you’re a bot. You seem completely unable to parse my comments.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
Are you joking or is the whole world is still cross-eyed about this?
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
Not only was the vaccine incredibly safe it was also incredibly effective.
Are you telling me, or are you telling yourself that?
I don’t know, man. They said the same thing about PFAS, thalidomide, and fentanyl. You could have up to an 80% increased chance of exploding before the age 65.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 day ago:
Nobody was thinking straight during the Covid Panic. I got the vaccine because I’m the type of person it likes to kill.
But it surprised me that the crowd that are terrified of Forever Chemcalz, atomz, BPA, microplastics and frequently scream “Regulations are written in blood!” were chomping at the bit to force everyone to get injected with a product from Big Pharma that was fast tracked and bypassed all normal regulations to get to market as soon as possible by the executive orders of a billionaire president they despised.
Meanwhile, the MAGA crowd were booing Trump at his rallies when he told them to go out and get vaccinated.
The whole world had gone cross-eyed.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I think it’s fairly new, but when you use search, there’s a list of filters at the top now like All, Videos, Unwatched, Watched, Recently Uploaded, etc. If you click video, it will only list videos with no shorts.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 5 days ago:
Didn’t you have to buy an account at Digg? If so, were the bots buying the accounts? And if so, who was buying them?
- Comment on MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow 1 week ago:
This is different from pirating. The government will be going after the developers like they did Kim Dotcom.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
We’re suffering from pedomania right now, seeing pedos under every bed but it’s actually a rare thing. If you have an astronomical number of children online it’s going to “feel” like they’re in danger of falling prey to predators. Especially with the modern expanded definition of pedo where every freshman dating a senior is the victim of a grooming predator.
But if we want zero tolerance, the best thing to do is to promote parental controls. And if we want to get draconian about it, then charge parents with negligence if their kids become victims because the parents weren’t using parental controls.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It worked best when YT had banner ads instead of video ads. Today you get Wix rolled for a minute or two before you get to the Rick.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 2 weeks ago:
You might not realize it, but the Fediverse is social media so a ban would be rather detrimental to this place.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 2 weeks ago:
Governments know about parental controls. They don’t care. If they cared, they’d develop their own parental control software, offer it for free, and encourage it’s use. If they really wanted to get draconian about it, as they are doing now with age verification, they would pass laws to prosecute parents who don’t use parental controls with negligence.
But it’s not about the children. At all. It’s about preventing you and me, and all of us from talking to each other and entertaining ourselves. It’s about turning the Internet into TV, a one way faucet of entertainment and information controlled by the wealthy .001% where us peons can’t talk back.
These age verification laws are just the first step. They kill small forums and games like Urban Dead, and leave only sites controlled by megacorporations that can afford the age verification infrastructure and the massive corporate fines if a single kid sneaks in. Once you get used to this, it’s easier for you to accept not being able to communicate online at all, or start your own forum, or YouTube channel.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get it either. Is the model labelled neanderthal known for acting like a neanderthal?
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I’m saying. If someone is verbally abusing you, it’s a sign they are being deceptive.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 weeks ago:
It’s generally safe to assume they mean it, unless proven otherwise.
The sentence you’re replying to completely agrees with this. I think you misread it.
Even if the hateful remarks are understood to be ‘‘a joke’’, I don’t think that’s any less damning. These are not the type of things to joke about, and most reasonable and/or decent people realize that.
I was thinking in terms of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal or someone adopting a Colbert-style character.
Can you give me an example of something like that playing out on a serious real-life topic such as politics/race/genocide etc?
With politics, it usually comes in the form of verbal abuse.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 weeks ago:
I’m trying to discuss things in pure logic so as to emotionally unload the reasoning. Bad faith means they are being deceitful. Whether someone says “Hello. You look nice to day.” or “we should torture indigenous people” how can one glean that they don’t truly believe that? Though the second one is so outlandish, I would assume it’s satire since I assume innocence.
Unless you’re reducing bad faith actors to people coming up and saying, ‘‘hey everyone, I’m acting in bad faith!’’ (which the vast majority of bad faith actors do not do) - which is ridiculous.
It’s been my experience they eventually do. If someone is telling me I look nice and I take it as a genuine compliment, but they’re acting in bad faith, that’s going to drive them up the fucking wall that I’m so dumb that I don’t assume bad faith like they do.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 weeks ago:
Even with an ethical element tied to the statement, an accusation of bad faith is a bit of a non sequitur.
A: We should torture ducks and masturbate to their suffering because they have three feet.
B: You are acting in bad faith.