ArmedTooHeavily
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn the one edge toward himself.
User ID: 2895
ArmedTooHeavily
8mo ago
The US has been building up it's space warfare capabilities significantly for decades, though most of it is heavily classified. There's an entire branch of the US military devoted to space warfare. SpaceX takes military contracts for satellite launches and who knows what else; they effectively are the non-missile orbital launch capacity of the US government.
ArmedTooHeavily
8mo ago
I think "5.3 million people with an IQ of 180" is also pretty fairly covered under "has never been seen before."
ArmedTooHeavily
8mo ago
I think if you watched it you would be very pleasantly surprised. I was.
ArmedTooHeavily
8mo ago
You clearly live in a much nicer area than me; meticulousness is absolutely not part of standard operating procedure at my local grocery stores.
ArmedTooHeavily
8mo ago
Reality tv is not "real." You are drawing strong, condemnatory conclusions about people in the real world because of the way characters in a TV show behave.
Perhaps you shouldn't be too quick to condemn anyone for ignorance.
ArmedTooHeavily
8mo ago
If he were savvy, which he seems to be, would you be able to tell the difference?
ArmedTooHeavily
9mo ago
I think "my child has been murdered and I want all of the cruel, idiotic culture warring about his/her murder to end" is more than sufficient to explain the parents trying to block the release of the manifesto/diary. Perhaps not actually the tactically correct move to achieve that goal, but eminently understandable.
ArmedTooHeavily
9mo ago
I think that the progressive prosecutors who release violent criminals (a constant problem in the deep blue city i live in; its very common to see news stories about a violent attack by a perpetrator with 10+ arrests for other violent crimes in the last couple of years) would not say that the goal of their policies is increasing violent crime, but that increasing violent crime is an unfortunate but acceptable side effect of their pursuit of criminal justice reform. So deliberate not in the sense of being the primary goal, but deliberate in the sense that they know it will happen and forge ahead anyway.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Very interesting idea. Whats the male version of this "disarmament treaty" you feel we have lost?
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
The steelman: cars are dangerous heavy machinery and neglect of maintenance causes a significant amount of death and destruction. Public safety is substantially served by requiring cars be kept in good order. Just like how it's reasonable that cars be required to have working head and tail lights, its reasonable to require they have working brakes and suspension, and checking those requires a mechanical inspection.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Incentivizing stable families would make a massive difference, I'd bet.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Most of the dysfunction in this country is due to neglecting very, very basic truths, and the people in charge clearly aren't capable of acknowledging them, let alone dealing with them.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Does the vast number of illegally owned machined guns (glocks with "switches", mostly) matter at all here?
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
This is an excellent and underappreciated point. Oregon legalized cannabis to basically no ill effect whatsoever (actually the worst outcome has been that credit card processors won't do business with pot shops, so the pot shops only deal in cash, so they get robbed a lot). Oregon legalized all drugs and it has been an absolute disaster because "all drugs" included meth and opiates.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Good stuff, thanks.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Can you link to any news or discussion about this?
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
For god's sake, don't harass away every leftist who comments here, this place could use some more ideological diversity.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Welcome, we are glad to have you and appreciate your contributions to the discussion.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
?
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Close enough to count, imo, and I say that despite being sympathetic to his point of view.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Seconding this opinion. This is an escalation in the shift in power from governmental to extra-governmental corporate/billionaire power. I consider it an obvious step to our inevitable dystopian cyberpunk future.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Personally, I am in favor of any candidate who would decline to build a nine digit pile of skulls.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
I propose an alternative theory: the euphemism treadmill is not an attempt to destigmatize bad things via language. There's a little of that, sure, and I would imagine that's often the source of new euphemisms. But the primary purpose of the euphemism treadmill, the reason that new phrases successfully memetically propagate, is signalling tribal allegiance.
ArmedTooHeavily
10mo ago
Clothes do not protect you from boiling water; they actually aggravate scalding injuries by holding the water next to skin.
How much did it cost to put 1 ton of cargo in orbit in 2005 and how much does it cost now?
More options
Context Copy link