Wave_Existence
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Wave_Existence
2yr ago
The answer to drug use appears to be legalization and "freedom."
The war on drugs has been an unmitigated disaster, the amount of money spent chasing weed farmers and purveyors of psychedelics as if they were the same as heroin producers is insane. Legalizing and regulating the production and sale of illegal drugs would solve a whole lot of problems. Junkies do suck though, and some drugs are legitimately dangerous, so i can't get on board with universal drug legalization, but we have a long way to go before being too permissive becomes remotely concerning.
The answer for social alienation
this isn't the government's job, and as far as i can tell the right's prescription to the problem is to go to church. this doesn't work well for a country with a very large and growing atheist population.
Assimilation is racism
don't confuse the progressive avant garde for the platform dem position. 20 bucks says if you ask joe biden if assimilation is racism he will say no.
Spreading democracy is colonialism
same here, but i'm actually a bit more sympathetic to this one. Democracy is great, but if some other country wants to be a monarchy or whatever, how would you describe strong arming them to do otherwise?
my mental model of "the left"
"the left" is not a political party, but a diaspora of actual politicians and activists and twitter users etc. By and large the more zealous progressives have very little actual political cache, and garner far more twitter likes than votes.
As for wether the left wants things solved, i'm sure that having every dem-proposed initiative that makes it to congress get tanked on arrival might have something to do with the image of dems not getting shit done.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
Funny, because I see Pope Francis' insights as refreshingly coherent with the teachings of Jesus. If you think the natural response to the pope making a decree you disagree with is to abandon faith, then i would suggest you aren't a catholic to begin with.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
After the momentary disgust wore off, the rage at this blatant antisocial act set in
so what, you wanted to rage out on some loser who was street shitting, but the all seeing eye prevented you from... what exactly? The guy wasn't shitting on your property, and while it's gross it isn't exactly some rando's wheelhouse to defend the streets from shit.
From where i'm standing i'd rather live in a place where vigilantism is more harshly policed than shitting without a toilet. Vile as it may be, a pile of shit can be safely sidestepped whereas angry men with spurious reasoning can't always be. Obviously in the OP case with the marine, the street shitter WAS the violent man with questionable mental faculties, but without the loud violent shouting a street shitter isn't a good cause for someone to start fantasizing about violence IMO.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
Does being "erased from the discussion" matter more than the actual injustice being committed in the first place? Also the discussion isn't erased, you are having the discussion right now and we both seemed to be able to find out about white people getting fucked over by the police just fine. Should we let the police slide because MSN talked about the wrong cases too much?
Wave_Existence
11mo ago
i dont care if the guy takes whatever steps he sees fit to protect his anonymity, but if you want to seriouspost about how the fundamental fabric of society is crumbling around you it becomes really easy to just make shit up if you are talking about a vague area that may or may not be in north america.
For all i know i live in the same exact town as that guy and the way i see it he's being a big baby about non-problems. Of course i'm not calling him a sky-is-falling chicken little, because i don't know whether i'm his neighbor or not.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
I think having the fertility statues present on the church grounds is odd but to suggest their presence is evidence that the pope worships them is a huge stretch to me. If the pope was saying "lets all pray to gaia" i would agree with your alarmist stance, but he didn't, and he wouldn't. Perhaps in a changing world, God is instructing Pope Francis differently than popes past.
Wave_Existence
1yr ago
For as much as this forum has talked about how conservatives need to refuse to cooperate with dems on matters of policy, this seems a bit cheeky. The mean old media is just so biased, the republicans surely had nothing to do with any legislative gridlock.
"its all so tiresome" was a meme back then too. Not knocking the republicans who are getting their licks in right now, turnabout is fair play. That said im not sure that we have trampled a norm any more than we have proven that given the opportunity some people will, and always would, pillory their political opponents. The new thing is that the opportunities are more plentiful if you look hard enough and there are more people visible to either parties twitter inquisitioners. Its not like home depot lady is the first person the right has found that even the left cant defend.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
Game development on aggregate isn't any more technical than making a movie anymore IMO. We aren't in the 90's where making a game started with building an engine. The bulk of videogames released each year are indie games where the workload of programming is probably less than the art required to fill the space (which is also often just bought from the unity asset store).
If anything you are correct just because it takes literally 0 social skills to solo dev a game, while making a movie usually requires actors, whom would likely need some form of interaction to help guide them. Has there ever been a successful "solo dev" movie?
Point being that success in hollywood isn't really based on soft social skills, but movie making has a baseline requirement for social skills that game dev doesn't have. I imagine however that rubbing the right elbows will get you just as far in Rockstar Games as it would in Disney Films, provided you have a reason to be in the room in the first place.
Wave_Existence
11mo ago
yeah his current audience trajectory points to him scrounging at home depot any day now, only 14k viewers while he does incredibly boring shit.
this whole conversation about destiny and free speech is so illuminating to me. The idea that there are no bad tactics just bad targets seems to be much more widespread and bipartisan than i had initially assumed.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
ok, so because in some professions women get payed more, its "better" to be a woman overall than a man? i disagree and unless we nail down a definition of "better" that doesn't include physical fitness or pregnancy i don't see why an advantage in such a slim facet of life makes you think differently than i do.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
Theres no way to apples to apples compare being a man biologically and all the natural advantages we have versus the sociological advantages women have, unless i'm missing something.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
The substance is that Hunter Biden attempted to leverage his father's political status to elevate his personal business prospects. This is shady as fuck, but lots of connected people have shitty kids, its not that big of a deal unless Joe Biden was a willing participant, which as far as i can tell hasn't been shown.
How is the FBI pulling strings at twitter to suppress the distribution of this laptop's contents "interfering in an U.S. presidential election"? Is there any source that shows that the FBI knew that there was no planted information on that laptop? I just think we are applying the clarity of hindsight to a situation that may have been murky at the time, and also assuming a lot of motives. Beyond all that i think funding terrorist organizations in nicaragua and iran is a bit more scandalous than the fbi running interference on a laptop of questionable importance.
What i find interesting about your second paragraph is that it applies really well to people who want to defund the police. People shouldn't have to pay the government for the government to buy guns and train guys to come point the guns at you. Maybe worrying about government programs that literally entail pointing guns at citizens is more salient than being upset that the state is funding propaganda, gesturing in the direction of some theoretical gun being pointed.
Wave_Existence
1mo ago
Confused further by the fact that the pointing out essentially IS the consequence here. This is a very similar line of reasoning to "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences".
Odd how this argument seems like an annoying aphorism exactly until you (royal) pick it up and throw it at somebody else
Wave_Existence
1mo ago
policing the content of millions of videos
so yeah heres me playing my guitar AND THEN I PULL MY GIANT DICK OUT WOOOO
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
The laptop can be what it appeared to be and still also be a tool used by russians etc. and it seems like the FBI may have thought there was something going on. I'll happily admit that i don't have a lot of the info necessary to draw a solid conclusion, unlike the people who really want to make hay out of an embarrassing laptop
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
Really depends on what you mean by "better". Women get preferential treatment in hiring but still manage to undernegotiate their salaries and also have to face the undesirable decision of having kids or making money.
In a middle class western environment i'd way rather be a guy, but maybe thats just my solipsistic mind worms poking out of my eye holes again.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
IMO yes, state actors really do try to fuck with our elections by spamming shit on social media, and until vetted and combed for irregularities i would be suspicious of a laptop with a bunch of questionable stuff just miraculously showing up in opposition hands. Like i said, hindsight makes the situation look worse than it was at the time- this thread is assuming that the FBI knew the provenance of the laptop from day 1, and thats a big assumption.
Wave_Existence
2yr ago
Who would win, a team of 20 APM guys who know what all the abilities do or a team of 200APM former starcraft players that have never played a moba before? Similarly, is a clock win in bullet chess a good measure of chess skill? Kinda right? But in both cases being quick is more effective than being smart for the majority of the bell curve.
my opinions;
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no, although i do see the sense in the habit formation arguments others have raised. In my opinion though as long as you always signal when that signal is needed, then nobody cares if you dont signal when wildly changing 4 lanes on an otherwise uninhabited stretch of highway.
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generally you have to stop to assess whether you needed to stop so i essentially agree you should always stop.
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id ammended to say speed limit + 5MPH up to 45 and limit+10 for over 50, then yes everybody should be going no higher than that range of speeds. maybe speed limit +30 for low density highways.
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i think i disagree? the left lane is the most sensible place for people who want to go fast and arent planning on changing lanes for a long time. If you are in the left and you dont want to go somewhere fast you are in the wrong place.
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this is a tough one because generally needing to merge under duress is caused by a failure to plan your route. "oh crap i should have been in the right lane a quarter mile ago but now i need to dangerously merge immediately" is a bad excuse in the age of freely available GPS on every phone.
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in general i think people that are better drivers than me can probably get away with breaking way more of these rules than i do, and people with less experience should probably try to follow much more closely than i. I guess this just boils down to "as long as you dont fuck anybody up with your bad driving then godspeed"
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One of these happened to me just the other day. I needed to turn left at a big intersection of a 6 lane road with a 4 lane road, and im coming from the 4 lane. I need to cross 3 lanes of traffic to complete this turn, and the left turning signal is the evil RED ARROW of DO NOT TURN LEFT.
Normall, i respect the authority of the red arrow, its color a warning of the dire consequences of failing to comply with its mandate. But today, both sides of the road i needed to cross, all 3 lanes in each direction, were fully bricked up with stopped cars waiting for their light to turn green. I waited for 30ish seconds as no cars went anywhere and then drove in solitude across the forbidden zone. I imagine at least someone in the waiting traffic saw what i did, and i wonder if they saw me as kindof an awesome defiant paragon of truth, or maybe as some sort of rule breaking dastard who belongs under the jail.
But in reality i was just a guy who didnt want to wait 5 minutes to turn left, and i saw a situation where nobody else would be harmed by breaking the rules, so i took it.
but I won't have much to say here
with no offense meant, thats kinda what i expected from interacting with a comment that is just "hah look at this tweet i found".
I gave a super short, low context comment because the tweet was talking about an event i'm familiar with, and i thought that was the vibe i was responding to. If you want to talk about the tweet or the events it refers to perhaps you could start by sharing more of your opinion than "this is my favorite tweet about a thing"
also sorry for assuming you were offended, im at work and lets say that my main mode of communication today has been more adversarial than i would like, and it may be coloring my usually mellow aura.
Wave_Existence
11mo ago
It's still not clear to me what exactly you want to discuss here.
my man you literally just posted a tweet, and i commented some of my thoughts on it. i didn't expect you to take offense if i'm being honest. I don't know what your political alignment is and i don't know the tweeter's. All i know is that the tweeter is dunking on a person who i agree with to some degree.
The line i said about the shoe being on the other foot is more about the outpouring of people ready to take shots at destiny, not about you or any one guy, and the reason its funny is because his joke about not caring about a guy getting shot is prettymuch the most "sticks and stones" type shit to be mad about in a situation where actual political violence just occurred. A guy just tried to kill the president but being disrespectful to the collateral damage is the thing people take umbrage with?
I don't recall Destiny and his fans being free speech absolutists
cant speak for his fanbase writ large, and i dont believe he is an absolutist, but his revealed preferences put him at a "more free speech than the left is currently comfortable with" point on the map. I would say this incident also puts him at "more free speech than the right is currently comfortable with". He got cancelled WAY harder back when he said white people should be able to say the N word if they arent calling a black guy the word, so its not like this is the first time he decided people should be able to speak freely.
Wave_Existence
11mo ago
real answer: im talking about the broader discussion around the streamer in question and how he is being "cancelled" by rightoids for saying mean things.
fun answer: that streamer pissed a bunch of people off by poking fun at a guy that just so happened to be dead
Who is "they" supposed to be? The police who have possession of the manifesto? What makes it likely that a police precinct is carrying water for the dems by hiding the political affiliations of an assassin? Is the idea that Tim Walz, governor, is behind the scenes threatening to cut their budget if they dont play ball?
Homogenizing the motives of every possible leftist actor from journos to bored spinsters to protestors to the local PD does give the impression that somebody is fantasizing though, ill give you that.
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