ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
8mo ago
It's pretty funny how badly Meghan Murphy got stuck in your had. That debate was months ago, time to move on man.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
11mo ago
Wow, you actually looked up the law and avoided quoting the relevant part?
I'm European.
So... an American vassal?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
and I kind of assume it is bordering on a social contagion.
I suppose sharing your opinion over the internet, and backing it up with arguments is how social contagion works, so I guess you're right on this one.
A fraud in what way?
In the way he presents himself as someone he's not, and promises things he can't deliver.
I have a Tesla model Y. It is by far the best car I’ve ever driven, and I’ve driven many many cars that are substantially more expensive than this one.
That's cool. I never drove one, and I'm not into cars, so I can't judge, but I find it extremely unlikely it's so good that it justifies valuing the company more than all other auto manufacturers combined.
I have a starlink and use it. It works, and when compared to its competitors, absolutely embarrassed them. They aren’t competitors.
How well does it compare to a mid-range fibre-optic connection?
SpaceX is clearly a real company which absolutely revolutionized space launches, and has eviscerated anybody who could reasonably claim to be a competitor. It isn’t even close.
No it hasn't. The Falcon 9 is ok, but not mind blowing. The stuff that would be impressive is still just a promise that hasn't materialized.
As far as self driving: yeah actually my model Y does self drive, and I use it every single day. The “well actually it’s not self driving and it crashes into pedestrians!” YouTube hoaxes are 100% of the time people using autopilot as if it were self driving. It isn’t, and those people shouldn’t be doing that.
Ok, hold up. They're hoaxes, because they're using a product called "Full Self Driving" as if it were capable fully driving he car by itself? You really don't see that as a tiny bit fraudulent?
Also Elon was promising us robotaxis by now. And whatever happened to the Tesla Truck that was supposed to beat rail on costs in a convoy scenario. How doesthe Hyperloop make any goddamn sense at all, and why did he lie about inventing it?
ArjinFerman
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1yr ago
We’ve been through this enough times that you’ll have to define humanity.
Can we not do play this postmodernist game?
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What's your definition of X?
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Oh, how about ABCD?
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Oh yeah? What about edge case E? Is it X or is it something else?! You see! X does not exist you fool! Anything could be X!
Or are you genuinely having trouble understanding what a human is, or what fundamental human experiences could be?
Edge cases, and fuzzy boundaries aside, can we agree that by the time we've genetically modified ourselves to be a blob of flesh with hundreds of appendages, neuralinked ourselves into a hivemind, or uploaded our consciousness to the cloud, we are no longer recognizably human?
Why exactly must transhumanism be destroyed?
Because it's an existential threat to the human species? It openly wants us to transcend our very nature? It's right their in the freaking name!
ArjinFerman
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20d ago
Is it because so many people have lost faith in both liberalism and liberal Christianity that they no longer care.
Speaking only for myself: yes. I'll take the Taliban over the current batch of western elites.
ArjinFerman
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9mo ago
Yeah, that will really show them you're not a one trick pony.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
9mo ago
Oh, FFS... are you really going to do Holocaust revisionism in a meta thread?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
I do love watching the shift from "the US would never do that, it's too risky, it was probably literally anybody else" to "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!" in real time.
Also, where are you getting your news from, that you would expect to hear about things in a tiny niche like this??
He still believes we live in a world where when something is an issue, people start talking about it, which kicks off some sort of a chain reaction, rather then getting throttled to hell.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
10mo ago
McDonalds had third degree burns on her face... apparently McDonald's standard coffee machine at the time kept the coffee signifigantly hotter than any other institution would ever serve you... and what in any other restaurant would be like 86-87 degrees, was 98-99 degree when handed to you
That's not how I remember it. My recollection is that they were serving bog standard coffee, and the lawsuit resulted in everyone else dropping the temperatures to avoid being sued as well.
And as far ask I'm concerned her third degree burns are irrelevant. If you don't know how to handle boiling water, you should not be recognized as a legal adult.
ArjinFerman
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1yr ago
People should be allowed to make their own decisions with what to do with their body.
No. It's not how society currently operates, and not how it should operate.
And even if I agreed to it as a principle, there are many more restrictions that should be removed first, before we allow surrogacy.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
People do debased shit for money all the time and always have.
Yes, and as long as we openly call it debased, I'm mostly satisfied. It's the push to see it as a good thing that bothers me.
It’s hard to see surrogacy as much worse than the rest
No it's not! Degeneracy is a spectrum. Cheating on your partner is debased, partaking in crazy Eyes Wide Shut orgies is more debased, and surrogacy is so far off on the spectrum you'd astronomical units to measure the distance.
the embryo created by the gay couple who can afford a $200,000 surrogacy process is likely higher quality than the child the average surrogate and whatever man she picks could create.
Ah yes, surrogacy isn't spicy enough, let's add eugenics to the discussion.
ArjinFerman
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1yr ago
If it doesn't affect your life in any other way expect to make you wait more time at airports, it has affected your life in a negative way, no?
Compared to all the doom and gloom that everyone was predicting, the answer rounds down to "no".
Which then just leads back to the issue of your country making this change for absolutely no reason that no-one has been able to explain
There's plenty of reasons. It's just that the Brexiters were betrayed.
ArjinFerman
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1yr ago
From what I understand, you need to do a survey where you ask our leaders about their religious beliefs, and sexual preferences, and if, and only if, a majority of them check the "satanism", and "pedophilia" boxes, then you will be allowed to make your claim.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
The cultural grip on the West is becoming stronger, and the US successfully fused Neoliberalism and Leftism in a zombie ideology who is, against all odds, successfully working
That would be the main reason why I think the US is dying. Yeah, it's working the same way eating the seed corn works.
Though it's also true they might take all of us with them.
In my mind, the Hasidic power structure is a legitimate problem that needs to be made sense of, because if there is all this corruption at just 200k members, well, in 60 years it will be 1,600,000. They will comprise a majority of America's Jewish community in a few decades.
Corruption? My mother once told me she could never make sense of antisemitism. Every time she asked someone, who expressed an anti-Jewish sentiment, what their beef was, they'd come back with a variation on "they're too in-groupy". To which she'd say "instead of dissing them, why don't you learn from them?"
You're telling me, that not only is there a community successfully resisting the influence of the modern techno-dystopia, but that they're well-disciplined, vibrant, and growing... and you're telling me I'm supposed to be upset???
Why don't you tell me if they have a Paypal, I want to send them money.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
Here's Alexandros's live response, if anyone wants the other side of it.
On a factual level, it's high-quality
No. It's pretty disappointing. At the very least he should be able to repeat Alexandros' arguments in a way that he will recognize as his own. He fails that repeatedly. Then doubling down on the whole Bounded Distrust framework is a major turn off as well.
I'm not sure why that question should be summed up as "trying to come up with a gotcha". It's a genuine question
It's an attempted gotcha because you're trying to win an argument with conservatives by holding them to their own standards.
always seems to start with the presumption that it's obvious who the "me" and the "you" are.
How can it be any clearer? In the context of this conversation one side believes in gender equality, and the other in traditional gender roles. You're clearly not writing from the perspective of someone who leans to the side of traditional gender roles.
One might as well see the conservatives who are the "you" who want to apply their rules inconsistently; inbuilt biological gender roles when it benefits them, equal treatment of the sexes when that is what benefits them.
No, one might not. Name one currently implemented policy that does not benefit women, which is justified by appealing to traditional gender roles.
It's what I've called the "rule of equal but opposite hypocrisies"
That's a misnomer if I ever saw one. Here not only would you have to show a single policy existing, you'd have to show there are roughly as many of them currently in force, as there are progressive ones.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
Because of economics? There are literal communists out there being smeared as far-right reactionaries because they're not on board with the progressive agenda.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Patently false. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having confidence qualifiers to any of one's beliefs,
Oh god, you're doing it again.
Yes, I'm sorry for not stating my objection in the form of a 10 page legal document, where all possible caveats are pre-emptively addressed, but that is exactly the problem I'm gesturing at.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5mo ago
Having a bunch of people answer BS with "you're wrong" without elaboration is better than allowing it to stand unchallenged.
You're wrong.
I think this forum should disable/remove the downvote button.
I think we should remove both. "Bad post got upvotes" complaints are as bad as the "my post got downvotes" ones. The only function of votes, as others mentioned, is a sink for low effort comments, but if the mods are up to it, I'd say just start banning for low effort. Unlike some of the more esoteric rules, this one is pretty easy to understand, and to apply in a relatively objective way.
Yes, that's power of the progressive movement. Someone says something happened, someone else writes it on wikipedia, and then we're supposed to assume that was the truth. Can you actually name the person accusing him of "grabbing, kissing, [and] making comments about physical attributes" beyond "One longtime Pixar employee"? The only thing I have ever heard proven about him was that he was a big hugger. Also, no comment on Franken?
How do you post here so long, and keep trying to come up with these gotchas without your brain presenting you canned responses like "my rules applied consistently > your rules applied consistently > your rules applied inconsistently" that you must have seen a thousand times before?
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