kakistocrat
1yr ago
Because Georgism remains a bad idea with a weird appeal to a small subset of smart people? Essentially, there's no difference between Georgism and the government owning all the land outright.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The only people civic minded enough to turn out to run our elections are also 70-90 years old.
So it becomes a problem to have them do counting of ballots given their cognitive decline.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
People, and especially women, are good at self-deception.
To that end, we can see that they most likely really do believe that they believe all of the things amadan says they do as reasons for their actions.
To feel something besides alone?
At the same time, we can also acknowledge that there's probably something to your guess here.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Notably, the MultiMC developer (peterix) refused to allow distribution of the launcher as a Flatpak on Linux (which is personally what I prefer for a project like this), and has been extremely touchy about distribution in non-distribution-package formats like Flatpak or AppImage
To be fair, Flatpak and AppImage are abominations to those of us who are Linux sysadmins at heart.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
What makes bacon unhealthy? Fat? Fat is not in itself unhealthy. Eating nothing but bacon is not great for you, generally, but neither is eating nothing but lettuce.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
DEMOCRATS ARE GROOMERS
If they're not groomers they're certainly doing a good job acting as if they are.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Well, the problem is that many, if not all, types of non-SFH have negative externalities for the people in the SFH.
For example, if my neighbor sells their house to a developer who then builds a 5 story apartment building, this will have significant effects for me.
My street will go from quiet to busy.
I will go from knowing all my neighbors to definitely not knowing all my neighbors.
Noise will go up.
Etc.
All these are externalities we, the current residents of this neighborhood, seek to avoid.
Therefore, we work with the town to zone our area for SFH.
There's no aspect of "competing" here except insofar as we are in a death struggle with developers.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Women love rape. There’s nothing that gets a woman’s motor going like forcibly holding them down and having your way with them. Degrade her verbally, pull her hair, smack her ass, choke her.
If you’d spent much time with women you’d know this.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I wasn't offended by Mexican week, but I thought it was a hilariously bad idea. Tacos do not count as baking. Also, they're not pronounced "Tack-Oh."
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Those tits are absolutely massive.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
So the only way to prevent extremism is to give the Democrat extremists exactly what they want?
Would you buy "the only way to prevent abortion extremism is to ban abortions, giving them what they want"
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Facts is facts.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
AppImages and Flatpaks can contain whatever libraries the packager wants. So, e.g. when there's a vulnerability in some library, they are not updated automatically to the new patched version when you run apt update && apt upgrade
My biggest issue with Linux is that package manager cliques get to decide what programs I can run, which doesn't seem much better than the apple app store.
That is a very bizarre objection to package managers? I'm not aware of any package manage where you can't just add another repo for it to check against. For instance, I have added several repos to my computer so I can get certain software not included in the distro's repos by default. It's as easy as adding a line to a text file.
I want to be able to just Download_The_.EXE.jpg in cases where you can't trust maintainers to be supportive.
You can always do that.. just download the .deb or .rpm or whatever format your distro uses and run dpkg -i mypackage.deb
Granted you'll have to manually resolve dependencies but it's not actually hard to do.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The goal of human civilization and society is not to make the most efficient use of resources. If you can accept that then there’s no reason to insist on a tax policy that would inherently sacrifice things that are genuine good things.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
It’s inalienable in the sense that you can’t take it away from someone. As long as I have arms, legs, teeth, I can use violence.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I respect that but I believe that ending animal agriculture just means a further separation of man from nature and, in some sense, reality.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Putin didn’t know his army was complete shit. He didn’t take a good gamble and get unlucky. Some limited nato training since 2014 simply eclipsed the entire Russian military.
Perhaps, but if Ukrainian leadership had panicked and fled, I doubt the training makes a difference. See the Afghan Army and security forces in the face of the Taliban just last year.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I was also surprised when Kiev didn't fall and the war dragged on. My perception was that Ukraine was a European version of the regime in Afghanistan, and would fold before determined attack because no one was truly loyal to it.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
It sounds like you have commitment issues.
In my mind, it's key to commit to a church and stick to it. Be a Catholic. It's not that difficult.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I am genuinely appalled at the extent to which America, my country, has colonized the cultural landscape of our supposed allies. I would apologize but that seems a trifle in the face of what is in some ways a cultural genocide. It seems as though in many countries, there are no genuine foreigners, just Americans who speak a different language.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
... or DuckDuckGo, for us nerds!
Us true nerds have moved on to Kagi.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I hope your genitals may be afflicted by a very concerning and itchy rash as punishment for your pronunciation of taco.
And facts will remain facts regardless of your "rules"
It's fun to annoy you.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Soon enough that will be considered child abuse.
In my opinion, we should be limiting the franchise, not expanding it. Expanding it does not lead to improved outcomes, it only dilutes the votes of people who would make good judgements on which politicians we should be electing. Criminals, especially felons, have notoriously bad judgement. Why should we want their input on governing our society?
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