kakistocrat
1yr ago
This isn't reddit, you can't martyr yourself and get the admins to clamp down.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
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?
kakistocrat
1yr ago
What food is unhealthy?
We spent how many decades with the FDA pushing a "mostly carbs" diet?
I know how this will go... the most intolerant (probably Vegans) will eventually gain control of agency tasked with restricting our food options. And now I'm penalized for enjoying steak and pulled pork.
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
"I can't spare this man - he fights"
kakistocrat
1yr ago
Can we have a sensible right that also is not concerned with people's private sex lives?
I would love to be able to not care about other people's sex lives, but it seems like there is a direct line from "well we'll let gay people be gay" through to "we are prescribing puberty blockers to your son/daughter and cutting his/her dick/tits off" and "we're fucking your kids and there's nothing you can do about it"
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
DEMOCRATS ARE GROOMERS
If they're not groomers they're certainly doing a good job acting as if they are.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The fact that Jewish interests find it increasingly necessary to exercise hard-power to eliminate any sort of criticism of their behavior is a sign that these criticisms are not going away.
Or that they have gathered sufficient power that they no longer feel it is necessary to operate in a non-overt manner.
And facts will remain facts regardless of your "rules"
It's fun to annoy you.
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
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
Facts is facts.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
I don't think they were wrong, but I believe they would be surprised by the depths to which we have sunk.
kakistocrat
1yr ago
the restaurant and bar industry permanently crippled
I mean, I'm seeing severely curtailed restaurant and bar hours by me still. Nothing's open until the legally mandated closing time anymore.
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
but if I ask you what’s 22:00+2:00, you are likely not going to answer 24:00 (which isn’t a thing)
Yes it is... that's a perfectly valid way of expressing time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Midnight_00:00_and_24:00
kakistocrat
1yr ago
The real reason Google, et. al. have been hiring these people is because hiring them prevented them from becoming competition. Something which will become very obvious if they stop.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
That's not a trans, that's a woman trying to be cool and edgy by following the latest social trends.
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