sun
6mo ago
It took two Chechen Wars before "handling Chechens" became an attractive option, I recall. If you want to inflict that on Russia again, I'm taking your based trad right card away.
sun
6mo ago
We'd need to compare how many violent attackers get prosecuted vs. how many get away with it (through their own wiles, not the indifference of the police).
sun
6mo ago
Expand a word's definition enough and you end up with a useless word and a smug feeling.
At 5 we cross from slavery as I expect a reasonable person to understand it to subjecthood (as in "subject of the Crown", perhaps).
sun
6mo ago
The question isn't whether LLMs give true information, it's whether people will rely on them.
sun
6mo ago
I don't feel more sympathy for the surgeon because he is more successful, but because he provides more value. Some people, on the other hand, enjoy a lot of success in ventures that provide negative value to many, and I prefer the welfare leech to them.
sun
6mo ago
I assume you're confident in your gorilla warfare skills, then? Or assuming you're not eligible since your takes are insufficiently hot?
sun
6mo ago
Which is silly. Russia lacks the capacity to do it again.
Even in my wildest anti-Russian fantasies do I not believe that Russia, if given a peace and concessions instead of some kind of "a lesson", would lack the capacity to do it again.
sun
6mo ago
Their military was apparently caught with their pants down, why would you expect civilians to do better instead of just becoming tasty weapon lootboxes?
sun
6mo ago
Where did you get the info that 2rafa and the moderators are """birds of a feather"""?
sun
6mo ago
The way things look like from here to me, it is not Israel's military weakness that has been allowing Palestinians to persist, but the fact that turning countries into ravaged parking lots is just not done today.
sun
6mo ago
Everything's relative. If you can't do better than both sides here, the question is: which one do you like more? I know which one I like more.
sun
6mo ago
The issue here is that you can't actually sell your dignity in a way that Arnaud receives $500 worth of dignity.
sun
6mo ago
I assume it does, since value is subjective and the people who refuse have made their subjective judgment.
(No one ever made such an offer to me as far as I remember, but I can see how I'd behave in such a situation).
sun
6mo ago
Even if it's not the dangerous kind of scam and more like a "you actually don't get $500" scam, it's a waste of my time and a frustration.
sun
6mo ago
We have driving laws and healthcare precisely as the government solution to those problems.
sun
6mo ago
Your argument is circular: you've decided that propagation of genes matters so by your definition it's "the only thing that matters".
sun
6mo ago
So far they seem to be using their phones mostly to publicize their own atrocities.
sun
6mo ago
It looks like what Palestinians decided to do in response will have many people say "the Israelis are the good guys here, at least they'll just bomb the women and children instead of selling them to sex slavery".
sun
6mo ago
If you're going to present the least charitable take of what communists hate it would behoove you to match it with a similarly uncharitable take of what racists hate. Which isn't "just morally neutral properties". You could start by claiming islamophobes hate Muslims because Muslims are better at reproducing, or that antisemites hate Jews because Jews are better at mostly everything.
Just about the core moral tenet of communism is that owning wealth is not a virtue, and that capitalists didn't earn it by being virtuous, either.
sun
7mo ago
Was Barrens Chat otherwise famed for its conversation quality? In any case, I doubt you'd like it if it was spammed with Chinese gold seller bots instead, like public Path of Exile channels. Just ban advertising.
sun
7mo ago
By the standards of the poster above me as I see them, that's an emotional argument too. Can you really have any idea of the odds that Kremlin will dare go MAD, let alone assume they're high enough to fear?
I thought we were talking about the "what a man did 50 years ago, he is not guilty for now" situations, not the "actually this man is exactly the same as he was 50 years ago and proud about it" situations. So no, if you're being a nazi today you're not decoupled from what nazis did 50 years ago, or 80 as it may.
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