[-] Wirlocke 30 points 3 months ago

Not gonna lie, I thought this was gonna be a Saddam Hussein or Loss meme.

[-] Wirlocke 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because "it's a theory not a fact" as if the label of "fact" exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. "Facts" is a colloquial word like any other, it's not some special category above theories.

Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein's General Relatively equations reduces into Newton's Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton's Laws of Motion weren't "wrong", it's just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.

[-] Wirlocke 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And no Owl House? Crikey...

Spoilers

[-] Wirlocke 32 points 8 months ago
[-] Wirlocke 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Happened to my brother, normal democrat who agreed with feminism and disliked Trump.

Then fiancee left him for another man, took a hard right thanks to Jordan Peterson.

[-] Wirlocke 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Here's what I don't get, regardless of if your black or indian, if you grew up in america with dark skin you likely have faced all the same struggles that any black voter would care about.

Edit: Assumptions got challenged, read replies.

So even if he was right (he's not, he's what physicists would call "not even wrong"), so what? Are racists any less racist to indians than african americans?

I don't get the playbook here, non-racists would just be confused and racists would still be racists.

[-] Wirlocke 33 points 8 months ago

I wonder if we'll start seeing these tech investor pump n' dump patterns faster collectively, given how many has happened in such a short amount of time already.

Crypto, Internet of Things, Self Driving Cars, NFTs, now AI.

It feels like the futurism sheen has started to waver. When everything's a major revolution inserted into every product, then isn't, it gets exhausting.

[-] Wirlocke 32 points 8 months ago

Would be a shame if someone spread among his voterbase that he's "questioning his gender".

[-] Wirlocke 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It may be understandable to view the novel as high art using pedophilic themes to craft an intriguing story, with no intention to titillate.

Then you check out the author's other work...

[-] Wirlocke 29 points 9 months ago

The exhausting thing is this literally happened. Trump shat his diaper in court and the MAGA crowd started the "Real Men Wear Diapers" bowel movement.

[-] Wirlocke 31 points 10 months ago

Could go the Black Panther route, just have someone be armed and tell them to leave without actually hurting them. They're cowards and won't go to places they feel threatened.

[-] Wirlocke 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's been stable based on temporary peace and Mutually Assured Destruction (not just from nukes). For example China-Taiwan are still in a civil war that never officially ended, and China has always wanted to reabsorb Taiwan and Taiwan has always been opposed to. The Koreas are actively still in a cease fire for a war that also never concluded. And the middle east has always been churning with armed conflicts.

The western 1st world countries managed to extract enough wealth to stay far and away from these kinds of conflicts, but they are still heavily dependent on these countries and we'll all feel the impacts if things get worse.

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