My earliest memories of the internet was boobs, and then later a helicopter decapitation.

It’s kind of annoying that so many id restrictions focus on porn. Maybe it’s not normal for today’s kids/teens to come across violent content, compared to people that mightve come across rotten, faces, 4chan, etc. back then.

Also Weinstein hiring Black Cube to discredit his accusers. Black Cube is all ex spies and sophisticated malware. Fusion centers are all about parallel reconstruction. Taking on a corp / billionaire (the legal way) means going up against a nation state level threat.

Mahmoud v Taylor is objecting to the idea that teachers will be forced to read books that contain ideas that go against whatever beliefs they claim to have.

I don’t get what their ideal system would be like. Homeschool style curriculum taught by tax funded public teachers?

You can already interact with institutions and have a say in what is taught – where’s the opt outs for religiously influenced policy decisions, like abortion or contraceptives?

“We decided something democratically, but I didn’t like the outcome and want an option to not live by it.” The religious are preaching to the choir.

Edit: link to a source, but probably not a good one because I never figured out a good way to read this stuff on my own. https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=%2Fdocket%2Fdocketfiles%2Fhtml%2Fpublic\24-297.html

Like I said I was starting on “step 2” where you start with internal + external analyses = a result. A system is what is written and what is lived, I just assume it’s where we start in politics / economics / whatever. What is prescribed is a simple data point. That’s why I looked at the statements “Cuba is X, for proof here’s the governments website” as absurd. I didn’t realize people were speaking about hypotheticals, and reacted at the idea that someone would use that kind of logic to explain how something functions in reality.

I think I’m mixing up your statement of a basic datum, the way Cuba is written to be, with the idea that it’s indicative of what you’ll likely find. Hence, I was skeptical of the utility of using the written system as meaningful to the statement that Cuba was democratic. Like if people are going to talk about that, I assume it’s not a technicality they are referring to, they are talking about real people living in a real country… so what good is the official parties word on how things are operating?

Also didn’t even realize you were the same person from the other thread, didn’t mean to show up here and bother you.

I’m not complaining, I’m giving you a relevant example of where these labels come from. It’s .ml and .world and I just don’t have any recent memory of this on .world. I’m sure there’s an example or two, just not recent.

I was silent because I wasn’t sure what people were saying. I don’t think people who disagree with what I say are necessarily misinformed, or less intelligent, or mean. So it comes down to how I am certain people (including you) know that what is written on paper and what flows in reality are not 1:1 matches. But they tell me something they wouldn’t accept if they were in my shoes.

Maybe that skepticism sounds ridiculous? But if structure is important and reality can be different and everyone knows this I think it’s odd to see officially meaningless official material in the room. Why can’t we throw it out?

Edit: imagine we’re pointing out that America is controlled by billionaires and someone links the official site saying “No, it’s still three branches and the will of the people.” You toss it immediately.

The other day I was on all and ended up reading a comment chain and saw something like “Cuba is a democracy, and for proof just look at the official website of the central party.”

I found it ridiculous to essentially say “Doug is a skilled electrician, for proof look at this note Doug wrote saying he’s a skilled electrician.”

This made me a dirty shitlib (I guess the instance I signed up on makes me a liberal). The reaction seemed intense so I checked and it was .ml, so I assume it’s a rivalry thing.

You’ll see me venting and shitting on eg conservatives but I don’t go around calling people these things. You probably don’t either. But clearly there are users categorizing us into labels and associating us with our instances regardless of merit.

All I ask for is the truth. That’s why I’m called tankie, liberal, Nazi, commie, Trumper, imperialist, hippie. I get bent out of shape when people sling lies and it causes me to become whatever boogeyman they’re turning around in their head.

Did you comb my posts to figure out I’m a liberal? I’m pro India, pro USA, pro China, pro Russia, (making it simple so you can digest it) so it’s weird you got liberal.

I’m flabbergasted that the official website of a political entity is being touted as evidence that the political entity isn’t perceived correctly.

Forget about Cuba, or politics, or class, everything. This is not how you find the truth. What’s the thing I’m not thinking of that’s throwing things off balance? Why would someone link to North Korea’s official website to argue that North Korea is not so bad? What’s the use and whose it for?

Seeing his face is like hearing a vicious slur.

Left, right, the political compass… It’s Fischer Price See n Say Politics.

It’s hard looking at messy clades and freaky species and fitting them into the slots you learned as a kid.

A waste of fireworks and fuel.

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So is the play to move the argument away from an individual committing a heinous act, which is easy to grok and be mad about, to the realm of policy and red tape, where the halflife is longer and our attention spans non existent?

If it works, it works.

There’s a vaguely cartoon or fun look to the game but I’m having trouble thinking of good examples. Things have the right proportions but it’s stylized just enough.

The Plains of Eidolon (your screenshot) is the first open world area, and looks more plain compared to Venus and the cambion drift. Most of the game is made of stylized tiles stitched into levels. It’s more obvious as you see all the syandanas and weird frames and the individual factions.

“The Jews are trying to replace us.” ?

Orban / the party in charge were saying Soros was using his money and power to flood Romania with immigrants.

The world doesn’t revolve around America, but you’ll see idiots in Bumbfuck, Romania talking about Soros and wokeism. It’s got to be exhausting.

Makes sense, I read lacrosse and jumped to conclusions about the people they were. Well that, and his dad being a philanthropist… repair man? Working class guy who organized golf tournaments to help the blind.

Wait was Wayne Gretzky a rich kid?

Edit: of course, daddy built an entire rink in the backyard, where they would also play baseball and lacrosse on their farm.

It’s not that impressive to be great when you start young and have rich parents. Can’t believe I let people convince me Gretzky was noteworthy. He’s not Gukesh lol

Edit: ok Canada must be different, because apparently Gretzky was poor and they just happened to have a farm and could spin up golf tournaments for charity. Sounds like a good story.

He forgot to mention, the compiler outputs Armenian machine code that can only run on chips built on Armenian binary.