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I have this fuzzy, half-remembered memory from my childhood (80s) of my friend's mom (a chemist) saying that we can already turn lead into gold no problem, it's just that to obtain like $1 worth of gold, we would need to spend $100s on the resources to do it...now I need to go back and see if I can ...

(i) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked.

I shouldn't do this, listing all of the shitty stuff being done is really, really depressing...

My cynicism about all this is that any time someone says "Yeah, he wants to do X, but he can't because Y", I automatically think "Y won't stop him" (he/him meaning not just Trump, but including the whole shitburger maga cult he's a part of). It's a wild west now, the old rules do...

that were just "time your roll or die" or "abuse AI or die" and lost all interest I had in the game. I was thinking I'd get some really interesting combat, but every combat was super boring. Invulnerable dodge rolls are cool and good, but ideally your combat system has more to i...

Some questions are just fundamentally simple and need no equivocation. Is America a racist country? Yes. Is Australia a racist country? Yes. Is Israel doing a genocide ? Most definitely yes. Trying to say that there's some sliding scale bs for this racism question is just veiled whataboutism. "...

My recent Australia-related story: a friend (Australian) and I were having a "discussion" with another Australian bloke (mid 20s, ethnically Asian), where the guy was swearing that Australia wasn't a racist country and he had never personally experienced racism. He also kept referencing &q...

MGuy wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 07, 2024 12:15 pm

We don't have a left wing party in America. There's right Republican party and center right Democratic party.

What did you think of Claudia de la Cruz and the Socialist Party ? Not really left wing, or did you mean "no left wing party with any realistic chance of winning an election" ?

Never believe that anti-Semites are ddm is completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Sem...

No. I believe that if you calculate the odds correctly This is the part I had issue with (emphasis mine). Calculating the odds of a coin flip, a roulette spin, or a lottery are doable (to some extent), sure. The things affecting the outcome are understood and countable. But this discussion was abou...

If you don't think that Trump is a representative sample from the group of [all ~80 year old American men] you need to have some explanation for why he isn't. We know he's got weight issues and poor diet but also good health care. Until you attach numbers to those you assume the one guy you're look...

As for political figures like Trump, there's some things that make his death more likely (assassins, travel, stairs) and less likely (24-hour care, protection). I think this shows the flaw in the assumptions used. Once you start throwing in extreme outliers such as "assassination attempts"...

PseudoStupidity wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:44 pm

The DNC had Bernie Sanders speak and he gave a fairly normal Sanders speech where he did things like call billionaires evil.

And then the NYT complained about Bernie doing this.
https://fair.org/home/sanders-conventio ... -policies/

silver877 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 13, 2024 6:32 pm

I'm with Koumei on this one - it's bizarre to see someone resurrect an old thread with a single, seemingly unrelated post. Even if it's not a bot, it's hard to understand the thought process behind it.

The irony of this poster posting this is kinda funny

Right now I'm reading Foxwarrior's thread out of kindness Am I parsing this wrong, or are you saying you are only looking at a suggested resource because you are being kind in doing so? I'M reading that thread right now, and I noticed JonSetanta is the 2nd post in the thread (from 2012) :rofl:

Isn't Trump a fascist threat to democracy according to Joe Biden? Why the fuck wouldn't he be happy somebody tried to end that threat? My feeling on that is, he doesn't want "political violence" to be on the table at all to make it less likely that it's directed at him. The same way lords...

https://earthrights.org/media_release/c ... th-squads/

On the other hand, Chiquita created great value for the shareholders

After I saw Morgan13 post in the D&D movie thread I became confident they are an AI. They are probably an LLM masquerading as a person by posting fairly noncontroversial things that fit into various threads at a rate that is so infrequent it's easy to mistake them for a real poster, they do thi...

Thaluikhain wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:19 am

Much preferred the Dragonlance animated film from way back when, And that has an effing kender it in.

Hadn't seen this so I went and downloaded it - I think if you watched it again now, you would prefer the new D&D movie

sensible center left and its good friend the sensible centrist right. I heard something recently that I thought made a lot of sense, in that many centrists will say they are socially liberal but fiscally conservative. But this position isn't realistic, in that progressive social policy needs fundin...

Netanyahu is meeting with Biden on Thursday. I expect a change in Israeli policy on or before that point. Put a little pin in this, because being wrong about the last 40 times the US met with Netenyahu hasn't changed deaddm's mind that the US is trying as hard as possible, so it also won't change h...

Here is 'it's complicated, it takes legal action', and the attitude it represents, in my opinion: I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the strid...

Just want to highlight that we are not just continuing to fund Israel. We represent, are, and have acted as a violent threat to any force that wants to a stop to what Israel is doing. We have acted against and prevent any legal sanctions others might want to put on Israel for committing a genocide....

I believe that Israel should stop their incursion into Gaza, immediately. I don't know if you're doing it on purpose or it's just the product of the media you consume, but have you noticed that you won't actually say the words "active genocide in Gaza", even though you vaguely claim to be...

Who on this site was arguing that the United States should invade Myanmar to stop the genocide of the Rohingya? 1. What is it with you and whataboutism ? Can you not argue your point without trying to distract with something else ? 2. If the US were giving billions of dollars and military equipment...