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https://twitter.com/fraser_anning/status/1103920126506655749 Except that all of these countries let in Muslims and refugees
Australia can choose to follow countries like Japan, Poland and Hungary who refuse to let in any Muslims or refugees and have had 0 terror attacks in many years. Or we can keep doing what weโ€™re doing, importing the third world.... WHICH DO YOU WANT?
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And also Japan had a terror attack on the 1st of January this year
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And it was a native Japanese person that did it
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@Morgrim Moon Can you confirm that Mister Anning is the Australian Donald Trump?
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WHAT THE FUCK
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 9:00 AM
sadly no, he's not even close
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well, he's not in charge, but he certainly acts like Trump...
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 9:01 AM
I mean, he's got the RACISM stakes, but he's got very little power
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tHe ViCtImS wErE mUsLiM sO tHeY wErEn'T iNnOcEnT
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 9:02 AM
Anning is part of an incompetant right-wing party, though
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WHAT THE FUCK DUDE
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red is literally proving green's point
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poor Rachel
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 9:04 AM
granted, Anning has also said that Australia could enact a 'Final Solution' to its "moslum problem". Yes, he was making the reference you think he is. But then claimed it was the left 'blowing things out of proportion'
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so this is, sadly, in character
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wait what
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WHAT
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FUCK
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These same people also shit their pants at the idea of armed Muslims
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WTF
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More people liked this comment than the person praying for New Zealand
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 9:07 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/25/australian-senator-who-called-for-final-solution-to-immigration-expelled-from-party you know you've gone too far when the most right-wing party in the government ejects you for being a bigot
Katterโ€™s Australian party dumps Fraser Anning for ignoring directives
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Anning blames the existence of Muslims for the shooting of Muslims
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this makes literally no sense
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cognitive dissonance much? (edited)
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 9:12 AM
as in you think the comic is, or it is illustrating such?
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TotallyNotHuman 03/15/2019 9:13 AM
petition to rename this channel to #edgy-teenager-zone ghosting
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Not gonna lie, this whole shooting thing is a massive shitshow, but I think the edge could be toned down very slightly
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Besides if we want to talk narrative let's talk narrative. That way we can piss everyone off.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/15/2019 9:42 AM
Petition to rename this channel #Kal-rage
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:p
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alright i'll stop
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Why so much politics?
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MarcusAurelius 03/15/2019 10:10 AM
@Morgrim Moon If we want to talk about memetic Australian politicians, how about Tony โ€œI donโ€™t count as an immigrant because Iโ€™m whiteโ€ Abbott?
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 10:16 AM
urgh, yes
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or the less bigoted yet more likely to make people squeal budgie smugglers
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ksp in a nutshell
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hmmm... Where have I seen that picture before?
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i'm a filthy crossposter
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still better than SLS
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Eh, me too.
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Steps 1, 2, and 3: Buy entire stock of Electron rockets
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Step 4: Cut Orion pressure vessel into hundreds of tiny pieces
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Step 5: Launch each one on an Electron and dock them in orbit
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Electron rockets?
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What are those, ion engines?
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Electron is a two-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle (with an optional third stage) developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab to cover the commercial small satellite launch segment (CubeSats). Its Rutherford engines, manufactured in California, are the first...
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Ah...
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Got it.
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it's a tiny cubesat launcher
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Falcon ACES
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factorio in a nutshell
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Morgrim Moon 03/15/2019 12:18 PM
I suspect the glitter thing is someone trolling
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meme climate rally
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and now for something completely different (edited)
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NeW fRoM tHe PoWeR oF oXi-ClEaN
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Wait till big .50 comes in.
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laughs in 20mm
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MarcusAurelius 03/15/2019 1:48 PM
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Fuck the five guys in front of you, fuck your wrist, fuck your arm, fuck your skull when the gun recoils through it, and fuck the guy behind you too.
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MarcusAurelius 03/15/2019 2:02 PM
More like โ€œfuck the rhino and friends in front of youโ€ (edited)
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True, but what kills a rhino will kill a human extra dead
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SะPิะฏะ‡ะคะฏ SะคVะ‡ิา ะ„ะ™Gะ‡ะะ„ะ„ะฏะ‡ะ˜G
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Somehow I just got rickrolled in a webcomic
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@KAL_9000 unless I am very much mistaken, are those climate march pics from r/Animemes?
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Stolen from the philosophy memes subreddit.
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I is with unintelligent memes.
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I downloaded that so I might as well dump it.
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Of course, that's still subscribing partially to the obsolete "left-right" scale that keeps getting forced onto post-French Revolution society
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Use the economic, political and social freedoms one.
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XYZ?
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Yep
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I rather like the ctrl-left to go with the alt-right.
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Appropriately enough, that establishes the up-wing of the political compass as the "del".
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Also, just for fun, the in-'verse version:
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eLoN sHaPiRo DeStRoYs NaSa LiBtArD wItH fAcTs AnD lOgIc
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that's some alkaline water you got there
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 9:10 AM
@KAL_9000 I could say the same of a lot of other people cough cough
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yeah true enough
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 9:21 AM
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ancoms.jpg
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If we're going to say people can't vote due to their poor long-term planning skills... ...oh, wait. No, carry on with that.
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Morgrim Moon 03/18/2019 9:45 AM
:))
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 10:24 AM
Wat
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moons be trippin' y'all
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You were expecting another shitty post from KAL
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BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!
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https://i.imgur.com/xAO7uPp.gifv wonderful gif for meme needs
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comments are an equal mix of explaining nuclear fusion and "LoL yEaH #gLoBeTaRdS"
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You're literally defending concentration camps there, buddy.
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FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK
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@BizarroLand โ™€ AnCAPITALIST PIG-DOG!
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Also why does @KAL_9000 spam memes eternally?
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because i can
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@BizarroLand โ™€ also no, everyone works together, not one person working for another, for everything produced (consumer goods).
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 12:53 PM
Who fecking pinged me
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@Unknown in practice that just means working for nothing or for substandard goods
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I agree with you, but I think everyone substandard is better than some substandard, some standard, and the 1% of 1% super standard. ( I mean, in practice its an evil dictatorship, but that's not the point. )
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:11 PM
and since there's no incentive, well.
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uh if you don't work, then social death you.
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or actual death when the people stop giving you food,
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:17 PM
one can always run off and try to find food on their own
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Yes.
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They can, in the UK, as well.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:17 PM
@Unknown and how is this different or better than capitalism?
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Because the workers own the means of production, not the burgoise
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haha look, I can fancy words
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:18 PM
... all I'm seeing is 'we changed some labels and made things shittier' (edited)
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whatever
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Don't think this belongs in #dank (edited)
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also, visit osmarks.tk/bolshefiction it is a communism generator by me, on @gollark s website
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basically, it reads the communist manefesto, then tries to recreate it
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wait no, apparently it's offline
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oh, no it's not
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It has generated such things as:
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"Freedom, justice, etc."
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yep. That turns up quite a lot, actually
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"German or 'True' Socialism."
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it literally just has the manifesto to blame, so blame marx
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"The Communism."
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Communism: Can't misallocate resources you don't have! tap head
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yep
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anyway, spread bolshefiction around, I want to break @gollarks server
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"Communism bears an inverse relations of existence to its non-existence of your class."
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what
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it very rarely makes sense
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I can't actually update it now, as my computer's GPU is dead.
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I fell out of my chair laughing at "German or 'True' Socialism"
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oh yeah...
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We should try this with the limited GPT-2 some time.
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"Subjection is to do away with class antagonisms." -Marx, realizing that his vision of a classless society would actually be a dictatorship
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I think that "their children turned into social property" is funnier
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"French original."
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"Confiscation of children by the forcible overthrow of all past historical movement."
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Teutonic races started in history of the old modes of production; by means of commodity, like every other article of community of women, screams the bourgeois Socialism.
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Once it just said
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'Martin.'
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HAHAHA
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which is the name of our friend
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which is spooky
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he is also a communist
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Well. The spelling is different.
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so I think he is Marx's chosen one
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German edition of individual property for the pre-history of all national anathemas against the more is the first conditions of the bourgeoisie and Proletarian revolution.
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I'm amazed that such a simple text generation system produces such slightly coherent results.
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mhmm
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it is literally 110% bodge
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The online version may occasionally produce broken Unicode for reasons I do not fully understand.
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No, it doesn't, anymore
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we tested it
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i think
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"Abolition of the immense majority."
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I haven't updated to the latest one because, like I said, my GPU (or that PCIe slot or something, who knows) died.
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So it's the broken version.
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YES! ABOLISH THE MAJORITY! IMPLEMENT FACISM! MARX WAS ACTUALLY A FACIST GUYS!
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:31 PM
" Where is the minimum wage, i."
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good question, marx
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:32 PM
"It laid bare the hypocritical elements of production - on the progress of production, &c, &c."
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ah! so it is the old version!
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it may produce weird charaters then
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click the title to toggle between about and home
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oh no
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old version
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Alert: Poe's Law is now in effect. Set Condition Poe throughout the thread.
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Poe??!?!!?
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The philosophy memes subreddit is wonderful.
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i'm in love
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/18/2019 2:40 PM
@KAL_9000 hey look it's everyone in toughSF, then me
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And they say Americans love their flag
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 6:22 AM
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Speaking of flags, here is best flag:
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For Soviet closed city of Zheleznogorsk, where trained and gilded dwarf bears make the plutonium. At least some of that statement was accurate.
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john dougan(his grace/his grace) 03/19/2019 7:45 AM
For a srsbsns organisation, the IAEA flag is surprisingly hip. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Flag_of_IAEA.svg
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Lady, if that was a comment on the attached, what I most want right now is to set your head on fire with my mind.
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it's an old meme template
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the joke is that the one thing that guys want turns out not to be sex like you'd expect from an angry poster like that (edited)
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Ah, yes, this is #dank, after all.
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provisionally rescinds mindfire.
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 7:59 AM
โ€ฆbetween a Mars mission in five years and mindfire now, I don't know which one I would choose (edited)
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 7:59 AM
see, this old meme would be borderline acceptable perhaps
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A correct assessment would be "guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking awesome" to the attached
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what is mindfire?
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Don't mind me, it's precaffeination time of the morning.
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 7:59 AM
if it weren't literally reposted onto another server within five seconds, rendering both servers' meme channels identical (edited)
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...
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 8:00 AM
(we've discussed this previously V:)
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I'm A fIlThY cRoSsPoStEr
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there, deleted it from the other server
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Happy?
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 8:01 AM
choose a place to put it, since 80% of active users there are here
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 8:01 AM
^
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 8:01 AM
if you're so afraid that Bren't see it, put it there only :V
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New Minecraft update looks good
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 8:02 AM
(and Ben V:)
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Some days I feel like making a #memetics channel, just so there can be a rule that memes aren't allowed in it.
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Elon unveils new launch site plans
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spits out chocolate milk starts giggling uncontrollably
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Perfectly balanced, as all things should be (edited)
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This just in from Boca Chica
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Space Telescope Mirror Comparison
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:09 AM
@KAL_9000 hey who posted that picture of me, second on the right
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In the year 2050, robot Prime Minister Theresa May starts negotiating with the United States to secede from the Union after a controversial referendum. The president of the United States has expressed confusion at this move, stating that they weren't aware the the UK had joined the US in the first place. (edited)
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Not to be all heavy-handed in the censorship here, but I would appreciate it if we could refrain from posting Nazi propaganda here, even to mock it. Much as it deserves mocking.
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If I were the war mongering type I'd suggest that we move in and liberate England. Entropy knows they need it
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[This post is having major technical issues. Some comments may not be appearing. If you canโ€™t comment, please say so on the subreddit.] I. I Come To Praise Caesar, Not To Bury Him Several yeaโ€ฆ
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One day the UK will just vote to leave Earth, and try and launch itself into orbit to stop immigration or somehow negotiate better trade deals.
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you mean to ban toothpicks?
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I'm a lot less vulnerable than Scott Alexander, due to self-employment and a lifelong custom of Giving No Fucks, but I would prefer not to have things hosted here which - inevitably repeated shorn of context and with the addition of conspiracy theories - are a positive invitation to double my already not inconsiderable volume of hate mail. (edited)
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Aye
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The maddening thing about Scott is that he so often allllllmmoooooosssttt gets it, and then the Blue Tribe takes over.
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"Elon Musk announced today that the British government has provided several trillion pounds of funding for SpaceX, on the condition that the corporation give the British 10,000 BFRs and the infrastructure necessary to evacuate the entire population of the United Kingdom to space." (edited)
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 11:17 AM
"dollars"
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Hey, if they decide to go full Lone Star Planet I hope they succeed
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 11:17 AM
Also, would the Brits just kinda live awkwardly in a fleet of BFSes?
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Fixed
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 11:18 AM
Because that would be a rather British thing to do.
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No, silly
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They're going to Laythe
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TotallyNotHuman 03/19/2019 11:18 AM
โ† is totally not gleaming his knowledge of British people from exurb1a
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So Britannia can rule the waves again
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It'll finally be able to negotiate better trade deals with aliens!
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@Ian Bruene I don't always agree with him, certainly, but undeniably he's in the highest permilleile on the web for Thoughtful Posts Worth Reading.
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@KAL_9000 Appreciated, thanks.
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yes, i was posting as a mockery
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Realize that that probably wasn't a good idea
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(Fun fact: That image actually made me sick to my stomach)
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@KAL_9000 Oh, yeah, I get it, and it certainly deserves mocking, once the vomiting is done. Wish I didn't have to impose this particular restriction, for that matter, but hell, I'm about one step away from an Internet rage mob as it is.
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why do people hate you?
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:25 AM
I'm almost jealous that you get haters. Almost.
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His fiction is not geared entirely to promoting the New Socialist Man
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nuff said
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:25 AM
@Ian Bruene any people actually saying this? because I only bother to check the comments on the blog itself
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Well they don't use that term, but the culture war has been raging in SF for a while
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I'm an outspoken libertarian who doesn't even try to moderate his language. And then there's the fiction thing, yeah - not usually in comments, mostly in contact form/e-mail so far.
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@Overmind's a libertarian. So what? No reason to hate the guy!
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EVERYTHING must have a Message, or else
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@KAL_9000 ah to be young
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:26 AM
oh boy I'm in another server for fans of a commiewank fic project and they'd hate it
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@KAL_9000 You appear to be too sane for this world.
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I'm not a libertarian myself, but I'm perfectly capable of understanding his viewpoint and not hating him for it. He's 100% free to have a perfectly reasonable political opinion that I myself don't hold!
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Being a libertarian is the best way to be hated, because the right claims you're a communist, the left claims you're a fascist, and the center claims... well, mostly the center just blocks you on Twitter.
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don't forget that you get to push old women into soylent green machines (edited)
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Oh, while weโ€™re memeing...
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I donโ€™t get it.
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Funny thing is that I thought of and rejected as a problem the Road Issue rather early on. Because obviously roads had economic value so it would be figured out (and roads have existed forever).
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Okay, then weโ€™ll need flying cars.
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Later on I came across the muh roads crap
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:34 AM
@Ian Bruene what about inelastic demand??
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what about it?
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:35 AM
the 'muh roads' argument is really about all the things that people claim only government could provide or at least provide without doing stupid evil capitalist things!oneone (edited)
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like healthcare education etc
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of course...
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BZZZZZZZZT "fair" is a polluted word.
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Isn't that merit goods and not inelastic demand?
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Hell, fair is a meaningless word.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:37 AM
The worst people are the ones who... I think we've been over this earlier, think Scandinavia is some paradise on Earth
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if it is about the problem of someone owning the only access road to your property...... this was a solved problem in common law. And with foresight these things are handlable even without that stopgap
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:38 AM
And they seem to be increasingly a plurality of the populace
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'what'bout canada, what'
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'bout australia,' etc etc ad nauseam
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Funny that Sweded has been backing off on the socialism in recent years
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I feel like government with citizen oversight, assuming the citizens are well-informed enough to know what is and isnโ€™t a good idea, would be a good idea, with our current levels of technology.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:39 AM
@Tassadar wellinformed? citizen oversight
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bahahahahaahhahahahahahh
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@Tassadar So..... a miracle with a few other assisting miracles would work. Yeah, probably true
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that would be the apatosaurus in the room, yeah.
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(to be fair; once the school system finishes imploding it will be easier to fix some of these problems)
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finishes? Has it not already?
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As someone in the school system, I don't like it.
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most people still to to public school
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Well, let us say that the purpose of the education system is not, for the most part, education. (edited)
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it is only this generation that is starting to not go to college
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Iโ€™m not tremendously excited with the current state of schools, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.
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So could most things.
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at least homeschooling isn't automatic ostrisation (despite the best efforts of the teachers and fringe HS'ers)
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:42 AM
@Ian Bruene word
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Also, universities are horribly expensive in the UK, even though meanwhile on the other side of the Scottish border they manage to provide free tuition, which is, er, bad.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:43 AM
I entered college... at age 13, after not having any traditional schooling
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pretty hard to get much worse than to deliberately burn out a childs ability to learn
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Well, they could start literally beating people to death in between forcing them to wash heavy machinery while it's running, with a half-hour lunchtime break spent dodging bullets.
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Or forcing people to memorize useless information they will never need so that they can remember it for long enough to write down the right bits in an exam so that someone can say that they Knowโ„ข this subject... oh wait.
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But, y'know, it's all about the confusion in what it's supposed to do, for which you need to look at the Prussian ur-system that the Western educational model is for the most part built upon.
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and then losing one's shit when it becomes clear that computers are much better at that
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"What, you can just look up that information in ten seconds? Nope! Not allowed! Let us never speak of such things."
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I've heard it said that it works more to teach conformity, or make people happier with low level abuse.
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See Prussian model
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Namely: it's there to inculcate conformity, obedience to authority, and turn out good factory workers and other castes of drone. (Hence the day regulated, essentially, by shifts. OBEY THE BELLS, LABORER.) Actually learning anything above and beyond the most basic technical skills is what one might call an optional extra. (edited)
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While also limiting the chance of the pesantry understanding the tech of the day well enough to cause real trouble
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I mean, look at the collective bedwetting that happened with the first 3d printed gun. Which wsa utter crap as a gun, but it was loud and clear as a statement. (edited)
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Recommended reading: John Taylor Gatto.
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"Gatto asserts the following regarding what school does to children in Dumbing Us Down : It confuses the students. It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. Apart from the tests and trials, this programming is similar to the television; it fills almost all the "free" time of children. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again. It teaches them to accept their class affiliation. It makes them indifferent. It makes them emotionally dependent. It makes them intellectually dependent. It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem). It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised."
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Gatto does make a few mistakes usually around economics (how shocking), but he for the most part nails it
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The wikipedia page for The Underground History of American Education seems to have archive.org links to some stuff, but naturally my mobile network blocks archive.org because that makes sense and is an entirely reasonable thing to do.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:55 AM
@gollark beware he who would deny you access to information for in his heart he dreams himself your master (edited)
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It is apparently blocked as over-18 content, which makes a slight bit of sense because it could let you access some indirectly, but seriously why.
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giving the devil his due: a lot of this crap it isn't because they secretly want to censor, but because they don't wan't a pack of $CURRENT_YEARS_REE_GROUP to descend upon them
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managers still think the 0.0003% of the population that screams the loudest matters
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Probably. I think it's required by some law or other, or at least they decided to interpret it that way.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:58 AM
Yeah the Professional Screeching Association are disproportionately influential
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I donโ€™t want anything like Canadaโ€™s so-called human rights courts to come down here
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They get an A+ for Orwellian Naming
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 11:59 AM
Theyโ€™re not even courts, just a mechanism for aggrieved people of a certain class to extort money out of you if they can claim you hurt their feelings (edited)
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* if they claim their feelings were hurt
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 12:00 PM
We already have nonsense like people valuing โ€˜civil rightsโ€™ over liberties
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And wanting their precious โ€˜equalityโ€™ at any cost in dignity and freedom
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this is why I hate the language of rights: it very easily gets lost in whatever philosophical woo is being used for the support that day. And "rights" has been corrupted
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Enter "positive rights", stage left
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 12:07 PM
Oh and the whole fraught idea of reparation
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As I see it, the problem is not government per se, but the government being idiotic, short-sighted, bigoted, and corrupt.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 12:07 PM
@Ian Bruene All the insane have managed to do is insulate my mind from any notion of creating any sort of protected class
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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1776 is to be kept in...
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@KAL_9000 You are halfway there. The second half is when you realize that government must by it's nature be "idiotic, short-sighted, bigoted, and corrupt.". And that that is when it is being good. (edited)
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@Ian Bruene why does it have to be?
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Book recommendation: Seeing Like a State .
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(Before you ask, yes, I've watched Rules for Rulers)
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Because government at it's core has certain traits: 1. it is an assertion of a monopoly on force. 2. if it is trying to be "good government" it is based on a contradition. Namely that it is providing a concentration of power while also trying to not attract the kind of person who is attracted to power. 3. to function people need to respect it enough to follow its rules. Which means that a regulation on (say) the angle of an awning, made to prevent it from collapsing on someone must ultimately be backed up by the threat of killing anyone who doesn't comply
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Objection to point 3: Why is the punishment that severe?
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(the awning example isn't based on anything, jsut an example of something trivial)
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think it out: what happens when you refuse to comply? (edited)
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the awning can fall on you, but that's not the government's fault
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Of course, from my perspective, what really dooms the whole enterprise is the way that the justifications for government are basically isomorphic to the justifications for Mafiosi and lynch mobs, and the fruit of the poisoned tree is exactly what you'd expect.
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that isn't the government's punishment
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what does the government do if you don't comply?
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Point 2: This is indeed a problem. Solution: We appoint as leaders competent people who really don't want the job
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 12:21 PM
arresting
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and if you resist arrest.............
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 12:21 PM
Of course that buck stops with you being killed
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or managing to overthrow the state, which has happened from time to time
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@KAL_9000 much of the history of attempted good government has been trying to get around point 2. And progress has been made, sort of. But the contradiction remains, and what is contradictory will crumble eventually.
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@KAL_9000 Every law is ultimately backed up by the largest possible penalty, because refusing to comply with smaller penalties is in itself a crime. If you don't want to fix your awning, they fine you. If you don't pay the fine, they summon you to court. If you don't attend court, they arrest you. If you don't comply with the police, they use force to make you comply. If you resist the force, they shoot you. Now you're dead. This pattern of escalation applies to essentially every law and regulation out there, because if you don't punish noncompliance, people will start ignoring you, and a government can't withstand that. (edited)
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i see
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Does anyone like my solution to point 2?
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been tried
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it works for a while, then fails
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wait where has it?
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Most people give in before getting to this point, but given that we have examples of people being killed in NY by the po-po for selling loose cigarettes ... yeah. Not so hypothetical.
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a number of states have used random assignment. Still didn't work
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examples and sources plox
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@Overmind Ob: Ruby Ridge and Waco
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Problem with your 2 solution: slaves aren't incentivized to do their jobs well. They're incentivized to do as little as possible as sloppily as possible. (edited)
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others know specifics on what states have tried it, have to run an errand
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(ugh, worst timing ever)
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move to #random, this is no longer dank-related
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 1:10 PM
@gollark my answer to the trolley problem is to do nothing
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Slannesh approves of this trolley (needs more rape, but the foundation is there)
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This is good, as it gets you the loop-da-loop, which is totally sick.
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If you were to divert it, you would deprive the world of the loop-da-loop unless you divert more trollies.
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@Ian Bruene Where do you class yourself politicaly?
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Purplish-Grey tribe?
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Hmm He mentions slannesh
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In theory ancap
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EEVIL
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Also what context did slannesh arise from?
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but in practice it is techno-libertarian with emphasis on anti-whatever-enemy-is-likely-to-kill-everyone-soonest
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Because of the fun trolley
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also I've had WH40k on the brain recently
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Ah. Okaay. Sure. Fair dinkum.
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Purple is "mix of blue and red", right?
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(in party line terms this translates to: Smash the raving insanity on the left before they can start spread active violence, while being ready to turn on the right if they go that path. It would be optimal if we can avoid any sort of civil war)
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@gollark abusing Scott's Red/Blue/Grey tribe analogy
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I get along with blue tribers that aren't about the politics. I get along with red tribers sort of, and can tolerate their politics better (not having power means they are mostly about being left alone). And fairly solidly in Grey tribe, but wish the fucking Rothbardians would get out of their gorram ivory tower (kind of like the Stallmanites)
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@Ian Bruene 'Smash the raving insanity on the left.'
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Oooof?
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Well
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I get you just are not eliightened in the path of revolution, comrade. (edited)
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shake head
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When a group that has been comfortable in their power suddenly gets the rug pulled out from under them they freak out like nobody's business. And they are intent to prove it
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Wha~?
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so it becomes a case of trying to bleed off as many sane/semi-sane people as possible while coming down hard on the abuses
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Me confused.
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I just hope we are lucky enough for the 2020 election to not turn into open warfare
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Me very confused
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What do you define as the 'left'?
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We talkin' social or economic freedoms?
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the visible parts of the left abandoned "social freedoms" in recent years. Now the mask is off and you have to be in perfect lockstep or you are inhales racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, colonialist, capitalist (ok guilty as charged), oppressive, patriarchical, etc etc etc
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the internet broke the near complete hold on media they had (Fox and talk radio was basically all they didn't own). They can't own the narrative so they have to scream people down
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so we get cases where a writer is bullied into submission because she had a character who was enslaved, but wasn't black, and the writer wasn't black
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[I could list more, with the primary limitation being my own memory]
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 2:54 PM
Bullied? Whom?
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* looking
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Amรฉlie Wen Zhao was the name of the author
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Well, thats generalized. Unless I just misunderstood you.
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this thing is most people aren't this crazy. But there is a larger-than-it-should-be and extremely vocal minority that knows how to push the exact buttons to get whatever they want
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Oh yes, the vocal minority. Curse them to eternal oppression.
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In the form of employment
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MWAHAHAHAH
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and they get into positions where they can exert influence well in excess of any merit (see 99% of game journalists)
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so we get situations where for example there is a subculture around some franchise. crazies move in and delcare everyone racist / sexist / whatever. The company that is at the core folds like a wet paper bag because they don't want the bad publicity. And then they start butchering the franchise and telling the fans that if they don't like it they can go fuck off
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(they used to claim that "lnclusion" would draw in a larger audience)
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laughs in Marvel comics (edited)
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I think your comment was uncalled for. They are, as you said, the minority, and should be treated as such. I also think that this is kind of verging on counter-counter-culture, something that I oppose. We do live in an unequal society, but we shouldn't let ether side corrupt the truth.
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I mean, tbh, some depictions of women in marvel comics are... Distressing.
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The minority is driving the bus. I expect crazies to be running around. I also expect people to say "No, you are an idiot, we aren't doing this" when they propose nonesense. But the average person doesn't want a lynch mob forming on their twitter feed
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I should start posting controversial stuff on twitter, my feed is so boring.
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Hmmm No? They aren't driving the bus? Citation? Please?
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So instead they publish, whats the title of that one? America Chavez or something? And what do you know? Garbage doesn't sell
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:05 PM
The fact that Bernie nearly got the nomination?
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Bernie isn't radical enough anymore
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Why that bad is? He not socialist btw.
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We need the communist party of america.
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:06 PM
Boy
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โ€œFreeโ€ college
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we do, they acomplished almost all of their goals
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:06 PM
National healthcare system, (Britain says hi)
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'Not all enterprises owned by the state'
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(which is why we have trump. We should be thankfull the backlash was this mild)
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Aka: not socialist
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:07 PM
Heโ€™s socialist not communist
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@MarcusAurelius the NHS is awsome, thank you
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* bad
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:07 PM
Still far left wing, but he can see the fuselage at least
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@MarcusAurelius he's not communist and socialist
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He is social democrat, like Denmark
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:07 PM
@Unknown are you in the UK
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Yes
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UK worst country, but that's not the point
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:08 PM
Might be the first positive Iโ€™ve heard talked about by someone from there
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Well, you mix in strange circles
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The server the #minecraft thing runs on is, coincidentally, a used NHS one.
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:09 PM
Not just mine
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My motherโ€™s rather large group of work associates from there,and family friends and their circles from there
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But thatโ€™s a tangent
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Most people think that the NHS is good. It might just be that I live in the North East though.
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My mother works in the NHS, and complains about it lots.
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Yes.
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Very anecdotal but eh.
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:10 PM
Bernie is a socialist, despite what language they try to use to work around it to make him a viable candidate in the US
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That does seem to be the case.
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It also consumes probably at least a fifth of the government's budget.
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Do you understand the definition of socialist, @MarcusAurelius?
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 3:10 PM
@Unknown whatever you want to call it I donโ€™t want that shiatt here
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Well, he is socialist, by most sensible definitions. (edited)
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Don't be communism.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 3:10 PM
It kinda comes with the territory of ancap
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Also, is socialism considered bad in the US? I didn't know that... Interesting. The UK is a lot more left than the US. A lot more left.
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Is it?
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Yes, apparently
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 3:11 PM
It is
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Righthwingers use it as a dirty word
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:12 PM
Yup
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The 2nd largest party in the UK considers itself socialist. (Even though it isn't, its like lefter Sanders)
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 3:12 PM
Left has to dance around it with โ€˜liberalismโ€™ or โ€˜Nordic modelโ€™
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:12 PM
Thereโ€™s still a lot of cultural baggage with the term after the Red Scares
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That's stupid
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Yes, like all politics.
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:13 PM
No? It makes sense if you know humans. They were the bad guys in our narrative, and most adults alive grew up in the Cold War
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Anyway, most ideology definers say that socialism is when the state controls all enterprise.
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Was the UK not fed that rhetoric?
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:14 PM
Also, guys, #random ?
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And what about the antiwar baby boomers?
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Yes. Let us agree to migrate to the lands of random.
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@Unknown look, I know this culture war stuff sounds like crazytalk to you, but try to consider how it look from the other side: People like me (being very general here to include pretty much everyone center / right / libertarian) are constantly told that: we are racist (because we don't think black people are so inferior that they should be held to a different standard) sexist (because we don't think that of women either, and also we suggest that some women might want to have children) full of hate, and generally shit people. If we enjoy something they write 10,000 articles on buzzfeed about how "toxic" it is until it gets trashed in some way if we don't want to be treated like pesants to be ruled over we are accused of being one snap away from shooting up a school, and also racist (again), and sexist (again) if we are in certain industries and don't hide our opinions at work we mysteriously don't get any promotion by publishers and then are dropped because no one wants it if we own a business we are treated as though our employees are shackled to the assembly line [etc etc etc] And you know what? Most of us stayed quiet. We really don't want trouble, we don't even hate the people screaming at us from all corners, just wish they could stop to take a breath. And then they decide that some, ahem, "safe space", where we didn't need to think about politics needs to be conquered because racist, sexist blah blah blah. Or some psychopath kills a bunch of people so now WE are at fault. Yes. You should be glad we got Trump. Because this kind of smouldering resentment building over decades
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BAH, too early enter
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.....building over decades is not good for a society. If we hadn't gotten trump the next time would be worse
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MarcusAurelius 03/19/2019 3:23 PM
@Ian Bruene we moved to random
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Some people in my year at school think that women's brains are more suited to 'hospitibal' jobs than STEM (science, tech, engineering, maths)
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(also a line about "if we elect someone who claims to be on our side they promptly betray us the moment they get to washintgon)
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Do you beleive that?
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*moving
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Here you go.
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john dougan(his grace/his grace) 03/19/2019 4:03 PM
Since this is the #dank channel:
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I was looking through old pictures and found this.
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Most of this is stolen from reddit, but oh well.
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I found Norway too.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 4:11 PM
Is that an and gate
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Idk my logic lol
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 4:11 PM
no
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it's an or gate
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with an inverting bubble
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 4:11 PM
Nor gate?
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 4:11 PM
i.e. a NOR gate
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 4:11 PM
Lollll
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Also a VGA flag for some reason.
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Do they not understand the forbidden fruit principle?
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What? Poe's law
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FWIW: the real test of Poe's Law is to create a joke that the target of the joke then adopts as serious
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0111narwhalz 03/19/2019 4:58 PM
e.g. Flat Earth?
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The prospiracy posters from slatestarcodex have probably already done this at least once.
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/19/2019 9:42 PM
@Zarpaulek where's that from? sauce?
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Supposedly, the Catholic Church
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Woke up to find out this was designed by @dr_i_rohl from pope quotes. Buy their shirt, it's fucking rad https://t.co/ZYyhJnfwNd
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john dougan(his grace/his grace) 03/20/2019 5:55 AM
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john dougan(his grace/his grace) 03/20/2019 6:44 AM
Beep-Beep!
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No, Meep-Meep!!!
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disgusting
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wtf
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Disgusting is an understatement.
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I DONT GIVE FOOD TO MY KID....WHY DOES HE GET HUNGRY ALL THE TIME?YEAH,DONT GIVE ME THAT "JUST FEED HIM" CRAP....I WANT REAL SOLUTION...
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AAAAAH WHAT THE FUCK
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:12 AM
KAL. I know it's hard knowing there are utter idiots who are being wrong on the internet, but if you're not enjoying yourself and this isn't making you productively DO something about fixing the world, perhaps you're hurting yourself for no reason and should go have a cup of tea?
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Seconded.
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Or hot cocoa.โ˜•๏ธ
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Yeah, you can find infinite cesspits if you want them. The internet gives anyone the opportunity to bash their sanity to pieces should they choose
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Yup. Tell me about it.
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(take it from someone who dove into the pits at one point: it solves nothing, you just get bitter)
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:19 AM
Cerebrate should just rename this channel #kal_rage or #kal_spam
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I mean, we have a ban on reeeeeeeing. And random ragefests of this nature are pretty damn close to what and actual reee is (edited)
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:20 AM
I wouldn't go that far
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:20 AM
@KAL_9000 take it from someone who used to Farm Kiwis: getting angry with the outgroup on a regular basis isn't healthy.
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:21 AM
What does farming flightless bird, fuzzy fruit, or wrangling New Zealanders have to do with internet outrage?
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:21 AM
Long story
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TotallyNotHuman 03/20/2019 9:29 AM
well then
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yeah, you guys are right
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It's just that, being fourteen years old, I am currently not in any kind of position to do something about the problem :V
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While this is not something I feel the need to make an official rule about, speaking purely as a server _user_ , I could use a mite less of Fucking Stupid People Theater 6000. I get enough of that elsewhere.
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:34 AM
Fuck, you're 14?
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(Like. say, Twitter, or the news.)
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yes
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:34 AM
Argh. Okay, so that drastically cuts down on the things I'm ALLOWED to post here
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TotallyNotHuman 03/20/2019 9:34 AM
V:
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:34 AM
Thanks for letting me know
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...although that makes me feel like I should enforce a don't ask, don't tell policy on age, on the grounds that what people don't know won't engage their internal policemen.
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ANARCHY EMOJI HERE
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:39 AM
yup, officially hard SFW
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no lewding around the children
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(being mostly sarcastic, @KAL_9000)
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we must clears throat THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:41 AM
Well, I'm no longer working in the school sector, so it's no longer a threat to my ability to buy food
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but old habits die hard
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@KAL_9000 ok, 14 makes sense. Hmmmmm how to put this in a way that comes off as helpful and not patronizing....... Look, you are going to come across a lot of shit in your life. Yes it sucks, and there is tremendous evil in the world, but you need to focus on making you and your immediate suroundings as not-evil as you can before trying to change that. I (and probably most of the people here) went through this kind of rage too. It is seductive, but to some extent just one of those things that happens, rather like when a 2 year old has a meltdown because he hasn't learned to handle dissapointment. Ingulging that rage in this manner will have two effects: 1. it fucks your head up, 2. it looks like someone throwing a tantrum wags cane and checks his yard boundaries
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damned kids get off my property
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yeah okay
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thanks guys
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Yeah, what @Ian Bruene said. I had an era of epic ragefests in the past - partly because I was using anger to treat then-unmedicated depression - and all it got me was a bleeding ulcer and a bad rep.
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And I am serious about it damaging your own mind. That doesn't mean you retreat into a la la land and everything is great (arguably exiting that is the cause of this, as one leaves childhood), it just means you have to develop a sense of perspective
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a legit meme ^ (edited)
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:46 AM
It definitely feels like teens are hardwired for the sensitive cliquey attitude. Iโ€™ve felt aspects of it even though I never went to high school
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:46 AM
I got HEAVILY into doing the practical environmental things mentioned a few days ago as my way of coping. I hated how the planet is being destroyed, so I spent 10+ hrs a week trying to fix it by hand. Which, well, obviously one person can't fix it. But I can point to lots of things I did to make it better
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it helped
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i'm not trying to be a cliquey person
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The best description I ever saw of puberty is that is it like hot-patching a running kernel
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gonna cause some issues
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:47 AM
We're not saying you're trying to. It's just your brain and the rest of your body is going through funky crap and as part of becoming an adult, things go a little haywire on the way (edited)
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:47 AM
translation for the poor chemists in the audience?
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@Morgrim Moon literally a computer metaphor
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:47 AM
Imagine trying to deoxygenate carboxylasr when
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:48 AM
Yes, thank you, I got THAT part
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:48 AM
Lol idk
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Like intervening in a running reaction?
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:48 AM
or trying to edit a paper while someone is typing it
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:48 AM
Don't change the tires while the car is in motion? Or less severe than that?
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more severe
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:48 AM
Changing the engine while itโ€™s going at highway speed
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:48 AM
Okay, thank you
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(I got the 'don't do x while y', just not the relative scales)
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(really it is a miracle that our bodies manage to pull this off with so little trauma)
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it's where your body fucks with itself and fills you with useless hormones while you're busy with growing up and attending school
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@Ian Bruene >so little trauma
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>puberty
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Relatively Speaking.
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Just since the topic came up, we now have the least policy-like SFW policy ever over in #announcements .
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:51 AM
I like it, it's basically "be polite and tag your stuff"
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:51 AM
yup
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It's like a more mature version of the NSFW containment channel strategy (edited)
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given how much changes, yes, we get off easier than we "should" (not downplaying how much it sucks to be clear)
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So, quite reasonable.
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:51 AM
I wouldn't call them useless
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then again, I have an unusual friend group
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The best summation I've ever heard is that the brain finishes building itself exactly backwards.
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The amygdala and limbic system relatively early on, and the frontal lobes dead last.
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Evolution: evil laugh (edited)
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Well, given how crucial the former are compared to the latter, it makes sense.
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Which is to say - impulses and emotions power up first, self-control last. So we all get to go through a period in our brain development process where UNSTOPPABLE RAGE is more or less inevitable and when everything from chairs to linoleum makes us think about sex.
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:56 AM
and then we tell that age group that they're not allowed to think about sex, with inevitable results
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:57 AM
yeah, abstinence only sex ed was a meme
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it belongs in this channel
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just use protection idiots
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Could be dangerous. I mean, as I remember adolescence, we thought about sex just about every moment of the day as it was. If we actually had society's permission to think about sex, time itself might collapse under the strain.
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:58 AM
using condoms correctly is not as straight forward as one would think
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close, but doing it wrong can change the effectiveness by close to 10%
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 9:58 AM
ug no Iike rubber covering
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 9:59 AM
me neither ug, but it's hard for girls to get birth control when their parents aren't on board at that age
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 9:59 AM
I found that adults frankly talking about sex and how to have it safely was a remarkably effective way of getting my little cousins to not be thinking about sex constantly, possibly due to the halo effect of "lalala my parents never had sex!"
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:00 AM
Never had that, really
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 10:00 AM
Uhhhh
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:00 AM
also hormonal contraceptive at that age is RISKY
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:00 AM
@Morgrim Moon I was talking 16-18, I thought it was relatively safe by then
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:00 AM
and women only have hormonal and female condoms, so yeah the barrier is happening, learn to enjoy it
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:00 AM
@BizarroLand โ™€ I kinda figured it out quickly. Mommy and Daddies make babies
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And female condoms are only available by prescription in the US IIRC
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:01 AM
It's considered safe once you finish the hormonal storm of pubety. That varies by person. Also, due to said hormonal storm, it's not nearly as effective until you finish puberty
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@MarcusAurelius only available by pre- what
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:02 AM
There's only one manufacturer as well, again IIRC
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:02 AM
So you should never ever rely on it as the only form of contraception until you're... well, 21 is generally considered safe, but I'd say 19 at the earlier
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As far as I know, that's not the case (at least in most states) - several places give them away. They're just hard to find in stores.
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:02 AM
@Morgrim Moon aw shit. Welp, there goes the shower plan
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:03 AM
I was put on it at 13 for unrelated medical issues and it fucked up my system for a few years.
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So I did a lot of digging into research papers, because that's how I cope.
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Technically if a doctor gives it to someone under 16, they're doing so off-label
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:04 AM
Shit that sucks, Sorry moon. Off label?
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:04 AM
"The testing authorities have NOT tested it for this purpose/under these circumstances, use at your own risk"
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Of course, if you have something like PSOS, then the risks of NOT taking it drastically override the risks of doing so
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:06 AM
...That would do it, yeah
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Forgot how much puberty can suck when it goes abnormally
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:07 AM
That's not what I have, but it's the most common reason for giving it to young teens
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@KAL_9000 By the way, something else that may ease potential issues: When adults are dismissive of the trauma of puberty most of them are not trying to be assholes. It is a combination of knowing that they got through it, and not actually remembering how bad it was.
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:11 AM
Yeah, I'm right at the cuff so I'm in the transitionary period between remembering how bad it was and forgetting it. And I got off relatively lightly from it, anyway
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 10:11 AM
Same here
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I got the kernel analogy from someone with an unusual memory and they mentioned this problem. So I've taken pains to try to remember (even if it is a little embarassing). Yeah, very easy to forget.
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:14 AM
I really can't judge how bad mine was, because mental illness + having to leave school because I justifiably got the wrath of the education council brought down on it = I have no idea where the norms are set. My teenage years sucked and I will always remember that but I don't know how much was because of the teenager bit
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:15 AM
same
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My Junior year sucked, but it was mostly do to external factors unrelated to me being a teenager at the time
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:17 AM
silly game: google "florida man" + the day / month of your birthday and see what headline you get. I have "Florida man pleads guilty in shark-dragging video case"
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my friend got "Florida man finds bright green iguana in toilet, calls 911"
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:18 AM
An naked man greeted Florida firefighters after he allegedly started a house fire as he tried to bake cookies on a George Foreman grill, according to local media reports.
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Tl;DR: crossfaded florida man sets house on fire while attmepting to bake cookies on a george foreman grill
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:21 AM
kinda impressed he managed to make cookie dough in that state
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Needs to be a superhero.
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"Watch out! Here comes the Florida Man!"
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 10:23 AM
I'm not sure hero is the genre-friendly term I'd use
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MarcusAurelius 03/20/2019 10:33 AM
super, then
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"super neutral"?
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this is the last "the world is fucked up post" i will put on here
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and now for actual memes
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Any Country: finds oil
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๐Ÿ‘Œ 2
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Funnily enough, a podcast I listen to was about the long-term ramifications of the Iraq invasion https://www.reconsidermedia.com/podcast
ReConsider Podcast. Politics: But we don't do the thinking for you.
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Yes, Cheney gave all the infrastructure contracts to Halliburton.
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No, we did not get any oil out of it, China's buying the majority of Iraq's oil.
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Yes, the invasion created ISIS.
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Yes, it allowed Iran to expand its influence in the Middle East.
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only true programmers will understand
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only true tabletop players will understand
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The speed one sounds like something Shadowrun players might try
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This is how laws work in the Empire of the Star, correct?
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Also This
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What's this from?
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Casey & Andy
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It's a webcomic full of nerd humor that Andy Weir wrote before he worked on The Martian
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AIs are the best at chess
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/20/2019 2:19 PM
I remember the Bad Webcomics Wiki covering one of Weir's comics
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Joke turned out to be on them after all
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yep
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plus the webcomic was actually pretty good
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Yeah, God, what is up with quantum mechanics?
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this sounds like something Mormons I know would do
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Morgrim Moon 03/20/2019 7:14 PM
๐Ÿ˜‚ 1
โ“ 1
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Morgrim Moon 03/21/2019 7:41 PM
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0111narwhalz 03/21/2019 7:53 PM
somehow this fills me with dread
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BizarroLand โ™€ 03/21/2019 8:23 PM
Same
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Morgrim Moon 03/22/2019 9:24 AM
๐Ÿ˜‚ 3
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New Shepard looks good
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CST-737 MAX
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Comrade Starman, you have had too much vodka!
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USS Enterprise confirmed
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NASA: We've decided to listen to the people. Reusability is the only path going forward.
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(Note: I've built this in Kerbal Space Program. It works.)
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NASA: The SLS tanker docks with the Shuttle in LEO before departing to various deep-space destinations
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ELON FOR GOD-EMPEROR
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the real madlads
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if you want even MORE infuriating things in life, go to r/assholedesign!
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An actual mobile game ad that popped up when my grandfather was watching a documentary on YouTube (edited)
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TotallyNotHuman 03/25/2019 1:16 PM
could we don't?
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Enderminion 03/25/2019 1:17 PM
Jehovah's Came by
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It's an infuriating thing, I know, but it just seemed meme-worthy
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And it popped up again a few minutes later! Also, that poor cat!
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