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yesman

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  • What to you, is always a losing battle?

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  • Argument and debate don't work because they're a terrible way to spread, express, and defend ideals.

    The ironic thing about "Enlightenment" philosophy is that people cling to it's methods and orthodoxy despite all evidence of their own lived experience. The truth doesn't care about your logic.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • Communism is old, and young. The principals of communal living are the oldest form of human organization. It's also the most common form today if you count small groups like family.

    But as an organizing principal for government, it's a baby. The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. The Bolshevik revolution was in 1917. So the whole idea of communism is < 150-200yo. Compare to capitalism at this age and it's all slavery and settler colonialism; the most massive redistribution of wealth through theft in history.

    The logic that communism is a bad system because the Soviet Union should also condemn capitalism because the Dutch East India Company.

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • It's a myth that "anyone" can get wrapped up in a cult. Their are many "filters" to joining a cult. Such as unusual dress, complicated social hierarchies, and tons of jargon. And they hit you with this stuff right up front; it's not gradual. People who are not looking for community and meaning will be repelled.

    So they're filtering people who are not in a particularly credulous mental state. People who are not in a "joining" mentality. I'm not saying that educated, sophisticated, and intelligent people are immune. This all has to do with adjustment, maturity, and emotional stability.

    So anyway, to mitigate the reach of cults, society should be organized to minimize alienation and isolation, while a multitude of sources of community and meaning should be encouraged. Check on the people you care about and make sure they're getting on. Crush capitalism.

  • Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane?

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  • Public misogynists posing as 'self help' have been around forever and the only thing that changes is the nomenclature.

    The movie "Magnolia" (1999) features a character that does the whole manosphere shtick back when those grifters had to sell their merch on stage at conference centers because Youtube wouldn't even be a thing for 5-6 more years.

  • Bloody Horror or subtle horror?

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  • Why not both?

  • Not Looking for a recipe or a how to guide. But when meth rolled thru my town they called it either redneck speed or bathtub speed. With all chemicals did people really do it in a bathtub??

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  • Purdue pharma followed strict manufacturing and purity standards to produce a drug that killed more Americans than the Viet Cong and Al Qaeda combined.

    Can we say that the American healthcare industry really protects it's customers from harm any better than the cartels?

  • What is a useful or interesting product under $100 that you wouldn’t normally think to buy?

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  • Cheap plastic bowl scrapers. Like these:

    I use these every time I cook. I use them every time I clean the kitchen.

  • If Hitler’s genocide helped forge Israel, what will grow from today’s persecution of trans people?

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  • Yea, religion is made up and should be ignored. Just like currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, the concept of law, literature, art, and language itself. Brilliant.

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    Attaching one's name to an astronomical survey likely buys immortality beyond the heat-death of the Earth

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  • "Heat death" is the popular name given to hypothesis that the Universe will continue to expand and cool until there is no light or energy left. Using the term for Earth burning up is going to confuse people.

  • What would you do if you found an infinite money/duplication glitch in real life?

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  • If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

    It'd be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

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    If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not?

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  • Penis size is 99% male insecurity and 1% female preference.

  • If Hitler’s genocide helped forge Israel, what will grow from today’s persecution of trans people?

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  • The holocaust absolutely facilitated the creation of Israel. The Balfour declaration and Theodor Herzl are necessary, but not sufficient. In the aftermath of WWII and the Shoah, there was a need for mass Jewish migration. Meanwhile, "good" countries like the US and UK had strict immigration policies explicitly to exclude Jews. A ship full of Jews fleeing the Nazis in '39 were rejected by the US, Canada, and the UK. Eventually they were returned to Germany. (the embarrassment of this episode is why countries are supposed to give shelter to anyone fleeing persecution until the matter is adjudicated) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

    And that's the part of history that's left out. Western Europe and N America were happy to resettle the Jews, anywhere else. Support of Israel by the West cannot be understood without acknowledging the massive amount of antisemitism in basically all of Western Civilization.

  • Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program?

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  • The problem with Windows 'debloat' scripts is that they monkey with esoteric gedit policies and registry tweaks.

    Any Windows update, even security ones, can break the tweaks, cause bugs, or even instability. And naturally the users have no idea which of the tweaks is causing the problem. Especially when its been months since you used the scripts.

    Now "deep customization" can break Linux too. The difference is that Linux developers are not going break your tweaks on purpose. For example, Windows recently closed some of the workarounds to install Windows on a local account.

    Microsoft decides what users can do with Windows. Company officials have admitted that they're already coding the OS with AI, and that future Windows versions are going to be AI powered. The Recall behavior of taking screenshots to be analyzed by AI to catalogue everything you do isn't being developed as a Windows feature, but a core functionality of the OS.

    What kind of mouse are you using anyway?

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    Do people from wealthy families only date other people from wealthy families?

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  • I saw a documentary about the ultra rich teenagers in the US years ago. One young girl in that film explained that maintaining friendships with "regular" people was impossible. Her reasoning was that rich people do rich people shit. And you have the choice to pay someones way, which makes for awkward obligation/ resentment. Or you could exclude them, which also causes hard feelings.

    That teenage girl? Ivanka Trump.

  • Today, we met a girl who was complaining about her Asperger parents giving her and her three siblings terrible names.

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  • This would have been funnier in the 40s. The kids would have been able, baker, charlie, and dog.

  • Running Windows 10 on a spare drive, only for games. How dangerous is it to not get security updates?

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  • I need windows for flight sims. My problem is not so much the software, it's the hardware. I have a head-tracking camera, a set of pedals, a throttle, and joystick. All need separate drivers. None support Linux. My throttle is so old that it hasn't been supported since W7 and it's work to get it going on W10.

    It's just way easier to dual boot than to try to get all that hardware running on Linux.

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    Running Windows 10 on a spare drive, only for games. How dangerous is it to not get security updates?

  • American cops think they're what American firemen ARE.

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  • What would the moral choice here be?

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  • Treat capitalists as you find them. Forget morality. What is advantageous and legal is automatically good. What is advantageous and illegal is a cost/benefit calculation.

  • Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players"

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  • Dead Cells is a wonderful game. And it runs natively on Linux

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    Special Pleading

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    Powertoys: "Run" was my favorite.

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    Those bastards lied to me

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    Microsoft secured my files!

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    The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared.

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    What's a good legal "explainer" Youtube channel?

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    Suppose we learn the CEO was killed over something ordinary and the shooter was a basic murderer. What does the reaction to this death say, if anything about this moment in history?

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    Native German speakers: Are Hitler's speeches particularly compelling?

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    Why is sucking better than blowing?

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    YSK: many water bottles come with silicone gaskets that must be removed and washed to prevent mold and mildew buildup.

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    How do pagers work?

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    One big happy family.

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    Is Trump eligible to vote in November?

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    With the prison sentences for activists who threw soup on "sunflowers", our society has affirmed that an illustration of nature is something we value.

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    Your Southwest flight arrived on time.

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    How many have found practical uses for large language text models in your real life?

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    The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train.

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    Ads in the Start Menu

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    Temple OS