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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

It'd be great if we were in some fantasy land where Ron Paul is president and the best product wins, but in our world instead of something at least tolerable like a deposit they're banning incandescent entirely.

And all because a certain demo can't plan for more than a day out.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +3 / -1

Still a heat pump is more efficient and other fuels cheaper.

On the other hand an incandescent heats you radiantly so you feel warmer and can be comfortable in a colder house.

And incandescent has a continuous light and continuous spectrum and so looks better, and as a black body doesn't actually instantly turn on or off (a tiny fraction of a second, but it's less harsh). They just feel better.

You should always have a choice of incandescent. If they really want to influence people that see $0.25 incandescent vs $5 led initial price put a refundable deposit on the incandescent so when it burns out you get that money back.

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fauxgnaws 5 points ago +5 / -0

A big airplane style drone isn't hard to stop, but the new wars will use swarm drones.

Like here's a drone that recharges from power lines so it basically has unlimited range and can carry a much heavier payload. You going to shoot down edit: your own power lines?

Of course it's easy to stop this one attack, but there's so many ways small drones can get around defenses. They're like the technology version of asymmetric guerilla warfare.

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fauxgnaws 5 points ago +5 / -0

they also absolutely despise the idea of a man enjoying anything at all, ever, if it doesn't not immediately benefit a woman

I think they want everybody to be miserable and "for women" is just a measure of that; if you're at their beck you're at least as miserable a creature as they are.

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fauxgnaws 12 points ago +12 / -0

It's not that modern characters aren't "beautiful," it's that they're intentionally, perversely, and maliciously made to be ugly freaks.

I think what's going on is quite simple. It's self-esteem.

People that are happy with their selves, that are healthy or content or believe they have value, they like seeing beauty and those that believe they are worthless freaks want to see ugly. It's like if you wake up depressed that feels appropriate on a rainy day, and if you wake up manic you expect the day to be bright and clear. People want their outside environment to reflect their internal state.

These woke people are worthless people and they know it. They may sometimes be nice to their in-group, but even that is transactional and "performative" - they're not nice or happy people. Any skill they have, they know some youtuber can do it better and they don't feel the intrinsic value of improving themselves. Kids coming in last place in a contest where the adults prohibit rankings to protect their feelings actually feel worse about themselves than just coming in last place. When you try to protect kids from failing they end up feeling worthless.

So they want things to be ugly. Because inside that's what they are.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

Chinese crap would be Weimo, Waymo is American crap.

I think they went to Eric Schmidt with the idea and he said "great idea, what do you need to build it, like $10 billion?"

"Oh no, we need way mo than that!"

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fauxgnaws 39 points ago +39 / -0

They should have captioned it "this transmission is woke" or the even funnier "this tranny is woke".

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

These Canadian liberals use wikipedia to determine the 'factuality' of news sources.

It might seem okay because they include Info Wars from time to time, but every article or headlines page is priming you to not trust right news and trust liberal news.

For instance they have Breitbart as "mixed factuality" when they've never posted anything non-factual in their reporting. From a far right perspective, sure, and things liberals wish weren't true, but not false. Wikipedia's 10-paragraph hit piece about their "accuracy and ideology" identifies not a single falsehood.

So if you're okay with being propagandized to on every story, sure, read ground.news.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

Guy doesn't expect the women is a martial arts expert, gets beat up a bit from being off guard, gets mad, and smacks her around like rag doll.

That's how it used to be and was totally believable.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

His grift is he hosts an hours long podcast with some notables, takes what they say and makes a video of it out of lots 5 second trailer clips on a repeat loop.

But he's better than whoever idiot is on his podcast (Mauler I think) that's always saying "but I feel like they should have explained 1+1=2 at least put a throwaway line in there" for the most obvious basic shit.

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fauxgnaws 8 points ago +8 / -0

Like how Alan Turing is supposedly a father of computer science despite the only thing he's known for, the universal computer, being predated by superior Lambda calculus.

In the war he just tweaked the Polish Bomba design and made many mistakes that led to relying on the Americans to decode four rotor Enigma messages.

There's no there there. But the guy was undeniably British and gay, so he gets boosted by both.

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fauxgnaws 5 points ago +5 / -0

Shadiversity is great they just take like 10x longer to say something than they need to.

The issue is that fire can't move as fast as the arrow so the flame goes out right away. The flame has to be restarted at the target, so hot coals or red hot metal should work fine, or something alchemical like substances that mix on target (two vials that break on target to combine ingredients).

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fauxgnaws 7 points ago +7 / -0

Fire Arrows Work (Shadiversity)

And I think like an alchemists crucible there could easily be secrets lost to modern cosplay youtubers.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

Boarder like "room and board", board meaning like meals and free shit.

Border is the outside of something.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

Brave is pretty good for a Chromium, but some things that annoy me:

  • URL only completes like the top 100 matches from history or something like that, so I'll often try to revisit a page that I was at a day ago and I have to use ctrl-h and history search. I'm sure this is Google "it has to complete in 0.1s" bullshit but it's annoying and dumb. Firefoxes complete any page from your history even if it was like 6 months ago.

  • When I drop a link onto a page it opens a new tab. In FF I have a main window open and a preview one beside it and drag links in to see what they are. In Chromiums I get dozens of tabs open this way and the only way not to is to drag links into the center of the tab button. It's dumb.

Basically there's just no options to make any Chromium work like you want it to because Google knows best.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

The rainbow itself is to groom children. Kids are interested in shiny colorful things.

Who uses a crosswalk? Children. An adult jaywalks or even in a city doesn't even think about it at all, whereas a child is terrified of getting run over and hyper focused on the crosswalk. So the rainbow flag crosswalk is associated with protection - that's where you're "safe" to cross or "transition" to the other side.

Absolutely about grooming kids.

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fauxgnaws 33 points ago +34 / -1

Reddit was always rotting - the scoring is the original sin - but at the start new, still sane users outpaced the infection.

If you want an inflection point it was when they removed up/down vote scores and made only the final tally visible. This was 2014, a year and a half after Swartz offed himself, but I think that's a coincidence and he had no power to stop it.

When you read a comment has 500 upvotes and 400 downvotes you think okay that's a slight majority but when you see +100 votes you think everybody super agrees. Same with downvotes. This drives a hivemind and you only need to tweak a few scores here and there to make it believe anything you want.

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fauxgnaws -4 points ago +4 / -8

Christianity is like Capitalism or Democracy - not great, lots of obvious flaws, but all the alternatives are much worse.

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fauxgnaws 8 points ago +8 / -0

Reminder to use yt-dlp to save videos because google can flip a switch and lock everything behind widevine DRM at any moment.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Over time it will if you keep hammering it. Or it'll get them off your back at least.

I didn't downvote you btw idk you must have a comment stalker :P

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Leibowitz didn't overvalue anything though. He sold it, establishing its value. If the tax man is too dumb to pick up on that this one thing isn't Jon's fault.

In his 12 min rant the only two actual points he had against Trump:

  1. banks didn't make as much money on interest as they could have
  2. Trump didn't pay 'enough' property taxes, expounding that it wasn't victimless because if he had paid more than assessed there would be more food stamps and Walgreens.

In both cases the property was taxed far below it's value and the principals knew it. In Leibowitz's case we know for sure that he failed to voluntarily overpay the assessed tax in the year he sold it - that's if he listed it at $2 million and maybe there was a bidding war that drove it up to $20. I'd bet he listed it higher than $2 million though, indicating he already knew it was worth more than assessed.

The only difference here in (2) is that Trump continued to not voluntarily overpay the assessed tax for a several years whereas John only did so for one or more years. This is quite a fine distinction. "I only killed one person whereas he killed 3 or 4 people" - you both did the same thing, just to varying degrees.

The only non-hypocritical point John Stewart Leibowitz made was the bank could have made slightly more money - which he said in his piece he doesn't care about and the bank also said they don't care about.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

Lethn writes like he's using a computer not a phone.

That annoys people that read on phone because they have to scroll past a huge text.

Whereas computer users just read a topic sentence and skip over the whole paragraph if it's not interesting to them.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's backwards reasoning.

The bridge keeps black from bussing to the sea (effect) so the cause must be racism because the effect was racial.

Actually the cause is that the lower bridge was much cheaper to build and blacks being continual fuckups don't have the cars to drive to the beach like normal people.

Basically "garbage in, garbage out". As long as blacks continue to be fuckups they'll suffer from "racist" bridges and everything else.

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fauxgnaws 15 points ago +15 / -0

Lauren Southern probably wants to be a stay at home mom and is thinking, what if I had to get divorced and didn't have any money or connections.

What she should be saying is "what if I was a narcissistic bitch that wanted to manufacture dirt and threaten to ruin my ex husband to squeeze more money out of him because fuck men?" and then "oh wait I'm not a narcissistic psycho bitch".

Or maybe she is, I don't pay much attention to her.

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