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mikhalych 23 points ago +23 / -0

this. there is a kind of people who are just not wired with the abiliy to consider second order effects. it makes democracy an absolutely terrifying form of government.

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mikhalych 3 points ago +3 / -0

And if we're being honest, they probably also know the right has a very short memory when it comes to stuff like this. So there's probably more than a little bit of "playing for time" going on.

the whole debacle has been pretty unusually memorable, though. I cant imagine anyone picking a can in a year's time asking themselves "why did I quit buying those already?"

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mikhalych 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm pro not letting criminals walk free to murder dozens of innocents. I'm still anti death penalty, and anti executing innocent people. Both can be true.

You cant have your cake and eat it too. an imperfect judiciary can be either too cruel or too merciful. in the former case innocents sometimes get executed, in the latter innocents sometimes get murdered by people wrongfully released from prison. Both are equally the fault of the judiciary, but in the latter case, the state is almost never actually held responsible. In the former case, it is much easier to have the state accept fault and pay compensation.

suppose we lock them all up instead, theres no guarantee that some moron politician isnt going to try some "rehabilitation" crap down the line, voiding decades of social cleanup.

Then we could talk about the costs of locking people up, and how those resources could be used to save innocent lives too. by investing in healthcare for example.

Though I guess that part could be solved by using labor camps. somewhere on Mars.

again, all this getting hung up on maybe a couple people wrongly executed every decade is missing the forest for the trees. how many people died of the state's incompetence during covid? Wrongful executions wouldnt amount to a hundredth of that in a century.

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mikhalych 1 point ago +1 / -0

i'm not attacking you, i said the argument is disingenuous, not the person . "muh wrongful conviction" is always the first argument to come up in any discussion about death penalty. People think its some kind of gotcha no one supporting the death penalty ever considered before. its tiring, its a bad argument, and the people who thought it up (which I assume you're not part of) were extremely disingenuous.

We all heard that "better 10 criminals walk free(and murder a couple dozen innocents) than an innocent man be sent to the gallows" crap a hundred times already.

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mikhalych 2 points ago +2 / -0

And if that person happens to be wrongly convicted?

people die of government/judiciary incompetence all the time, and no one cares. this focus on hypothetical wrongful convictions is extremely disingenuous. Especially when the discussion is usually around getting rid of biotrash caught in the act.

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mikhalych 1 point ago +1 / -0

aren't all Disney Films losing money anyway? you know, for tax purposes.

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mikhalych 5 points ago +5 / -0

the leaders don't want to spoil their relationship with china

the average people dont know about it or don't trust the Western-aligned media reporting on it

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mikhalych 11 points ago +11 / -0

Worse, they sell this as an "experimental" thing implying its something no one has done before. But manned subs that go to these depths do exist and have a ton of thoroughly tested safety features. (see: Alvin). how can someone pay 250k for a tour in this coffin without doing any due diligence is beyond me.

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mikhalych 2 points ago +2 / -0

i bet russian and chinese agents are pushing real hard to have pride camo made mandatory.

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mikhalych 11 points ago +11 / -0

some lunkhead set important things like “kill friendlies” as “-100” instead of “-10,000,000,” or whatever.

AI: ok, so I need to kill 215 friendlies to underflow the counter, got it.

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mikhalych 1 point ago +1 / -0

“Supervised release” clearly working wonders…

well thats what the cops were doing. supervising him from behind the door ...

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mikhalych 6 points ago +6 / -0

Realistically, they can replace journalists. making things up and getting things wrong is exactly what chatgpt excells at.

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mikhalych 7 points ago +7 / -0

this is fake, right? no male can be such a mop, right? oh well. Hans? Hans!!! Work's waiting ya lazyfuck!

Seriously now. Want your son back then fight for it. Along th way, you might even learn a thing or two about how and why you're not a girl.

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mikhalych 4 points ago +4 / -0

I think its more of an immaturity thing than a gender thing. ask a 12yo boy to write some adventure story - he'll write a stand-in too. Perspective-taking comes from experience and experience comes from having the world not match your expectations of it. Some coddled people get very little of that.

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mikhalych 10 points ago +11 / -1

I also could never agree with his final solution of destroying all the technology.

Its a very bizarre logic. "People's future looks unpleasant from my pov, so lets have them not exist instead.". Its the vegan pov on farm animals applied to humans.

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mikhalych 6 points ago +6 / -0

New York is one of the safest large cities in the US

in the US

sounds true enough to me... We're not comparing it to Tokyo, here.

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mikhalych 2 points ago +2 / -0

How much soap you need is directly proportional to surface area, so clearly fatties are the key market demo for a soap company.

some of that extra surface is unreachable, though. so it only increases soap usage to a point.

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mikhalych 11 points ago +11 / -0

Europe has a proposed law banning disagreement with feminists

Reality is going to the slammer, it seems.

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mikhalych 1 point ago +1 / -0

still surprised he didnt get a free unscheduled vaginoplasy by the the father of one of the girls though.

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mikhalych 8 points ago +8 / -0

lol no shit, of course she was.

I don't think there is such a thing as a nonfeminist globohomo woman.

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mikhalych 7 points ago +8 / -1

he turns republican voters into democrat voters with this one simple trick.

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