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I like bickering about useless nonsense with people who most definitely will not be changing their minds. Yes, I know it's a waste of time. No, I don't plan on stopping.

🇨🇦 (He/Him)

  • Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights

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  • I find sayings like this and the other similar accusation of projection in this sort of context really funny because they’re basically the evolved form of the schoolyard retort: “no, you!”

    Strange how we’ve somehow come to assume that they actually hold any weight despite being functionally the exact same. I mean, even then it was dumb.

  • White House says there'd be 'no better addition' to Mount Rushmore than Trump ahead of 250 celebration

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  • Yeah, it’s also straight-up unfinished. They really just desecrated Indigenous land and didn’t even have the consistency in their shitty behaviour to carry it out completely.

    The current Idiot-in-chief adding his likeness to it would be like pissing on a shit cake.

  • 39 years

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  • It does not say “Russia is the greatest country to have ever existed” so your analogy doesn’t work.

    The analogy is apt because it’s drawing attention to the inherent disingenuous nature of the post, i.e. making a point of Russia’s rapid growth industrially without taking into account the massive mortality and suffering that went hand in hand with that. They are, at least arguably, of equal moral dubiousness.

    It just talks about the economics.

    Hmm… and what powered and lived under said economy, I wonder… Surely it couldn’t be the people and the society they compose, which are thereby necessary to mention in this context to remain logically coherent… No, the economy must live in some nonsensical and abstracted theoretical realm, so we can just go with that, certainly.

    human rights abuses…literally not relevant to the argument being made.

    This is a joke, right? You don’t actually think the society and people an economy is composed of and the suffering they are dealt is “irrelevant” to said economy? I’m sorry, but what the flying fuck kind of logic even is this?

    such a weird ‘nobody is right’ stance

    Assuming you’re not a campist, I’m sure you can understand the fact that reality (and therefore any opinion also) isn’t so black and white as needing to pick one group or the other without allowing for any nuance.

    there’s not a point that has been made by pointing out that Stalinism was bad.

    Considering how OP’s post consists of a juxtaposition between Russia’s rapid industrialization and the way they are typically portrayed in the US without any nuance, I think most would agree that it’s important to consider the human cost involved in said industrialization, specifically at the hand, at least in part, of Stalinism. Economies can’t really be discussed historically in an abstract bubble separated from any and all sociological factors, that’s not how it works, like, at all.

  • Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights

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  • Trees aren’t as self-righteous as you, that’s for certain.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • Fascists don’t just go away if you stop mentioning them; if anything, cancer works best undetected. You have to cut them out at the roots, systemically or otherwise, and that requires being conscious of them.

  • Self-awareness

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  • Existential dread is not anxiety.

    Uhh… yes it is? I mean, what emotion would you otherwise attribute to it? Because dread as an emotion—also literally in the term “existential dread”—can be directly described as an anticipatory anxiety about future events.

    The two are extremely closely related if not referring to the exact same feeling. They really only differ in context, and even then only semantically.

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • It’s on a case-by-case basis of course so it wouldn’t be the same for everyone. But generally speaking, Linux isn’t user-friendly (though I’m not saying it isn’t at all) in the sense that everything is guaranteed to be compatible with it and work immediately, whether it be certain peripherals that require extra setup to work correctly or software that was never specifically made to work on Linux. I know that from experience, having had some head-scratcher moments when trying to run an obscure/older game or trying to get certain hardware to run on my Linux machine without it having had compatible firmware out of the box. And I wouldn’t even say that I’m all that unknowledgeable with this sort of thing.

    I’m not trying to disparage Linux or anything, but it’s definitely not so black-and-white as it easily working well for everyone all the time. It’s never really accommodated for that unfortunately, especially since there’s no one universal Linux distro with all those sore points snuffed out. Until that’s the case I don’t think it would typically appeal to the average person who only games on the side.

  • PlayStation fans brutally reject Sony's disc decision, eye Windows 11 PCs over Xbox

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  • The main appeal of consoles is that you can essentially just plug and play without having to worry too much about extra configuration. As much as I like Linux, it’s generally not a good alternative for console folks who just want to relax and play video games.

  • Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5m after Supreme Court denies sex abuse verdict appeal

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  • If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.

  • Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June | European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

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  • I sincerely wish them luck trying to survive in a world without the “lowly” workers who made them rich in the first place and sustained their businesses. No parasite can survive without its host.

  • Capitaleftism

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  • There’s no necessary object of my sentiment, so I’ll let you be the judge ;)

  • I'm not built for it eitherule

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  • Can’t tell if this is a joke or not but even if you’re going out of your way to avoid spending anything on oil-based products, you’re still going to give them money one way or another. They don’t say there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism for nothing.

  • Zionism Is Canada’s Most-Successful Hate Movement

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  • Capitaleftism

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  • There’s little I detest more than when someone makes an absurd yet completely sincere claim and just doesn’t elaborate whatsoever.

    I guess I should go to Mars or something since that seems to be the norm among our species

  • Gemini in Chrome can now see exactly what you’re looking at on screen

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  • Maybe innocent people who aren’t as technically literate as you that also happen to be using Chrome don’t deserve for their rights to be infringed upon? If that’s an unpopular thought then so be it I suppose.

  • Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

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  • Leftist beliefs align more nicely with reality as opposed to rightist beliefs, it doesn’t mean that reality itself adheres strictly to leftist beliefs. Reality governs itself independently of all thought, no matter what patterns and similarities we can interpret between the two. It would be far more appropriate to say that leftism has a reality bias as opposed to the other way around.

  • Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

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  • the simple fact of the matter is that reality corresponds much more with left-wing pronciples and viewpoints than it does right-wing principles and viewpoints.

    I’m not quite as sure it can be said that any abstract ideas or viewpoints can be said to correspond with reality. There’s nothing to say that it’s the case for that as it is with the existence of gravity or the roundness of the Earth. It’d be just as valid for me to appeal to the divine right of royalty as a matter of fact and yet (hopefully) we all know how little weight that actually holds in any practical sense.

    I suppose what I’m trying to say is that reality isn’t something that can be bound to any one idea or perspective. Reality for, say, a cow is going to be a hell of a lot different from reality for any human being, and neither perspective is any more or less valid than the other. The fact that Humanity is still bickering among itself about the “right” religion and the “right” ideology I believe is proof enough of the nonexistence of any one objective truth when it comes to the things we believe in.

    Most importantly though if we presuppose reality to have a bias of any kind then we’re still falling into the pit of human hubris that we’ve fallen into time and again throughout human history, and without a doubt still are. The universe doesn’t have any obligation to adhere to any one of our beliefs, and so when we make absurd leaps in logic based on them we’re setting ourselves up for damage and suffering far outweighing that which was ever necessary. The Crusades, Manifest Destiny, the Great Chinese Famine, the Holocaust… they were all caused at least on a psychological level through blind faith and uncompromising adherence to inherently fallacious ideas. At best there’s nothing productive about those beliefs, and at worst you get something like what I listed above.

  • Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

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  • I’m inclined to reframe this adage as rationality having a left-wing bias, since, y’know, reality is inherently unbiased. I realize I’m being somewhat pedantic though.

  • CBT

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  • DBT is derived from CBT