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- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
The question posed is “Why do it”
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
Brave people push boundaries so that less brave people can read things in books.
- Comment on What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body) 11 months ago:
TSA fails 95% of their assessments
fee.org/articles/tsa-fails-95-of-the-time/
What they successfully do is pose enough of a barrier to entry that most people trying to skirt TSA don’t try. If they genuinely tried, they’d likely succeed
- Comment on should i?? 11 months ago:
If it’s plastic or metal, as opposed silicon, the lock can bang into it and make extra noise.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Adds New Playable Epilogue With 3,589 Lines of Extra Dialogue, Much More 11 months ago:
Good luck, because the gear is scattered among your inactive companions, or the chests that might be locked to you in co-op.
This has explicitly been changed this patch.
It’s just inconvenience kept for the sake of following some arbitrary rules.
It’s on one hand a BG throwback and more.importantly a minor impediment to the time-tested tactic in Larian games of “barrelmancy.” Look up some Telekinesis runs on Divinity:Original Sin to see why.
- Comment on It's hard to believe 11 months ago:
Ah this meme makes me nostalgic for back before everyone else got on the internet.
Red circle map, you were joy back in the day
- Comment on Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4 11 months ago:
Movement and combat in every Witcher game is so unpleasant for me that I find them unplayable. I’ve literally gone through YouTube “Choose Your Own Adventure” style videos of the games because the stories are great but I hate how one moves.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Dude algorithms are just computer programs. They’re not God.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
At absolute minimum, it’s a nothing-channel with no views that hasn’t been picked up by their system.
Secondly, selling dumb bullshit isn’t illegal. There are lots of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube, and those are all dumb bullshit. Hell, Loose Change is almost certainly all over YouTube still
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
That’s not their business model. Their business model is hosting content.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
How did this get 80 upvotes lol
“YouTube doesn’t police these random one-video channels I’ve found with 28k views”! What a scandal!
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
You can make a YouTube video about literally anything, yes. That is the entire point of YouTube.
- Comment on Local pop radio station is using its metadata to spread anti Biden propaganda 11 months ago:
Things are honestly pretty fuckin rosy in the greater context of what could have happened
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Car insurance ads are vastly better for people, for the economy, and even for road safety than health insurance companies are for people.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
So is Egypt occupying Gaza? They’re involved in the blockade.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Our “paying for the iron dome” is us paying the cost to US weapons manufacturers to send ammunition and terminals for it, mostly. It’s not quite that fungible a concept.
I strongly support our aid for Israel, but I think we should harness our leverage more to rein in how Israel chooses to prosecute their wars.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Your money generally funds the iron dome.
Also this is kind of unrelated but I hate this kind of language because it so misleading:
They’re only called refugee camps because Gaza is not formally a state. They’re modern cities.
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Palestinian_refugee_camps
I’m not exactly a fan of how Israel is eating this war but engaging with truth is important.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
If I steal from you and you stab me, you will most assuredly be arrested in every single country on the planet.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
If you attack someone with a weapon that can kill them, then you are by any sane definition a combatant
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Is there really any true justice in an apartheid State?
I’ve never seen anyone even pretend to justify how Israel is apartheid.
You are aware that Gaza is not in Israel, yes?
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
I think the children should be made Israeli while being held, if caught engaging in open combat with Israel’s. 3 year sentence of “live as an Israeli citizen.”
Show them who they’re fighting and they’ll stop fighting.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Qatar is balls-deep in this conflict, my dude.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.
Theyre neither colonial nor occupying. They’re invading in response to a foreign government massacring their people. The reason for the massacre was to force Israel to respond and thus damage Israel’s normalization of diplomacy with Saudi Arabia.
Hamas isn’t fighting off colonial oppressors. They are engaging in politically motivated terror strikes designed to weaken the standing of a people they want to exterminate, at the cost of the lives of their civilians.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Those were cobbled together using material stolen from the people of Gaza.
They were bought from Iran, generally. Sometimes from other Iran-backed militants, which is the same thing