Ogmios

Best I can do is more hats.

Tencent

That’s all you had to say.

It’s only a non-sequitur if you hyperfixate on the part inside quotes while ignoring the central thrust: That attempting to reduce large populations down to simple catch phrases will never end well in the long run. Too many people argue fervently over how we should label broad segments of society, to the point that they attack anyone suggesting that they shouldn’t be doing that by assuming those people must just want the opposite, but equally reductive, perspective to be true.

…as a lazy and simple answer, so you can put the blame for society’s problems on other people, and take no responsibility for learning and growing as people yourselves?

It’s bad because, exactly as you have displayed, people will hyper focus on trigger words, while ignoring everything else that gets said.

I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.

Plenty of places still have them.

Masks aren’t even intended to prevent airborne disease spread. They’re designed specifically to prevent spittle and skin flakes/hair from falling on whatever is directly in front of you, which is why they were called “surgical” masks not so very long ago, because it protected the open wounds a surgeon was working on.

Lastly, once again, they literally just changed the official definition of vaccine so they could associate their novel genetic therapy with a completely different established medicine. If there’s a more open example of corruption I’ve never seen it.

I guess you can tell them to get a degree in science and then it will make sense to them, but that won’t happen.

See, the problem here is that I actually DID do that, and it’s explicitly because I did that, that I know for a fact that the “official” sources are completely (and seemingly deliberately) wrong. Like how the initial imperial college model used to predict a 7% covid death rate was wildly irresponsible, or how “social distancing” and plexiglass barriers and cloth masks do not actually do what the “credible official sources” were insisting they do, or how literally changing the definition of vaccine so they could call a novel genetic therapy a vaccine is simply wildly unethical.

The problem is that official sources can be every bit as corrupt as any other human organization, and our society USED TOO have a sober recognition of that fact, which is why modern western society was founded on the idea that government officials are public servants rather than rulers.

And then random idiots online tell me to go get the education I already have, because they’re simply parroting what people they’ve never even met told them, and they believe it so strongly that they assert the existence of a world they know nothing about.

How is what you’re doing not a lazy, oversimplified excuse to avoid having to actually look at others as real people?

How is what you’re imagining any better than simply “gays womens diableds good” as a lazy and simple answer, so you can put the blame for society’s problems on other people, and take no responsibility for learning and growing as people yourselves?

Pot meet kettle.

MMOs are already pretty mainstream…

They engage in all the illegal cross site tracking of course, so perhaps they linked you to some other site they don’t like, like this one?

Reminds me of when Bill Gates went to Saudi Arabia and argued for equal rights because it would double their workforce.

Could it perhaps be specific models that are no longer manufactured? I was checking out the price I could expect for one of my old PSUs and found that it was apparently a particularly well liked unit for some reason, and so it’s used price was a fair bit higher than expected.

Amen

Looks like a Michael Jackson impersonator.

I may be high af miss, but in the morning I’ll smoke some more and you will… will you be joining me?

Doesn’t even take direct pressure from others. Getting published is one of the best ways to gain access to funds/resources, and just like with every other profession many will succumb to the temptation to take shortcuts or fudge the truth in the pursuit of money and/or prestige. I knew one woman who gave up on pursuing a career in cultural anthropology because she had come to believe that getting published was more of an exercise in creative writing than in actual science.

It’s the worst system we’ve ever come up with, right after all the other ones.

Before 2016 posts moved extremely fast. There used to be a joke that the entire front page was new every time you refreshed it. After The_Donald figured out how to game their algorithm to dominate the front page, reddit took advantage of the opportunity to neuter the algorithm completely so that it was more advertiser friendly. Now the front page remains static for most of the day, so sponsored advertiser posts get more exposure.

Occupy scared the shit out of bankers. It’s no mistake that pop culture became obsessed with divisive issues immediately afterwards.