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pivot_root,

“He couldn’t be bought.”

Riiiiiiight, and I’m the ultra-wealthy Jeff Bezos.

pivot_root,

It’s not disparaging to say “I would not buy this game” :)

pivot_root,

What if, he said, the president looks at what’s in front of him and can’t do it. That would be terrible.

If the president can’t kill one single man without a guilty conscience, he/she probably shouldn’t be obliterating the entirety of our species.

pivot_root,

Ubuntu is back to GNOME now.

pivot_root,

The more I read about Manifest V3, the more I think it’s designed to restrict what users can do with browser extensions.

pivot_root,

Pro choice like working overtime or starving.

Pro choice like having a cell phone or not having a job.

Pro choice like going back to prison or being homeless.

Great choices. The only way they could be more coerced is if someone held a gun to your head.

pivot_root,

The main benefit is keeping commercial real estate prices up. Can’t have their property investments lose money, after all.

pivot_root,

There are some Rs that they like, though:

  • Revenue
  • Republicans; and
  • Registered trademarks
pivot_root,

Yup. Laws are only suggestions until you get caught.

pivot_root,

AI-generated content trained on LLMs is poison for training, so that’s actually a good thing :)

pivot_root,

Poison the well by using AI-generated comments and answers. There isn’t currently a way to reliably determine if content is human or AI-generated, and training AI on AI is the equivalent of inbreeding.

pivot_root,

A senile traitor, an ethically-dubious dinosaur, and a man with a hole in his brain walk into a bar—sorry, did I say bar? I meant poll.

pivot_root,

You’re right, that’s unrealistic.

If those stall dividers were fully opaque with a one-way mirror acting as the wall behind them all, that would be more like it.

pivot_root, (edited )

My phone can’t play BluRay disks.
My computer can’t natively play BluRay disks.
My iPad can’t play them.

My only option is to pay for yet another HDMI device because of BluRay’s DRM and sit down in front of a TV that I may not actually even own. That’s both an additional waste of money and inconvient compared to watching an episode on my phone during lunch.

Or I can use software to crack the DRM and rip the disk to video files, which is a violation of the DMCA and brings us right back to being illegal.

Fuck streaming services, but also fuck DRM-encumbered pieces of plastic and foil. I’ll buy the movie on a subscription-free service as a token gesture and pirate it.

pivot_root,

>you think euthanizing sick animals is bad?
>PETA euthanizes more than sick animals
>you think PETA doesn’t euthanize sick animals?

There isn’t a single thing I can say to convince someone who isn’t arguing in good faith.

pivot_root,

If you had not plugged your metaphorical ears and doubled down on an ad hominem, you would have seen that some of those receipts are self-reported filings from PETA themselves to the government.

I would link the definition of “ad hominem” for you, but let’s be real: you’re not going to read that either.

pivot_root,

Consider that any number more than “zero” pets kidnapped and killed by a private entity is too many.

pivot_root,

The Socratic method involves asking questions to lead on discussion and participation. You’re trying to discourage discussion by putting contributors on the defensive with an ad hominem disguised as a (loaded) question.

So, in fact, you’re doing neither.

pivot_root,

,If you can’t answer questions that make you uncomfortable to answer, that’s something you should reflect on.

Again, you’re attacking the other person instead of their argument.

It doesn’t make your point any stronger. It makes people unfamiliar with debates defensive from being personally attacked, and it makes those familiar with debates realize that they’re wasting their time.

pivot_root,

It’s an ad hominem to assert that I hold an unethical belief and then use said assertion to bolster your point.

I said PETA are psychopaths for needlessly killing animals, yet you assume that I’m not equally against killing animals for personal pleasure and consumerism.

pivot_root,

You know that “the other person” can be used in a general sense, right?

Aside, why would I engage in an ernest discussion with someone who doesn’t appear willing to accept that the other person in the discussion holds any stance different than the one they are perceived as having.

It would be a waste of my time to take this seriously, and I’m already having fun playing fallacy bingo.

pivot_root,

No offense intended to vegetarians, but it’s a half measure if they’re doing it for ethical or climate reasons.

I genuinely do not care about that website; all that matters is their receipts. I care that PETA are hypocrites who needlessly kill living creatures while preaching about the ethics or lack thereof of needlessly killing living creatures.

pivot_root,

TIL. Thank you

pivot_root,

I have one account. It’s not my fault you can’t interpret impersonal language correctly.

pivot_root,

Oh, look, now you get it!

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