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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

"PLLEASE BE AFRAID!!! WE NEED YOU ALL TO BE AFRAID AGAIN!!!"

omg just Canadian healthcare yourself.

After creating the new Soviet union now they're going to build their own ancapistan

In the Aristotelian definition of an aristocracy, I would tend to agree with you. I was referring the American conception of aristocracy as a bunch of people elites in power purely through an accident if birth. The aristocrats in the demeritocracy would be the people we all agree are the best at being losers.

Every law is signed with a bullet. Every one. Yes, even the one you're thinking of that proves I'm wrong. People have been killed by the state for not complying with laws as innocuous as selling loose cigarettes or not cutting their lawns. Every law is a potential threat: "Do this thing, or the state might kill you".

Some people want to make politeness the law. "You should be doing this anyway, it's just polite!" -- Well it isn't politeness if it's signed with a bullet.

In the past, we have had people you had to be polite to under penalty of law. They were the aristocracy. Nobles or samurai could have commoners punished if they were disrespected. People did die for disrespecting the aristocracy.

At that time, the aristocracy wrote stories to explain why they ought to be respected under penalty of law. They explained that they descended directly from God or heroes, that the people protected were specifically deserving of their station as protected.

It bothers me a lot, that people don't realize you shouldn't put a gun to someone's head and say "Be nice". It bothers me that people want to create a new aristocracy.

Some stuff just shouldn't be part of the state. "Everything is part of the state, nothing outside the state" (paraphrased) is literally fascist doctrine stated by Mussolini.

Oh, mushoku tensei day.

If you eject your video card, how will you know when it's safe to remove?

Judge saying "I'll allow it"

Bathing at least once a week is basically kryptonite for women. It isn't even fair to their delicate constitutions. Our modern times are unable to comprehend such magnificence.

Article title: "No (Stupid), COVID mandates are not coming back."

Article body: "While it is true that COVID mandates are coming back..."

I was reading an article that was shocked that fact checks by the media have no impact anymore. Maybe the writers should read "The boy who cried wolf"?

"While everything he said is true, we're the NYT so FACT CHECK: FALSE"

It is, but it's a lot less broken than og daggerfall.

I've been playing games from these guys since daggerfall. It's always been terribly broken and amazing.

Some of the best parts about daggerfall were the broken parts. Its Like "wow this isn't fair, but life isn't fair."

Fair enough. That's most people

I seems to me that ChatGPT is a solvable problem for teachers. It isn't very smart, you can create a prompt it cannot correctly answer.

The thing I don't get is... Why is anyone surprised? The guy has more lid days during his campaign than not. He napped in his basement and let msnbc carry his campaign. People got exactly what it said on the tin!

The world is always changing, so one must cultivate personal virtue, so you can become the sort of person who can think for themselves and decide for yourself what you want out of life under any given circumstance.

Life's answers may change but what won't change is that tomorrow you'll need to live with yesterday's choices, so you should strive to be someone you can be proud of, and someone with a moral center that can help you decide for yourself right from wrong in specific complex situations rather than letting someone else decide for you.

Skepticism and personal grit are important because other people will want to pressure or persuade you to do what is best for them not for you.

Its difficult, but you represent an unbroken line of winners going back to the first single celled life form including multiple mass extinction events so you're made of what it takes to succeed too.

Huh! Matrix Conduit seems to support spaces now. That's a nice upgrade since a lot of communities use spaces instead of individual rooms.

Far as I'm concerned, if the former is a religion and so the state ought not to be allowed to endorse it, the latter is too.

If only it was cheap.

Yeah..... If you could just not get raped by Poseidon in my temple..... That'd be greeeeeeeat...

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