Stoneykins

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[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Well if there is no practical point in our communicating, with our senses of morality being so alien to each other, could you at least avoid doing it anyways for the sake of being so insulting to me?

I don't need that condescension, thanks, I'm all topped up.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Even if you are technically right, you are morally wrong. They should be allowed to register in that league, and if they weren't then the coach lying about their gender was the correct and moral thing to do.

Crazy to watch people twist themselves in knots bending over backwards to try and excuse sexism.

But I don't even think you are technically right. All those quotes stink like excuses and BS.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

Not to be rude but this is an oversimplified and incorrect view of voting and is the exact kind of mindset I am against.

If you try to insist non-voting is somehow support for a specific candidate, what does that say about people who can't vote for personal/health reasons? If someone working poverty wages, unable to get the day off to vote, can't get their vote counted, are they somehow a bad person?

Additionally, although less significant, I can't consider it morally wrong, ever, to vote third party. Strategically wrong, sure, it often is, but the point of a vote is to choose, and I can't blame someone for using their right to choose to be an idealist rather than a strategist. And honestly, in an election like this with so much frustration towards the major parties, 3rd party has a better chance of winning than usual... although I'm sure that is a stressful and unpleasant thing to hear if you dislike third parties.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (10 children)

That's the basis of what the spoiler effect is and why it's a problem to consider, yeah.

I just think it is better to be clear about how it works and what it means. Non-voting and third party votes being described as explicit support for trump has some troubling implications.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 21 points 8 months ago (15 children)

I just want to point out a thing said in this, that I have seen said hundreds of other times, which is not correct.

Due to the spoiler effect, a leftist vote for a third party candidate is essentially a vote for trump

This is incorrect, most charitably interpreted as an exaggeration, but it is said so often I think people are misunderstanding the spoiler effect.

The spoiler effect is real and it can suppress a victory of not-as-bad candidates if they have a popular opposition, but it is never as bad as "essentially voting for trump". It is equivalent to not voting at all, at worst.

And it is also a simplification of the situation to imply that the spoiler effect only affects democrats. There is a similar thing going on with conservative third parties.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I feel like if it really mapped so cleanly onto the trolley problem, there wouldn't need to be 4 paragraphs of text included throughout the meme in an attempt to head off any arguments...

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why are you here? What is this for?

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The institution of the police is like an occupying army.

If another country invaded and occupied, would it make any sense at all to join that invading army in an attempt to "be better" and "improve things from within the system"? Or, if you joined that invading army, would you just be a traitorous bastard participating in the subjugation of your own people?

ACAB because it is the job description to be a bastard. ACAB the same way all firemen fight fires; it is the main thing they are employed to do.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but they weren't allowed to show or too directly imply death. That's why Jet's "death" scene was bizarrely vague. Getting rid of that restriction on the original writers would probably be interesting.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

There are multiple answers, with different degrees of truth

The patterns aren't (typically) stored long term, something implied about transporter buffers seems to indicate they can hold incredible amounts of data that starts to degrade very quickly. New patterns are taken each time they transport AFAIK.

But, instead maybe that "cell damage" is just part of the details you get when you retain enough pattern detail to include peoples recent memories.

But, instead maybe the actors age in real life and keeping track of making them look perpetually youthful with makeup would be really hard so whatever the excuse is it's just an excuse.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 113 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Spez explicitly promised they wouldn't get rid of old reddit.

Which I took to mean they intend to ruin it by cramming all the shitty new features into it and taking away the things it does better.

Edit: I don't trust spez lmao I just think what he said might be a hint for how they will fuck reddit up going forward

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