Ullallulloo

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[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ironically, Odysee doesn't have enough censorship for me. Like any fledgling community, the main inhabitants of any alternatives are people who aren't welcomed on mainstream social media. And I don't mean the modern "every person right of me is a Nazi". I mean a lot videos have comments calling for killing all Jews, one of the top education videos on the front page is by an occultist about how the wrong witchcraft caused 9/11, another is how the vaccines are going to start killing babies, etc.

Technically, it's fine, but who wants to post good videos or interact in a community of crazies?

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 2 points 1 week ago

Someone ideologically somewhere between his greatest heroes, Stalin and Mao.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Call it pessimistic, but if your society relies on building many, many more houses out of the goodness of their hearts, you're going to have a bad time.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your card is charged instantly, but it can take a week or two before it's cleared the fed's anti-fraud measures and they're assured you're not reversing it through your bank. Then they send the refund and it can take another week or two before your bank clears it and makes sure that they're not reversing their payment. Add in some wiggle room to cover yourself in case something gets flagged as potentially fraudulent and someone has to manually review it, and it can take a while.

In practice, refunds should arrive this week, but they want to be careful not to promise that in every case. What they're mainly worried about is people buying the game, immediately refunding it, and simultaneously doing a chargeback while in some faraway country.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Artificial price caps just disincentivize people from creating more of that good. They don't solve the underlying problem at all. You just replace people paying more with widespread shortages and people not having it at all.

The goal to reduce prices to increase supply—incentivize people to create more of those things cheaper somehow.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 3 points 1 week ago

Malt-O-Meal cereal is often better than the name brand and even comes in a resealable bag.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 10 points 1 week ago

It was originally the Latin word "carnis". They invented the fast from meat specifically to mean giving up the best food of, like, beef and chicken. When translated into English, "meat" was the best word they had to refer to the concept of land animal meat.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

No, Catholics are possibly the most consistent religion in unanimously agreeing life begins at fertilization. (Which, eggs you eat aren't fertilized anyway.)

They don't baptize stillborn "babies" because they don't believe in baptizing dead people, as it's just a body at that point, no longer a complete person. Plus they believe since there was no opportunity, there is a way to heaven for them in the afterlife.

I've only heard the "first breath" thing in a few modern sects of Judaism.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's dual-use infrastructure. It is used for both civilian and military purposes, so it's a valid target under international law.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean 40% of Democrats want to decrease it, while the swing voters she needs to win an election are the most likely to support sending current or greater levels of support.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 9 points 3 weeks ago
  1. I don't think she thought she was negotiating anything.

  2. If John Sparkman, George McGovern, and John Kerry didn't get indicted for violating it, I think it's just unenforceable law for anyone.

[–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's not even capitalism but just society in general. Good people typically look at what it takes to lead and want nothing for it. To strive to be in charge of things you have to have a certain arrogance and to succeed you have to be ruthless enough as well.

 
 
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