There is not more danger now than there was centuries ago

The way you describe American history as “centuries” like we’re the Roman Empire or Egypt when we’ve only got 2.5 centuries to choose from.

This is the natural life-cycle of slang.

They just fired two workers for organizing a protest against supporting Israel. You don’t have to make up conspiracy theories to convince people that Microsoft: Bad.

Step 1: damage your customers

Step 2: ?

Step 3: profit

Being a chromium based browser, they’re fixing to loose access to the same features that’s killing Ublock. So in the near future, the Brave CEO is still going to be a cunt, but your ad-blocking is going to be forever inferior.

What astonishes me about people like Elon or Clarence Thomas is why, at this stage of their lives, are they seeking out people to whom they are subordinate? Is it a Daddy thing?

Good looking young people make good looking old people. Will wonders never cease?

Fuck the Apple watch, I want one of those Casio 9000s!

Logic and epistemology give us the tools to create proofs and algorithms, and it’s basically the foundation of modern mathematics.

Not that I disagree, but logic and mathematics have a rocky relationship. We thought we could marry them forever with set theory, but when they asked if anyone objected, Bertrand Russel stood up.

The owner of the Brave browser is known to have right-wing political beliefs. Some people don’t think it’s ethical to use the browser because of this, instead of not using Brave because it sucks.

The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.

It reads to me like deductive reasoning.

This is a poor semantic argument. It actually originates with right-wing rhetoric around “homophobia”.

The argument also hinges on there being only one meaning to a word. Kinda like how Trump is confused about how you can be Asian and Black.

You’re being dishonest. The definition of the words rules out the undesirable conclusion. People can’t do anything in the name of atheism.

If “Religion poisons everything” then removing the poison should rehabilitate the patient, no? So please demonstrate that secular societies are more benevolent than religious ones. Show me that those who invented industrial murder are morally superior to ad-hoc killers.

Did you know that the word genocide was coined to describe the actions of a government who was actively trying to secularize?

This is a semantic game. The honest question is that does becoming more secular make one more moral? I’ve never seen anybody make the case for that (though plenty love to imply it w/o evidence).

Can we agree that Israel is more secular than her neighbors? Is Israel’s government or people more benevolent? It’s a trope that Muslims are violent, but compared to just half a century of secular Europe’s World Wars, Islam is a blameless kitten.

So, good guy with a gun?

In 2003 I could have made a living selling subscriptions to 5-GB cloud storage that was tightly integrated into Windows.

I understand why Windows is trying to capture you into it’s cloud ecosystem. Just saying that between M$, Apple, and Google you can do some robust backups, basically for free. And if you’re worried about privacy, just encrypt.

If you want to save a *.webp file, just change the extension to *.png. There is no need for a converter.

There is a difference between possible and likely. I’m not going to provide a source on that.

Headshots don’t work like they do in video games/ movies. A person has a 42% chance of surviving a penetrative wound to the head.

And there are also plenty of cases where a fatal head-wound didn’t prevent someone from completing complex tasks before expiring.

Most of these myths trace back to Gary Webb, a journalist who committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head. Credulous people think the CIA killed him to prevent him from making their cocaine dealing public. Even though his article exposing the CIA was widely debunked and 20years old.

I cannot speak to macaroni pie directly, but you’d be surprised by how many things considered Southern are straight out of Africa for reasons that should be obvious.