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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

Oh that is a good one. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

All drugs should be legal and regulated.

Is it worth it, drug warriors? All the unnecessary deaths at the hands of police/gangs/cartels and unregulated drugs of a unknown potency? Was it worth sacrificing all our civil liberties on the vain funeral pyre that is the United States of America?

When humanity is victorious in the drug war and all drugs are legalized, will drug users criminalize sobriety?

Will people high as fuck demand everyone to piss in a plastic cup to make sure they are high?

Will drug users ruin sober people's lives with felonies and time in prison with hardened criminals?

Will drug users dissolve civil liberties and prop up a bipartisan police state that gives cops a license to kill?

NO!

Who would want to do that to someone? To a fellow human for doing what they want with their own bodies? Prohibitionists... that's who. And we are not them

Nothing lasts forever drug warriors. Tick tock. We will be free one day, and you will wail and moan and your cries will fall on deaf ears.

Get fucked prohibitionists. Feel fortunate we want justice, not retribution.

Now playing The War on Drugs - Red Eyes

[–] explodicle 2 points 1 hour ago

Is this not a relatively mainstream belief?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

how meat is treated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I fucking hate React. It’s slow, verbose, and unpleasant to work with. It’s all the worst parts of Java brought over to JavaScript. That being said, it’s still better than Angular.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Paedophilia as a sickness, especially non-offending paedos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I'd call it a cultural artifact. We used to get married very young. In some cultures the kids are introduced to sex by the grandparents. And of course in our own culture the ideal of sexy beauty is a supermodel who looks like a 13 year old boy. It's a whirlwind wrapped in a psychosis for sure.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

"ChatGpt is really good if you use it properly"

Gets torrents of down votes every time. But I literally use it a lot at work and it's brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Depends what you use it for. If you are trying to provide something informational, I do not trust chat gpt.

If you use it to respond to work emails because they force communication for the sake of communication, then its fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is my answer too. It's crazy how much hate a tool can get

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'd probably also develop a short temper about spanners too if they were being shoved in my face by tech companies as hard as chat bots are

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago

We're excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don't see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that's not wh-

We're proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

...

Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don't ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

British English term for wrenches.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

R.A.P.E

religion, abortion, politics and economics.

Avoid discussing rape too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

So what's your favourite kind of rape?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If UlyssesT is lurking, Star Citizen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Damn right. alex-aware

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 hours ago

Close enough. Ban him.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

For legal reasons I cannot have any opinion on the following: Gestures broadly at everything in the Middle East

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

AOC letting her outdoor cats stack rocks, which is supposedly what the unions told her to do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

AOC voting to protect the rail corporation from the union strike.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Oooooo that’s an also verrrry good one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

People of color seem to perform amazing in athletics compared to other races in America (see: American football, basketball). Makes me think that Americans hyper-evolved their slaves by selective breeding. Unfortunate and extremely unethical, but maybe possible? Idk.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

It's possible it's for other reasons, though. Black Americans are generally poorer than other Americans, and success in sports is a ticket out of poverty that is accessible to people in that position. It could also be a cultural thing; I doubt Finns are genetically predisposed to be exceptional drivers, but they are still wildly over-represented at the top level of motorsports for such a small population

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

That breeding programme called natural selection is what got us all here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Roko's basilisk, if you run an online forum for β€œfuturist” dumbasses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Animal rights

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

approaching literally any ideology from first principals

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Add some jalapeΓ±o as well to take it to another level

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

bait

This sounds a lot like "I need to catch up; what is contrarian and edgy right now?"

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