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@random7007 @esjesjesj The types of crimes that deserve the death penalty, the death penalty quite frankly isn't enough to deter criminals, its too light of a sentence. There doesn't exist a strong enough one.

@random7007 @esjesjesj There are lots of studies on criminal deterrence. Every single one of them agrees that the requirement of punishment where deterrence starts to work is disgusting, authoritarian dystopia level. We are talking death penalty for fishing without a license.

He *deserves* to die but killing people is wrong. It’s that simple. The point of being against the death penalty is for when the person deserves it. It’s easy to be against it for when someone doesn’t deserve it.

@daatsik @Laura_Razzy Most money that Rowling makes from HP in the modern era goes directly to making the world worse for trans people. Not Helping women, btw. She only pretends its for women. But ignore that. People were too zealous about that boycott, fine. Zepla still said some very nasty things.

@Laura_Razzy Because she played the Harry Potter game? Y'all are sick in the head for real

another reminder that Zepla is a fucking transphobic roach btw

@scoy1132 @articaea This entire conversation started because one of the straightest people in ffxiv content creation called xenos a child then went fishing

@articaea You guys wouldn’t be happy unless it was only queers making content let’s be honest

i respect xenos and arthars taking themselves out the game before evercold. maybe we'll be able to have a content creation space that isn't just dominated by chuds

@embersarcade @articaea Xenos and Arthars are constantly aggrieved about everything. That’s their whole brand

@articaea The reason why they outperform other creators is that people who are permanently and recreationally aggrieved by everything are incredibly boring to watch.

@MJS579 @hasanthehun @DropSiteNews @davidsirota Platner could easily just tell the truth and say that is a lie spread by the billionaire class to spread fear, which is a good motivator for people to vote in their enemies.

@hasanthehun @DropSiteNews @davidsirota Looking forward to the moment Tucker says, nothing against immigrants as people but it's clearly a plot by our owners to flood the market with cheap labour and continue to immiserate you and planter will have to choose between agreeing on economic populism and virtue signalling.

⭕️ Graham Platner, the progressive Maine Democrat running for Senate, says he doesn’t yet have an answer on whether he will appear on Tucker Carlson’s show after Carlson expressed interest in a meeting in an interview with the New York Times. “It’s hard to tell if [his shift] is real or if it’s a performance,” Platner told journalist David Sirota, but acknowledged areas of real alignment, especially foreign policy and the war on Iran. “Are we exposing new people to Tucker Carlson, or are we exposing people that listen to Tucker Carlson to us — that’s the math equation,” Platner deliberated out loud. Platner added: “He came out and said he was against the war on Iran on moral grounds. That’s a stronger statement on the war than a lot of sitting Democrats. And I of course am also opposed to the war on Iran on moral grounds.”

@UnStuckAmerica @CaiwengiO @uspolitics1111 Delusional, stupid, or lying?

@CaiwengiO @uspolitics1111 “People that don’t like me are Zionists” is his get out of jail card that he uses to avoid all criticism. He’s not disliked because of Palestine. It’s because he does things like go to Minnesota during the ICE shootings just to say they also would have happened under Dems.

Sam Seder :"The attacks on hasan never mind have obviously been helpful to hasan, but they've also been helpful to people associated with hasan. Mallory mcmorrow has paid a price in polls since she decided to head down this path not the least of which because i imagine most people don't know who Hasan is and are like, why are you wasting our time with this? This is like, you know, Barack Obama's secret terrorist cell thing, and his pastor, yeah and A, and then B, like the people who do know who Hasan is, like Hasan and appreciate what he says."

@Midnababy Im on the ng+ side because A) a feeling like your WOL is the character in the scenes is so important to the enjoyment of the game, so if you are at all attached to the current one you want to use it and B) If you start a new character there is a chance you will get too attached

OK IM MAKING A POLL FOR THIS PLS HELP ME DECIDE ON NEW CHARACTER OR NG+ FOR MSQ!!

Guys I need help deciding if I should do NG+ or start a new character for my MSQ adventure… I have several alts and don’t need another, but it’s fun going through as a sprout? I was thinking I’d do a new job on my main but no EXP 😓

@anthonyzenkus @JessieR06944937 @Balancement Thats the same as not voting. At least people who dont vote are are honest about it

@JessieR06944937 @Balancement 3rd Party and Independents sre on many ballots in case you want options

Democrats have a strategy to excite voters and they're ready to win in 2028 the way they did in 2024. And they mean it.

@Stephen_Fremel @CosmonautMarcus Ok, sure. This one wierdo you are replying to said that. As long as you know the director didn’t say that

@Hitchie @CosmonautMarcus Because he's suggesting the plot isn't that good like we shouldn't want to see it therefore it's fine to not do it, which is silly because it's not like every movie is amazing, why can't it just be an okay 6/7 out of 10 movie?

There is not a single resident evil plot that gets anything higher than a 6/10 thats why im confused

@Stephen_Fremel @CosmonautMarcus What interesting wording “such a superior movie” why did you use that phrase

@CosmonautMarcus Most movies barely get to that so I don't see why we shouldn't want it Like if this is such a superior movie it better be fucking excellent, the scares better make me shit myself or else what was the point in doing another fanfiction story masquerading as Resident Evil

@IzanaghiiOkami @Actually_Tina Assuming she hasn’t lied to us about her motivations and knowledge, she isn’t evil, really. She just has practical understandings of the world that are more important to her than empathy.

@Actually_Tina where exactly was it ever shown she was evil ?

I can tell SE cooked with her because her design has completely removed my instincts. How can she be possibly evil? She has the face of a baby deer. I trust her explicitly with my life. Its like a baby Tiger

@nightshade105 @Allfurball9 He is literally a nazi. Not in a hyperbolic way, he self describes that way. there is only about a 50% chance he actually understands why this joke is funny. He might have written it as if he thinks the showrunners are stupid for not understanding fascism.

@Allfurball9 At this point I don't ever see the posts that make him the "worst person" anymore, I just see someone do this type of post every few months, so with no context,it just seems like hes funny & people dislike him for some reason (I legit don't even remember why ppl hate him anyway-)

heartbreaking: worst person you know makes a funny joke

@bocchiyuri I am a fellow zenos hater, he made endwalker worse. You are illiterate. You completely missed the point of this scene. Your hatred has blinded you.

actually really funny that im getting told im illiterate by zenos fans. read a book

ffxiv is seriously on the verge of doing something irreparably damaging to the health of the games narrative

@WarzonePrez @artysmark1496 @DiaLancea This is what the urianger lecture on the first is about. Darkness is pure astral which has the effect of exciting all the elements to their astral state, and light is the opposite That’s what we were doing during eden. We were taking a single element and pumping darkness into it

@artysmark1496 @Hitchie @DiaLancea It’s not darkness so much as chaos. Maybe it’s along the same lines as the thirteenth. Takes on the form of a “flood of darkness”, but the associated calamity is simply chaos, or Activity to the nth degree. You are correct that astral is active and Umbral is passive.

It feels like there's something weird going on with the shards we're visiting, the calamities of Ice and Lightning have already occurred, and yet... #ffxiv

@WarzonePrez @DiaLancea That’s what darkness is. That the definition of darkness.

@DiaLancea This chart has an error. The seventh wasnt "darkness", though it might be interpreted that way. It is all the elements Astrally aligned.

@Piratecatte @ThePatware And all we are pointing out is that the reason is that your friend is stupid, or listening to bad info from stupid people like you.

@ThePatware @Hitchie I think you're a little too invested in this. All I did was point out that a friend backed off from getting back because they used AI at all. Because its toxic. But here you and hitchie are in someone you don't knows replies, standing on a soap box. Spend your time better.

So I had a friend ready to come back to FF14 after the day one stuff... only to reverse course after Koji Fox's AI fiasco on day 2. Don't use AI kids.

@RealEvilNotch @Olar_Fla @TheWahGuy Why are you showing a nazi saying it happened instead of an actual source of it happening.

@Olar_Fla @TheWahGuy I checked, it wasn't elementary. x.com/i/status/20473…

The “sex ed” I had when I was six was literally just “if someone touches you in a way that makes you uncomfortable, tell someone you trust.” Wonder why you’d be against that?

@Piratecatte @ThePatware This is virtue signalling. Your anti ai take is fake and childish. You talk about it because ai is unpopular among your friend group, not because you have a principled position on it being bad

@Hitchie @ThePatware if y'all can't figure out that using AI at all, even 'as a joke' is bad taste, especially given the audience reaction, that's on y'all for not being able to read a really big fucking room. Now go annoy someone else.

@_ShonenSupreme_ So, if you believe this, it's an indication that you dislike ai in a reactionary way, probably primarily because its healthy in your social groups to hate it. You are on the right side of the AI debate accidentally, and are using it as a virtue signal, not a real opinion.

Lot of people confused by this so allow me to clarify! You cannot make an effective criticism of AI art by using AI art. Hope that helps!