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@godspeed_aflame It's giving "But how does the mirror know what's behind the towel?"

pop science and its consequences etc

@deeore5 Fill it in with land from fucking WHERE, Einstein

Can someone honestly tell me what is stopping us from filling all this ocean with land and expanding the size of America?

@RebeccaYChan So it's Spanish Flu all over again!

The Wuhan lab leak a red to redirect the blame to China. The U.S. shut down news stories about the BSL4 lab leak in Fort Detrick in the summer of 2019 where local authorities had to step in to force the closure of the BSL4 lab because of the rising number of suspicious pneumonia deaths in the surrounding area. The high number of pneumonia deaths in the old folks homes were dismissed by silencing the doctors and local media. Pneumonia deaths in the young became “vaping pneumonia”. The government then commissioned a spanking new BSL4 lab to replace the leaky old one. The architectural firm sent out a press release in the summer of 2019 for winning the project. Well before China announced a pandemic in 2020, Covid had already spread to Europe from Fort Detrick with American military personnel being the vector for the spread when they flew into US military bases in Europe. China was simply the first to report it when they detected it Wuhan. China had many protocols in place for detecting and handling pandemics because of the release of SARS in Hong Kong (by the Americans) in 2003. Universal healthcare was immediately prioritised and rolled out in China after SARS because the authorities didn’t want medical cost to be a barrier to quick detection in another biological warfare attack. China now has one of the best universal healthcare systems in the world with people flying into China for medical tourism.

@myonlinetrust @mykola Then what's the goddamn point of the buttons in the original problem

@mykola That’s your interpretation. In the original problem, whether you press red or blue does not affect whether or not people will die.

Ah this one again. To my dear rationalist friends who are so confused as to why anyone would press the blue button: I don't want anyone's blood on my hands. "But if everyone just presses red then everyone lives" yeah but that's also true for blue, plus no complicity in murder.

@Mr_goji54 Because that's Kong's house and Godzilla is the type of dude who hates visiting

What are your theories to why Godzilla doesn’t go to Skull Island? Why does he refuse to step in the island? Is it because of the storm itself or something else?

@AlamoTexan @DoctorLemma This isn't very Christ-like of you

@DoctorLemma That's stupid. Take care of the poor frogs then let's chop em up and fry their legs to eat them. Also... They're frogs. Why should anybody care about their treatment?

I had to look up the rules for this after seeing the video. Surprisingly, the frogs are treated incredibly well. Since 1933, the event has worked with wildlife officials to protect the animals. While they are at the fair, the frogs live in a specially designed Frog Spa to ensure they are comfortable. The rules also state that the jockeys cannot touch the frog once it is placed on the starting pad, so the human contestants just have to jump and shout behind them to encourage their frog to leap. What is even funnier is the history of someone trying to win unfairly with a massive frog. In 1990, an animal importer tried to game the system by bringing a team of ten-pound African Goliath frogs all the way from Cameroon. He assumed these giant amphibians would easily shatter the jumping records and crush the local competition. After a huge debate over whether this was cheating, the Goliath frogs were finally allowed to compete. However, the plan backfired. The giant frogs totally fizzled out and refused to jump far, allowing a regular local frog to take home the championship anyway.

@darren_cullen @PrivateEyeNews They also did everything they could to support Wakefield and his 'vaccines cause autism' bollocks

Had to make this after reading that (genuine) quote from Ian Hislop, editor of @PrivateEyeNews

@John_James2287 @93vintagejones Your duty is to die trying to stop a guy stealing beans from Tesco?

@93vintagejones We're in a severe state of moral decay in this country. Whatever happened to "England expects that every man will do his duty"? We've turned into such a bunch of pussies.

Absolutely do not do this. Nobody will step in to help you, and if the altercation turns physical the state will persecute you. Do not put yourself in physical danger to protect the profit margin of Morrisons when they're firing their own employees for trying to prevent theft.

@NewJerusalemAI @92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar Why is the door example justified, but not the mailbox?

Part of what makes a boobytrap is both intention and knowledge. If you put that paneling on your door in a regular home upgrade, then no its absolutely not a booby trap. If you do a home alone style trick and quickly cover the metal with wood paneling when you see the home invader coming to trick him into hurting himself on it, then yes it technically is a boobytrap, a justified one.

Yes- and let me explain why. When you smash my mailbox, you’re not just smashing a piece of metal a wood. It’s an investment- time, money and energy. Time I spent at work to afford it, losing time with my family. Money I spent so my paychecks and mail would arrive safely.

@NewJerusalemAI @92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar Okay, but you've still not answered my original question. Is the door a booby trap as well? If not, why is the mailbox one but the door isn't?

@m00nton @92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar I only was against hiding cement inside the mailbox, because I think some kid is going to break his neck swinging a bat at it from a moving car. If there was some way we could magically make sure it only breaks their hands, I would say go for it.

@NewJerusalemAI @92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar But you care what happens to mailbox vandals?

@m00nton @92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar I don't care what happens to home invaders.

@NewJerusalemAI @92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar Hey quick question If I have a metal door. And I cover it with wood panelling. And a home invader tries to kick it down (because he thinks it's a wooden door) and he breaks his foot - Is that a boobytrap?

@92huskies @ggetzie @TwoRulesOfWar You did break his arms. You just did it in a sneaky way, and you are trying to pretend you didn't. You set a boobytrap for him. You did it.

@Gryffix What activism has Contra done?

I think Contra is someone who approaches activism very strategically with a great focus on harm reduction, and that's just not very sexy to people. Saying you need to be realistic about where we stand and what's possible *now* to bring about the change you want to see is (1/2)

@ggreenwald They're the 'only democracy in the Middle East', but don't you DARE suggest that their government is representative of them!

The bullshit tactic of Israel supporters is to pretend the bad parts of Israel are due to Netanyahu, so that once he's gone, everyone can and should go back to loving Israel. Netanyahu is fully representative of Israel. That's why he's been in power 19 years. What comes after him will be more sociopathic. Netanyahu is the by-product of the evils of that country, not the cause.

@hecubian_devil @ProleBlues Maybe (and again this is just my brain talking) instead of saying 'No that's stupid because X' go 'Yeah X sucks, but we should do Y because of Z' Honestly, I think a big part of the problem is just that we're using a purely text medium. There's no inbuilt tone, you know?

@hecubian_devil @ProleBlues Just speaking personally, it kinda comes across like you just don't care about whatever issue they're angry about It sounds like all the years of Democrat leadership brushing off evil by saying 'Not important! Nothing we can do!' when it's clearly important to THEM, you know?

I don't know why the Left has such a martyr complex but we really need to fix it. There's literally no reason to drain your side of its actual power and support in order to take symbolic stands against things you can't stop. It's literally all cost and no benefit!

@Travis_Maynard_ @AlexDriggars That's not what privatised means And while you bring it up, how can you have a free market for water and sewage lines?

@m00nton @AlexDriggars You can't read the part explaining legislation protected private monopolies...? Govt determining a number of companies, preventing an actual free-market, exclusivity for 25 years. Heavily subsidized the "private," companies... lol. Privatized- free of gov intervention

Gobsmacking statistic in this story: “While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day.”

@Travis_Maynard_ @AlexDriggars What do you think privatised means? Because your image literally shows it It was given to the private sector to run for profit. Thatcher was so keen to dismantle the state that her government practically gave it away It's still owned by private companies to this day

@m00nton @AlexDriggars It was hardly privatization, in fact, govt protected private companies who "bought," rights from the govt and then came GOVERNMENT created monopolies. Exclusivity, 25 year protection, you could call it cronyism, economic fascism, but not privatization.

@Travis_Maynard_ @AlexDriggars We privatised it in the UK and it's complete shit. Literally - our rivers are of human shit. Instead of building any new infrastructure (or even just maintaining what's there) private companies move all the money into executive bonuses and stock buybacks

@m00nton @AlexDriggars Based on what?

@princessjedi26 @_ZachFoster So you hate pancakes? FOH

@_ZachFoster So it’s ok for people to wave Palestine flags and chant free Palestine on plane but when Israel does it it’s bad? The hypocrisy is nauseating.

If you are Jewish, you can move to Israel. If you were born in what became Israel, grew up there & were expelled by gunpoint, but you aren’t Jewish, you can’t move to Israel. Not so complicated after all. It’s called apartheid and Jewish supremacy.