“I nitpicked a word you used, therefore not just refuting your entire post that I didn’t read, but you as a human being. What, you pointed out my behavior? Clearly it only proves that my refutation of you as a human being is wholly correct.”

“didn’t read here’s a nitpick”

lol about the response I expected.

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Leftists aren’t liberals.

The left was mostly aligned with liberalism some time ago, but they aren’t the same thing and now the two are mostly incompatible.

Yes. The alleged socialists showed exactly what they actually think about the working class.

lol

And just imagine, you can make a shitty gun for 20 bucks using parts from the local hardware store.

It was weird conspiracy theory stuff when the Liberals and NDP illegally invoked the emergencies act to shut down the bank accounts of people contributing to a peaceful protest.

I’ll lay off the conspiracy theory channels of… the house of commons video feed.

I’d say you have a pretty inaccurate view of left wing politics.

Which is understandable. There’s been a major shift in the past 15 years that really fundamentally changed the mainstream left.

You and I probably have similar political views in many ways, but when you stand in a stream, you don’t have to move for the water to pass you by.

Better open your eyes before it’s too late – you’ll get your bank account shut down for wrongthink.

I don’t know, it’s really tough to say – If you’re reading old texts hoping to glean some wisdom, depending on the context that would definitely be conservative, but depending on the context it might not be. I was just talking about Wang Mang around 30AD, and he spent a lot of time digging up evidence of how imperial china was run 1000 years before he was born based on confuscian teachings from 500 years before he was born. On the other hand, at this point after 200 years of Marx you could claim marxism is conservative (and in fact Xi is really making a conservative maoist argument in his government right now hoping to return to the stricter times of his childhood)

Here’s an interesting video on the idea of the left hating self-improvement. I won’t claim it’s universal, but the argument is somewhat convincing in light of many things I’ve seen far removed from this particular video including stuff like opposing technologies like cochlear implants that would make a deaf person non-deaf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Vf-ry-3rg

It depends which worldview you take on, but things like hard work and staying in shape have been called “fascist” by a left wing that sees any form of self-improvement as counter-revolutionary.

It seems to me that I was reading The Republic a couple weeks ago and Plato 2500 years ago was talking about the need for people to stay in shape in the gymnasium (not the same thing as today, but still a place to hone your body) so there’s definitely precedent to call it conservative since it’s a value held since antiquity.

Let me throw a counterpoint at you:

Taylor Swift is a lady who has had to work really hard and became the top of her field, who works hard to stay in shape, whose entire love life has been filled with unmanly men leaving her unfulfilled until she started dating the ultimate alpha chad where they have a relatively standard supportive relationship, whose career has been about producing competently produced uncontroversial works of status quo work, and not to mention her extremely conventional hairstyles, clothing, and make-up.

I mean, all those things lean conservative and not solely due to identity per se.

That’s hilarious, same hamper and the same broken handle!

https://social.fbxl.net/media/2c5e2e1c1784048054b50a05bba93cd3d7a5d7f3d98f22a13624b6ed57702d76.stl

There, I just have the one handle since most people probably won’t need multiple.

https://social.fbxl.net/media/2c5e2e1c1784048054b50a05bba93cd3d7a5d7f3d98f22a13624b6ed57702d76.stl

Here you go.

I’ll throw the stl up for you in a few hours.

I don’t own Facebook, so I doubt that.

I think the power was just out when you tried them.

I find it hilarious that the first argument for 4k screens that resonates with me is better quality MS-DOS gaming.

This is a good article.

One of the dumbest things we’ve seen not just from science media but from media in general is this phrase “no evidence”

I have a rock here, and I claim that this rock will cause you to become a millionaire if you hold it.

So you start a double-blind study to prove it or disprove it.

Guess what? If your sample size is large enough, someone is going to become a millionaire by pure dumb luck. Whether you like it or not, that’s evidence. It’s poor evidence, it’s overwhemingly contradicted by more, better evidence, but guess what? There is evidence that holding the rock will cause you to become a millionaire!

It seems pedantic, but when people say there’s zero evidence for something, and exactly one evidence shows up, then that claim that there’s zero evidence is automatically refuted! Even if it’s something that everyone agrees is false.

Regardless of what the numbers are saying, it’s a tough industry right now and I don’t think a lot of people are buying a lot of games of any kind since everyone’s so jaded about the destructive practices of the industry. It isn’t going to be about a plucky little underdog coming in and changing everything at this point, it’s about an entire industry that has lost the faith of its customers.

The most important thing for everyone to remember is that if you don’t fully own the thing such that you can install and run it without asking permission, or if it isn’t simply free and open source, then it can go away at any time.