ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Saying, “I think what these government agents are doing is bad and illegal,” is quite squarely within the core area of first-amendment protections for speech on matters of public concern.
I agree, but saying that plus "and I urge members of the military and federal agencies to disobey these orders" would likely fall under incitement.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
The person you're replying to seems to be constitutionally incapable of engaging in actual argument or debate, at least when the topic is related to feminism or gender roles and similar. Not worth wasting your time with them.
Technically the Democrats in that video are right that soldiers do not have to obey unlawful orders. But in practice, orders are presumed lawful unless a military judge rules otherwise. From the Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Inference of lawfulness. An order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be inferred to be lawful, and it is disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate. This inference does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime. The lawfulness of an order is a question of law to be determined by the military judge."
It seems obvious to me that the implication of what these Democrat legislators are saying is "The stuff Trump is having you do in Portland, D.C., and Chicago is illegal and you should disobey those orders." If that's what they had actually said I think there would be a strong case against them, but with the mere "implied" meaning I think there's enough plausible deniability to avoid any actual consequences.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
We've all seen a convenience store video or two (or a hundred) of a young black male shooting another young black for the grave sin of bumping into him without apologizing, or something similar.
Immortalized by The Boondocks:
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
https://github.com/themotte/rDrama
It's a fork of the rDrama codebase, there have been a moderate amount of changes done to it
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Along those lines, I tried an allergy nasal spray for the first time yesterday and it's the single most effective thing I've ever had at relieving sinus pressure (and being able to breathe through my nose). The problem is I read the side effects list after trying it once and apparently cataracts and glaucoma are side effects of regular use, and apparently this applies to pretty much all other allergy nasal sprays as well.
Definitely not worth going blind to get some sinus relief.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Hadn't heard of that one, but looking into it at least one member of congress served actual prison time over it, so that sounds like a big deal to me.
A lot of people haven't heard about the government (together with Quaker Oats) feeding radioactive oatmeal to retarded kids without their (nor their parents') knowledge for a science experiment but that doesn't make it any less bad.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Sisyphus is rolling a boulder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accommodate him or his boulder.
If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship.
Is Sisyphus happy?
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Or take the unit about other bases than 10. There are only two cases here with any practical relevance -- base 2 to understand how computers work and base 16 which is commonly used to represent binary numbers.
This is octal erasure
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
They might not know how to do things you think are basic, but it's not a problem unless they need to know, and if they never do need to know than the world is better off for it.
The problem is that this lack of knowledge is showing up even in kids pursuing careers in computer-related fields:
"Jamie, pull up that article about gen z kids raised on iPads not knowing what files and folders are."
I feel bad for feeling this way, and I do genuinely wish society as a whole hadn't failed these kids, but there's a part of me that's saying "Whew, I'll be secure in my software development career until retirement, even with the alleged threat of AI replacing me." I feel awful for feeling this way but I imagine there are others here that feel similarly?
I think it's the same feeling that motivates the (stereotype of) boomers going "Fuck them entitled kids." The part of me that's in control, however, is still pushing to fix society in the limited ways I can to hopefully fix things for future generations (I'm in agreement that despite how bad I feel for these kids there's probably no fix for the retard-maxxing for most of them this late in the game).
As far as what those fixes are, they're the same nonsense most of our right-wing denizens have already been harping on here for years (DEI, lowered standards, etc.). So I won't delve into them because I'm sure the other replies have already started that.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
Honest question: have you considered giving in on this point? If you'd potentially want to start a family with any woman you're dating, you must be reconciled to the idea of having sex with her at some point even if you genuinely lack the drive/desire.
Took me until I was 28, and my wife was a virgin as well, but waiting until marriage for sex is absolutely achievable. Based on his other comments in this thread I assume @Garfielf is Catholic, and I think his efforts to stay chaste (and to expect the same of his partners) is a laudable goal that shouldn't be abandoned just because it's easier.
Also it's definitely not a lack of desire for most ;)
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
was making plans for ta’aruz [attacks]
Translator's note: keikaku means plan
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
I don't see anyone complaining about mean words though? Care to link to/quote any specific examples? I see a lot of people complaining that you're not actually making an argument. And you're continuing to fail to do so even after having it pointed out you, and after being given specific examples of how you could approach this topic that would both make coherent arguments and not run afoul of the rules.
And it didn't go unnoticed that you completely ignored my request that you back up your claim that all us "thirty year old guys... want as many girls who will sleep with you and be sexually adventurous as you can get" with something remotely resembling evidence or an argument. So I'm going to straight up ask: Are you interested whatsoever in an actual debate about this? Or are you just lashing out at us because we let people here voice opinions about women that hurt your feelings?
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
My friend, try being a woman on here when there's sixty versions of "yeah the wimmens is uppity and should be confined to the home and maybe don't even teach 'em to read and write". Serious discussions of how society went to the dogs once women got the vote.
As someone devoutly religious, I misspent a great deal of my youth arguing with atheists on various internet forums. Often atheists who absolutely despised religious people and blamed us for all of history's wars and genocides and sometimes even wanted me and my kind sent to gulags or similar. It's really not that hard to deal with having a huge portion of a forum despising you, you just learn to develop a thick skin and you separate your emotions from the discussion as much as you can.
Or you crash out, as you appear to be doing.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
It would be great if we had some quotes from contemporary Macedonian elders to compare it to then, eh? But the point should be obvious: just because the Greeks were complaining about the youth being corrupted doesn't mean they were wrong. And given that right around the time those youth would have been old enough to become the elders ruling Athens, they were conquered by a presumably less "corrupt" society.
A complaint can be valid in ancient history and modern times, unless you believe in Whig history or Fukuyama style end of history. Weak men create hard times, etc.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Nah I think you're an asshole but I think you're earnest in your beliefs, which makes you the fun kind of asshole to debate with
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
If there's one thing that Trump was notoriously awful about that even a lot of his die-hard supporters would agree on, it was staffing the executive branch with people who wouldn't try to undermine his interests back in his first term. He has clearly learned a lot from the experience and that's why there have been far fewer issues with him getting backstabbed by bureaucrats and his own appointees this time around.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
How about if someone cheered on the idea of AI putting all the guys on here out of work, so that they will have to bend the knee to employers and scrabble for former white collar jobs with the cheap imported labour, which drives down salaries and workplace conidiations? Suppose I reacted to someone talking about their fears for their late career with "serves you right, you had it too good all along, now you will have to agree with whatever an employer demands of you if you want any kind of job"?
Paging @BurdensomeCount
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
Could you try actually, y'know, making an argument? Instead of just blasting "Here's what some guy said a century ago, agree or disagree?!?!"
I'm going to assume you disagree with the author here. Please explain why you disagree, that's about the bare minimum we ask for here. Sources and evidence are usually a nice add, but I'm hoping we could at least get the bare minimum from you so let's hold off on that for now
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
That is why I am kicking back against "it's all the fault of women, they shouldn't go to college, their fathers should marry them off at eighteen". The hell you thirty year old guys want a dependent on you full time wife and six kids, you want as many girls who will sleep with you and be sexually adventurous as you can get, then maybe a wife who earns money to contribute to the household herself and put off having kids to later or never.
You're painting with an extremely broad brush and making a lot of assumptions about men as a whole without providing any evidence to back it up. Just because there are "chads" out there pumping and dumping as many women as they can and trying to avoid any commitment doesn't mean that all, or even a majority or even a significant percentage of men are seeking the same thing. I had zero sex prior to marriage, and my wife and I would have several kids by now (and she would be a stay at home mom) if it weren't for fertility issues.
If you're going to make broad claims like this on this forum, then bring evidence to back it up. Or expect similar broad smears to be made against you and women generally, like how you're reinforcing the stereotype that most women are incapable of separating emotion from logic in debates ;)
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
Like, when older people complain about the youth of today, it is fair to quote ancient Greeks complaining about the same thing.
Sure, but the people quoting the Greeks never seem to mention that Athens was conquered by the (more rural and agrarian and presumably more "conservative") Macedonians just a few decades after that quote.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
Why do you believe the internet sleuths knew more than the prosecution's attorneys, as opposed to the prosecution's attorneys feigning ignorance in order to conduct a politically hostile prosecution despite the available and mutually-known facts?
That's actually effectively confirmed at this point. The prosecution knew the identity of "Jump Kick Man" and didn't disclose it to the defense until after testimony had wrapped up. Oh and big surprise, he was another career criminal
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
Nope, Nintendo actually sued them solely over alleged patent violations
Another example I've seen is the Talmud saying it's ok to rape boys under the age of 9, apologists for the Talmud claiming it was just one rabbi's opinion and not actual Jewish law, but then you look up what Maimonides had to say about it and he agrees it is actual Jewish law
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