ArmedTooHeavily
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn the one edge toward himself.
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ArmedTooHeavily
10d ago
"For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically"
-Will Durant
ArmedTooHeavily
12d ago
I'll take a swing at it: some people are incapable of good decision making about specific things, in this case gambling. They are effectively mentally incompetent in this narrow area but are otherwise generally mentally competent enough to be responsible for themselves. Therefore, similar to how we don't allow children or the insane to buy guns, we should ban people who have demonstrated this incompetence from gambling.
ArmedTooHeavily
22d ago
Why? If you actually believed the things you were saying, you'd do it to make free money. It would also greatly increase your intellectual credibility.
I would go over your objections one by one to demonstrate that they're just excuses (I'll make a high dollar bet with you, trustworthy escrow agents exist, etc), but obviously they are just excuses and there's no way you would actually put skin in the game to back up your bloviating.
ArmedTooHeavily
25d ago
Are you taking bets on any of this?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Basically the supreme court decision that outlawed blanket IQ testing for jobs because of its disparate impact on blacks.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
The one time I asked a doctor, he told me that donating a pint of blood cost closer to 2000 calories for your body to replace.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
More or less 100% of people who refer to it as "the JQ" are using it as you describe.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
It's not reasonable to substitute some idealized, hyper efficient cost for what education actually costs. Could it be cheaper? Obviously. But $6k a month (or whatever) is what it currently actually costs.
As a side note, you are right about "for that much money you could ___", and that's why taxes are collected at gunpoint.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
What's a "sailer confounder"?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
I am opposed to the government funding the practice of religion on the basis of separation of church and state. This seems to obviously violate that. Am I missing anything here?
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
Yeah, and it looks like both were incendiary devices placed on the exterior of the boxes. That disqualifies criddlers, so now my money is on anarchists.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
G502 and a pretty large mousepad.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
I think you have a massively optimistic idea of the competence of law enforcement.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
That's why I'm going with homeless drug addicts or anarchist dipshits, this is definitely not part of some greater plot.
/r/Portland being absolutely 100% convinced it was the proud boys just makes me more sure.
ArmedTooHeavily
1mo ago
A couple points here:
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There is a significant chance that this was just methheads doing methhead shit and there's no political motivation at all. This is the most likely, imo.
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The next most likely outcome was that this was the local anarchist/black-bloc idiots. So theoretically left aligned, but mostly just retarded agents of chaos. Slightly better organized than the drug-retarded agents of chaos in #1 above, but still not great culture war fodder because basically everyone already hates them.
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There's a slim, slim chance that this was anything more meaningful, but what would the purpose possibly be? The local elections are absolute chaos because the city switched to rank choice voting and expanded from a five person city council to a 12 person city council all in one shot, so there's no clear benefit to burning ballots because nobody has any clue how this is going to shake out. For national elections Oregon is as blue as it gets, so pretty much nothing can move the needle there.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space
It seems you are perhaps some combination of uninformed and unreasonably impatient.
Artemis 3 is due to put people back on the moon next year scratch that, it's a shit show, next couple years.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
How much did it cost to put 1 ton of cargo in orbit in 2005 and how much does it cost now?
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
The US has been building up it's space warfare capabilities significantly for decades, though most of it is heavily classified. There's an entire branch of the US military devoted to space warfare. SpaceX takes military contracts for satellite launches and who knows what else; they effectively are the non-missile orbital launch capacity of the US government.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
I think "5.3 million people with an IQ of 180" is also pretty fairly covered under "has never been seen before."
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
I think if you watched it you would be very pleasantly surprised. I was.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
You clearly live in a much nicer area than me; meticulousness is absolutely not part of standard operating procedure at my local grocery stores.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
Reality tv is not "real." You are drawing strong, condemnatory conclusions about people in the real world because of the way characters in a TV show behave.
Perhaps you shouldn't be too quick to condemn anyone for ignorance.
ArmedTooHeavily
2mo ago
If he were savvy, which he seems to be, would you be able to tell the difference?
ArmedTooHeavily
3mo ago
I think "my child has been murdered and I want all of the cruel, idiotic culture warring about his/her murder to end" is more than sufficient to explain the parents trying to block the release of the manifesto/diary. Perhaps not actually the tactically correct move to achieve that goal, but eminently understandable.
It used to be that people would curse God when they were struck down by fate, now they curse insurance companies.
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