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2021-02-19 at 9:26 PM UTC in At least I didn't fuck up as bad as the Costa Concordia Captain guy
Originally posted by Donald Trump
Internet Historian's evolution from "youtuber making documentary style videos about internet culture" to "youtuber making actual documentaries" is pretty wild. Great video, though as cool as a 45 minute documentary is... he doesn't upload that often now, and I need a more steady supply of pandemic entertainment. -
2021-02-19 at 9:30 AM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
Originally posted by Sudo This is the most prosthetically stimulating post I've seen in a while. This begs the question whether someone is "free" in an anarchist society where you would die for saying what is perceived to be wrong by others (as you still certainly can now) and whether freedom of speech is freedom of platform (which twitter is as well as journalism and the like). Freedom is so subjective and contextual it's hard to define. Freedom of speech is supposed to be equal for all citizens but certainly isn't and definitely not if we are talking about a platform. The inalienable right to free speech is basically the right to talk about yourself but not what you feel about anything of consequence.
Kind of a useless statement, but someone is only as free in that anarchist society as the collective lets them be. Same as any other society. An anarchist society "free" from "arbitrary hierarchical power structures" is still a society, to which the hierarchal power structure of "the society over the individual" is inherently going to pose an ever-looming threat. Short of a completely atomized population with no ties to each other - something like the heat death of humanity in a gaseous state - you're only ever as free as "the rest of us" let you be. And I would argue that in that "heat death of humanity" situation, the platonic ideal of freedom has been achieved and it's more or less meaningless insofar as its applicability to societies goes. In that situation only nature stops anyone from doing anything, and "getting crippled by an avalanche and losing your ability to speak" is not meaningfully comparable to the loss of freedom of speech as we know it.
This kind of helps us define what freedom is - it is the closest approximation in a society to that maximally 'free' Platonic ideal of freedom in which our capacities are only diminished or impeded by nature: an ability which can be policed or governed by the collective, but isn't. A fairly objective definition. What's subjective is the value we place on certain abilities and how close to that objective state we believe they are/should be.
PS: The inalienable right to free speech doesn't exist because speech isn't inalienable. Your ability to do it can be taken away. It can be governed and policed. We call it an inalienable right because collectively we've decided it probably shouldn't be taken away, but it's not like it can't be, and in truth it's proven time and again (everywhere that terminology is used) to be quite alienable. The "inalienable right to freedom of thought without any outward expression whatsoever" is pretty much the only one we have, and technology is working on eroding even that.
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2021-02-19 at 8:01 AM UTC in Tx lol
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2021-02-19 at 4:39 AM UTC in Tx lol
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2021-02-19 at 1:02 AM UTC in Will I die if I kill myself?
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Like those idiots who go shoot up a school. What did kids ever do to anyone? Why take out your life's frustrations on children? Just goes to prove how they're all really false flags, strictly for political spin. A person who's really frustrated with the system would logically take out deserving targets, and they probably do, but we never get to hear about it.
This may come as a shock to you, but most people who shoot up a school are students at the school they're shooting up. Adam Lanza is basically the only school shooter I can think of who didn't fit this mold, but he still went to that school as a child. -
2021-02-19 at 12:52 AM UTC in How to get fired on my last day?Start aggressively agitating for workers rights, organizing, and trying to get your coworkers to unionize.
Either they'll find a way to fire you ASAP or you get a union that'll fight for your raises for you. -
2021-02-19 at 12:44 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get off that bus edition
Originally posted by SpatianHaigency guys im freezing my dick off and i have not had running water for days pls send help
im a 3rd worlder at this point, please treat me as such
Glad you're alive. Not because the Texas stuff, just because you don't post much. Always nice to see a familiar name. Now get back to mining lithium for Elon's newest car you third world piece of shit. -
2021-02-19 at 12:18 AM UTC in What drugs do you take?Nicotine is about the only thing. I occasionally eat a 1:20 THC:CBD edible, I guess. Barely even counts as a drug. And I s'pose I do bundy like once a year still.
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2021-02-19 at 12:15 AM UTC in Tx lol
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2021-02-19 at 12:10 AM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
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2021-02-18 at 11:39 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
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2021-02-18 at 10:42 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
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2021-02-18 at 9:16 PM UTC in Anyone who thinks Twitter can infringe on your freedom of speech is retarded.
Originally posted by Antifa Member Uh, I already showed you what the definition of freedom of speech is. You're making one up now. Did you even read my post? Internet isn't the public. End discussion.
Your definition is flawed. Freedom of speech is the philosophical principle. It doesn't matter if the internet is public or not. It is not a legal issue, it is a philosophical one. Private companies are legally allowed to control what kinds of speech are allowed on their property, and to what extent they decide to do so is a freedom of speech issue. Just not a legal issue.
Originally posted by Meikai Twitter could give people the right to say whatever they want on their private property. They don't. Therefore they choose to infringe on people's freedom of speech. 🤷
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2021-02-18 at 9:09 PM UTC in Make a case for why this is fairJuiced up vagina-havers on testosterone and neutered dick-wielders on estrogen could maybe compete on a more even footing.
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2021-02-18 at 9:08 PM UTC in Make a case for why this is fairTrannies need their own leagues, or to just give up on competitive athletics in general.
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2021-02-18 at 9:05 PM UTC in I hope everyone on earth dies.Me too:
Originally posted by Meikai Antinatalism is a fine thing. Truly, the act of bringing new life into this world is a heinous thing. A pure act of selfishness and weakness driven by humanity's spineless inability to resist the genetic urge to reproduce. Nobody has a baby for the sake of the baby. To devote oneself philosophically to a path that aims to reduce the amount of suffering in this world by preventing new creatures from entering into it is a noble thing. But this only addresses new life…
What of the old life? Established life? Things that are already here, living?
I propose a new school of thought: antivitalism. Life is a plague. A corruption of the inherent beauty of the purely mechanical, physical universe. It should not exist. Its existence in this universe is wrong, abhorrent, and this fundamental incompatibility lies at the root of all suffering. Humanity should dedicate itself to the eradication of all life, everywhere, ending finally with itself once our role as The Annihilator is complete. We are, conveniently, already well on the path to this assuming that life only exists in this one place. Anthropogenic factors are at the heart of an ongoing mass extinction event - this should not be "rectified" by the so called "green", life-loving peaceniks. Indeed, this should be lauded as one of our greatest and finest accomplishments. The presence of life in this reality is like so much excrement on God's finest china. I therefore posit that that is the great evil which should be rectified posthaste.
Thank you. That is all.
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2021-02-18 at 8:44 PM UTC in Dozens develop serious blood disorder after getting Covid vaccineThis is something we should all be concerned about.
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2021-02-18 at 7:14 PM UTC in Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
Originally posted by Obbe Massive Methane Craters in Siberia Permafrost:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/world/siberia-craters-arctic-climate-change-scn/index.html
I've read methane is something like 80x worse than carbon for trapping heat … and there's massive stores of methane trapped in the permafrost. Now that the permafrost is melting, these stores will continue to be released, causing an exponential increase in temperatures, causing more melting and more release, etc.
Methane, I've heard, also breaks down fairly quickly. It has an atmospheric half-life under a decade. Not to say that permafrost methane sinks don't pose a threat, but any threat they pose will thankfully solve itself in (relatively) short order. -
2021-02-18 at 5:54 PM UTC in Who's Sassy, Who is Saucy and Who is Sassy SauceI'm just built different.
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2021-02-18 at 5:41 PM UTC in Remember when Semizas started taking smack?Last I heard Semi was a self-righteous 12-stepper. Hope he's:
1) Doing alright.
2) Stopped thinking he's such hot shit for quitting.
