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by tonguez 5y ago
"Everyone watches TV" No
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by tonguez 5y ago
Your italics seem to be indicating an “appeal to incredulity”. But you don’t present any actual logical argument for why anyone should not believe it was leaked intentionally.
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by tonguez 5y ago
“ Not just coincidentally, “deaths of despair” — those caused by suicide, overdose and alcoholism — have surged to unprecedented levels among middle-aged men over the past 20 years.” The vast majority of those suicides are coming from a spe
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by tonguez 5y ago
“ I never understood why people would want to take drugs to see the shit and live the suffering I have all my life but that's where we are...” Maybe you just have no idea what you’re talking about and these drugs don’t produce an exper
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by tonguez 5y ago
Paying rent falls under "your spending", so "stopping your spending" makes you homeless. Being homeless is not "nothing".
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by tonguez 5y ago
Having someone who is dependent on you definitely makes you important, whether that's kids or your dying grandmother or something else. But creating that dependency explicitly as a means to feel important is just weird. "I have a
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by tonguez 5y ago
The most philanthropic thing he could do would be to go back in time and undo everything he's done in his life. Which is basically enrich himself at the expense of everyone else, causing trillions of hours of human lives to be wasted d
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by tonguez 5y ago
This book gets recommended a lot probably because it relates to the Holocaust, but it's worth pointing out that "Man’s Search for Meaning" describes itself as "a story". It's not a philosophical book. If you wa
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by tonguez 5y ago
What does it say about society that you can make $500K and feel like you haven't achieved much? A lot of the "work" people do probably isn't very helpful to most people, except maybe some rich person who owns (a part of)
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by tonguez 5y ago
The web page you linked seems like it was written by someone who lives in a basement and has never logged off of Twitter. “ We defined “prominent far-right figures/prominent far right talking points” posts as those that contain promine
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by tonguez 5y ago
That's like saying you enjoy buying lottery tickets because you like to fantasize about what you're going to do with all the money once you get it.
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by tonguez 5y ago
yes they do! i read this website for months before posting and then all my posts would always get deleted or deleted secretly. so i realized ive just been reading propaganda this whole time. i was gutted. feels like ive been lied to the ent
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by tonguez 5y ago
He left The Intercept because The Intercept wouldn't publish Glenn's story about Hunter Biden because you're not allowed to criticize Biden because TLAs want Biden. Greenwald obviously is mostly known for exposing the crimes
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by tonguez 5y ago
"Gender studies are a sociological study because there is no gender without some social structure enforcing it." Everything is a social construct, right... Really heady, intelligent stuff. Extremely interesting. Mindblowing. &quot
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by tonguez 5y ago
Yes, I remember back in the day the girls would always try to come into the computer lab to play video games. My friends and I were always like, "GET OUT! WE HATE WOMEN!" Then they left. The girls wanted to learn how to code so ba
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by tonguez 5y ago
"What basic freedom are these companies trampling?" Freedom of speech
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by tonguez 5y ago
What does this drivel even mean? Everyone likes to be paid. Everyone does not like to pay. Digital technology has eliminated media scarcity. Some people want to artificially create scarcity so that other people are forced to pay them. Fort
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by tonguez 5y ago
I think he’s saying that NFTs don’t matter, not that you don’t matter. You don’t need to get upset.
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by tonguez 5y ago
“ Whether that cultural habit is to reduce the incidence of inbreeding I've yet to find out, but it makes me wonder.” That’s racist. “The only way these people are going to be able to stop fucking their cousins as if they come up with
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by tonguez 5y ago
“Of course, but that's not really related to what I said.” You said sexuality is a “completely arbitrary and subjective social construct” and that “there's little point in trying to objectively categorize” it. Sex has been studied
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by tonguez 5y ago
The problem with framing this as a mental health crisis is that it implies the solution is in mental health services. Is there a mental health crisis in North Korea? No their lives are just terrible. Therapy isn’t going to help people in No
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by tonguez 5y ago
"For me, it only "clicked" once I understood that gender and sexuality are completely arbitrary and subjective social constructs that try to describe a whole spectrum of multidimensional behaviors and (potentially repressed)
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by tonguez 5y ago
Actually the opposite is true here; if you talk about certain data which is considered "bad", like crime statistics, your post will be shadowbanned because it's considered wrongthink (or as you might put it, "straight up
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by tonguez 5y ago
Many people have learned that making your own engine from scratch is a bad idea if you want to make a game. Your takeaway that game development itself is somehow dysfunctional doesn't necessarily follow from this.
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by tonguez 5y ago
Ketamine is really interesting drug but let's be honest, the reason you're depressed is probably not because you haven't done enough ketamine. Yes it's fun to do drugs... Going to Six Flags with good friends would also p
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by tonguez 5y ago
"Some brain cells don't churn as fast" None of them "churn". "The memory-of-a-memory thing" That "isn't a thing". "I don't remember the exact science" You also have no idea wh
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by tonguez 5y ago
OK? Is it my turn to say something irrelevant? Here goes: Elon Musk is worth $200 billion. Known fact. Or was.
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by tonguez 5y ago
"...human physical memory is only 7 years long. Thereafter there are only memories of memories, which often get twisted in the weirdest of ways." I hate to be that guy, but... you have no idea what you're talking about.
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by tonguez 5y ago
appeal to incredulity. bravo!
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by tonguez 5y ago
“No more experimental than any other vaccine” you are creating more vaccine hesitancy by saying this

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