vimacs2

28 ms·

271.
by vimacs2 5y ago
This is how it will remain as long as Israel remains a useful tool for the US. The reasoning we're given for this near fanatical support is because they are one of the few allies they have in the Middle East but this is not really the
272.
by vimacs2 5y ago
Correct and it was also following a scathing interview Medhi Hasan had conducted with an Israeli official on Al Jazeera. I don't understand how anybody with their brain switched on can live with the delusion that Israel is somehow some
273.
by vimacs2 5y ago
For a possible motivation behind this attack that doesn't come out of the lying teeth of the IDF, there was a recent interview conducted by Medhi Hasan with an Israeli Official where he called him out on his doublespeak. This is not th
274.
by vimacs2 5y ago
Ok, so if there was a school that was taken over by terrorists in Tel Aviv, then the IDF's response would have been to bomb the school to dust, killing all the children inside, right? If the answer is no, then they are full of shit and
275.
by vimacs2 5y ago
My comment was not a critique of democracy, it was the contention that the US political system is not really democratic in a meaningful sense. If you're a fan of authoritarianism, you'd be happy to know that's where most of t
276.
by vimacs2 5y ago
I'm curious if you use Nvidia or AMD because for me (a rx 390 owner), Doom Eternal not only runs flawlessly on Linux, it's performance is out of the box better than on Windows. As for stuff like PUBG and Apex Legends, that's
277.
by vimacs2 5y ago
Absolutely correct. Arguing that "rocket science is a solved problem" just because we have the rocket equation and the rest is just engineering is basically saying that condensed matter physics is just engineering because we alrea
278.
by vimacs2 5y ago
Calling the US a true democracy would have been a stretch at any point in it's history but in the age of lobbyists, two party entrenchment, and arbitrary term limits, it's more accurate to call the US a capitalist plutocracy. You
279.
by vimacs2 5y ago
Absolutely. I consider unsolicited ads a form of violence and laugh at anybody who even tries to shame me into watching any of them. As for the accusation of effectively stealing content via refusing to allow for their (shitty) form of mone
280.
by vimacs2 5y ago
That is absolutely not "the main problem" with Teams. It's UI is not very well thought out at all and notifications work with the reliability of a rooster on ketamine. The only three value propositions Teams has over Discord
281.
by vimacs2 5y ago
It's because they don't mean the actual left, they really mean "people with nearly identical economic politics to me but are marginally less overtly racist and homophobic". The same people who with a straight face compar
282.
by vimacs2 5y ago
1. Nobody mentioned capitalism or alternatives in the parent comment. 2. Capitalism is not "natural" either and only started developing in the post-renaissance world. 3. Natural selection demonstrates conclusively that relying on
283.
by vimacs2 6y ago
All good points. However, just as an fyi, you can use stuff like GApps to use Playstore Apps without having to buy into Google's digital anal probing.
284.
by vimacs2 6y ago
It's running Lineage OS which is pretty close to stock Android sans a lot of the invasive Google telemetry so it will probably run smoother than you would expect given the specs.
285.
by vimacs2 6y ago
It makes sense that for people who struggle with subtlety, the explicit world of academia and religion would be highly appealing. It's difficult to reverse engineer the dynamics of the subtle in the language of the literal but I suspec
286.
by vimacs2 6y ago
I mostly agree except for the fact that I don't really think the gaming community are that dangerous to antagonise for a company at all considering that Activision and EA together are some of the most hated companies in both the gaming
287.
by vimacs2 6y ago
Well considering the sheer extent and breadth of influence that Amazon has, I'm not sure how narrow it really is to write on Amazon's abuses. Besides, you're comparing apples and oranges. It would be a better comparison if th
288.
by vimacs2 6y ago
Sure but you are being disingenuous if you think that the outrage on Activision is even remotely comparable to the backlash against feminism in gaming. There is also no actual objective problem that feminism has caused to gaming that gamers
289.
by vimacs2 6y ago
Probably because the actual influence of "official" video game journalists has waned significantly compared to individual critics on Youtube and other platforms. Yes, it's pretty pathetic that somebody who's job involves
290.
by vimacs2 6y ago
Well considering we already had a successful landing of sorts with SN10, I think this is a little premature. Yes, it exploded 8 minutes afterwards but it does not seem like that had much to do with the stresses of the landing manoeuvre. The
291.
by vimacs2 6y ago
This rings so true and is seen in a lot of other industries as well. I believe the world of gaming is among the worst for this where hordes of customers ardently defend the clearly abusive practices of multinational companies that do not gi
292.
by vimacs2 6y ago
Let's not redefine "patent trolling" as bad thing big bad company does. This was clearly a mistake borne from the outsourcing of brand protection onto a firm that clearly is not the greatest at their job. Thankfully, somebody
293.
by vimacs2 6y ago
So you think a young prostitute flown into a remote Island by a billionaire is able to consent with 100% impartiality? It's not the specific age that is the biggest issue here - the age of consent in my country is 16. It's the age
294.
by vimacs2 6y ago
How can you seriously claim that there is somehow more media attention on the sexual misconduct of software engineers than Hollywood? There is probably more articles and news coverage on the acts of Harvey Weinstein alone than every sexual
295.
by vimacs2 6y ago
To play a little bit of defense here, there was definitely a bit of manipulation here by Epstein himself by gathering all these scientists and engineers, many of whom were assured that their colleagues would be there - framing it as a conve
296.
by vimacs2 6y ago
That's a fair rebuttal, my bad. However, one thing that plants do more during the night without any bio-mechanical necessity attached to it is the release of auxin which is the flora analogue to growth hormone, just like animals do dur
297.
by vimacs2 6y ago
I'm fairly supportive of RMS and his movement but are you seriously failing to see why someone who is not "woke" might have a problem with somebody playing apologetics for their friend for committing statutory rape? It's
298.
by vimacs2 6y ago
I don't necessarily buy that this is equivocating anything. How else would you define sleep scientifically other than as a nightly cycle that follows a circadian rhythm and propagates metabolic and hormonal changes throughout the body?
299.
by vimacs2 6y ago
While I agree that it's silly to pretend like dreams are something exclusive to humans (especially considering that our prefrontal cortex is largely deactivated during them anyway), I think it can be misleading to categorise all animal
300.
by vimacs2 6y ago
The simple answer to this of course is you do not "de-orbit anything large". In fact, such a thing is catastrophically wasteful since anything of significant mass that has already paid the heavy kinetic energy toll required to ge

More ›