ApostleO

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[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Imagine how hard it would be to resist wording things in the Imperative just... Accidentally.

You get frustrated, yell "Shut up!" at someone in passing, and that person is now mute unless you realize your mistake and undo it.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 30 points 5 months ago (19 children)

To confirm what you mean by "I'm a conservative", which of these commonly held "conservative" beliefs (each which implies a lack of empathy) do you not subscribe to (i.e. "I don't think like that...")

  • Black people only get harassed by police more often because they commit more crime.
  • Gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry.
  • Women should not have the choice of abortion.
  • The state is allowed to infringe upon free speech to prevent you from telling children about gay people.
  • Foreigners are ruining this county.
  • Climate change is a lie.
  • COVID was a lie.
  • Contemporary statues honoring Confederate traitors and slave owners are "honored cultural heritage".
  • All corporate media lies about Donald Trump, except that corporate media which supports him.
  • Rich people earned all that money, and we have no right to take it back, or to limit how they use it.
[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Horrible article title, obviously written to be misleading clickbait.

They didn't delete the pension fund.

They deleted the Google Cloud account running the management of said fund.

It was inaccessible for a week, but has been fixed.

Big fuck up, and big news. But on the level of "hurts Alphabet stock and panics people for a week" not "bankrupts countless people, maybe crushing a whole nation's economy."

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Might subcategorize, like "Frankensteinian irony."

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

That, or she should be named "Mary" instead, I guess.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, I put animal abusers in a lower circle of hell, along side child abusers.

It's about the power differential. The difference between a white adult male and a black adult female (for example) might be considerable, but its not going to be even close to the power differential between either of those adults and a child or a pet.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Confidence? Not so much. But it's less a fear of rejection, and more a fear of upsetting someone.

In short, my thought process goes like this:

  • Approaching women can make them uncomfortable.
  • I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable.
  • Therefore, I don't approach women.

I basically limit myself to online dating, but as we all know, that's a shit show unless you're in the top 10% on the scale of attractiveness. And so I've been single 10+ years.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Currently somewhere around 10 years single.

I struggle with social cues, anxiety, etc.

It's lonely.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Golly! Three whole data points?! Now we are cooking with gas!

/s

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.

Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it's 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.

Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.

EDIT:

Also, that's only a difference of 7%, so it's not even that drastic.

EDIT2:

Also also, what does any of this have to do with your post being removed? What was the post? Did the mod/admin give you a reason for removal?

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes! I've said for a while that any public statement by a politician should be treated as being "under oath", punishable as perjury as applicable.

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

US billionaires hold a collective $4.5 Trillion. A 2% wealth tax would be $90 Billion. That's simultaneously a shitload of money that could do so much good, and also a drop in the bucket for the US budget and deficit.

We need to raise taxes on the wealthy so, so much to save this country.

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