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Comment · 5 years ago
> Marxist indoctrination

As opposed to good old fashion American indoctrination.

Comment · 5 years ago
Twitter threads are a confusing mess to look at and usually I can't figure out OP was trying to convey by posting a link to 30 tweets that probably should have been a text post somewhere.
Comment · 5 years ago
> I suspect that dark-mode-everywhere fans turn up their monitor brightness way too high and then complain about bright mode websites.

This weird contrived strawman scenario is an insult to people with disabilities.

Comment · 5 years ago
So then you'd be in favor of Universal Healthcare, subsidies for gym memberships for low income individuals, stricter regulations against lying/misleading in fast food/junk food, and stricter regulations/penalties for pollution?
Comment · 5 years ago
This is why it's basically illegal for businesses to ask someone to prove they need their service animal.

It's annoying as duck to 1.) have a disability in the first place and 2.) have every random person ever acuse you of lying about it for literally no reason.

Comment · 5 years ago
> being able to skim off the top of second hand sales

Steam's current strategy of "no second hand sales" (but better sales and distribution instead) really beats anything NFT has to offer and doesn't require forcing a blockchain and mintinv fees into the scenario.

Comment · 5 years ago
True, but if you invented writing today and decided to record a 500 year old story, in that scenario are you really likely to be able to discern what the term flood meant back then, or if the word flood was even in the original story? Hundreds of years later people who weren't there are going to get lazy with the details.
Comment · 5 years ago
>but there is no public reaction about the soviet union

There's literally non-stop public reaction against the Soviet Union, a country that stopped existing 30 years ago, especially in threads like this that are completely non-political. Case in point, you, congrats on being the first person who thinks watch connoisseurs are committing wronkthink by talking about watches.

You need a chrome/FF extension that adds to every comment an extra sentence like:

- "I disagree with Stalinist grain policies"

- "The Soviet Union murdered millions"

- "I think the Ukrainians are right to complain about the USSR"

- "They were too many gulags if you think about it"

- "But of the course, the Soviet Union was bad"

- "Stalin? No, I disavow him"

Then you don't have to derail a thread about watches to defend the Nazis and United States from the ghost of Stalin.

Comment · 5 years ago
That's incentive for someone living in silicon valley to not do it, but outside of the hubs most of the United States has miniscule demand for tech workers (using that term very loosely), and the majority of the world would average out to something like "30k, but the job only exists if you live in the capital".
Comment · 5 years ago
The scene with the mountains and the cloud was really cool. After that, there was some build up but kind of just went nowhere. "Here's some circles, now you can hallucinate the future" was overall a pretty underwhelming drift into fantasy.
Comment · 5 years ago
Much better explaination than that nonsense about off-screen wizards casting bootstrap spells onto the hexcubes.
Comment · 5 years ago
> It also somewhat bugs me that pretty invariably the folks that crap all over these movies are huge Trek or Babylon 5 fans, shows that have endless literal magic in them, and they're just fine with it.

Interstellar was heavily hyped as being "realistic".

Comment · 5 years ago
Meanwhile Microsoft and "app" developers are training normal users to avoid updates by continuing to push anti-user updates...
Comment · 5 years ago
Also the "I'm withholding simple answers to simple questions until you give me a full backstory".
Comment · 5 years ago
> Then don't make them devine

Nobody is making them devine, they do it themselves and pat themselves on the back for reading that XY problem article and spamming XY "answers" everywhere.

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