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Also I'm frankly offended that that response made you think I was drunk. That post was one of the more concise things I've ever written. @Commissar SFLUFAN holla atcha boy if you agree

I'm sober right now

It just means when you get a topic that is so complex it would take the writing of an entire novel that it makes me go ".... Ehhh..." The British empire absolutely did more harm than good to anyone who wasn't British (that was the whole point of colonialism) but disentangling the effects of colonialism from modern society given the benefits (or lack there of) of industrialization is something that has earned people PhDs. You're certainly not going to get a concise answer from some drunk pseudo intellectual on the Internet.

On IGN I mostly posted on Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy. And basketball, at least later. A few other things here and there. The only people I really remember from there are @Commissar SFLUFAN and @Jason. Not from those boards, I think I saw them mostly on a couple of the insider-only boards like DVD general or whatever, which I wasn't very active in. I also remember @CastlevaniaNut18 posting in final fantasy occasionally.

Your mom has bad faith

... You know what... Fuck you.

They pushed rocks up a hill. It's actually not rocket surgery. They had teams of thousands of people. They would build dirt ramps to move the massive blocks into place. We build large buildings with cranes, they built large buildings by making a big pile of dirt.

We are the aliens, dummy. The story of Atlantis was a fable, but assuming it's real, we're both descendants from it. In fact, if you only go back ~30 generations, it's almost 100% certain that we have a common ancestor. That's kind of wild to think about. I am a descendant of Charlemagne and Muhammad. So are you, probably. Your ancestors double every generation. If my math is correct, if you go 30 generations back, the 30th generation alone would be over a billion people

Because we didn't follow through with it. The Capitalist class always wins. Slave appropriation actually was supposed to happen. Every slave owning land owner should have been stripped of their land after the war. All of them. The land should have been held in a trust with formerly enslaved people given the first opportunity to own said land. Yes, I am aware that would have led to economic collapse of the south. I respond with "fuck em" I will say that Rutherford Hayes takes an unfair beating when it comes to the end of reconstruction. Yes, he only became president in exchange for pulling troops out of the south, but guess what would have happened immediately if tilden became president? He fucking campaigned on ending southern occupation. Reconstruction was doomed to fail by 1876, no matter who was president. We should have punished the rebels. The fact that Jefferson Davis and the one dude who ran the POW camp were the only confederates who ever saw consequences for their actions is stupid.

I'm not obsessed with you, I'm obsessed with your perfectly sculpted buttocks

Always, I'm just careful about it

Bad faith means you already have a preconceived notion of the answer you want before you even ask the question. At best you're seeking affirmation of beliefs you already have, at worst you're trying to manipulate information to suit your agenda. For example, I recently saw a Prager U video that claimed the US was the first country to ban slavery. The thing is... Thats kind of true if you bend the facts to your needs and squint really hard. See, the US didn't ban slavery itself, it banned the importation of new enslaved people from Africa. See? Technically correct. France banned it first in 1797, but Napoleon reinstituted slavery later, so that doesn't count because of the "no take-backsies" clause. Britain banned the Atlantic slave trade the year before the US did, BUT... The United States voted to do it 20 years before. Haiti doesn't count because they never allowed the slave trade to begin with. See what I mean? Yes, the United States was, in a very particular lense, the first nation to ban the slave trade. It's bad faith to use that argument as some sort of evidence that the US is inherently colorblind and egalitarian, as Prager U would have you believe.

I'm bored and haven't slept much recently. I would love to think about something other than bartending or data entry. Hit me with your hottest takes/questions. Today is my Friday. I'm sure I'll probably pass out as soon as I get home at 4am tonight.

The only reason I subscribe to their YouTube channel is essentially to get alerts when they put a new episode out, since I can't keep up with all of their sabbaticals. Side note: it is pretty dope that they put the "main story" of each episode on YouTube for free the minute it gets uploaded to HBO

The only thing I can't stand with those fuckers is when they come with frame interpolation or whatever it's called by default and then make it a bitch to turn off. Like, if the thing I'm watching was filmed in 24fps, don't fucking play it back in 120. It just makes everything look floaty and weird.

I had a really long night at work that really sucked. I just got home and saw this... This was something I really needed today.

Your child is still young enough that the cough will never go away. At least not for long.

I miss actual flash sales. I understand why they're not doing them anymore, but I swear I spent 3x as much money overall when they did

I just... What? Steel Panther already exists... They're just Spinal Tap in real life... I don't get the point of this. Spinal Tap was a funny movie, but satirising something that doesn't exist anymore is kind of stupid. It would be like if someone remade Dazed and Confused today. The people who thought it was funny at the time aren't going to think it's funny again and the people who weren't alive at the time won't get the joke

I probably still have the ladymilkshake masturbation video saved somewhere. I couldn't tell you where that might be, but it exists somewhere in my digital footprint. Don't upload videos of yourself playing DJ diddles on the internet unless someone is paying you for it.

And yet Amazon just straight up throws away millions upon millions of dollars of stuff everyday because selling products at a discount devalues them, so it makes more economic sense to throw excess stock in the trash... Free market is never wrong, babyyyy. #FreeMarket4lyfe I spent a few months working for a charity during lockdown because I realized drinking whiskey from the bottle in my underwear all day probably wasn't a great long term plan. We just went around in box trucks to different Amazon Warehouses to pick up as much shit as we could fit in the truck and bring it to food banks, donation centers, or whatever. It was all stuff that was going to get thrown in the trash. One time we went to their local food warehouse and they literally had enough chicken to fill up like at least 4 trucks that was all going to get thrown out so they could make room for more chicken. We filled almost an entire trucks worth of chicken, took half of it to a church and the other half to a food bank. The rest presumably got thrown out.

Being on the vesti during peak hours was like being on cocaine. I feel like it couldn't exist anymore the same way it did, like every thread would turn into a woke snowflake fight. I mean, 75% of threads would just turn into "lol u mad," but the 25% that didn't were fun.

It's not about caring about the abuser. It's about understanding they will eventually be free again someday. At what point do we start putting effort into actually making sure that they've changed for the better? Otherwise, what's the point of any of it? He's just going to get out and start abusing more people. Apologies if that sounded insensitive, I don't mean to minimize your own experience.

You may be right in a sense. I certainly think punishment is a part of rehabilitation. Being forced to face the consequences of your actions in a way that makes you uncomfortable should be a thing. I just also think there's a point at which that isn't helpful anymore and it just becomes sadism. Inflicting suffering on someone else to make us feel better, at the expense of everyone, including our future selves.

You're right, the problem is that almost all of these people that we root for to be tortured do have to get released someday. Even most murderers don't die in prison. Derek Chauvin himself will be released in 15 years. What kind of person do you want them to be when that day comes and they move in next door? Punishment for the sake of punishment makes us feel better, but it doesn't make society better. The question, then, is what is the whole point of any of this? If the justice system is just about punishment, then we should have just executed Derek Chauvin and been done with it. But we can't do that, so....? What, we just hope he gets raped and stabbed until his release date? That doesn't help anybody. Of course, any actual prison reform is political suicide, so it won't happen. People can't stand the idea of a murderer just sitting in prison, eating ramen noodles and playing spades on taxpayer dime. But I would argue that the justice system shouldn't give a shit about what those people think. The justice system should only be concerned with society as a whole, and the betterment of society as a whole would say "fuck your feelings."