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I guess! Possibly high effort, low reward but it could work I suppose.

Idea being those converts go on to do the work for you elsewhere.

But I still think they’re just people after this stage. Lots of people become communist on their own as well. You don’t need to glaze China to do it but it probably creates a bit of cognitive dissonance to see how awful it is there. So you ignore stuff like the uyghurs and pretend it’s amazing so you can pretend communism will work.

As everyone else has said, there is definitely this issue on Lemmy, when criticising China and Russia especially. Happened to me a few times. It’s weird.

I once did a test to see if the bias was really that bad and commented on a relevant news article on .ml something like “fuck Putin. Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine” maybe with a couple of extra similar phrases. Comment deleted by mods with no explanation. Insane.

I could just be paranoid but I’m fairly convinced the responses weren’t from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.

This is a common suggestion. I can see why people say it, but I just find it hard to believe people are really spending time here to do that. Wouldn’t you just go to reddit? What, do you want to convert the trekkies and Linux evangelists?

I think it’s much scarier than that: some people are just fucking nuts

It’s too on-the-nose to be satire

Now - if there is video or photos like we saw of Urban Meyer in American. Then you are caught red handed.

Seems like there is.

Jurors were shown a slowed-down version of CCTV footage of Spencer unsteady on his feet that night and of the moments he approached the women.

Given that he “approached” them from behind and grabbed their boobs. Then he was kicked out of the club. So yeah, it’s not drummed up noise.

Great question! Asking that is not just valid – it’s essential.

[Starts a war]

10 minutes later…

This is a very volatile section of the world, everyone should pay us for helping with it

That is the common argument, yeah.

Just going to add a bit of data: NYTS

7.1% of high school students report “current use” (meaning in the last 30 days), of those, 27.5% use daily. Works out to about 1.95% of high schoolers vaping daily. Lower for middle school. Fruit flavors are most popular (which is always true for adults too).

Cigarette smoking is down. Vaping is also down. Overall tobacco use is down.

Unfortunately no reporting on the % using nicotine there.

Honestly seems, like, pretty fine? Do you know what the youth smoking rate was prior to vapes being a thing?

Here: 2011 data

15.8%!! Of high schoolers smoked cigarettes.

Then one day your mate says “hey try this one! It tastes just like candy floss!” But surprise 20mg you’re hooked for life fool!

I think you’re overstating the addictiveness here. Going from 0 to 20 mg would not be super pleasant - more nicotine makes it harsher on your throat - and it isn’t that addictive. I’m sure you know people who smoked a few cigarettes without getting hooked, right? Even 20 mg vapes don’t give you blood nicotine levels as high as smoking.

I haven’t checked recently but I think your experience there doesn’t align with the statistics. Although for these people obviously yeah, vaping is dumb

Just imagine being addicted to nicotine but not wanting to die

I would argue my dick is used the vast majority of time, in a nonsexual manner

No doubt. If we’re talking % of time then basically nothing is sexual.

But primarily it is a sexual organ. That is why we have them. I think that’s the difference when it comes to your mouth example. Or hands as well. It’s a little silly to take it to that extreme.

But certainly people overreact about nudity

I think you have good points but it doesn’t fit with current social norms in most places. People respond like this because we don’t usually see people’s junk. Breaking this norm sends people’s minds right to sex because that’s when you usually see other people naked.

a naked body is not inherently a sexual object

Genuine question: what about a dick/vagina? Likewise it is natural and has other functions too. But it is an inherently sexual object, right?

If so, then I think it’s clear why people see naked bodies (literally, the stuff we see all the time + visible dick/vagina + nipples) as inherently sexual. Nudity is fine in theory, but you don’t get one without the other.

Just imagine! We would be so stuck. It would require some kind of hydrocarbon-based fuel to be held in storage just in case. Or we could try to split the atom. But that’s pure madness. It’d never work

“Low value energy” because “the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow.”

Oil, on the other hand, famously requires no effort whatsoever to locate, extract and refine before use. The wells are just spewing out oil constantly, for free, for eternity. We never have to transport it. Oil just spawns nearby population hubs as Allah yahweh JESUS wills it. There’s no way a hostile country could close a relatively small waterway and make that a lot less convenient. And no, oil will not run out eventually. It’s eternal. Omg what a cuck who cares about climate change? CO2 is just plant food. Did you fail high school science?

Thank you. I’m thrilled to be destroying the climate (and getting rich) on this blessed day of independence

Come, friendly data centres, and burn up Slough. It isn’t fit for humans now

The worst thing about this is when you actually get the money together but then afterwards you’re too broke to get the run off the ground. It needs something good to copy or it’s just dead weight.

Baron is definitely the worst offender for this because it sucks on a new run

I was wondering which line is most likely to come in. I think the middle row is a good bet in the earlier seasons (they had the CG inside body thing in basically every one)

Also maybe the top left to bottom right diagonal, but the blurry patient vision thing is not that common

Yeah I don’t like it but I do struggle to argue against it. He cares about justice, and wanted to make sure bajorans got fair treatment (in his area, at least) under the cardassians. But then again he worked for them.

Likewise he got a bit anti-“solid” racist from time to time and had a vaguely sexual relationship with the female founder, but then went back the link, calmed them all down and kind of stopped the war.

I feel like it’s one step forward but then also at least one step back.

Still my favourite character so I guess I’m just a hypocrite lol

There are a bunch of voters so wishy washy that they go from voting republican to voting democrat from election to election (even post 2016!), and centrists’ solution is to be just as wishy washy to attract them?

These people shift with the god damn wind. Don’t be a weather vane, be a fucking hurricane.

Yeah I was expecting a much worse price. Unfortunately I’m not ready to update my console yet, so I won’t buy on release like I did with V. But you can bet I’ll get it as soon as I upgrade.

To the people complaining about the stories in GTA games:

1. Rockstar made Red Dead 2. Great characters. Great story. Great writing. You haven’t played VI yet, the story could be awesome.

2. Some people just like to have fun. I play loads of story-focused games, narrative based, lore-rich, all types. But it’s still fun to drive around and shoot shit while listening to silly fake radio stations sometimes. Not everything has to be a thought-provoking artistic experience. Give me sticky bombs and a rock/punk station and I’ll be happy for hours.

Yes it’s overhyped. But it will be fucking awesome nonetheless

We told him ensign was the highest rank… as a joke!