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@Bones
As I said, the same people saying trans people get to play their gender, wouldn't let furries genuinely play out their animal persona.
I agree with you but from the opposite side; I'm actually for the freedom and fantasy as long as we admit it's a fantasy.
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@Bones
'Rase' actually is ethnicity, we just do to ethnicity what anti trans people do to gender, literally.
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The entire adult population aged 22/23+ in United Kingdom should undergo intensive intelligence testing and correlate this 'deep intelligence score' to whether they were for or against Brexit originally at the point of the referendum.
Then, the same data from the intensive intelligence testing should be compared to whether they believe that Putin is fighting to stop Nazis in Ukraine or if that is a cover-up justification and it's actually genocide (or if they believe a third option).
This anonymised data result then should be released to the world and lead to understanding if certain political outlooks are genuinely held by less intelligent people with strong correlation or not.
Until tests like this are done in case-studies that can render clear-cut results, the belief system of fools will always be able to hide behind political correctness (ironic, since most of them oppose political correctness when it suits them).
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@n8nrgim
Letting it get shut down benefits me and this is my new home. If DART and even oldschool DDO went to war, I'd be DART warrior to the bitter end.
That said, if I lacked my vendetta against Airmax and DDO, I probably would say this still:
DART's design and mechanics with DDO userbase is the optimal outcome.
DDO let you have 10k maximum per debate Round but in its days before glitches it let you use images inside debates (wasn't easy to work out how though) and allowed you to do fancy formatting with HTML (which stopped after a certain somebody, not me, altered a group PM to have custom background colours and the site admin team, via Airmax, realised they needed to patch against that which is fair enough but they then also did so in debates).
If DART could allow more custom formatting in debates such that videos and images could be embedded, we'd be onto something truly phenomenal.
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@FLRW
Are you actually capable of comprehending a stance that is not atheist but is also not Catholic? If so, your above post about the Bishop seems to highlight a comprehension issue that led to this thread's creation.
Marie Curie, for instance is never seen to overtly be an atheist, she was a secular agnostic.
We can say she was a weak atheist then. At least specify that and then compare the intelligence of strong vs weak atheists, I predict that the weaker ones will come out on top.
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@FLRW
In your opinion which is a non-atheistic outlook first of all and ignores that conflation you made between not being a devout Abrahamic theist and being an atheist.
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@FLRW
Musk believes we are in a simulation, he literally has to believe in powerful entities outside the simulation even if he says otherwise.
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@FLRW
I'm aware, a deistic thinker would say that about the Judeo-Christian god.
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@ebuc
You aint rhyming, overpowered by my rapping, taste is sour,
You're some prey that I'll devour, a pretty garden I'll deflower,
You're ebuc the clucking cuck, the chicken-shit cockerel coward,
I'm more a raven than a dove, you're more flamingo, I'm more brown bird,
I'm that eagle that can see all from the clouds, you're getting scouted,
I'm the one that you dared fuck with and you'll regret you ever doubted.
You can't even fathom Adam with Eve, can't imagine or believe,
You're a faithless, predictable guy who's gonna panic, chill... breathe,
I'm not the one you wanna panic 'round, you arrogant steed,
You 'buck' and pose as wild but I'll tame you to the point that I'm a god in your creed,
It's methodical the way I'll gain a following, E, make you a cub for the pride of Judah, I'm the alpha, son, get on your knees,
That is an order, no need for thoughts on it, just simply follow my lead,
Or I'll show you the wrath of a fire-blooded deity that you dared to be make bleed.
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@FLRW
Einstein was not an atheist, he was deistic.
You named plenty of people who did not explicitly state they were atheist ever.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Please host this later if you cancel it for now
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@MisterChris
Dude... that is one of the most dangerous countries on Earth...
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@ILikePie5
I prefer to be cautious... protected by reasoning... before I go all in but to each their own.
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@rosends
Is there contents in the Torah that are significant and not in the Old Testament Bible?
If what you are saying is true, it sounds like a maybe.
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@SirAnonymous
Pulling out is a risky practise. Please be more careful next time.
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@Swagnarok
Why exactly are you being like that?
What is it you are even asking if that was all you wanted?
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@SirAnonymous
Comma before connector is shady business
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Uncrackable theme split esp with the huge fake claim pool.
Unsolvable role split.
Not sure how this was balanced.
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@rosends
What's the punishment exactly? Your soul is just smited when you die?
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@Swagnarok
"I opted to stay out of it, keen not to meddle in the disputes of others."
I would just structure this backward.
I was keen to avoid meddling in the disputes of others, thus I opted out of getting involved.
'keen not to' is a tonal juxatposition, keenness is leaning into affirmative tone whereas 'not to' would be a hesitant tone (idc if this is official or not, I'm telling you why it's faulty English even if it's technically correct).
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@Swagnarok
I am not claiming any official 'major' or professional expertise in English, I can tell you I have excellent command of the English language it's just I type lazily at times (and my lazy is genuinely most people's average unless I'm really tired and typoing).
I can tell you that this also confused me for a long time and what I ultimately discovered is that the 'correct' time to use commas is no different than the correct time to flirt with someone a little. It's difficult to crack, requires nuance and basically takes mimicking when others who you know are good at English and noticing when they do and don't use it.
I want you to ignore every rule you ever read about commas (except during listing which is mechanical) and think of this question:
"If I were to say this sentence all in one go, how unpleasant and unnatural would it sound and where would most people who speak fluent English prefer the pause to be?"
^ That was a long sentence, some would even call it bad English. The secret to good writing is having most of your sentences smooth to read in one's head even if it's not being read out loud. Even deaf people 'pause' while reading, it's also why good speakers don't have 'uhs' and 'erms' or 'y-yknow' Jordan Peterson style stammering. Instead, what they do instead is allow themselves to breathe in deep and pause, pacing their speech so it all hits the ear (or in this case, eye) at an appropriate time for one intaking it to truly soak it in.
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@Castin
@rosends
I know that there is a practice among some non-Jews to say a prayer to St. Anthony when something is lost. There is a similar practice among some people in Judaism (https://rmbhcharities.com/lost-object/) . It hasn't really caught on though. Years ago, when my mother-in-law was alive, she used to point out that she said a prayer to St. Anthony to find stuff (even though she was Jewish). It annoyed my wife so much that every time my MIL lost something, my wife would say the Jewish equivalent so if my MIL bragged that St. Anthony helped, my wife would say "no, it was God, because I said this other prayer."No, my wife didn't believe that the prayer allowed the thing to be found. But it DID annoy her mother, so...
So basically you can ask for things when you want to...
Maybe you're flexing a humility that just isn't quite there in this religion. In fact, I'd argue that very few humans would bother with an unrewarding god for the same reason that Socialism ultimately fails; even kind humans are generally wired to seek 'thank yous' towards them as rewards and smiles etc.
Humans psychologically react to punishment and reward, we can try and escape it or admit it and embrace it, religions that avoid this aspect of human nature ultimately wither away while those that push it hardest are irrationally the most mainstream.
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@3RU7AL
as far as i can tell, only one member is in favor of changing the rules
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As socialists would say, don't hate the player, hate the game.
As social democrats would say, don't simply nerf the rich, buff the poor.
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I have to abuse the demonic study of
Biology
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Everybody's all Jewish and Islamic with prayer until they lose their glasses or keys.
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@Greyparrot
One of many articles and documentaries.
Even Conservative Russians do not support citizen gun rights, neither did Hitler's populace.
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@Greyparrot
No, I mean appeal like he has done to the far right in Russia from day one.
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@ILikePie5
I see, where did Putin pick up the terms 'cancel culture'?
He tried to refer to cancel culture because Rowling was (indeed) cancelled for her TERF views.
In retort to him she tweeted (and has still supported and paid to) Ukraine fund pointing out that her supporting people such as this lesbian who only wants to date cis women as not being bigoted has fuck all to do with a genocide in Ukraine.
Putin is pulling every right-wing heart string he can, not necessarily to relate to the Western right wing but definitely in part (hoping he gets more people to resent the sanction effects in US and vote against Dems next election). Putin has always, consistently appealed to the equivalent of right-wing Fascists/hyperconservatives in Russia that Trump appeals to in the US. That is a fact you can never deny.
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@ILikePie5
If Trump didn't do sanctions, he'd lose everyone other than his core Trump-cult supporters.
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@ILikePie5
To the contrary. It’s a win win situation. No sanctions and you get Ukraine. Didn’t think that one through did ya?
No it really is not. If you actually think it works as simple as you say, that the teams are as in your face as you say, you are just a naive fool.
Barely anything in high level geopolitics is as it immediately seems, deception is the name of the game.
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@ILikePie5
Here get your brownie points for being an ethnic Indian Trump supporter. If that pun offends you, Trump should have long ago, I posted it to entertain you as you seem to only be here for a laugh.
Everyone talks about Biden but Trump would have been even more spineless most likely, since he's owned by Putin but let's not go into that right? (I know what you will reply to this, I am ready to respond what I did before).Putin owns Trump so much that he decided to wait until Biden was in office to invade Ukraine. Trump is on Putin’s payroll but waits until Biden gets in office to take Ukraine #Logic
I will now try to reiterate exactly what I stated when the war had not even officially begun.
- The invasion forces Biden to either look like a war hawk or be a coward, both which can swing him into defeat next election cycle as it's gonna be close just like the prior election was and some people vote irrationally and will ignore all the good the Dems have since his instatement for that.
- If you own Trump, there is absolutely no reason at all to put him in a predicament where he has to drive gas prices up, make Russia threaten the US with nuclear attack not even subliminally and be either a war hawk or a spineless coward.
Simple. Didn't think that one through.
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@Greyparrot
You know, I never actually insulted Trump for his ridiculous spray tan choice and the other stuff like the way his lips look like an anus.
I am saying these things now because they're well known and others focused on picking on it just like he focused on abusing others for being short, submissive, this and that.
The fact is I don't even fault him for being an arrogant cunt in attitude, you can be an effective arrogant cunt in chief but he was anything but.
That is my belief, that is what I see it as and he brought every iota of hatred onto himself by the hatred he threw out there to entire ethnicities in his campaign. He posed as a defender of the white American, then posed as anything but when called out on it and ended up nothing but a scumbag sore loser who incited a violent insurrection and did all sorts of shit verbal and even physical in Iraqi soil (to an Iranian general) to make the US on the verge of actual serious war with North Korea, Iran so on and so forth.
Everyone talks about Biden but Trump would have been even more spineless most likely, since he's owned by Putin but let's not go into that right? (I know what you will reply to this, I am ready to respond what I did before).
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@Vader
Supadudz, I actually am not sure why we get along so well. If I am honest with you, I never really particularly felt strongly either way about you and given our gap in years and study focus (as far as I know you have very little interest in sciences), I would have assumed to not like you but wow, I was wrong!
You and I have so much in common if we look past the stuff that first meets the eye, we watch similar Animes, like social games like Mafia, see moderation as a fundamentally libertarian-leaning idealistic state of equilibrium to the point where I can honestly say I never got somebody so wrong before. You have matured so much as things have progressed and shocked me with your ability to see and improve upon your flaws even on this website alone, I cannot imagine how much more significant your changes IRL have been. You truly grew up, matured and became somebody I am shocked to see ever got into trouble with the mods (actually you are the only mod I've ever come across who got on the bad side of the very mods he ended up respected by and working alongside).
You never back down on what you believe in, you truly shaped the mod team in ways none of the leaders ever saw coming I am sure, even though I was only a voting moderator at the time you were introduced. You are the reason certain hard calls didn't end up as permabans... Which honestly I was on the fence about, you taught me things that people think Airmax was all about but I personally saw issues with (freedom-first); I appreciate working alongside you, I enjoy playing games like mafia alongside you and last but not least, I saw an approach to moderating from you that I've not been introduced to before. You are freedom-first, pure honesty and the website is fortunate to have you on it.
And yes, that's correct, I don't idolize Airmax.
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@coal
So... What did 'well regulated' mean? Instead of telling us what you think it didn't mean, tell us what it meant. So far you have not even alluded to it, you basically said every citizen no matter what should get firearms.
What does that even mean? How is that regulated?
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@ILikePie5
GF Riots were more traumatizing. But who cares about that right? When the everyday American gets hurt it doesn’t matter, but when politicians are threatened, there’s an outroar. They work for us, not the other way around.
If you were a politician you shouldn't be justified to receive abuse because you work 'for' the abusers, that's not really how it works.
As for the rest of what you wrote it's just rinse and repeat stuff from before.
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@3RU7AL
yeah i'm gonna have to block you. You are honestly delusional. I challenged your ESFJ conclusion.
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@3RU7AL
Self-described CONSERVATIVES are the ones who are more likely to "MISGENDER" someone.Are you honestly suggesting that LIBERALS are the ones who are more likely to call the cops on someone in a public bathroom for "wearing the wrong clothes" ?
I never remotely suggested it at all, I think you are becoming lost in your bad faith arguments to the point that you're quoting yourself in order to misconstrue what I said.
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@3RU7AL
I never said "all".And an "S" type actually has a very strong perception of reality.
Self-described CONSERVATIVES are the ones who are more likely to "MISGENDER" someone.Self-described CONSERVATIVES don't care about "real-reality" like they keep insisting.Self-described CONSERVATIVES are consistently OVERCONFIDENT in their personal opinions regarding their perceptions of the world around them.Classic "S" (ESFJ)
Something does not add up here. Where is it you elaborate on what your point even is?
Is your point just that you are limited or something? You just said S has the opposite to what you said is 'classic S' ...
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@3RU7AL
I can now tell you are arguing in completely bad faith when you reply to my 'lets say I am' as literal and sidetrack the entire thing, while ignoring the important part.
I have replied in depth to you and you replied to one fucking line from it a few posts ago.
You are just being toxic and petty here, regardless of whatever your actual stance is (because at this point I think you are just trying some mental gymnastics for the hell of it).
You haven't replied to over 90% of what I wrote to you in the past few posts, you just quote snippets and barely reply to the words in them, instead you misconstrue and contort.
I am not interested in this exchange, you are completely bad faith or straight up stupid. Whichever it is, I am out. When you want to actually reply to the stuff you ignored, let me know by replying to it. There are several questions you didn't answer and several lines you didn't show you took in even indirectly by your replying.
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@ILikePie5
Facts would say that far more cops should commit suicide in the time after GF Riots. Point me to them please. As far as I know, you can’t read the mind of a dead person.
No, this is the point. There was something deeply traumatising about the Capitol Riots that has shaken many, not just the 4 that committed suicide. It was domestic terrorism to force an agenda (which ironically I have said elsewhere that is a whole problem with the 2nd Amendment's pitting of people against government in a violent sense).
Do you believe or not believe that the US requires a violent coup in order to achieve optimal respect and decent treatment of its populace? If your answer is no, you automatically should oppose the Capitol Riots unless you believe that unnecessary violence with completely non-consenting victims that costs state-paid law enforcement's time and effort, ends up resulting in 1 directly dying and 4 committing suicide and mentally scarring others and buildings paid by tax money being damaged, requiring taxes to need to increase to cover it.
It is simple, you're trying to constantly point a finger elsewhere. The riots surrounding George Floyd had majority peaceful protests, it was entirely nationwide in US, the minority that got aggressive and violent other than statue-removals, were thugs hijacking the 'cause' for a thrill. In the end, you can choose your narrative, I do not particularly care what you say or think.
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@3RU7AL
I made an error before that I edited to be 3.25/50 but to be clear:
25/50 baseline gender correct guessing.
(25/8)/50 baseline MBTI correct guessing.
The odds become more in your favor the more genders that there are and more prominent that the non-binary ones are.
I am curious if you are pushing for they/them pronouns or transition to she/her and he/him pronouns.
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@3RU7AL
Do you see the problem here?Self-described CONSERVATIVES are the ones who are more likely to "MISGENDER" someone.Self-described CONSERVATIVES don't care about "real-reality" like they keep insisting.Self-described CONSERVATIVES are consistently OVERCONFIDENT in their personal opinions regarding their perceptions of the world around them.Classic "S" (ESFJ)
So all people who call themselves conservatives are ESFJ and have weak perception of reality? Literally all?
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@3RU7AL
The instinctive answer is because she is a female who has always been so. As for your answer, that's just lazy.the problem with that is it doesn't defend trans people.
How is this not 'specific'?
I'm asking where you draw the idea that she was mistaken as a woman without harming the trans agenda.
You then mention birth certificate.
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@3RU7AL
Are you suggesting that these women, who were born women (according to their birth-certificate and drivers license), and have always identified as women, that these women were NOT mistaken for men and harassed for being in a women's public bathroom ?Do you see the problem here?
Actually, let's say I am since you want to force it to be a claim.
Let's say I am indeed claiming that these cisgendered women are entitled to be mistaken for men. How can you say I am wrong if you do not refer to the fact that they are female or what precise way did you determine that they have always gone by female because a birth-certificate mentions sex, not gender, even though it uses the term 'gender' it is clearly based on the genitalia alone.
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@3RU7AL
how do we know for sure that the people telling her to get out were mistakenly calling her a him/he?Read at least one of the articles.Ask a specific question.
I did :)
The instinctive answer is because she is a female who has always been so. As for your answer, that's just lazy.
the problem with that is it doesn't defend trans people.
Alternatively, we could say that on texts, IRL interactions etc she's always wanted to be a she/her.
Why didn't you reply to the rest of what I wrote, are you okay with your reading comprehension?
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@3RU7AL
If by sample bias you mean a necessary social skill level required for you not to offend the fuck out of someone who isn't particularly androgynous in appearance and/or fashion then sure.
I can tell that your stances are written from somebody who barely can get by socially, that's why you think you're superior to others. The reason I am going as far as to overtly ad hominem here is that I gave you a full-scale open chance to justify to me how you get by in daily life dealing with men and women that you refuse to presume the gender of.
You could not so either you're being a hypocrite here or you don't really interact enough to understand.
Also, if you were interested, I am actually capable of spotting feminine and masculine personalities over text like you say you can spot MBTI Jung personality types.
The difference is I'm already baseline 25/50 likely to be right and work my way up. Your baseline is 3.125/50 likelihood to be right. I have actually made threads even on here showing my reads on people in the past, which shocked them (not the whiteflame impersonation thread, that's just entertainment). If you want me to tell you what I think of you ask some questions to me on PM, if you were curious I assess you to be an ISTP but I don't put massive amounts of weight on myers-briggs as it ignores severity of each and how significanty that can impact a personality, I also feel it's misunderstood P/J because they aren't opposites but I'll debate that later.
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@ILikePie5
I’ve read all of that. You’re acting as if I don’t. But I want to hear you admit that GF Riots were far more violent and destructive in a couple minutes than J6 was the entire day.
I can admit the scale was larger, so much larger than the minority that got so severely violent and riot-prone were significantly such and that is primarily because thugs and antifa hijacked the riots. One of the shoplifters was Jake Paul, a famous white youtuber.
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