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This OP is actually pretty disgusting, since it's not satire but genuinely meant.
You are comparing KKK and Nazis, who literally beat, shoot, lynch and/or gas their victims to death, to a movement that is intended to help avoid a series of unwanted, neglected children overpopulating an already extremely exchausted foster care system. That doesn't even begin to mention cases of rape or situations where a breadwinning spouse suddenly has ditched their newly pregnant spouse.
I mean this whole fucking OP is plain stupid but the comparison of Nazis and the KKK to pro-choicers and then comparing ACTIONS to SPEECH, is like a double-layered 'wtf'?
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@Mopac
You like to type propaganda. So let me reverse it on you.
What is Orthodox? Greek? Norse? What is the real Orthodox? What is the real Catholicism? Roman? Spanish? Indian? Irish? American? What? You tell me.
Your party is the divided one, not a single iota less so than Protestants are but they tend to agree on adapting to the times.
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@Bringerofrain
"let's put humanity first" (in the context of fighting both AI and the rich) is the slogan of his campaign.
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@Greyparrot
How noble of them, they 'built from scratch' without any government assistance. Just pure grit and severely intelligent strategy to be born to the Trumps and get a tiny loan here or there and paid-for delegated managers of their businesses who do the running for them.
Ohhh so noble! Not a single cent from the government? Fuck!
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@Bringerofrain
He is 100% anti-transhumanism, you are very mistaken about Yang's policies or in platform if you say that.
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As an Independent maybe he can run, the Republican politicians and donors fucking loathe him and the stain he's left on their party's/wing's reputation.
He's a lone island now, a pathetic shell of what he once was.
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@Bringerofrain
Your last sentence in that post is a complete lie. I haven't heard or seen/read Yang stating he wants AI-controlled policymaking and it would turn away all of his voter-base if he did.
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@Bringerofrain
- Name a more technophobic Dem Candidate.
- Explain how he's a technocrat.
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@Mopac
How are Protestants fake Christians?
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@Mopac
Yes and those in your club have done horrible things and are much more cultlike than Protestantism.
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@Mopac
Sure, whatever propaganda floats your boat. If I ask you what Orthodox Catholicism means and stands for you'll sidestep all the homophobia, racism, arrogance and other vile aspects of it by saying something to suit you. Protestantism is the most openminded and modern branch/subset of Christianity, of the three. You have no idea what you're trying to spread.
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@Mopac
I am not the truth, that's pretty simple to understand. I can't just say 'I am the truth' ans escape the truth that I will die.
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@Mopac
A year ago you told me the Crusades were evil but Orthodox Christianity is fine because Catholics did them, now you say the Protestants are the evil ones and the Orthodox and Catholics both aren't. Do you know what Orthodox+Catholic Priests have done to underage altar boys? That's not even the half of it.
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@Mopac
Spoken like a true fundamentalist zealot.
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@Bringerofrain
Tell me please, how a technocrat can be the most technophobic candidate? :)
Or are you saying that all Dems are technocrats by default and he's just the least out of them?
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@oromagi
Yang is the opposite of a technocrat.
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Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren.
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@oromagi
Cats that are nice to their owner but vicious to others often have the equivalent of something like schizophrenia or borderline personality disorder in humans, assuming the owner isn't mistreating them.
They are either very paranoid or very anxious of separation from you and you leaving them. Either way, cat psychiatry is a very underrated field in veterinary science (in the eyes of non-vets). Unlike many pets, cats are similar to humans in that they have a huge range of psychological wellbeing and can develop deep and genuine mental illness where they require actual medication slipped into their food, in order to improve.
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Ask your vet not some online forum wannabes. An expert who can interact with and analyse the animal in person is the best judge here. In some countries vets are a bit too pro-euthanasia but US is generally fine there because it tends to consistently be empathetic people who end up as vets.
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@Benjamin
You think I am trolling, that is fine. You also think you have proven God itself requires no creator, which you haven't. Infinite causes is a double-edged sword, neither Theists nor atheists should use it.
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@zedvictor4
Round Earth theory was just that, a theory, until NASA and Roscosmos confirmed it exolocitly as true based on what they did and 'saw'.
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@gugigor
I'd react with this, don't worry your secret is safe with me...
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@FLRW
Unlike them, I believe that flat earth theory is viable under simulation theory. The two you named are avid proponents of round earth theory and assert that NASA isn't lying to us. I agree with them on simulation though.
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@Benjamin
Well in this reality absolutely everything except the RVG is simulated.
So in essence even god herself/himself/itself is part of the program but yes she/he/it runs the rest of the simulation since the RVG granted this entity control of it.
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@Benjamin
If you're curious how I see it, there are two components to god.
First is something we can call the random variable generator(RVG). Similar to a random number generator (RNG), it fluctuates between many 1 vs 0 switches. Possible vs impossible for any variable of reality that you can fathom.
Eventually, it set 1 to a conscious being having control over it (the RVG). This being then gave itself omniscience and controlled all the switches at once. Then, this being got bored with the total predictability of her/his/its reality and left some switches that couldn't overthrow this being, as random again.
This being is the persona of god but the RVG is physically what 'God' is in terms of hierarchy (it's ranked above the persona in terms of invincibility, the persona can terminate itself later but the RVG is eternal and inevitable, always has been and always will be).
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@Theweakeredge
It isn't that the right wing only see individual attained goals while the left wing only see the means and efficiency of achieving those goals. This is not only an oversimplification but is wrong and naive.
The right wing see the system too, they want a system that brutally punishes any who are drains on it and generously rewards those who do the most for it. Consequently, their system does end up considering achievements more than left-wing systems. The reason for this lies in the desired systematic reward vs punishment dynamic. The left wing want a system that rewards those who try and punishes those who get too far without trying.
Individualism is held more sacrosanct in the right wing's ethos because their systematic thinking incorporates that as a basis on which to build the system.
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@Vader
It is not intelligent to beef with China right now, first priority is to build and fix issues within US, not to send some fucking rover to Mars either.
I am not a super fan of Biden, just hope he does well enough. I am looking more forward to Kamala 2024.
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I understand some of what you are saying but not the overall application of it, since I think there's more types/dynamics and 'inbetweeners' and stuff.
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@Theweakeredge
Males are not just aggressive due to higher testosterone, the Y chromosome plays a part as it makes them more recipient-friendly to the hormone. And I said already there are feminine men. They still have more testosterone than most women, the imbalance is never as extreme as you're suggesting.
A man who has had prostate cancer and had his balls removed, is only approaching being equal to extremely masculine women in testosterone, still more testosterone is in his body due to toher ways is gets produced and due to the Y chromosome making his body very recipient-friendly to it.
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@Theweakeredge
If you were to find the highest percentage of aggressive humans, almost all of the top 1% are male and bottom 1% are female. Jordan Peterson asserts this and I'm by no means a right-winger but he's correct on this.
Similarly, if you were to get the most emotionally sensitive top vs bottom 1%, same thing again but the opposite way around.
Those two dynamics (aggression and emotional sensitivity) are the biggest differences between the genders. Any exception to this rule would be an extremely masculine female or vice versa.
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@Bringerofrain
VyprVPN is a zero log VPN Service. Golden Frog does not record or retain any user data when you use the VyprVPN Service.
I want you to notice what it says with 'user data' now compare it to NordVPN because user data doesn't mean it's deleting logs of what you, the user, did. It means it's deleting your username being linked to said activity after the session is over. You are smat enough to understand what thateams can happen prior to deleting it, as well as what that means may be kept permanent logs of, especially as they own all their servers unlike most other mainstream VPNs.
They have been audited, but so has Nord.
Pay attention to what they DO NOT explicitly say they aren't keeping logs of, it's things like this that separate most good VPN providers from Nord, in my opinion.
Instead NordVPN has been audited to prove it keeps no logs (only subscribed users can read the full audit, for whatever reason, and we agree to the terms and conditions of not pasting the contents of it or talking specifically about what's inside) I can tell you the audit fully explains the mechanics of their no logs and it is essentially a perfect no logs system.
As for the promise they give:
Requests for data. Any request for user data should follow an appropriate legal process to be recognized by the laws of the Republic of Panama. Being based in Panama allows us to keep no logs of users’ online activity (no IP addresses, browsing data, traffic information, etc.). This means that we are unable to link an individual user to a specific IP address, connection timestamp or other information that we do not collect. Therefore, even in cases we receive a rightfully served request, it might be impossible for us to identify a specific person or provide any identifying information related to that person. In cases where, following an appropriate legal process, we are able to identify a specific person, we will provide the limited data we process per our Privacy Policy. Depending on a specific case, this may include user’s email, payment information (date of purchase, payment method and available details), subscription period, password expiration date or a country the user chose when registering for the Services.
To read more about the details of their promise, see here:
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@Bringerofrain
Free VPNs are terrible for the purpose you are describing, not only do they protect worse (except for Hotspot Shield which gives 500Mb free per day, genuinely) but they are obviously used by many people, meaning it's piss-easy for sites that you're trying to unblock, to know you're trying to do so, since many others will be doing the same from the same IP.
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@Bringerofrain
I never encouraged pirating anything in this thread.
I also didn't really advertise, it is simply objectively true that Nord is superior in the overall categories, they even have P2P servers that specialise in handling torrent traffic but do note that torrents are not inherently pirate software at all, to transfer ANY extremely large file legally requires torrenting unless you want to wait a huge amount of time.
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I think that the only element of sentience that AI will never comprehend or experience is sexuality.
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@Bringerofrain
One thing that ExpressVPN has (but soon NordVPN will equal them on this in another way) is complete invulnerbility to local leaders in very conservative nations suddenly snapping their fingers despite privacy laws. In Turkey,there was an understandable reason for the government to do this:
The reason Express has this 'edge' that enables/enabled it to operate in countries most VPNs would steer clear of is that they run their information on pure RAM discs, not genuine servers, there's nothing stored at all in the memory, what the government holds is an empty disc.
In the case of almost all other VPNs except for VyprVPN, the actual servers are not truly under the absolute control of the VPN provider, they are being rented. The reason that this doesn't truly matter is that it is quite simply implausible (not impossible) that the server-provider would keep physically replacing servers to feign having wiped the memory, since the renter is able to make sure things get deleted from servers after each use, but more importantly if the VPN provider is located in a nation such as British Virgin Isles or Panama, it means that very little can be done to obtain proof that a particular activity was done by any particular user.
Furthermore, NordVPN is moving towards completely owning its own servers just like VyprVPN, do note that VyprVPN does not at all promise no-logs in the way that NordVPN does, read the fine print and you will realise that in fact it is owned by Golden Frog, which while it is definitely dedicated to privacy and security, is based in Switzerland who have what we can call watertight privacy laws (whereas Panama and British Virgin Isles have airtight). There are absolutely loopholes in Switzerland's privacy laws that force it to hand over information if other EU nations or their allies (such as the US) can give a good enough reason to force the hand of Switzerland. While this is much more difficult than normal and not obligatory storage period of data is there, if you actually read the fine print of the 'logs' section in the terms, or whatever, of VyprVPN, it does not at all promise 0 logs, it promises to not ever sell them or hand them over and justifies that it is capable of resisting thanks to being based in Switzerland.
I am not saying Vypr is bad, it just lacks in a few departments (for instance, since it openly owns its servers and buys them all in the name of its company, Golden Frog, it is extremely easy to see you are using this VPN... The ISP will give it away, which means that for any purposes of 'unblocking sites and services' it is mediocre whereas in terms of encryption and such, it's top tier).
NordVPN does not yet own all its servers and will probably only own them all via the NordLynx protocol whereas the standard OpenVPN protocol is likely to remain on rented servers until it's rich enough to properly convert. Even then it won't invest in the physical disc storage system that ExpressVPN has, as opposed to server storage system of other VPNs. In practise, deleting server info is still totally secure, but the reason that using discs for temporary processing memory and running primarily via RAM is more secure, is because quite literally even if you wanted to, you couldn't hand over information thanks to the mechanics of what ExpressVPN has in place. The cost reflects this, it's double the cost of NordVPN on long-term plans and still much more, albeit not double, for shorter-term plans, almost entirely due to that one factor and how much it costs.
Read number 5 here:
NordVPN will end up equal to ExpressVPN but at the moment is approaching VyprVPNs status, it is taking time due to cost and logistics more so than technology.
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I am not trying to annoy you but isn't this thread a form of spam?
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@Theweakeredge
Demonstrate how? You mean demonstrate what masculinity and femininity are in all mammalian species due to hormones and chromosomes or do you mean demonstrate how this applies to politics?
The disagreement between the sides lies in two things:
- Conservatives generally believe that fundamentally men are meant to be masculine and women feminine vice versa.
- Liberals/Progressives are wanting legal enforcement, backing and recognition of males who are so feminine they feel that they are genuinely a woman in terms of their role in the social landscape and females who feel so masculine that they essentially are men. This is where the genuine disagreement lies much more than #1 because Conservatives and Right-Wing Libertarians tend to be willing to compromise a lot on #1 whereas #2 is the true cause of the debate happening at a government level.
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@Theweakeredge
One day you'll realise it's true, until then you will never understand the answer to this thread's exact question (and neither will the conservatives who oppose you as neither side generally realises what they agree on, regarding this).
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@Bringerofrain
Based in Panama.
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@3RU7AL
LOL, so you just spread out guaranteed corruption rather than try to stop it properly?
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@3RU7AL
Also the opposite of themselves, since unrelenting freedom always becomes survival of the fittest which then becomes tyranny via brute force rule.
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@SirAnonymous
Actually it was very surprising, the Kansas City Chiefs were by no means an underdog, if anything the underdog was the Patriots.
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@Theweakeredge
What you don't understand is what I explained in our debate.
Masculinity and Femininity are 100% inherent and never will change, how masculine/feminine a particular male or female is, is what isn't concrete.
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@Bringerofrain
If prostitution were legal, it would all be consensual.
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@ebuc
Pimps can be left wing. More left-wingers support legalised prostitution than right-wingers.
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One day they will tell the truth of satan not being lucifer.
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@bmdrocks21
You and I both dislike Reagan and his politics. We just disagree on Nixon. Nixon was corrupt as hell.
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