Katana314

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Katana314 ,

As long as you're still voting for someone, I'm good with that.

Katana314 ,

I’m reminded of when people thought “15 minute cities” would be surveillance states designed to track them.

No dudes. That’s the sensor in the 10-ton pedestrian plower you bought.

Katana314 ,

I mean, usually the main reason I sell things like this is to make sure it goes to someone that needs it, rather than a landfill or our clutter cabinet. The $9 is sort of just a small benefit, and used to make sure someone actually sort of wants it, as opposed to taking free stuff for hoarding.

Katana314 ,

There's a saying I want to make famous: "One man's freedom ends where another's begins." Your freedom not to take a vaccine only lasts as long as it does not affect your neighbor's rights to live and breathe.

Katana314 ,

I think the rationale is the same as those donation-based religious cults; by taking down the head, it’s possible to better point out to victims the misinformation they’re working off, that causes them to offer up their life savings. Eg, previously there were some complaining that he’s reneged on prior promises after old donations.

Certainly less of a concern if people are actually donating “spare” money and can survive without it, but some people really buy into the “day of promise” evangelism.

Katana314 ,

Has this ever been done? Taken an entire TV series animated in 4:3, and just adding content to the sides of the screen on every single frame?

Rule Change for PoliticalMemes

The fundamental tenet of a working democracy is voting. Everyone should have a vote and everyone should exercise their right to vote. To that end we have been seeing posts attempting to shame/mock or otherwise influence people not to vote. While this is a meme community, the idea that people shouldn’t vote goes against the...

Katana314 ,

It’s certainly easy to support this move when it applies to “discouraging voting”, but it gets murkier for posts about “discouraging voting for a certain candidate”.

The example given was one seemingly implying “X is bad - but you think Y is better??” If the net implication is “don’t vote”, then the concern is valid, but if it’s “Vote for a third party, likelihood be damned”, it does sound more valid. That said, I have yet to see memes positively highlighting a valid third party from front runners.

I’d definitely like a return to elections where we decide which candidate is best, not which is least worse.

Katana314 ,

I think it could be argued that it’s very hard to define the difference. Ex, a mobster jeering to someone “You know, you shouldn’t say things like that. A lot of people might be angry, and many of them are carrying. See? I’m carrying right now. You see the risk? I’m just giving a friendly warning.”

Of course, harder to make that argument against a cop.

Katana314 ,

If the Constitution currently expresses a stronger, more irrevocable right to own firearms than to operate a motor vehicle, then it very much has its priorities out of whack, considering which one of those is more likely to be urgently needed by the populace. It needs to be changed. There's a reason they're called "Amendments".

Katana314 ,

Say you're an actor, and I hand you a revolver, assuring you that it is not loaded. The scene it's involved in requires that the hammer is already pulled back (as the character in question is threatening someone at gunpoint).

Should you, the actor, check the chamber? With the hammer back and the cylinder locked, doing this would require a complex maneuver of blocking the hammer with your finger, PULLING THE TRIGGER, and then rotating the cylinder to look at the one that was chambered - then rotating it back, and re-cocking it.

Now imagine, being an actor that is a novice with revolvers, you mix up which spot you're meant to block with your finger. If, as you suggest, there is any chance at all that there's a live round in the chamber, aren't you introducing further risk with this maneuver?

Katana314 ,

Aha! See, parents have begun to anticipate that! Now, the reveal is executed by the color of sulphuric acid that’s unleashed from a set of industrial containers.

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