the_inebriati

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you deny climate change on the same basis?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

That's a lot of words to avoid saying you're talking out your ass.

"Yeah, I could totally tell you. Honest. Promise. No I can't because... uh... I'd have to kill you."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Are you joking?

Veganism and vegetarianism is massively on the rise and firmly in the mainstream. McDonald's does a plant based burger ffs.

PETA have even managed to position themselves as a certification agency for "cruelty free". If getting companies to self-regulate and accept you as the rule maker for that regulation isn't above your standard of "working" then I don't know what is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Sexuality

When people talk about "LGBT Pride", they're not talking about the "a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements" definition, they're talking about the "confidence and self-respect as expressed by members of a group, typically one that has been socially marginalized" definition.

It's almost like words can have more than one meaning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Not celebrities - historical figures.

How many can you name that have been dead for at least 50 years?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's also a very culty behaviour to hate apostates even more than nonbelievers.

If the extremist freaks are going to target anyone with violence, it's going to be the perceived "traitors" who "stabbed them in the back".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'd like to respond, but I'm going to need you to read 5,000 words on my personal philosophy towards online commenting before I do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Are you aware how obnoxious it is to spam a 5,000 word article while refusing to provide any summation or distillation of its thesis?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

The process of loving an institution or a country or an idea is fundamentally different from the process of loving a person.

To love a person is to accept them on every level of their being.

To love an institution is to be its harshest critic, in the hopes that we can better direct the strokes from our hammer and our chisel to reveal the sculpture within. Nobody has ever created anything beautiful by loudly claiming their block of marble is better than the rest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't buy this at all. The door-in-the-face strategy doesn't really work if it leaves the customer feeling like they'd rather get rid of the door and start over with a new door technology.

You can squeeze your customers in a way that doesn't make you look insane and Unity chose to not do that.