Guess my break is over then, how convenient!

Uh yeah, I’m not going to go to jail over dishonesty. I’m not going to play martyr for some unknown mass of strangers that doesn’t care about me. And you talk about SA and those victims but prison is also a terrible fate unto itself that your argument entirely ignores. It’s like flippant to send someone to prison for years. Imagine if people were that dismissive about SA. Like prison conditions aren’t arguably worse being a risk if consistent SA and who knows how much other horrors.

Should I now counter argue that you bringing up SA without acknowledging the horrors of prison is dismissive of men’s issues because of a for profit prison industrial complex?

Everything affects everything. You bring up something, someone is always going to bring up another side. That’s how discourse works.

But yeah, at the end of the day, my answer is ya, I won’t punish the innocent in order to punish the guilty as a general rule. It may not be utilitarian, but that’s what my gut says is moral. And that’s the best I can go on.

Reminds me of the moral dilemma in the movie Unthinkable.

I think you severely discount NASA’s achievements. I would wager the stagnation of NASA and the subsequent rise of SpaceX was largely due to a lack of funding for NASA and waning public interest and lack of leadership.

I doubt the public would have tolerated the idea blowing up rockets until it worked as a good use of tax payer dollars. So did NASA fail us, or did the public fail NASA?

Watched a few minutes. I’m sorry, but this is definitely not my cup of tea. It’s like a chained together string of AI clips that aren’t good quality with jarring fades to black every 10 seconds.

How’d you know that, recognized the username?

I miss the beard. I feel like I watch less since he shaved, but that just might be a coincidence as my ADHD makes me binge different content in spurts.

Questions:

1. Would you be ok with you or someone you love more than yourself being sent to prison on a false accusation as long as a larger number of guilty people also get imprisoned?

2. Do you think false accusations don’t happen?

I generally take people at their word in my day to day interactions. I’d believe you if you told me something. But I wouldn’t enforce laws on people with only eyewitness testimony. Eyewitness testimony has been proven unreliable.

People don’t know how to use Usenet.

I’m pretty sure it’s a combination of drugs and an inability to cope with having a trans child while being autistic. And an ego big enough to think he doesn’t need help with any of that.

I check your system uptime anyway. Users usually don’t know that shutdown and restart do different things based on system settings. And sometimes they lie too.

Sounds like you have some form of autism. As a neurodivergent I feel like we need to be aware of the ways in which our natural mannerisms and thought processes can be misinterpreted by others. But I also feel like everyone is entitled to their feelings. They can feel violated by your words because they didn’t understand where you were coming from. You can feel hurt that people assumed the worst. It is what it is. You need to own your part in what happened, but don’t beat yourself up about it either.

If it was an honest misunderstanding, that happens. People who want to fight or be a victim are going to do that. People who want to understand are going to seek understanding.

We need to get involved at the primary level, not lament the choices we are left with when primary election turnout is hilariously low. I’d be surprised if the average voter even knows what a primary election is.

Because parties change power? And you end up setting precedent that is used against you? Not to mention the voting part is literally part of the job they are paid and elected to do?

Oh yes, I was speaking about the idea of guard rails and sidewalks in general, not this specific intersection. This particular intersection looks stupid for several reasons, including that sidewalk that cuts across without any markers to show a crossing. In fact I’d go as far as saying this isn’t even a crosswalk, it’s a sidewalk with an expectation of teleportation since there’s nothing painted on the road.

I’m not saying appeal to them. I’m saying stop antagonizing them so you can feel morally superior.

It’s easier to pass the legislation you want without telling the opposition they are morons if they don’t support it.

Wouldn’t things only be as infinite as your zoom level? Zoom out to solar system, zoom out to galaxy, etc?

There’s a difference between voting in a block, and literally passing/interpreting legislation to expand powers of another branch at the expense of your own.

If you vote in a block, you still have your vote. If you pass laws saying actually you can do whatever you want without a law saying you can, you just took your own vote out of the equation.

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What are you trying to show me?

I watch the extended versions regularly, at least once a year. I disagree with everything you said. They are masterpieces. But, this is Unpopular Opinion, so bravo.