GPS doesn't prove space and time are related

Hematomato · 2024-05-08T06:52:07+00:00

The algorithms they need to use to optimize GPS do not prove that light speed is an absolute limit. That is a separate question. But they do prove that space and time are related.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T22:28:49+00:00

Einstein is an important scientist who laid a foundational framework. Like all such scientists, some of his work has been improved upon, and some of it has been called into question.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T19:17:28+00:00

There is another Babylon 85 miles south of Prague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(Doma%C5%BElice_District)

And another one in Illinois.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon,_Illinois

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T19:12:28+00:00

I know that it exists, and I know that it is necessary.

That is enough to prove that space and time are related.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T17:54:08+00:00

Babylon did indeed fall. It fell in 540 BCE, when it was conquered by Persia.

And now, some 2500 years later, some Christians seem to believe that any child born within a few hundred miles of its ruins should be eligible to be set on fire.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T07:47:22+00:00

Needing to adjust calcuations based on velocity absolutely proves that space and time are related.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T07:46:14+00:00

Yes. I took my children out of the government's public schools and home-schooled them. But the government still requires I pay over $2,000 per year in property taxes, with the bulk of it going to the public schools. They will not allow me to opt-out of funding their indoctrination camps. Horrible things happened when parents began giving their children to strangers.

I sympathize. In 2004, I was horrified that the U.S. government was taking my money and spending it on setting Iraqi children on fire. I considered whether I should refuse to pay my taxes. I eventually decided that I'd pay my taxes and just wish that George W. Bush would burn eternally in Hell. So I helped murder children, and even though I don't necessarily believe in Hell, I hope George W. Bush burns in it.

Can you explain the use of the word in the cartoon from 1868? And can you explain why the government required us to read a book of fiction which included the word "nigger" over 200 times, but they refuse to allow anything from the Holy Bible to be seen or referenced?

Yeah, I can explain that. We've been arguing about resistance to having a state religion for more than 250 years; but we've only considered the word "nigger" to be unspeakable for about 15 years.

Hematomato · 2024-05-07T07:39:41+00:00

I compiled and wrote the link I know what it says.

Then you know that the link says Hunter Biden has an ownership stake in the BHR Partners investment firm.

"Just a crackhead" doesn't get on the board of directors of a company the Chinese gov gives $1.7 billion to.

Of course he does. His dad was the Vice-President of the United States of America. They were more than willing to throw a few million dollars at him in hopes it would influence his dad. And, instead. he spent that few million dollars doing lines of coke off the ass-cracks of nineteen year old girls.

Which is so deliciously defiant. "Fuck geopolitics, I want to fuck hot chicks." Hunter Biden is my hero.

Hematomato · 2024-05-06T04:49:25+00:00

"Nigger" has been used in an insulting way long before Mark Twain used the term. This cartoon was published in Harper's Weekly in 1868 JPG . Mark Twain did not have to use this word over 200 times, and the government did not have to require us to read it.

"Nigger" could be used as an insult, yes, much as "moron" can be used as an insult.

It is rude to say "You are a moron," but it is not rude to say "Dave called Ron a moron because Dave is a jerk."

Until about fifteen years ago, "nigger" worked the same way. It was unacceptable to say "Get out of the way, you dumb nigger," but it was perfectly acceptable to say "Dave called Ron a nigger because Dave is a racist."

And then about fifteen years ago was when it first turned into some kind of magical cursed word that you can't say in any context at all.

Why does Fox want to keep telling us the fired teacher had a Bible on his desk? Probably because he did have a Bible on his desk.... and that was a complaint from the school administration.

The only source for it being a complaint from the school administration is Freshwater himself. I never take the word of the aggrieved party. Even when they think they're being honest, they're usually exaggerating.

The school clearly fired him for preaching religious beliefs to his classes - and I'm pretty sure you'd be quite unhappy about anyone preaching religious beliefs to your children that didn't match your own.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T23:41:01+00:00

That's certainly an unusual comparison.

Just two observations:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a non-racist piece of fiction that was quite progressive for its day. We didn't start panicking over the non-racist use of the word "nigger," claiming that the word itself was inherently racist irrespective of context, until perhaps fifteen years ago.
It seems abundantly clear to me that John Freshwater was fired for preaching religious beliefs to his classes, not for "having a Holy Bible on his desk." Fox wants to keep telling you he had a Bible on his desk, but nothing in the article connects that fact to his dismissal.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T23:34:23+00:00

Now, does that sound like it proves space and time are related?

It sure does.

Does that sound like it proves nothing can go faster than the speed of light, now?

No, that's not a sufficient data point on its own to prove that. But it does lend credence to the model.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T23:29:59+00:00

Marx was one of the first thinkers to correctly predict the consequences of globalism and what we now call "late-stage capitalism."

It turns out he didn't have the solution, but his foresight into what the conflicts of the 20th century would be about was frankly, yes, brilliant.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:57:15+00:00

He was so self-centered one wonders if he was on the spectrum.

Extremely likely. The author accidentally hits on it: a lot of people in history with the "let's try to make sense of a large and chaotic system" mentality were on the spectrum.

“If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?” Peterson asks.

I find Peterson's stance quite silly. Many of the most brilliant people in history didn't clean up their rooms. Why? Because their minds were exclusively dedicated to their work.

Albert Einstein was not a room-cleaner. His desk was littered with clutter. He never wore socks and his feet stank. He drove his cousin-wife Elsa out of her poor mind trying to clean up after him and make him presentable.

It takes all kinds to run a society, and some kinds are not room-cleaners.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:31:19+00:00

That's not what the link says. The link says simply that Hunter Biden has an ownership stake in the BHR Partners investment firm.

So while the BHR Partners investment firm was working with China, Hunter was (and we know this to be true) drifting around luxury hotels, fucking an endless stream of prostitutes, losing his electronics, and forgetting what day it was. He was, plain and simply, a crackhead.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:28:03+00:00

They're equal in the polls, nationally, which is baffling at several levels: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/

I think all the polls are showing clearly is how dissastisfied people are with this election.

They ask registered voters "Who will you vote for," and 40% say Biden, 40% say Trump, and 20% are like "You know what, this election sucks, I don't like anybody."

Well, okay, fair enough, but when those 20% actually go to the polls, they're gonna have to fill in one of the bubbles. And history shows us that even if they're thinking "grumble grumble I'll vote Green Party or RFK or libertarian or something," fewer than 5% of them actually will.

So the whole election, really, lies in those 15% who are like "Fuck the whole thing" but, in reality, are actually going to vote Trump or Biden. The polls keep asking them "but which one will it be" and they keep saying "I can't bring myself to say I'll vote for either of them."

Which kind of makes this an unpollable race.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T18:23:03+00:00

Yeah, I've been there three times and I was married to a Japanese woman for almost five years.

Sure, absolutely they treat tourists with respect, and they treated me with respect. But they wouldn't have been okay with me trying to live there or work there. They will say, without hesitation or embarrassment, "Japan is for the Japanese."

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T06:52:52+00:00

The Japanese government is making the assumption that Biden is calling Japan's government policies "xenophobic."

I think it's much more likely he's calling Japan's culture "xenophobic."

And if he is... well, he's just plain right. Japan's culture is xenophobic. It would be stupid to argue otherwise.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T06:36:59+00:00

Actually what he said is that the teen years are a "ripe, fertile age" and that it's possible that a pregnant teen couple will choose abortion if they can't legally marry.

But that's our culture: constantly obsessed with calling each other pedophiles.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T00:36:37+00:00

Pretty useless poll, in my opinion.

It's a popular vote poll, which of course means nothing in the U.S.

It found that 9% of voters will vote for RFK, which... I think we all know isn't going to happen.

It has Trump at 46% national support, distinctly less than half, and still calls that a blowout victory.

And finally, it's Rasmussen, perhaps America's least or second-least reputable pollster.

Hematomato · 2024-05-05T00:32:38+00:00

Or, perhaps, NYT is simply telling the truth.

The Left will say that the vaccine is always safe and no one has been injured by it.

The Right will say that the vaccine is never safe and millions upon millions of lives have been ruined by it.

...as always, partisans don't actually care what the truth is.

Hematomato · 2024-05-04T22:59:55+00:00

He awarded 19 Medals of Freedom on Friday, mostly to non-politicians including a 27 year old swimmer and a 61 year old actress.

Medals of Freedom are weird.

I can't easily find a source on how much of Biden's time this took up.

Hematomato · 2024-05-04T22:55:47+00:00

There are limits to your speech, but "NIGGERS" isn't one of them.

Limits include spam, unambiguously illegal behavior, and telling magnora7 he's doing a shitty job of running a site.

Hematomato · 2024-05-04T22:53:34+00:00

There are fucking nukes incoming. All of my thoughts are going to be getting as deep into a building as possible, as far as possible away from any windows and doors, and ideally deep underground.

Do you know how few fucks I would have to give about two people kissing? Think of the smallest number of fucks there are, and then subtract an infinite number of fucks from that.

Hematomato · 2024-05-02T09:30:13+00:00

People tell me that the lowest forms of human life are rapists and murderers and pedophiles... but... I prefer them to Reddit moderators.

Hematomato · 2024-05-02T09:11:09+00:00

I think it's very clear that Hunter Biden's crackhead ass sat in those meetings totally spun out and collected millions of dollars for contributing nothing.

Hematomato · 2024-05-02T09:08:42+00:00

Oh yeah, because that's what I want, for my kid to be technologically retarded at the point he hits 13.

You may as well tell me to stop him from reading until he's 13.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T18:57:02+00:00

Man, Hunter Biden is my fucking hero.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T18:48:26+00:00

Sometimes they try, like Elliot Rodger or Alek Minassian. And then they either spend their lives in prison or get dead. And that is all they accomplish.

The thing about a successful revolt is it requires a million organized people. Beta males usually have somewhere between 0 and 1 friend. They could not possibly be less organized.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T05:53:41+00:00

The video-chat version of that is already pretty much here, and in less than ten years it'll actually be good.

But the progress of VR is still pretty difficult to predict. So far we haven't even come close to replicating any senses other than sight and hearing. Simulating touch might require some kind of mind-machine interface, and that technology could be more than a century out.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T05:35:52+00:00

I only ever found out about the people I stalked from what they publicly posted on social media

Then I wouldn't call that stalking.

To me, the only truly clear-cut stalking is following someone around in meatspace.

On the Internet it's a fine line. Like, if you're reverse-image-searching pictures and paying a subscription to one of those background check sites, I suppose one might casually call that "stalking."

But what's definitely not stalking, is simply reading someone's Facebook and Twitter history. They put that shit up to be read.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T02:27:05+00:00

I write okay songs and short stories and comedy articles. I raise a kid. I like to think I was some tiny part of humanity's effort to reverse aging. Some of my work is still commonly used to explain the telomere theory.

I didn't exactly set the world on fire, but I at least tried to blow as well as suck.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T02:23:13+00:00

Who are "we"? Pretty sure you're not part of... anything.

Anyway, I'm not going to join any "lives matter" movement because, obviously, lives don't matter.

Hematomato · 2024-04-28T02:22:20+00:00

So in your opinion, the best man to lead the incels is Chad?

...huh

Hematomato · 2024-04-27T23:43:30+00:00

You get out of it what you put in.

If you want to learn a specialized skill and that's the best place to learn it, college is worth it.

If you want to build the beginnings of a professional network and you're good with people, college can be a great start to your career.

If you don't really want to go to college but your mom says you should go because otherwise you'll have to work a bad job... don't go. Just go into the workforce. College would be a waste of your time and money and energy.

Hematomato · 2024-04-21T06:54:55+00:00

They are banned. They come back under new names. We don't have a sophisticated system for pre-emptively blocking them.

And like another user said, new accounts should be limited to how much they can post in a single day.

Maybe that would be a net positive, but it would have a chilling effect on actual new people. When you show up to a forum for the first time and post a few things and then it says "no more," you tend to kinda move on and forget about that forum.

Hematomato · 2024-04-21T06:53:05+00:00

The article bases the claim that Remain in Mexico is "what the people want" on a Fox News poll that found that "31 percent of voters in the poll said that immigration and border security was the administration's largest failure."

...surely you see the problem here.

Hematomato · 2024-04-21T06:44:55+00:00

Einstein's discoveries have had only a very limited impact on humanity thus far.

Fritz Haber is likely the reason you're alive.

Hematomato · 2024-04-18T05:46:32+00:00

The best strategy, honestly, is to find out who their male friends are and then make friends with them.

Anything that starts with an introduction by a mutual friend is like 50 times more likely to succeed.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T19:45:49+00:00

Well, contrary to the refrain of the Fallout series, war is changing.

That said, even if you believe that war never changes... there's a long history of soldiers returning home from battle, telling their wives to get their asses back in the kitchen where they belong, and hitting them in the fucking mouth if they disagree with that plan.

So maybe women shouldn't be too eager for an all-male draft.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T19:29:03+00:00

Sure, maybe in small-town elections for county comptroller. But nothing in the city I live in has ever been decided by a single vote, or even by a single-digit number of votes.

Besides, I believe that 1) It's foolish to cast an uninformed vote for any candidate you don't actually know personally; and 2) You generally can't actually vote for policies, and even if you could, the correct policy usually lies in the vast nuance between the two talking points.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T03:16:08+00:00

You want to sit by and be TOLD what to do.

Oh, quite the contrary. I'm not particularly law-abiding. But more to the point, I don't like to be told what to think.

And you know what politics is? It's people telling you what to think.

So I'm not playing. There are plenty of voters out there, and my vote was never going to change anything anyway. No one will even notice that I've decided to just watch quietly.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T02:50:37+00:00

No, I mean not registered. I cancelled my voter registration entirely. I don't vote.

Hematomato · 2024-04-16T01:38:32+00:00

Yes, there are too many rules, and no one can possibly follow them all, and as a consequence everyone commits crimes.

But of course, you don't get "put in jail" for committing crimes. More than 99% of all crimes go unpunished.

You get put in jail if you piss off someone in power. Then they identify the crimes you've committed.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:22:26+00:00

It'd be nice to see that 17-year range tightened a little, because... no one really expects people in their twenties to be buying homes. That hasn't been common for like 75 years. My whole life I've never personally known a 23 year old homeowner.

But if you're in your thirties and starting a family, yeah, it'd be good to be able to do it in a decent house.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:08:13+00:00

Yeah, that's a perfectly cromulent point.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:07:12+00:00

Well. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic, a meth addict, and an LSD enthusiast, so... I'm not sure we can narrow it down completely.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T22:04:35+00:00

Yeah, it's a group of people who left Reddit, not because they were censored, but because they were horrified that spez was trying to make money for the corporation.

They're, like... turbo-Redditors.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T19:39:36+00:00

It appears that China and India will dominate the globe and the world will return to a pre western era.

No, China's collapsing, too. Its fertility rates are terrible and the one-child policy has been an abject disaster. China is entering a phase where there will be less than one working person to support each elderly, retired person.

Countries flourish when their population pyramid looks correct - when there are tons of people in their thirties supporting far fewer people in their seventies.

Based on that single data point, the new world superpower might very well be... Mexico.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:41:37+00:00

Nah. I already went through the trouble of cancelling my registration.

I don't want to be a partisan. I don't want to play the game. I just want to bystand. I'd rather try to accurately chronicle the way the world burns than subject myself to groupthink and pretend I can stop it.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:25:22+00:00

Yep, that was it.

Saidit can be kind of fun but the NPC dialogue is just way too predictable.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:24:25+00:00

You want to hear my hot WallStreetBet?

DJT is going to sink, sink, sink until August 31.

On August 31, take all the money you can and buy as much of the stock as you can. It's going to skyrocket.

Then as soon as it does - don't hold it. Fucking sell it immediately.

...I take no responsibility if this doesn't work, though

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:20:46+00:00

I've tried at least a dozen Reddit alternatives and this is my favorite.

Ruqqus was pretty good but it imploded.

Squabblr could have been good but it imploded.

Discuit is very anti-free-speech.

Most of the rest are too small to be worth mentioning. Like two or three people sharing links with each other.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:11:56+00:00

There hasn't been a draft in fifty years, and there probably won't be another: modern wars are fought by machines and their operators, not by conscripts with boots and rifles.

But if there were ever to be another draft... there's a very strong chance the government would decide "yeah, women have to go, too."

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:04:50+00:00

I assure you that you've eaten plenty of food that's been fertilized. And so have your parents.

A lot of wealth came to exist because food was so abundant and we needed far fewer people to work on procuring food. Elon's family wealth may never have existed without Fritz Haber.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:03:14+00:00

Nah, I'm not registered to vote, and I definitely wouldn't be inspired to register by the candidacy of some unqualified pimp.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T18:00:03+00:00

Well, without Fritz Haber, chances are that neither you nor Elon Musk would exist.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:49:06+00:00

Oh, just the guy who figured out how to pull nitrogen out of the air.

When he was born, there were 1.4 billion people on the planet. Today, there are 7.9 billion people on the planet. That's because of Fritz Haber. His invention is estimated to provide the food for half of the planet.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:46:19+00:00

Only a insulated lunatic would think it's ALL Jews. My high school ex-girlfriend scrapes together a modest living writing books about marketing. She doesn't control the world.

But there's one thing the conspiracy theorists have right that the ADL falls over itself to deny and just adds fuel to the fire. And that's that: nearly every American broadcast media corporation and bank is run primarily by Jewish people.

That's actually not entirely by their choice. In much of 18th century Europe, Jews were only allowed to do work that Christians considered unholy or undignified. That included moneylending and entertainment. No one likes a loan shark, and no one respects a clown. So the idea was: make the Jews do it, they're going to Hell anyway.

And when they immigrated to the United States to get away from that prejudice, they brought the family businesses with them. And continued to grow those businesses over the centuries. Which means that today Jewish people have disproportionate control over both 1) the money supply and 2) mass media, and therefore the news.

They aren't all colluding toward some master plan. That's conspiracy nonsense. But whenever any group has more power and control and luxury than their raw population numbers would suggest that they deserve, of course there's going to be resentment, and conspiracy, and anger.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:16:10+00:00

There's no fucking way we're going to know that for another century.

But the greatest man of the 20th century was, without question, Fritz Haber.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T17:03:43+00:00

Yep. Knew you were going to say that. And I know what the next one will be, too.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T15:51:32+00:00

We will be in the weirdest legal waters if he gets convicted, sentenced to a year in prison, and then still wins the election.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T15:35:02+00:00

Why would there be anything else? I already know what you have to say about everything, because you're just a Brandon Guy.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T06:32:04+00:00

During the last ice age, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 was, on average, 180 ppm. Today it's 423ppm.

The last time it was about 4,000 ppm (which is 10x higher, not 100x higher) was during the Ordovician. That was 500 million years ago, and the surface temperature at that point was an average of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to 59 degrees today.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T06:14:50+00:00

Well, he especially won't respond because he got banned four hours ago...

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T06:00:37+00:00

Why should the forests of Europe be so powerful as to change the world's climate? Isn't that just one of those silly "blame everything bad on white people" tropes? 12% of the world's population on 6.8% of the world's land covering 2% of the surface of the planet and it was the slow and primitive manual labor tree felling that started climate change. That sir, is absurd.

Like I said, the change due to the deforestation of Europe was tiny and not noticable by human beings without instruments. But it was measurable with modern instruments. Why Europe? Just because it was the first continent to be deforested. And losing 1% of the world's trees does change the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in a measurable way.

What is the actual mechanism by which humans control the climate?

Our activities change the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:57:41+00:00

There is truly no need to post to multiple subs. Everyone sorts by new, so everyone sees everything you post twice.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:47:21+00:00

Studies show that measurable anthropogenic climate change began with the deforestation of Europe in the Middle Ages.

It was nothing anyone would notice without instruments, though. It's accelerated vastly since the widespread use of oil as a power source.

has it not been in constant flux since the planet formed?

It has, but never this quickly without a supervolcano or asteroid in the mix.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:41:37+00:00

Honestly, every cliché bothers me a little. Like when people say "Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!" It's like you're not even talking to a person. It's the way a GPT would talk.

And that's kind of what partisans are. Just bots. All saying the same things, using the same words. Every one is indistinguishable from every other one, so if one of them fell off a cliff, everything would be exactly the same.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:24:22+00:00

Not a Democrat.

Whereas you... just use whatever words your betters are using. As soon as Bill Posey and Greg Abbott and Jeff Duncan started saying Brandon, you were just clapping along like a trained seal.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T03:03:02+00:00

Yeah, using "Brandon" is a pretty clear sign that you have no interest in ever thinking for yourself. You'll just let your betters tell you what to believe. It's easier and it's more comfortable.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:51:36+00:00

I'm not sure why anyone would go to bat for people who are here obviously to undermine and destroy this website... they're not even having a conversation in good faith, they're here to make a huge mess and the post history shows that.

The whole reason I'm here is that I go to bat for unpopular people. When Reddit would start a "Brock Turner is the DEVIL" thread, I'd point out things in the record that suggest he's really not that bad a guy. When they'd start a "Peter Cvjetanovic is the DEVIL" thread, I'd point out that I've seen his interviews and met his friends, and he's not a violent or evil guy.

Naturally, they banned me.

I'm the child of a defense attorney. Maybe sticking up for unpopular people is in my nature. As a consequence, the Internet wants me to fuck all the way off and die. And that is why I post to your site almost every day.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:41:30+00:00

Well, it's your call. But 99% of what I see him post is just "incel revolution now" and "the blackpill is right" and "roasties go to hell" and "I hate tall men"...

...I mean, to my eyes it's kind of your typical radical incel. Depressed, mentally ill, and screaming into whatever void won't ban him.

He's certainly not making the site better. But that's where you have to ask yourself where you stand philosophically on the question of free speech. Should you ban someone because they just suck and make the site a little worse for everyone? Or should society give them a space to suck and make everything a little worse for everyone.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:29:59+00:00

Magnora7 banned you because he thinks you're a shill trying to bring down the CloudFare protection in order to destroy the site.

For what it's worth, I don't share that belief. I think you're just a depressed, kinda stupid kid who can't get laid.

But it's entirely possible he has more information than I do.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T01:27:04+00:00

My understanding of climate change isn't based on "them" or "their motives" or "who is and isn't an expert."

It's based on reading data. A combination of reading both the scientific publications directly and reading sources I trust to summarize papers without partisan editorializing.

Anthropogenic climate change is happening. It's real. The planet is warming and the oceans are rising.

It's also quite slow on the timeline of a single human life. It's not something that "hasn't happened but is going to." It's been happening for centuries and it will continue to happen, so slowly that any given individual person can barely notice it.

It's also global, and therefore our system of national governments is probably profoundly helpless to stop it.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:59:13+00:00

It's our site just as much as his.

No, it's really not. It's his. If you want to make one, it's not that hard. Several people on here have their own site. But this one is magnora7's.

He's made you a place where you can say all your incel shit and not get banned; you don't pay him one dime for his trouble; this all comes across as really fucking ungrateful and entitled.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:46:50+00:00

Saidit isn't a corporation. Magnora7 runs the site because he believes there should be a free-speech site out there. He turned on an aggressive CloudFare setting because the site was being spammed and it was the simplest way to deal with it.

He listens to criticisms, but not to aggressive whining; and he just doesn't have that much time to spend on site issues. Because this isn't a business. It's someone's side project.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:43:40+00:00

No, man, no one here but you is interested in killing a bunch of women for no reason.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:41:07+00:00

Karma throttling has its own problems. It leads to people mass-downvoting just to suppress opinions they don't like.

Account age throttling is another option, but it also has its own problems. It leads to people joining, realizing they can only post once every ten minutes, and then never coming back.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:32:52+00:00

ok maybe not that but the reverse I would refuse

Yeah, that's called the Ultimatum Game, and in fact most Americans would refuse one hundred dollars if it meant someone else got one million. It just seems fundamentally unfair.

There are "debt" cultures, like Pakistan, where one person says "Hell yeah I'll take the hundred dollars" and the other person says "I refuse the million dollars, I'll be in his debt for life."

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:31:10+00:00

I think Hamilton, above all, was an attempt by liberal New Yorkers to reclaim the concept of patriotism.

For decades, they'd been told "If you don't support the War in Iraq, you're not patriotic. You don't support our troops and no patriotic person would object to what our troops were doing."

So in 2015 they made a musical with a diverse cast celebrating American history, and, you know, that gave the New Yorkers a big ole giant hard-on for a while.

It's just culture war stuff. And yeah, it's not that good. It's okay, but nothing special.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:28:42+00:00

Yeah, we did relax it, a couple months ago. The spam got unbearable, immediately.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:26:59+00:00

It is so because it is so.

It is so because we can measure it. Sea levels have risen about 8 inches since 1900. That's not an ideology. It's an observation.

The sea level rise propaganda claims that catastrophic sea level rise will happen in the near future, and that is just not true.

It all just depends on how you define "catastrophic" and how you define "near future."

Miami will be suddenly submerged in 2028? No. Ridiculous.

The Maldives won't have any natural land above water by 2150? Yeah, probably.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:23:57+00:00

On Saidit, everyone thinks I'm aligned with Democrats. On Discuit, everyone thinks I'm aligned with Republicans.

When your brain has been infected by partisanship, anyone who isn't similarly infected feels like the enemy.

Hematomato · 2024-04-15T00:22:40+00:00

What if you like all four?

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T19:23:21+00:00

I'm not a partisan or even a registered voter. People with political parties can't maintain their objectivity.

even if he did conquer Eurasia, so fucking what?

And, yeah, I'm sensing you're definitely not an adult in the room.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T18:38:01+00:00

Yeah, I gotta agree with Biden on this one.

It was obviously humiliating to Iran that almost every single one of their missiles got shot down. It makes them look weak and incompetent.

No real good can come from retaliating. Either Israel steamrolls Iran, which just makes them look like an overpowered bully, or they do worse than expected, which suddenly makes Iran look much less weak.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T18:22:31+00:00

Here's the actual study:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2024.2329816

Of over 13,000 islands examined, approximately 12% experienced significant shifts in shoreline positions. The total shoreline length of these islands approaches 200,000 km, with 7.57% showing signs of landward erosion and 6.05% expanding seaward. Human activities, particularly reclamation and land filling, were identified as primary drivers of local shoreline transformations, while natural factors have a comparatively minor impact. Moreover, the ongoing rise in sea levels is identified as an exacerbating factor for coastal erosion rather than the primary cause.

In other words, the study found that between 1990 and 2020, reclamation and land filling had a much larger impact on island size than rising sea levels.

Which is not remotely surprising and certainly doesn't "disprove" claims of rising sea levels. In fact, the study fully accepts that sea levels have risen. Because they have.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T18:15:02+00:00

Marjorie Taylor Green pisses off pretty much all of the people. Almost every single one of her Republican colleagues think she's a cunt.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T18:11:09+00:00

Yeah, people really get the vapours when you speak a truth they don't want to hear.

On most of the Internet that gets me immediately banned. I like saidit.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T18:10:01+00:00

In the '90s and early '00s, the parties had distinct ideologies.

Now, they really don't. Now they're not held together by any unifying principle beyond "the other party sucks."

Twenty years ago, the left would have been casting the principled "protest vote" against war. Today, they feel like they're the only adults in the room and if they don't stand up to Putin, he'll just gleefully conquer all of eastern Eurasia.

their own country has homeless people on the streets and people dying of hunger.

We have a lot of homeless, but they tend to be mentally ill and/or drug addicts who are simply not capable of maintaining a residence.

No one is dying of hunger. That isn't a thing.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T18:01:17+00:00

It's the most evil country in the world

It is not. It's impossible to rank "evil" objectively, but I think anyone who was informed and fairminded would rank the U.S. somewhere in the middle of the pack.

It's a country that's done a lot of harm - but also a lot of good. It's not as simple as "them's the bad guys."

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T17:58:28+00:00

That's almost always the case.

Not in my experience. Pretty much everyone I know was horny all the time as a teenager and knew full well what they wanted. Sometimes that was to have sex with a legal adult. I know both men and women who made that decision as a teenager and never regretted it.

Incidentally, you're defending paedophilia, seriously!?

Pedophilia is a mental disorder which causes an attraction to prepubescent children.

Prepubescent children should never be touched sexually. They have a genetic aversion to it and it causes them massive trauma.

But when our culture insists that a 16 year old is the same thing as a 6 year old - sweet, innocent, and unable to know what they do and don't want - yeah, I'm gonna be the one to stand up and say "That emperor's not wearing any fucking clothes."

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T02:39:38+00:00

Pretty much our entire west coast is due to an actual invasion of a nation. We marched into Mexico and took one third of their country from them by force.

And we took part of Panama by force, and invaded the Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico and Guam and took those for ourselves as well.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T02:00:24+00:00

America has never won a single war in its existence

What??

Revolutionary War: U.S. victory.

American Indian Wars: About 40 U.S. victories.

Barbary Coast Wars: U.S. victory.

Mexican War: U.S. victory.

Second Opium War: U.S.-allied victory.

Cortina Wars: U.S. victory.

Las Cuevas War: U.S. victory.

Anglo-Egyptian War: U.S.-allied victory.

Garza War: U.S.-allied victory.

Spanish–American War: U.S. victory.

Philippine–American War: U.S. victory.

Boxer Rebellion: U.S.-allied victory.

Banana Wars: Several U.S. victories.

World War I: U.S.-allied victory.

World War II: U.S.-allied victory.

Lebanon Crisis: U.S. victory.

Korean DMZ conflict: U.S. victory.

Grenada invasion: U.S. victory.

Cold War: U.S. victory.

U.S. Invasion of Panama: U.S. victory.

Gulf War: U.S. victory.

Kosovo War: U.S.-allied victory.

Operation Ocean Shield: U.S.-allied victory.

International ISIS campaign: U.S.-allied victory.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T00:22:51+00:00

Sure, I could use an easy, well-paying -

squints at your username

hey, wait a minute, Ice-T warned me about you.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T00:21:25+00:00

Russia occupied Crimea before the invasion, but not the Donbas. That was taken during the invasion.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T00:20:48+00:00

The findings suggest former President Trump's calls for more border security — and perhaps his anti-immigrant rhetoric — are registering even among people who may have ties to immigration.

Or maybe - just maybe - the findings reflect the fact that most of the Latinos in the country are Mexican, and the ones trying to enter the country are largely from El Salvador, and "Latinos" don't tend to think of themselves as one single group.

Hematomato · 2024-04-14T00:14:54+00:00

But the plan is for them to gain new land. The Donbas, plus formal ownership of Crimea.

And then on top of that, to give Putin something he wants even more: an assurance that Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO.

Hematomato · 2024-04-13T23:55:33+00:00

The word "appeasement" springs immediately to mind.

Hematomato · 2024-04-13T23:46:04+00:00

I think the blackpill is designed by people between ages 15 and 21, for people between ages 15 and 21.

Many of the blackpill's claims hold true for people in that age range. For example, "only looks matter" - well of course only looks matter when you're in high school. Because nothing else makes you special. You own nothing, you've proven nothing, you've achieved nothing, you are fundamentally the same as everyone else. Except maybe you're attractive. Or not. And everyone's judging everyone else on their looks because everyone's brain is just a mushy soup of hormones at that stage.

But once you're in you're mid-twenties and beyond, you can see that the blackpill has become a steaming heap of bullshit and doesn't apply to adult life at all. The monoculture of school is gone, replaced by microcultures of friends that don't think about the world, let alone sex and romance, in remotely the same way as each other. There is a huge diversity.

Trying to explain what 17 year old girls want and how they act has some merit. Trying to explain the same for 32 year old women is an exercise in futility.

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