Why are you here? What do you want this place to have that others don't?

Zombi · 2019-04-24T14:12:38+00:00

I agree with your 3rd point, but I feel you're completely misreading his point in the first 2 quotes.

He's not saying he wants this place to be a left leaning liberal paradise. He's saying he's worried the users kicked off reddit (who are much more likely to be right-leaning) will drown out left leaning stances. He's actually advocating for free speech and equal representation, while it seems like you're advocating for censorship with how your response amounting to "If you want more left representation then you should just leave." If he had said "We should promote those with left leaning views" then you'd be correct, but he isn't and you're not.

He's not advocating to silence the right or dissenting voices, he's advocating for more representation for the left. You're actually the one advocating for censorship/anti-first amendment rights right now...

Zombi · 2019-03-31T18:01:59+00:00

Thank you for pointing out how hypocritical and racist the far-left is! I feel so bad for leaning toward liberal when I see these idiots run their mouths. That site has no middle ground, just left and right. It's like people forget we're all human and we don't all fit neatly inside little "republican or democrat" boxes.

Zombi · 2019-05-06T12:06:47+00:00

I think the clear distinction here is between advocating for something and passively watching. Sanctioned suicide isn't advocating for people to commit suicide, it's supporting those that have already made the decision. Watchpeopledie is also passively watching death, not advocating or trying to incite death.

The clear difference in u/magnora7's judgement of these three subs is right in his post:

Neither openly advocate violence

Please notice neither ADVOCATE violence, meaning none call for others to commit violent acts. From what he said, s/PhysicalRemoval was openly calling for violent acts. I don't really see how there's confusion here, he said it pretty clearly already...

Zombi · 2019-05-07T13:26:44+00:00

It all went downhill with the rise of twitter/facebook. The internet now has so much going on, so much controversy and daily news due to those sites. Before all of that I remember how forums and communities were smaller, more tight knit. You'd go to your favorite gaming forum or hobby forum and there'd be a small group of a couple dozen regulars. I still talk to some of those people nearly 15 years later. You'd be lucky for someone to keep in touch after a couple months now...

Zombi · 2019-04-19T12:10:31+00:00

The advertisements on reddit are so blatant as well.

"Hey reddit, what's your go-to brand that you can always trust?"

60k upvotes with multiple medals and thousands of replies, front page immediately. Meanwhile some amateur artist tries to self promote and they're seen as sellouts/insincere. Just right now there's this ad made to look like a genuine post.

Zombi · 2019-04-24T15:22:26+00:00

I just so happen to hold those same views. I came here to learn and speak with others with wildly different views. I think you and I understand perfect 100% balanced representation is impossible; there will always be a slant, but we can at least try to correct it.

It's like how conspiracies are very popular on this site. I personally find 90% of them complete bullshit, but I'd never tell anyone that they shouldn't post them. I argue against them when I feel like putting forth the effort thus correcting the "slant". I'm not censoring, I'm representing the contrary.

Zombi · 2019-05-16T13:00:00+00:00

I thought this was a pretty clear question, but as with everything else you seem to just loving muddying the waters. Do you have any proof of left leaning subs on saidit calling for violence? Reddit is a different site, so citing their users as a reflection of ours is a little misleading.

This is a very, very simple issue to solve. If there are calls for violence on left leaning subs within saidit that have yet to be banned then /u/magnora7 is a hypocrite. If the calls to violence seem to be only an issue within your subs, then maybe it's something YOU'RE doing if multiple websites keep banning the type of communities you tend to build.

You ever have that thought? That maybe, just maybe, you're not some helpless victim? That maybe it's not the entire world out to get you? You ever wonder if there's a slim chance that it might just be you who's the asshole? Man, what a world that would be... It's just so hard to picture a reality in which you, of all people, might actually be in the wrong.

Zombi · 2019-05-16T00:43:26+00:00

Please provide an example of left leaning subs calling form violence and I'm sure magnora7 would ban it.... You act like there's some conspiracy against you lol.

Zombi · 2019-04-04T14:25:14+00:00

Go make a whites only sub, get negative feedback, call everyone racist because whites can't have their own spaces. Profit off of all that sweet moral righteousness.

You'd think for a race that experienced "whites only" restaurants and the like in the 40's & 50's that they'd be the last one to go and create the exact same thing, but on the internet. Then they have the gall to act morally superior when people call them racist hypocrites. Joke or not the people criticizing them, even if they got woosh'd, weren't exactly wrong in the outrage. I personally think it's a funny joke, but I can understand being mad if you're taking it seriously. If you're going to make jokes about sensitive topics, don't be such pussies about it when people get offended. It comes with the territory.

Zombi · 2019-05-09T15:47:31+00:00

It's ironic that you posted this in a thread providing an example of the exact opposite of what you're saying. Decriminalizing a harmless psychoactive substance is actually a step in the opposite direction of "enslaving americans". It's actually a very pro-citizen thing to do and gives the people of Denver more freedom. Yes, it's only a single city right now, but weed was the same and now it's snowballing into something much greater.

Zombi · 2019-04-24T17:08:42+00:00

Well I can accept that miscommunication occurred and that was the point of my post. I'm sorry if I twisted your words, it was not my intention. I understand where you're coming from better.

My main point remains, though. This user is not advocating for left dominance, they are advocating for equal representation of all views.

Zombi · 2019-04-08T15:04:23+00:00

I mean, is it not indicative that something is wrong when your body is clearly designed for a certain thing yet your brain wants it to do another? Maybe "illness" isn't the right word, but it's very obviously NOT normal when you are born with a penis and you want a vagina, that just makes zero sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

I'm not saying homosexuality is wrong or being trans is wrong in a moral sense. I do think it is a disorder. We call people who think they're the center of the universe narcissists and we call it a mental disorder. We call people who hate themselves and their lives depressed and label it a mental disorder. We call people who lack empathy psychopaths and label them as having a mental disorder. None of the people with these disorders can control how they feel and they even have different brains just like a trans or homosexual person. Yet even though on paper being trans or gay checks all the boxes of a mental disorder, calling it so is seen as a bad thing?

I have depression. I can just as easily say I was born this way and my depression is a way of expressing my identity (and in some ways I do think it is). I'm fine with being labeled as "wrong" or having a "disorder". It doesn't define me and neither should your gender.

Zombi · 2019-04-03T19:01:15+00:00

I agree 100%. I actually JUST posted in a conspiracy thread. I myself am very skeptical of conspiracies and I find myself very opposed to most of them (mostly due to logical flaws and giving speculation waaaay too much merit). One fear I had while making the post was the possibility for being banned. I will most likely make more contrarian posts on that sub and my fear is that I will be seen as "An MSM shill" and thus banned from posting. It's the most worrying with conspiracy theorists as they tend to easily shut out and completely disregard anyone who agrees with any kind of MSM narrative, no matter how justified/backed up it is.

I hope we can all just realize we're all people with our own lives. We all are just trying to speak our minds and converse. We aren't some stereotype or some strawman. People rarely do things in malice and on the contrary most people disagree because they think what they believe will be best for other people and themselves; they just have different routes towards the same goal.

I hope we can all understand those simple facts and learn from each other. I hope others have the critical thinking the prove when they are right and the strength to admit when they are wrong.

Zombi · 2019-03-30T17:53:00+00:00

The agreement was "I pay you money, we fool around."

I don't understand how neither you or OP don't see how this is fucked up in any way. She's literally ONLY doing this for the money. Imagine if you had gone to work and your boss, the person you agreed to do something for in return for money, gave you fake bills and cut off contact. You would be rightfully pissed off and you'd definitely consider it a crime.

Zombi · 2019-06-05T18:03:40+00:00

Disabled, handicapped, paralyzed, special needs, and some others I'm forgetting. I say just call people what you think is the least offensive. You can't avoid offending people sometimes and so long as you aren't being malicious it's just a word at the end of the day.

Zombi · 2019-05-02T17:04:24+00:00

People saying he should buy his child a sex toy are completely missing the point. He's not "repressing her sexuality" by not buying her a dildo, what the fuck. The kid can use her hands just like every other kid her age. Sexually repressing her would be making her wear a chastity belt. How fucking weird do you have to be to think giving your kid a sex toy is in any way OK? Let alone a 12 year old. This is exactly why I left reddit.

Imagine buying your mom a dildo. Imagine buying your dad a fleshlight. It's sort of crossing a line. Again, I just wanna reiterate that I understand 12 year olds are learning about this stuff and sure, maybe a talk is in order. There's a mountain of difference between speaking to your child about safe sex and masturbation and buying them a dildo, though. The kid isn't going to be traumatized by having to resort to showerheads and toothbrushes. She'll be fine without the dildo meant for adults that are 18+.

Zombi · 2019-04-08T16:35:39+00:00

Neither does art. Neither does connecting thousands of computers together for the sole purpose of finding massive numbers with interesting properties. We don't call that a problem.

Art is an expression of feeling, not a state of being so it doesn't really apply. We express our feelings all the time: We yell when angry, cry when sad, and dance when excited. It's perfectly natural to express yourself through art, it is just much more complex then simply screaming or crying. Connecting thousands of computers together for numbers with interesting properties is actually used in the process of solving problems like encryption. It also fulfills our curiosity, something else you could argue is vital to survival. The more curious you are, the more you learn, and the more you learn the better your odds of surviving are.

Creativity is a mental disorder. High-functioning autism is a mental disorder. Finding slapstick funny is a mental disorder. Liking cats is a mental disorder. Virtually everything is a mental disorder if you extend the categorisation like that.

Creativity shows adaptability and the ability to think in the abstract which is again, something vital to our survival as it's been abstract ideas built on over hundreds of years that has lead to humanity utterly dominating the food chain. High functioning autism is extremely counter-intuitive when applied to human beings as we are social animals. Autism's main trait is a severe lack of social aptitude; I don't see how that trait is advantageous to a social animal. Liking cats is a side affect to our natural affection for infants. Completely normal and expected. You can find we adore any animal that has large eyes and a large head compared to their body.

Finding slapstick funny, while more abstract, is pretty expected as well. Slapstick is based in dangerous situations resulting in minimal harm. Most humor is based in expectations being upended by reality. Apply it to primal man hearing a noise, expecting a tiger behind a bush, yet finding out it's a squirrel. He laughs at the unexpected outcome, subconsciously showing others that everything is ok, there isn't any harm being done; we are safe. When tensions are high humans are unpredictable. Having a natural way to negate tension is extremely advantageous.

I completely agree. But for many people, their gender does define them. Certainly in our language it functions as a means of defining people; pronouns are customised to gender, etc.. That's why it's not just something people can just ignore. (I kind of wish they could, because then people wouldn't care so much about what other people choose to identify themselves with, but society is as society does.)

Well then that's their problem. If you make your entire identity based on a singular thing you will forever be offended and angry because it's so easy attack your entire being. If society is incorrect, if our language is incorrect, our goal should be to change our language and our society. Currently it seems like the opposite is happening and it's causing so many issues. We're the sum of our parts, not a single part.

Either way, I don't feel like you've really addressed my main argument. If you're clearly born with a penis yet you have no attraction to women/want a vagina, doesn't that show something, somewhere went wrong? You have a built in appendage that's specifically built for a vagina yet you don't want to use it for it's purpose. That sounds like a disorder to me. It's like being born with a mouth and not wanting to eat...

Zombi · 2019-04-07T16:55:32+00:00

While there's a lot to unpack with this post, I think I'll keep it simple:

When you really think about everything and its meaning or why you're really doing what you do, it all sort of just becomes an illusion. In short: nothing matters and nothing means anything.

With that in mind your world becomes entirely subjective and in turn meaning is based solely on your personal goals. There is no right or wrong way to live. There are ways that you personally don't agree with, but as far as inherently good or bad? There's no such thing. The life of a serial killer is just as valid as the life of Mr. Rogers in the grand scheme of things.

I live my life knowing these truths and so I've given up asking "What is it all for?" I've been much happier since then and now I do things purely to make myself happy and those around me happy. If I am going to live a meaningless, insignificant, existence I may as well make it a fun ride! That doesn't mean my way of thinking is the way of thinking. Your way of life is to live in the moment and cherish the immaterial, another's may be the complete opposite. All are equal as all are meaningless.

TL;DR Your personal way of living your life is the correct way.

Zombi · 2019-03-31T19:13:41+00:00

Then why do so many label themselves progressive liberals? Just pure hypocrisy and a lack of critical thinking?

Zombi · 2019-06-06T17:36:09+00:00

I see that now! I need to stop being so combative online, reddit has trained me to take every reply as a criticism and it's such a bad habit.

Zombi · 2019-06-06T14:46:09+00:00

Well yeah I agree we should all be as honest as possible, but there's nice way and a shitty way to say things. I'm just saying try to err on the side of the nice way as that's all you can do in terms of being inoffensive. We're basically saying the same thing tbh, which is don't worry too much about word choice, just do your best.

Zombi · 2019-06-03T17:38:29+00:00

Except you can't use a fire extinguisher to start a fire. I agree that guns are necessary for protection in certain situations, but we shouldn't be loading up our teachers with guns; I think that's just a recipe for disaster.

There's also the fact that there are plenty of other countries with much less guns while also having much less mass shootings (or none at all) so I don't think the issue has much to do with guns. I think mass shootings are a very complex issue and I think guns are just a single piece that enables them to happen. If guns weren't here there'd be mass stabbings instead, or bombings, or some other horrible thing to fill that gap.

All in all, less guns probably won't solve the issue just like how more guns won't solve the issue. Actually understanding the root cause of the issue will solve it. Arguing over gun laws and distribution just stalls the progress being made.

Zombi · 2019-05-16T17:56:06+00:00

I totally agree that proof should be provided for those that haven't seen it. I've seen the posts/memes magnora7 is referring to, so I don't really need it, but I do think it would be nice to have some in the future.

Zombi · 2019-05-16T15:20:59+00:00

Does Magnora have any proof of the banned subreddits here doing that, too?

I, personally, don't need any as I've seen the memes/posts he's referring to on those subs, but I'm sure if you really wanted proof he would be able to find evidence. Since they're banned I can't go look. Nice job avoiding the question, btw. Here it is again: Do you have any proof that left leaning subs on saidit are making calls for violence yet still aren't banned?

Such a simple question that you've repeatedly failed to answer. So weird how your giant galaxy brain can't answer it.

You're a limp-wristed faggot leftist. I bet you're not even 18 year thinking you know it all, too. If you're over 18 then I'd be ashamed for your sake.

Considering you're literally named "Troll" I just find the irony of this comment so goddamn sweet. Thank you so much for this lmfao!

Zombi · 2019-05-06T11:37:41+00:00

While I'd rather not go that route (what defines a racist, anyway?) I'd also love it if all the blatantly antisemitic posts got the hell off the front page. All we can do is callout posts such as this one and not upvote their posts.

I don't agree with what they have to say, but it would be hypocritical of me to call for censorship.

Zombi · 2019-05-03T12:39:28+00:00

To answer your earlier question, raiding is when users from other subs/sites mass visit a single sub/site with the intent of spamming or trolling.

Don't mind Jason u/OwU, he means well lol. Welcome to the site!

Zombi · 2019-04-28T13:41:06+00:00

If you think genocide will solve anything you're extremely misguided. There will always be problems and there have been many genocides throughout history yet somehow there's still problems.

Blaming an entire race for your problems is really just scapegoating. It's being delusional and refusing the accept the fact that everyone, including you reading this, is kinda shitty in their own way. I've interacted with many assholes in my life (I've even been one!) of all races. People will always cause problems; it's just what we do.

You came here for free speech and sure, that's fine say whatever you want. That doesn't make your views any less ignorant or retarded. This is just an excuse to be blatantly racist under the coat of paint known as free speech.

Zombi · 2019-04-19T14:32:53+00:00

Where is your logic at? How does masturbating lead to a mediocre life? Please, connect those dots for me as I cannot possibly see how a good life and masturbation are mutually exclusive. Do you have any proof of what you're claiming? Or do you just have opinions...?

At least that paper has actual sources and people with proof of their education backing it, unlike you. You're just some random internet person, how do I know YOU'RE not a government shill trying to oppress natural human desires?

Zombi · 2019-04-19T12:30:52+00:00

Why not go the middle route. Not guidelines, but principles? Encourage, but don't moderate, content that agrees with principles and ignore those that don't. They aren't strictly followed rules, but ideals we should follow.

You could say the debate pyramid is one of those principles, but maybe we should add more? That way we don't run into /u/sawboss' problem of this becoming a dictatorship while satisfying your problem with the lack of culture. We don't need to ban or punish those that go against our principles, just follow them (the principles) and promote them throughout the site.

Zombi · 2019-04-14T13:41:16+00:00

I owned a couple of these bad boys. I know the picture is cute and all, but this isn't very nice for the fish! I don't like being "that guy", but ideally a pufferfish should never puff up. If they do, it means they think they're about to die.

They're great fish and are like little submarines. Not very quick or bright, but man are they pretty. Mine played well with the other fish and it was fun watching them move. They sort of "float" through the water instead of "swim".

Zombi · 2019-03-31T12:16:21+00:00

So basically I'm getting from this thread that windows can get viruses and hackers can inject malware into legitimate programs? Is that news nowadays? 99% of windows users already know those two facts lol.

Zombi · 2019-06-03T17:41:22+00:00

Making progress baby! Next stop the cover of Time. Great to see the site get a mention, even if it's a relatively small one. We have the potential to be just like reddit one day. Hopefully I'll be able to see that happen!

Zombi · 2019-05-17T19:51:24+00:00

You can keep saying that, it doesn't mean it's any less bullshit to act as if magnora has any say in/control over what goes on on reddit which is a site he doesn't own (therefore he has no power within it). I figured you knew that, but I'm explaining it anyways because the more we speak the less confident I am in your ability to grasp basic concepts/answer basic questions correctly. What they do has nothing to do with us and vice versa.

Zombi · 2019-05-17T13:12:55+00:00

I already posted one link with plenty of examples.

Of reddit users, not saidit users lol. Again, it's very odd how you can't answer a very straightforward question correctly.

Zombi · 2019-05-13T17:54:33+00:00

While I don't think it should be a hard rule, I also think that we shouldn't have to constantly ask OP for sources. I get that people forget or sometimes it's not entirely necessary for a source, but the way the burden of proof works is that the one making the claim should already have a source. I feel like it should just be good/promoted etiquette, but not like a bannable offense basically.

Zombi · 2019-05-09T22:34:16+00:00

But now developers will actually have to make decent content and they'll actually have to try and innovate to achieve success! We can't have that now, it's better to just give your child a virtual slot machine and drain people's bank accounts through addictive reward systems.

Zombi · 2019-05-08T18:45:54+00:00

/u/magnora7 should run for office. If only everyone in a leadership position was this quick and easy to work with!

Zombi · 2019-05-06T12:24:35+00:00

This guy is fascinating. Highly recommend Fredrik Knudsen's Down the Rabbit Hole video on the guy. Kinda a sad story, tbh. The guy could have been an excellent programmer if it wasn't for the whole schizophrenia thing.

Zombi · 2019-04-19T12:12:36+00:00

The reasoning for the porn ban is there's legal issues involved with porn that gore just doesn't cause. It has nothing to do with offensiveness or content, it has everything to do with the admin not wanting legal flak on such a small site with little moderation.

I've personally asked him about it and that's his reasoning.

Zombi · 2019-04-12T22:23:08+00:00

I must have been around 5 or 6 at the time. I remember seeing my father and my mother hugging. They were both sad and it just felt like I was seeing something I couldn't quite understand, but I knew it wasn't good.

I think I saw them making up after a fight. They got divorced around that time and there was some pretty big turmoil. I can see it so vividly in my mind still, but I can't remember what I did yesterday...

Zombi · 2019-04-12T00:53:35+00:00

Guns make killing someone easier. Mental disorders make the decision to kill someone easier. I think neither are the sole cause. I feel mass shootings are due to a number of different factors and treating a huge and complex issue with such black/white logic is only slowing down the goal of solving it.

Zombi · 2019-04-11T22:16:33+00:00

They go over why they chose the black hole that was farther away. It has interesting properties due to how massive it is that the closer black hole does not. With the data from the photo taken of the larger one they can learn more about the nature of black holes than if they took a photo of the smaller one.

Also, this isn't the first time space and biology have common features; things tend to look very similar when you have a resolution of 100x100 due to the lack of detail.

I get you should question everything, but what on Earth is to be gained from faking this image? There are many scientists all over the globe that collaborated on this project with very little to actually gain besides further knowledge. Why would they fake it? It makes absolutely NO sense...

Zombi · 2019-04-08T14:12:09+00:00

I remember when I was like 16 or so I saw a man at one of those kiosks in the middle of the hallway. They usually sell overpriced helicopters, shirts, and stuff like that. This man, though, was holding a cigarette in his hand and as he inhaled it lit up!

I remember being kinda shocked at first. Dude is just smoking a cig in the middle of the mall?! It was when I got closer I realized it wasn't a cig at all, but an e-cig. My dad had smoked all my life so I knew the smell of cigs pretty well and this had no smell at all.

I just remember thinking "Wow, they can do that?!" It really made me take a step back. It might seem tame today now with Juul on the rise and vaping being mainstream, but you need to realize this was way before all of that.

Now that I know how ecigs work they aren't some revolutionary technology, but it was fascinating seeing it for the first time. It was almost like magic.

Zombi · 2019-03-31T22:04:33+00:00

Yes, because it's very simple. He told her she would get $500 for a date, she accepted and even says the fact she was getting paid so much was what piqued her interest right there in the post. Is there a literal signed with pen and paper contract? No, but that's not what I meant.

Specifically asking to be someone's sugar daddy means you PAY them for their time. Again, it's not literally written down, there are no guidelines, but that's just how the sugar daddy thing works. If you're looking to be a sugar daddy, you already know it. It's common knowledge. If you want to be a sugar daddy the girl will 100% be expecting you to pay money, regardless of what she does and doesn't do for you.

It's extremely simple. She offered a service (herself as a date), he offered to pay for the service. She provided the service to what I'd assume is a satisfactory degree and he refused to pay after receiving that service. I really don't see how she is in any way in the wrong. What he did was basically sexual assault and he took advantage of her. He tricked her into doing borderline sexual favors for him without her consent. I HIGHLY doubt she would have agreed to it if the offer was "Go on a date and cuddle/make out with me" instead of "For $500 dollars go on a date and make out with me."

You're missing the key part: He told her he would give her $500, he didn't. That's all there is to it. Sorry If I sound like I'm repeating myself, but again, if I told you "Hey, for $500 would you make out with me?" and you said yes, UNDER THE PRETENSE THAT I WILL GIVE YOU MONEY, and then I didn't, wouldn't you be pissed off and feel tricked? You would totally see that as sexual assault and it is. I feel like you keep ignoring that very simple fact: They both clearly agreed to an exchange, she kept her end of the exchange and he didn't. Hence HE is in the wrong.

Zombi · 2019-03-31T19:14:38+00:00

What podcast would that happen to be?

Zombi · 2019-06-05T23:53:48+00:00

That's why I said to just try and pick the least offensive word and not worry. If someone gets offended then that's on them. People will ALWAYS be offended, so all you can really do is try your best and be confident you weren't trying to be offensive. No point in worrying about an issue that will never be resolved.

Zombi · 2019-06-05T15:27:25+00:00

I like /u/Jesus tbh. He's been one of the ONLY conspiracy heads to actually try to listen to me when I speak with him. I don't agree with anything he says, but I respect him taking the time to listen.

Zombi · 2019-06-04T00:20:59+00:00

Yeah not like reddit in that way, but a popular hub for discussion (like reddit is).

Zombi · 2019-05-17T13:24:11+00:00

I'm too stupid to know if you're bullshitting or not.

Zombi · 2019-05-16T18:52:40+00:00

I think it's a safe way to ensure situations like this don't crop up again. That way idiots like /u/Troll can't pop in and whine about it with any legitimacy. When the evidence isn't shown you open yourself up to more suspicion than anything, you know?

Zombi · 2019-05-10T16:20:13+00:00

Yeah, I'm glad you can see my point now. I'm all for decriminalization of all drugs tbh, for reasons I've already listed. I don't think it's a bad thing at all, but I think legalization is the ultimate goal.

I don't want monopolization over the marijuana industry either and I'll fight right alongside you for laws that allow us regular Joe's to open up small businesses in that market. I can understand your worries on that front, but that's why we need to focus on the actual issue: lobbying (something I'm vehemently against. It's basically a legal bribe and it's corrupt as hell).

I completely understand your worries about over-regulation within the industry as well. I agree; we should be cautious of the laws introduced and "go over them with a fine toothed comb" because as you've stated: huge companies will be looking to stomp out any and all competition through standards that smaller companies just cannot compete with (such as high fees for licensing or expensive materials required to be up to standard as an example). I'm not completely against regulation, though. I feel it's necessary to protect the consumer and the workers within any industry (see the 1920's meat industry for an example of how no regulations can harm and even kill people). I understand your fears of over-regulation and how harmful that can be for small business, but the solution isn't to keep it decriminalized, it's to fight to create a system that benefits small business and the consumer equally, while reigning in the larger corporations to avoid monopolies.

Zombi · 2019-05-06T19:33:01+00:00

Lmao is that not a thing people say? Seriously, I see it a lot. People say the jews control the government, they start wars to profit off of them, all kinds of shit. I'll admit maybe you or OP didn't, but it's a very common sentiment.

Also, the holocaust definitely happened and there are definitely a large group of anti-Semites in the world.

Zombi · 2019-05-06T17:04:06+00:00

I'm disputing that just because someone follows more mainstream beliefs doesn't automatically qualify them as a "shill". The word shill is used to discredit someone solely based on an ad hominem attack. No matter what anyone says it will not matter as long as they are a shill. Hence there's zero counterargument when you label someone as a shill. It's anti-intellectual.

If you're truly right in your stance then you shouldn't have to resort to name calling. Whether someone truly is a shill or not should have no bearing on what the points they're making. If their points aren't valid then it doesn't matter who they are or who's paying them, you should be able to rationally argue against them.

Imagine if I just said "Oh you're just a conspiracy theorist, I don't give credit to anything you say". I might joke a bit or laugh at you, but I sincerely try to level with you guys and I do try to hear you out. It's lazy to just discredit someone and name call because they believe something you don't.

Zombi · 2019-05-06T15:43:29+00:00

Well we totally need to design the system so people cannot take advantage of it. That's literally the core principle of the best systems: make it idiot proof. It's a horrible idea to just trust random people to do the right thing, eventually they won't and that's where things go wrong. It's very easy to just not go near the edge of a building, but we have guard rails for the idiots who just don't get it. Same goes for any design; if a human can fuck it up in some way they will fuck it up in some way, intentionally or not.

Zombi · 2019-05-06T11:45:36+00:00

So, if someone just so happens to have an opinion that is counter to yours, they're a shill? You just dismiss everything they say no matter what?

/u/wizzwizz4 and I seem to share a lot of the same stances, am I a shill too? Is everyone who doesn't believe the jews run everything a paid for shill? You realize that is an INSANE amount of money to pay merely to try and convince you to believe the "globalist narrative", right?

When people have your beliefs there is ZERO room for discourse. There is ZERO room for the pyramid of debate and it goes against everything this site stands for. You've ALREADY made up your mind and your position, no matter how much contrary (factual) evidence is provided, will never change.

You must understand how it's nearly impossible to have a debate with someone like you due to this, right? I'm not going to try to convince you of anything, but I do want to say that you're stunting your own growth as a person by being this way.

Zombi · 2019-05-03T01:35:19+00:00

Lmfao that is such black and white thinking. So because I don't fucking gift MY CHILD a sex toy means I'm obsessed with them jerking of and I'm a victorian feminist? Holy crap are you deluded. Let the kid jerk off, I could give a shit less. There's a huge difference between letting them jerk off in their own privacy and caring so much about it that you buy them a sex toy.

Get your head out of your ass dude. They can use their hand JUST fine until they're an adult. They're not going to be worse off because they didn't have a dildo in their childhood; jesus christ you people are insane.

Zombi · 2019-05-03T01:33:10+00:00

The fact it's fake has nothing to do with the point I'm making. The girl was buying it for herself, then the wife said they should buy it for her. My main point was in reference to the people actively encouraging him to buy it for her, literally saying he should be ashamed if he doesn't.

Zombi · 2019-04-30T18:59:14+00:00

Now this is what I'm talking about! Thank you for the detailed and sourced response. I will be checking this out when I get off work. I appreciate it :).

Zombi · 2019-04-29T19:27:26+00:00

It solved a headphone/mic issue for me once. It's really only good at solving very surface level issues (such as mine was). Anything more complex than the bare basics and it won't do jack shit for you.

Zombi · 2019-04-26T11:53:46+00:00

The executions, which included a diplomat from North Korea’s embassy in Hanoi, have not been verified. Asia Press claimed its reporter spoke to a trade official who was told the rumour about the executions. It is claimed that the executions were watched by members of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea and Korean People’s Army.

Yeah, sounds completely legit.

Zombi · 2019-04-25T18:35:33+00:00

Beware feminist attack for saying this, Rockefellers funded tons of money for it, but it's the choice of most people.

So you're saying feminism is making disconnected children due to women being empowered within the workforce and this was all funded by the Rockefellers for... some reason...?

You lost me on the last part. The reason women are entering the workforce and working longer hours, while encouraged by feminism, is mainly due to higher divorce rates and wages not keeping up with inflation. Single mothers are much more common now and they need to work twice as much to earn the same paycheck they would make 40 years ago. Not sure how the Rockefellers fit into that...

(the 140-characters design make sure everyone who had dyslexia can read it), and Instagram, which is most dyslexia user-friendly. It makes them dumber and dumber.

That's not how dyslexia works at all and you can be dyslexic while also being very intelligent. Twitter, instagram, and facebook are meant to be concise and easily consumed. There isn't really a relation to someone's intelligence and their social media usage, but there is towards their mental health. Using social media has been proven to cause/exacerbate depression/anxiety.

Before the first industrial revolution, people have to have more and more healthy children for farming, they got the most benefit for having more than healthy 10 children, they have no dare to treat them bad since bacteria and viruses can kill them easily at that era, they thought their parental investment is rewarding in future.

Yeah, tell that to all the child labors laws that were passed and constant physical abuse within households. They had 10 children because 8 of them would die before the age of 12. The population didn't explode until the baby boomers, which brings us to....

After the first and second industrial revolution, it's still rewarding, but the early investment is higher and higher to create a qualified workforce, they started to cut down numbers of babies.

The third industrial revolution: the environment changes too fast, they don't know what they can get from the child in the future, with tons of child abuse.

There are less kids being born because condoms and birth control are more prevalent and medical treatment has improved greatly. There's MUCH LESS child abuse today than there was 100yrs ago. You used to be able to hit kids with a fucking paddle in the middle of class. You would be thrown in jail for that now.

The fourth industrial revolution: robots gap all the job," what the hell I have to take care of my generation Z child? I should work more for myself, the wage is the reward, parenting =no money rewarding."So you can see they use different ways to cut down the time of parenting, and warning each other don't use too much time to take care of their children as a wise option, many "heroes" on TV dramas showing they have the dreams they chasing and leave their under 10 years old children. (I thought it's a huge plot hole that such a person with such lack of caring personality, how can he being a hero?)

Again, we have LESS children because as people become more healthy and educated, they are much less likely to do irresponsible things such as having a child at 16. Our population is fairly level currently. What is your obsession with having kids? We don't need to be CONSTANTLY growing in population size like a goddamn cancer lol. We live longer and healthier lives and so do our children. There's little need to keep popping them out.

That said, I do agree that there are major problems with our current society as a whole. I think you're right about a lack of connection between parent and child in modern society. I also think social media is a cancer on the mind capable of a lot of damage. I just disagree with your interpretation of how social media affects us and the reasons for why we are more disconnected as a society.

Zombi · 2019-04-25T13:15:52+00:00

Pfft ok, yeah I don't really buy it. The reddit search algorithm has always been total garbage and anyone who's tried to use it knows that. The amount of times I've had to search for a sub through google instead of reddit itself is insane. As for the crosspost being removed? It wasn't, it's still there. As for him being shadowbanned? That's he says vs she says and I don't really see how it's proof of anything besides the fact that he was either spamming or self promoting too much.

Most importantly, why? Why on earth would reddit admins give a shit about a small fox sub? There is absolutely no reason and the reasons he gives are absolutely insane. The admins have shown time and time again they don't go about problem subs like this. They quarantine them and try to install mods they like and if that doesn't work they just ban them. OP is acting like a nutjob lol.

Zombi · 2019-04-24T21:25:35+00:00

I can see what you're saying. I use the word "love" a lot because I've always been under the impression that those you love would know you the best, but my main point is I just don't feel "connected" to others. I like other people obviously and I am able to form bonds, but I just feel like it could be more. I don't know how I can make that bond "deeper" though.

I just feel like I'm missing something, you know? I feel like I should be feeling a certain way when I'm not and maybe that has to do with your last point:

Maybe, like maybe because i don't know, to open up you might need to know yourself a bit more. Helped me out.

I struggle with this so much as I get older. I just don't know what I can do to understand the person I am any more, you know? How do I know when I've comprehended myself fully? Will I ever? There's been times when I've thought I've known who I was, but I always end up doing something (sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing) that shows I'm capable of much more than I knew.

Sometimes I'm in a situation where I have thoughts/feelings that contradict eachother. How can I say I know anything about myself when I don't even know how to feel? It all just gets so confusing and the deeper I think about myself and my wants/needs/thoughts/past actions the more "lost" I get. It doesn't help that revealing those parts of me, the parts that may help others get to know me better, feels somehow so vulnerable. Maybe that's my issue? Maybe I'm afraid of being taken advantage of by letting others in?

Zombi · 2019-04-21T18:32:38+00:00

Beautiful bass! How much did it weigh? Seems about 7-8lbs from what I can see.

Zombi · 2019-04-20T21:04:32+00:00

It was an amazing commentary on the 2016 presidential election. Completely captured the atmosphere of that era and was a stunning recreation of the terror it brought. Great movie, 10/10 can't wait for the sequel: The Happeninging.

Zombi · 2019-04-19T14:38:19+00:00

Seems like an ARG. Cool find, most likely some web series is linked to this site.

Edit:

Aaaaaaaand there it is. Fucking called it!

Zombi · 2019-04-19T14:29:01+00:00

I think you see my point lol. If there was some actual discussion to be gained from porn then I'd be with you, but we can have many discussions about porn without it being on the site (this thread is a brilliant example of that). It's just not worth the risk/effort for how little it would actually contribute to the site's goals.

Zombi · 2019-04-19T13:39:07+00:00

Yeah, I didn't mean to drag autistic people through the mud there; just clarifying what he said is all.

Zombi · 2019-04-19T13:09:28+00:00

Pro nudist sites, sure. We're not talking about nudist sites here, we're talking about porn. Again, lets be real. You go to pornhub and you sincerely believe it's the same display of nudity as a nudist colony? You really think they're the same at all? We're talking about pornography not nudity in general.

Zombi · 2019-04-19T12:48:16+00:00

I personally don't see much of a problem with porn, but lets be real here:

Ooh! If you love the human form, you can discuss the unique features of any part of the person's body. :3

We ALL know this is bullshit. There's no actual discussion within porn; at least none that is thought provoking. You're masturbating, not writing up a lecture I mean come on now.

Are there thought provoking discussions about porn? Sure, but I've NEVER seen an actual well thought out debate on gonewild or pornhub or any blatant pornographic site/sub.

Lets not act as if the creepy guy talking about a chicks ass is trying to start an open discussion on the female body. Can't make much of an argument when you're stroking your dick with one hand and typing with the other.

Zombi · 2019-04-15T14:07:40+00:00

They could just ruin your life as well, though?

Zombi · 2019-04-14T13:00:58+00:00

This is the thing people tend to miss. Everyone says "But automation will create jobs just like the auto industry replacing horses!" but then forget that the auto industry didn't replace the necessity for human workers, it replaced the the tools we used.

They also say the same of factory workers "But automation only created jobs for factory workers!" Again, the tools changed, not the necessity for human workers.

This is the FIRST time in history we're facing a massive shift away from requiring humans for labor completely. Everyone says there'll be a need for engineers. Ok, so thousands of engineering jobs open up while millions are unemployed and most likely in no way qualified to be engineers. Do people really think that a laborer, chef, customer support, or secretary can just go an get an engineering degree while jobless? Do these people even understand how hard being an engineer is? It just boggles my mind. You're asking Stacy who just gave you the wrong burger to uproot her whole $7.60/hr + tips life and become an engineer; that's completely unrealistic.

Zombi · 2019-04-13T22:36:25+00:00

Oh trust me I get where you're coming from. I personally think there's a myriad of issues with this film, but oh god is it great exactly for it. If you genuinely think it's a great film, more power to you! Just know I'll be meming about it the whole time it's on haha.

Zombi · 2019-04-13T22:30:21+00:00

Oh I love this suggestion. Regardless of your opinion on this movie, I am sure if it wins it will be a blast! Thank you for your suggestion :).

Zombi · 2019-04-12T23:38:02+00:00

I made sure this would go off without a hitch, the video is fine just hidden currently.

Zombi · 2019-04-12T00:43:35+00:00

What's to stop the poor (who will be the majority as you can't have the majority as rich) from revolutionizing?

Zombi · 2019-04-11T22:30:48+00:00

Uhh, please stop making literally everything into a conspiracy. You're detracting from the actual progress that has been made when you do this.

Zombi · 2019-04-11T22:28:13+00:00

It's actually a VERY big and detailed image. The black hole is just a literal pinprick on a huuuuuuuge picture of everything surrounding it.

Zombi · 2019-04-11T21:54:17+00:00

Sort of why I came here too. There's too much fake bullshit and robotic interaction. I don't mean to come off as pretentious by saying what I'm saying, but it's just how I feel. Every thread on reddit I go to I already know the "deal". All the little quips and retorts and comments, I've just seen it all before in almost the exact same manner. I've been using the internet for more than 2/3rds of my life and I've used reddit for like 6 years now. It's all so predictable and fake. Everyone's jockeying to get more karma, to look like a saint, to sound intelligent, to sound like a better version of themselves.

The reality is we're not all that smart, or funny, or even that good. We're all more or less average and when I see people try to imitate those few truly witty/smart/good people it's just draining. Sometimes you just want to see something real and not the same dolled up bullshit over and over.

Sorry for the long winded post. You just got my mind going and I needed to vent a bit.

Zombi · 2019-04-11T14:59:25+00:00

Other users have pointed out that dissenter was actually spyware... so yeah. Manufactured outrage as always.

Zombi · 2019-04-09T15:53:22+00:00

So from what I understand this comes down to a peertube instance or BitChute. I'm leaning more towards BitChute atm.

If worst comes to worst we could just torrent the thing, but I'd really prefer it be a streaming service.

Zombi · 2019-04-08T16:56:42+00:00

I can agree, maybe I'm being a bit harsh there in your third point.

Zombi · 2019-04-07T17:37:21+00:00

I go for both. Life requires you satisfy your own needs because without those being met, you cannot make others happy (I couldn't at least). I notice I'm able to make others laugh more, be more generous, and overall help others when I myself have my own needs attended to. The better my life is going enables me to better help those around me.

Zombi · 2019-04-07T17:05:43+00:00

"The miners did not write their own paychecks, they didn't organize themselves, they didn't manage themselves, and they didn't fund the endeavor yet through some alchemy they still found gold!"

Like, I get CEO's get WAAAY more than they're due, but they ARE due something. The head gets the lions share because NO gold would have been mined if they weren't there to direct and manage the workers.

Do I agree with the large disparity between the pay between workers and management? Not to the extreme it's at today, but that doesn't contradict the point I'm making.

Zombi · 2019-04-04T00:14:27+00:00

Again, please show me evidence of it. I have no problem agreeing with something that actually has proof.

Zombi · 2019-04-03T22:26:47+00:00

I put a lot of faith in a technology that has been around for decades now and hasn't had any adverse effects on people due to anything related to the network. People have been saying cellphones cause cancer for just as long, yet here we are. Many, many times we've had this conversation, yet somehow I'm gullible.

Zombi · 2019-04-03T19:11:06+00:00

This is a near health crisis in our world. Physical activity is so, so good for not only your health, but your mental health as well. I noticed an amazing decrease in depression/anxiety when I started going and exercising every week. It's so easy to get comfortable and stay inside or loaf around, but the benefits of exercise for all aspects of you and how you feel cannot be undersold. Great suggestion, friend!

Zombi · 2019-04-03T18:22:14+00:00

The G in 5G actually stands for ~~literally nothing~~ (OK it stands for "Generation" which, again, doesn't actually mean anything besides "new thing") It's a marketing term. If you're going to call relatively harmless frequencies of light "genocide" then start with the one thing that causes cancer, fire, heatstroke, and will literally make your skin boil if you stood in its light for more than a few hours without protection: The SUN. Don't leap off the deep end and act as if the signal from your cellphone (something nearly everyone carries with them pretty much all day every day, without any protection whatsoever) is going to have any effect.

Don't even bring up the court case in england. There's a controversy, but I have yet to find any source or actual physical evidence of the lamps containing 5g transmitters. This is all based off of a single persons opinion. I've read 3 articles about this and NONE have stated or showed any proof of this man's claims. If I had more time I'd see if I can find some, but right now it seems like there's none. The second I actually see some proof I'll eat my words, but I'm not just going to accept some dude's story without any proof the lightposts even have transmitters (something that would be extremely easy to do... just open one up lol). So some miscarriages, nosebleeds, and insomnia started when the lightposts were installed. The term "correlation doesn't mean causation" is commonly said for a reason. There could be many explanations for these events and it could even just be coincidence.

You might say how could I know? I'd ask how do YOU know? I'm saying I don't know and neither do you. Speculation is one thing, but concrete evidence is another. You cannot fear monger like this unless you have the evidence to back it up, which from what I can tell the evidence is shaky at best. Saying "I don't know if X is dangerous" is completely different than saying it IS dangerous and that's exactly what these companies have said: They don't know if it is dangerous or not. We can't even decide if fucking eggs are bad for you or not (the consensus changes nearly every 5 years) so please don't immediately assume it's literal genocide because some scientists don't know.

Is 5g bad? I have no clue, but I seriously think you're jumping to a lot of conclusions based on pure speculation. Could it have adverse effects? Sure, but calling it a literal genocide? Get out of here with that.

Zombi · 2019-04-01T02:23:06+00:00

What do you think would be better?

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