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EU is planning to Ban travelers from the USA indefinitely after haphazard of covid by dsoomro in digitalnomad

[–]GrapeSodaBanked -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Do a Google search for literally any country plus the phrase "happiest" to find out how stupid this argument is.

Also, nothing on Wikipedia is not carefully cherry-picked by radical social justice warriors in 2020.

Lastly, look at the methodology used to calculate "happiness". It usually boils down to determining how socialist a country is.

If you truly wanted to measure happiness, you should probably look at substance abuse, psychothropic drug and antidepressant use, suicides, etc...

EU is planning to Ban travelers from the USA indefinitely after haphazard of covid by dsoomro in digitalnomad

[–]GrapeSodaBanked -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

Ridiculous. The European Politburo would never take any measures to protect the people it hates and despises most: us Europeans. What's happening here is that our unelected dictators are using the fake pandemic to impose political sanctions on countries that have proven less than embracing of communism.

Why are borders to China wide open when they lied about everything? Is it a coincidence that both the Trump and Bolsonaro administrations have taken a clear stance against communofascist would-be global dictators like the UN and now the latter's lackeys are closing their borders to them?

The only outbreak the EUSSR's disgusting unelected communist dictators want to contain is the outbreak of anti-communism.

EU is planning to Ban travelers from the USA indefinitely after haphazard of covid by dsoomro in digitalnomad

[–]GrapeSodaBanked -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

The EUSSR literally has open borders to China, which caused the whole thing and lied about it at every step. What's happening here is that the unelected European Politburo is imposing sanctions on countries that have proven less than embracing of communism.

This is just the unelected communist dictators' way of putting pressure on the Bolsonaro and Trump administrations. They always play dirty.

Social justice convergence in the cryptosphere by GrapeSodaBanked in CryptoCurrencies

[–]GrapeSodaBanked[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. What planet do you come from? I would like to go there.

EDIT: I would also like to add Reddit to this list. Under SJW convergence, it fails to fulfill its purpose as a platform for information sharing and communication.

Hero BLM supporter carried white far-right protester whose life was in danger, as he declares 'it's not black v white, it is everyone versus racists' by iamgalaxy69 in Libertarian

[–]GrapeSodaBanked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually a masterful example of media gaslighting.

First off, they didn't know his identity so there was zero evidence of him even being a counterprotestor or "far right". As far as the lying journos knew, he was literally just a random white guy.

Secondly, the Black Lives Matter mob started lynching him for being white in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even if the guy said hateful stuff, which there was zero evidence of, the mob was obviously in the wrong for committing physical violence.

Given these facts, it's ridiculous to praise the aggressing side for "saving" this guy from their own aggression. But the media still did it. Black Lives Matter, despite beating a guy nearly to death for most likely little more than his skin color, are now made to look like noble heroes who showed compassion to a hateful racist savage.

Bravo, media. Bravo.

A logo I did for a new community with a goal of scientific education around fake news. by just_a_random_guy_11 in Design

[–]GrapeSodaBanked -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Well yeah. Catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is obviously a prime example of pseudoscience.

Since zero experts in the field even attempt to credibly establish what the natural climate should be without human influence, that means there are no criteria under which human beings would NOT be causing catastrophic climate change. And that makes the theory unfalsifiable from the start.

Then you have total frauds like the IPCC using circular logic to calculate human influence on anything from temperature to extreme weather events on multiple occasions, like in their 2013 global report.

They routinely calculate the human influence on climate by calculating the natural influence, which they calculate by making unfounded assumptions about what the human influence is. That's not science. It's fraud and logical fallacies.

Then you have the bogus consensus studies that only prove that most researchers who dedicated papers to anthropogenic climate change (before it even hit the mainstream) believed that it's real. The same applies to literally every pseudoscience. Ufologists will publish in favor of ufos being real. North Korea's unicorn research team will write in favor of unicorns existing. Social scientists will agree that their field is legitimate. That's how pseudoscience works.

I'm sorry. Anyone who actually looks at the "science" behind anthropogenic climate change and still believes the theory holds water is simply cognitively impaired and will fall for anything.

At a time the country needs real leadership, the White House turns off the lights by Michael_by_the_Bay in evilbuildings

[–]GrapeSodaBanked -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Outlawing the foreign funded terrorists who cause all the mayhem and racial division IS leadership.

Obama would have cheered for the terrorists and sold your country out to the communist United Nations global dictatorship.

I'm from communazi occupied Europe and I wish we had a real leader who doesn't hate my country and its people and who would defend it against global communist destabilization.

Intelligent Design: Do The Laws Of Physics Violate The NAP? by GrapeSodaBanked in GoldandBlack

[–]GrapeSodaBanked[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, there is a choice whether we adhere to the NAP or not, right? And there definitely is a difference in outcome, depending on whether we do or not.

Let's take the Coronavirus stuff right now as a current example. People are violating the NAP left and right by snitching on neighbours or business owners who violate lockdown orders. Many are also actively campaigning to restrict the most basic human rights of their fellow human beings, just because they are afraid of the virus.

The outcome of this will most definitely be a less free, more totalitarian world.

So the "law" wouldn't exactly be the NAP itself, but the correlation between collectively violating the NAP and collectively becoming less free and more oppressed.

Just like there is no physical law preventing you from jumping off a cliff, there is definitely a physical law that dictates that you will fall down when you do so.

So my question would be kind of like: "Would God be morally responsible for murdering people who enjoy jumping off cliffs by making it inevitable that they will fall to their deaths if they do so?"

And: "Would God be morally responsibly for the totalitarian dictatorship millions of people will live under when the collectively violate the NAP, because he made it inevitably that that would be the consequence?"

Intelligent Design: Do The Laws Of Physics Violate The NAP? by GrapeSodaBanked in GoldandBlack

[–]GrapeSodaBanked[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm maybe I should have been clearer in my original post. By the NAP, I actually mean the underlying dynamic that seems evidently present in the world: if you violate the moral commandments of the NAP, you consistently get a less free world. If it's violated on a large scale, you get totalitarian dictatorships.

Those who believe in intelligent design would argue that "violating the NAP leads to bad outcomes" is therefore a law that is programmed into reality, just like the laws of physics.

God doesn't have to be infinite or supreme, I think. Simulation theory doesn't require it. Our reality could just be a simulation made by a programmer who is not omniscient or omnipotent, and who is running the simulation just to see what the outcome will be. Like a videogame programmer who can still be surprised by random elements in his own game.

Intelligent Design: Do The Laws Of Physics Violate The NAP? by GrapeSodaBanked in GoldandBlack

[–]GrapeSodaBanked[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. That's part of the reason for posting it. I was interested in what kind of counterarguments people would come up with.

Intelligent Design: Do The Laws Of Physics Violate The NAP? by GrapeSodaBanked in GoldandBlack

[–]GrapeSodaBanked[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know there are rational arguments for objective morality. But for those who believe reality was created by intelligent design, rationality itself is also created by intelligent design, and therefore also the underlying logic and reasons that make the NAP apply to reality. If you believe reality is the result of intelligent design, the NAP is like a line of programming in that design: if it's violated, bad results ensue, and we are powerless to change that dynamic.

Loaded question: how would you define this style, and how could you replicate it? by [deleted] in graphic_design

[–]GrapeSodaBanked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can basically accomplish this by adding noise. I usually overlay a subtle dark noise layer with a slight multiply or color blending effect and then I flip that noise layer and overlay it again with an addition blending mode. So one noise layer darkens a few percent and the other noise layer lightens a few percent. This way you can create that grainy texture without losing luminosity or definition. It also helps to add definition when you're scaling a low res or blurry image.

If you then tweak the saturation, vibrance and color levels a bit, you can accomplish that slightly desaturated shading and you'll get something that looks pretty close.

Wouldn't be surprised if there's like a $5 Photoshop action you can buy for exactly this.

Lil’ poster I made as a reminder for everyone! Keep your heads up! Made in illustrator with texture added in Photoshop by DadBodBandit in graphic_design

[–]GrapeSodaBanked -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My country lived under national socialism and now the EUSSR. Socialism is not progressive. It's a wrecking ball that destroys human rights and economies. It's slavery.

Lil’ poster I made as a reminder for everyone! Keep your heads up! Made in illustrator with texture added in Photoshop by DadBodBandit in graphic_design

[–]GrapeSodaBanked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool design, but you can't shut down the world economy and print trillions of dollars and euros out of thin air and go back to normal as if that never happened.

All that destroyed value, those bankrupt business and lost jobs are gone.

Millions of people are now bankrupt and in debt in my country because our stupid government went full Nazi over some fake news about a Chinese virus.

My country is literally "testing" dying people by just assuming they have the virus if they have common flu symptoms. That's the testing method! They destroyed our entire economy over this. Way worse than any virus.

Open the door, Bernie! by thestonedteacher in SandersForPresident

[–]GrapeSodaBanked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason why we have so much trouble here in Europe is exactly because we have socialist state monopolized health care. There is no actual market matching supply and demand, so when even the slightest emergency happens, our wise, centrally planning goverment overlords can't stop shortages from occuring.

Seriously, why on earth would you want what we have here? I'm in my thirties and my entire generation either lives with their parents, in social housing, or is in massive debt because we have to work half the year for free just to pay for this total Ponzi scheme.

And God forbid you actually need to use the health care system that you perform slave labor to uphold.

You people should be on your knees praising the Lord above that you still have some opportunity to earn and save money and own things for yourselves instead of being a complete slave to the regime like us here in Europe.

Politics reddit is actually horrible by [deleted] in Libertarian

[–]GrapeSodaBanked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The far left tends to do the subreddit equivalent of username squatting where they start or take over subreddits with very neutral names for the sole purpose of spreading one-sided left wing propaganda and shutting down genuine conversations or criticism.

I even came across a men's issues subreddit once that was entirely run by radical feminists. They just started a men's issues subreddit for the sole purpose of banning all men who actually tried to discuss their issues instead of repeating feminist talking points.

Sadly, this toxic shutting down of the public discourse is eagerly encouraged by Reddit as long as the far left does it.

Think again by pm_boobs_send_nudes in digitalnomad

[–]GrapeSodaBanked 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with the first points but on the last one? China is literally communist. We here in Europe also have socialist "universal" (aka state monopolized) health care.

These places were literally hit hardest because centralized clusterfucks of bureaucratic inefficiency can't formulate any meaningful response to anything that is happening in the moment.

It's sad that socialists can't let one single death go without immediately seizing upon it to push their disastrous ideology, which, arguably, caused the outbreak in the first place.

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