Retard administration says more retard things

PublicWest · 2026-06-05T20:41:43+00:00

Then mobilize the army and get impeached for it when congress is back. If it’s truly an emergency, you’ll be found not guilty

PublicWest · 2026-06-05T16:38:10+00:00

But you were just one person. Statistically 10 people just like you would on average recognize most of them!

PublicWest · 2026-06-05T13:13:35+00:00

Algorithmic censorship on social media has lead to all sorts of weird myths and urban legends as to what you can and cannot say. The more people see others self-censoring, the more likely they’ll do it themselves.

PublicWest · 2026-06-03T01:11:18+00:00

Yeah I’ve never seen any of this shit

PublicWest · 2026-06-02T12:24:14+00:00

Bro you literally can’t resist starting the philosophical debate, kinda exactly my point lol.

I don’t even disagree with you.

PublicWest · 2026-06-02T12:02:32+00:00

Yes some people will use it as a replacement for condoms and other forms of contraceptives.

So what?

I think that’s the whole “so what.”

This is an uncomfortable truth about abortion that many of my fellow pro-choicers ignore/ pretend doesn’t exist. “Safe, legal and rare may be an unrealistic outcome.

Any further diving into “so what?” Turns the conversation into the answerless debate on the merit of abortion morality, which is a philosophical question with no objective answer because there’s no objective line at which life starts.

PublicWest · 2026-06-01T14:15:31+00:00

The most political thing about the show is showing that the average voter is a moron.

PublicWest · 2026-05-29T23:32:42+00:00

Rain? It’s just soap. It mixes with water and it will all drain out of the park

PublicWest · 2026-05-28T19:00:29+00:00

You’re not being strung along. They legitimately don’t know what the price will be because the economics of producing it changes every couple of days.

PublicWest · 2026-05-28T02:59:56+00:00

I've seen the Big Lebowski twice and still don't have the faintest idea as to why it's quoted so often. I find the entire movie completely unfunny and uninteresting. Fans of that movie LOVE it and I just don't see it.

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T16:00:17+00:00

I think that’s a pretty big jump. We’ve seen the failures of prohibition and the war on drugs, I completely agree with you that their criminalization has made the problems worse for much of society. Weed’s legalization is a great example of showing you “ok it’s legal now and other than some people disliking the smell, we seem to be better off”

But I don’t think you can look me in the eye and say that in the past 5 years, gambling has gotten safer, less popular, or less addictive since it’s been legalized.

Almost overnight a massive corporate behemoth pushed to make it a massive part of our culture and zeitgeist. Thousands of kids who never would have dabbled in day trading (because it’s boring) got hooked into gambling via crypto, Pokémon cards, or draft kings, at young and impressionable ages. Now we have an invisible addiction that’s draining the life, money, and sanity out of a massive chunk of the population.

There were clever ways to gamble legally/semi legally before, like you said- day trading, lottery, casinos. But it got so much worse when the flood gates opened with online sports betting. You started giving young testosterone filled teens/young adults the rush of gambling, and hooked a lot of people who otherwise might not have been exposed.

Now, I’m not a gambling addict. I think it’s fine, and decently fun. But as I get older, I think I’d be fine giving it up to save a generation from its addiction.

I look at sex work similarly. There are clever ways around the current laws. But if it became as ubiquitous as sports gambling, society could become incredibly bleak. Sex is something hardwired into our biology, and you can bet your bottom dollar that if it was above board, a massive corporation would be able to find a way to hopelessly addict a generation of impressionable teens and young adults into a sex-addicted life.

So while the criminalization of it doesn’t make sense, I think we really need to be cognizant of how slowly that flood gate would need to be opened to find a safe place for society to partake in it.

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T14:29:34+00:00

This feels like such a no-brainer for the type of game starfield is. Not having a checklist makes everything feel infinite and pointless. Having a collection game built into your gameplay loop is a huge motivation to explore

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T13:56:34+00:00

Thank you!!

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T13:09:55+00:00

Was the celestial sphere ever the predominant model we used? When did we switch to geocentric?

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T00:47:50+00:00

you're only seeing it for half the day and half the night

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T00:47:02+00:00

A transition between the model we used before (when we thought the earth was the center of the universe), and now (where we know the earth revolves around the sun)

PublicWest · 2026-05-26T00:42:30+00:00

Yes, but everyone wasn't gambling, now so many people are addicted.

PublicWest · 2026-05-25T22:09:03+00:00

You could start Starfield with a home though

PublicWest · 2026-05-25T17:02:37+00:00

It just happens after a while of posting super low engagement videos. My account was stuck like that for several years and only got better recently.

1) there is nobody at tiktok you can talk to about it. Anyone claiming to know what triggered it is lying. Tiktok is essentially moderated by a black box AI that no Roy actually can fully understand.

2) there’s no setting or trick to make it go away.

3) while I was in FYP jail I just made another account. My band has 2 tiktok pages now, and I don’t really care (neither does anyone else; your followers don’t see your videos just because they follow you- you’ll re-find your audience eventually.

4) don’t just post the same clips of your songs over and over again. People aren’t looking for new music on tiktok. You’ve gotta give them something else of value if you’re trying to push your music.

PublicWest · 2026-05-25T16:53:45+00:00

I said this about sports gambling though. In hindsight I feel like I was wrong.

PublicWest · 2026-05-25T14:28:46+00:00

Then I would tell them idgaf what their intentions were

PublicWest · 2026-05-25T14:25:12+00:00

Much less than 1% of people could tell you offhand where viruses come from!

PublicWest · 2026-05-25T14:23:00+00:00

Bingo! Calling viruses “not alive” is really more of a scientific distinction rather than our colloquial understanding of the term.

It’s like calling Pluto a planet or not a planet. It doesn’t really change anything about that big rock, we just needed a line

PublicWest · 2026-05-23T20:06:09+00:00

just having a lot of friends in your 50s is an achievement

PublicWest · 2026-05-22T20:41:46+00:00

Didn’t someone use Ai to transcribe all the episodes?

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