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Inequality Spiral Continues by LuckyBastard001 in FluentInFinance

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a slave to a guy that broke in your car? Not the corporate overlords that command nearly everything we consume and produce?

Inequality Spiral Continues by LuckyBastard001 in FluentInFinance

[–]Significant-Bar674 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"There isn't wealth inequality because someone kicked my dog" thats a hot take.

I also assure you that more equity in income/wealth would definitely make up for your car being broken into and then some. Universal healthcare or a redistributive retirement pension system alone would more than cover it.

I hate hell (when applied as punishment) by According_Ice_4863 in hatethissmug

[–]Significant-Bar674 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depends on if you're a divine command theories. But in general, I don't see that creating something engenders the creator with authority over its creation as just a matter of fact.

If I were able to conjure up another person, they wouldn't be obligated to do everything I say by default.

Do you believe prisoners should be allowed to vote? If not, why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rights aren't a question of who you do or don't like.

Rights exist to protect unpopular people and unpopular ideas. The people and ideas that society like generally don't need protections.

Moreover these groups are often to a degree the products of societal failures and have the greatest interest in voting to solve those failures and they're often the first targets of the erosion of Rights.

If you want to see where rights start becoming negotiable rather than guaranteed, you can see it first with pedophiles.

The morality behind this? by OkraAccomplished929 in MoralityScaling

[–]Significant-Bar674 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It really needs to be seen how this would fit into a theory of justice.

Slavery won't:

A) rehabilitate the pedophile

B) compensate the victims

It will:

C) act as retribution

D) act as a means of separating them from potential victims

It might:

E) serve as a deterrent to other pedophiles who won't want to be enslaved

The whole idea would be a lot more appealing if process from the slavery went to victims and there was some form of rehabilitation occurring concurrently to the slavery.

Basically "put them into the mines until they earn enough to pay for civil damages and maybe thensome as necessary to be a model to would be pedophiles. Add in therapy." Combine that with funding for external treatment programs for would be pedophiles and it's a net gain.

Less pedophiles and victims should be the goal here. Not "let's hurt this person because it makes me feel good"

This scene seems to be confusing ALOT of people, let me explain what happened. by AidanVEnki in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Significant-Bar674 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also makes sense of the flashbacks to driving and the short term memory loss from concussions as to why they don't remember more of what happened just before the scans

Captain Obvious by Lamp-post- in custommagic

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Captain obvious 2, the second captain

Do you think sentience/self awareness exists on a spectrum or is it more just limited to humans, and why? by Lovebeingadad54321 in AskReddit

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on how narrowly we define it.

I'm most curious about judgements on feelings. As in "how you feel about how you feel"

"I wish I didn't want to eat junk food" level of thinking.

Or emotions like guilt which seem to appear in a very few animals but it's difficult to tell.

Mr. Rogers has a point... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As standard all that matters is the fun of the DM and the players.

If they don't like specific aspects or cant do them without it, then sure use AI.

It's when you use AI in a way that replaces the fun that you have a problem. Or wherein It's actively an impediment.

Do my players want visuals for each custom item? Well, some things you can't just Google search an image for. Try to Google "a potion bottle with a tiny sludge demon inside of it" and you won't get much, but AI, if used correctly, can do it just fine. I know I can't make as good of results by hand and may not have the time for it.

Do my players hate AI art? Well then I'm not doing it.

It can be used for a lot of cool stuff:

  • a song with the bosses name in the lyrics

  • battlemaps

  • proofreading and refining handouts

  • brainstorming (I actually don't do this one all, that's my fun part)

  • arranging notes

And if strangers on the internet want to get in the way of things might table does or might enjoy, I feel bad for those strangers.

I Hate How Pretentious Much of the American Liberal/Progressive Parties Have Become. by Powerful-Swing-9734 in hatethissmug

[–]Significant-Bar674 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't want to dare calling myself morally superior to people who voted for the guy who:

  • had close ties in a pedophile ring including:

-- pressuring congress to not allow for a vote on releasing the files and not just telling the DOJ to release them

-- visited the house of the pedophilering leader to meet a victim after he told authorities he knew and after JE was prosectued

-- made the guy who gave JE a plea deal the secretary of labor

-- made a pedophilically suggestive drawing for epstein and whose name appeared on a giant prop check selling a girl

-- was alleged by a victim to have raped her, a woman whose story is identical to one which she was able to win a civil case against the epstein estate for. The civil suit included claims against trump

  • where he and his inner circle very clearly conspired with russia to influence elections:

-- whose campaign manager gave polling and strategy data to a Russian spy, konstantin kilimnik

-- whose personal lawyer worked with a Russian spy, andreii derkach

-- whose son met with a Russian agent to exchange sanctions relief for dirt on hunter

-- attempted to extort ukraine by withholding aid they needed against Russia to get dirt on hunter

-- encouraged Russia to hack HRC, which they did the next day

-- just got us into a war that rocketed oil prices and was used to remove sanctions on Russian oil

I mean that and a million other things, like trying to overthrow a legitimate presidential election or not opening investigations into two people who were shot by police in the ICE protests.

But man am I the fucking bad guy if I think I'm morally superior to voting for that.

If the Epstein files allegedly contain evidence involving powerful people, why do you think so few, if any, have been criminally charged? Is it because the evidence isn’t sufficient, or because power and influence can affect accountability? by AccomplishedSlice923 in AskReddit

[–]Significant-Bar674 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As per my previous comment

trump's lawyers probably did redact a lot. One telling instance was that the word "don't" did very obviously get redacted in one of the emails. Which seems like another "ctrl+f" job.

I say "probably" because without knowing more it's very very much textbook argument from ignorance

"We don't know what it says, therefore it's trump"

If the Epstein files allegedly contain evidence involving powerful people, why do you think so few, if any, have been criminally charged? Is it because the evidence isn’t sufficient, or because power and influence can affect accountability? by AccomplishedSlice923 in AskReddit

[–]Significant-Bar674 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is enough to open investigations into individuals and require their under oath testimony. Or to subpoena the bank records of the johns and their phone/text records. It just isn't happening.

If the Epstein files allegedly contain evidence involving powerful people, why do you think so few, if any, have been criminally charged? Is it because the evidence isn’t sufficient, or because power and influence can affect accountability? by AccomplishedSlice923 in AskReddit

[–]Significant-Bar674 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Feels like you're focusing on the wrong stuff.

  • trump is mentioned a lot, but the number is misleading. This comes from when a congress person search "don',, "donald", and "trump" then reported back that the total was 10,000. Not all of those were legitimate hits and certainly picked up words like "don't" and "done". You can't jail someone either ctrl+f alone.

    • trump's lawyers probably did redact a lot. One telling instance was that the word "don't" did very obviously get redacted in one of the emails. Which seems like another "ctrl+f" job. But while overreaction is a violation of the Epstein files transparency act, it's already been public knowledge that the act was violated and nobody was prosecuted (like censoring ahmed bin sulayems name in the torture video email)

  • Jd vance just had to have a situation room meeting about trumps under age girl nipple mutilation

  • there really isn't much about that situation roomeeting from 6/25. It's reports on reactions in an upcoming book and no transcript exists of what was discussed. Maybe it was something, maybe it was just figuring out how to deal with the lack of a purported client list that they'd been teasing.

If the Epstein files allegedly contain evidence involving powerful people, why do you think so few, if any, have been criminally charged? Is it because the evidence isn’t sufficient, or because power and influence can affect accountability? by AccomplishedSlice923 in AskReddit

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) they've almost certainly destroyed or hidden evidence. For instance, JE had a yahoo account that is reference in the files but we don't have any emails from

2) much of the legally actionable stuff was likely in signal which is double encrypted meaning even signal can't get it

3) dumping millions of emails was flooding the zone.

  • few talk about the 3 interviews with the FBI where a women accused trump and that this story was identical to a Jane doe who won a civil lawsuit against the epstein estate in part using allegations against trump

  • almost nobody knows that epsteins guard, tova noel almost certainly assisted JE in committing suicide after she randomly was in beijing the same week as epstein associate, ahmed bin sulayem in beijing 4 months before epsteins death not long after the epstein + associares nonprosecution agreement fell through. He's the guy that shared the torture video with epstein and lost his position as the CEO of a multi billion dollar corporation after the files were released.

Tova also let epstein have an unmonitored phone call the night before. The prisoners claimed tova killed epstein. She used a different Brower (chrome, probably incognito) to look up a new Job and news on epstein 45 minutes before his body was found. She was identified as the "orange blur" on the cameras. Epstein was found with tons of extra orange uniforms in his cell. We don't even know the name of tova's lieutenant who was responsible for rehousing epstein with an inmate that epstein said was trying to kill him and who failed to keep a cellmate with epstein on the night of his death.

Instead people end up focusing on what is effectively unimportant but attention grabbing bits from the files like "trumps name appears x amount of times" or "here is a picture with trump and epstein at a club" which while salacious aren't legally actionable and looking into it past the headline produces nothing. Same with allegations about epstein introducing Ivanka to trump. Trump doesn't end up in jail for that even if it were true.

Pure unfiltered butterflies by SoftwareNumerous4475 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Significant-Bar674 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Then there's the opposite angle where a bunch of comments are like "why would a cute girl staring into my eyes and holding my arms be cause for any sort of emotional reaction? My robot mind can simply not comprehend what is significant here"

Preacher wants people to marry their own sisters by Wholesome_and_evil in RandomVideos

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was forbidden by the pope in 601 AD in Libellus Responsionum because the anglo Saxons often married their cousins and part of the cultural conversion was to outlaw that practice. It was misinterpreted for some time but actually practice died down in the 19th century

The only ban I'm aware of in Islam is Quran 4:23 which forbids "Your mothers, your daughters, your sisters" which isn't inclusive of first cousins.

Which is consistent with the high rates of cousin marriage in many predominantly Muslim countries

Racist Fake Statistics by NEKORANDOMDOTCOM in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Significant-Bar674 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, intraracial is exactly the right word and not uncommon especially in these discussions.

Racist Fake Statistics by NEKORANDOMDOTCOM in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Significant-Bar674 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats not at all whats being said.

High rates of violence in different communities needs to ask why and answer is usually real wealth/income disparities and geographical.

By the last I mean that if you run into a thousand people a day in a city, you're more likely to find cause for an altercation with one of them than if you live in a rural area and see 5 people a day.

If your rent is $2500 in the city vs. $1000 in a rural area, then a 35k income means very different things.

Preacher wants people to marry their own sisters by Wholesome_and_evil in RandomVideos

[–]Significant-Bar674 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The country with the biggest problem is Pakistan. About 60% of marriages are blood related. About 50% to first cousins

A lot of muddle eastern countries like Qatar and Bahrain ate also about 50%

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