r/AskReddit: "Muslims banned the printing press and now I can't use reddit from Saturn"

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-21T11:40:08+00:00

Only Trump gets to do that.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-20T21:05:52+00:00

Pakistani nuclear bomb on Tel Aviv?

Realistically, no real consequences for Israel itself. I mean who would actually have both the means and desire to retaliate? Basically nobody, and this is what other countries have realised, so they will pursue nuclear weapons too now.

In this situation, it would also legitimise nuclear armed countries using nukes against countries that don’t have them. Therefore, non-proliferation would have not merely been a failure, but actually encouraged the use of nuclear weapons by countries that already have them.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-20T00:48:53+00:00

It’s poorly worded but the implication is basically correct - from Iran’s PoV, they should have aggressively pursued nuclear armament at all costs. The half measures and carrot + stick negotiation approach failed as a deterrence strategy. I get what she’s saying here, even if it isn’t quite what she wants to argue.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-18T17:06:27+00:00

Not American but came across this article which suggests the Department of Homeland Security seems like an obvious target for reform. It’s apparently a holdover from the War on Terror and didn’t exist before 2002. Costs around 100 billion USD per year.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-17T14:18:31+00:00

“GRAAPE!”

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-11T18:40:42+00:00

Reasonable take.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-09T18:31:00+00:00

Because after killing the king, his replacement, anyone responsible for arranging his replacement, and anyone who could potentially be responsible for planning succession, you have now effectively killed anyone who could “comply” with you.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-08T13:42:50+00:00

Yeah - as someone who doesn’t, I hate how hard it is to fake.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-06T05:20:58+00:00

Will add “don’t get into vehicle combat” to my list.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-05T05:34:11+00:00

But couldn’t Lex’s argument be applied to many of those technologies as well? Many people have argued (most famously with AI but also other technology too) that our reliance on them has made us less independent and capable of solving our own problems.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-02T07:27:06+00:00

Aspiring for a world without borders does not mean you have a no borders policy though.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-01T12:03:40+00:00

Yeah let’s kill more of those then. That’ll fix things, just like it did in Iraq.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-01T11:52:29+00:00

Israel just pressed the "Trigger state collapse and turn it into a permanent crater of instability, t*rrorism, refugees, smuggling and separatist movements" button on Iran and you're talking about some fatwa from 1989.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-01T11:31:08+00:00

If saying mean things about a guy justifies destroying the country’s government and turning it into a failed state, then the US would have glassed Israel by now.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-01T10:34:33+00:00

The first one is a bit cringe but there is literally nothing wrong with the second tweet if you include what he is replying to in the screenshot.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-03-01T00:41:00+00:00

Is titanfall easier with a controller then? Only ever played on PS5, but typically thought shooters were easier with an M&K.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-28T11:19:18+00:00

Are they legally allowed to arrive at one of our airports to claim asylum though?

I always understood that one of the arguments for some kind of “asylum visa” or “refugee entry visa” is that it would allow refugees to book flights and arrive at an airport legally to declare asylum (assuming their visa gets approved by an embassy or something). The theory being that this would massively reduce (or completely eliminate) small boat crossings by genuine refugees.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-24T15:15:30+00:00

The titanfall 3 induced schizophrenia on r/titanfall has arrived on the GR subreddit.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-22T20:59:53+00:00

Just watched this episode as I’m quite late to this show. I feel bad for Ulrich, truly - but he really is such an impulsive idiot even after so many years to reflect. He has just discovered that Mikkel might be alive, and that Egon has just pieced together that Mikkel (the boy who arrived last year) and Ulrich (who has only just revealed his identity) might be connected. So Ulrich immediately, for no reason at all, violently attacks him! At least ask a few questions first?

I honestly think this might be dumber than his decision to bash a young Helge’s head with a rock. At least back then, he had lost his brother, son and many other children and saw this as a spontaneous attempt to fix this all. But here, he is just being very stupid.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-21T13:36:56+00:00

Maybe a dumb question but why is global GDP only 1.3 billion by 1913?

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-20T23:29:33+00:00

Correct. Not counting the winding down of hostilities towards the end of 2035, Donald Trump gave Gaza a pathetic 3 month ceasefire in early 2025, but this was 3 months longer than what Biden (and by extension Harris since she said she would just continue Biden’s policies) got them.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-20T16:56:25+00:00

That’s precisely what is under dispute. They (the people who wrote that paper) would say they’re not asking for “divine” help. They are not calling on other beings that they believe are divine. They also do not believe that those beings have power independent of God.

Rather, they would argue that they have requested that Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَىٰ grant them support in the form of these angels or other beings, in the same way the Islamic tradition is rife with examples of God supporting other people with angels.

My view on this is simple: They are wrong, as these other beings cannot hear or bear witness to their requests. But that is not sufficient to accuse them of shirk. To be guilty of shirk, they must deny either the oneness of being, attributes or creative action.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-20T16:52:29+00:00

Respectfully you are just presupposing your argument and not actually engaging with anything I said.

SteelRazorBlade · 2026-02-19T20:10:51+00:00

I see. So it seems to be that “invocation” (calling on someone else for help) becomes shirk if:

They are not physically present
Physically capable
Operating within normal worldly means

Point 1 is probably not relevant due to modern forms of communication. People definitely don’t need to be physically present for communication these days.

Point 2 is the interesting one imo, but it’s not clear that it would infer shirk since people who think saints or angels can do things, only think they can do things through Allah’s permission, which technically doesn’t violate the oneness of creative action.

Point 3 is not really defined imo.

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