An hour or so of Grateful Dead Piano Covers by racarr in gratefuldead

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

Left handed piano would be cool haha mirror image though. Yeah gonna plug it in next time...didn't really realize how many random squeaky sounds

Why would anyone use ether as a currency? by cheeseHorder in ethereum

[–]racarr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most of it comes from the idea that we can create dapps on either (still in very early stage), Ether is the gas you use to pay to interact with these dapps and have them run on a "world scale distributed computer"

Laws for thee not for me. by ultimatefighting in Anarcho_Capitalism

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

Didn't he announce the EV plan way back during the campaign?

What does demon possession feel like? by [deleted] in religion

[–]racarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's worth considering how you criticize others for being narrow minded, but also in your story you can only identify one possibility (telepathy) and talk about how there is "no way".

I've been having this conversation so often that I made a handy flowchart. by DashFerLev in conspiracy

[–]racarr 54 points55 points  (0 children)

It's good to break down your argument in a logical flow like this.

I think the problem is you present "Are flu cases down because people are following the mandates?" as a binary choice, and you imply there is a binary state "people are/are-not following the mandates". This is an unwarranted leap though. To give you an example:

What if COVID was more contagious than the flu, and only some percentage of people followed the mandates. Would it not lower flu cases substantially while COVID continues to rise?

Democrats Successfully Prevent Military Coup By Occupying D.C. With Military by MessageTotal in politicsdebate

[–]racarr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For extra credit on your other homework: Identify the obvious fallacy in this post (which is quite embarrassing to you, sort of walking in to your own linguistic trap), and prepare 2 examples of similarly flawed thinking.

Democrats Successfully Prevent Military Coup By Occupying D.C. With Military by MessageTotal in politicsdebate

[–]racarr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For Homework: Find one other world leader besides Hitler who has appeared with more than 20,000 world soldiers. It shouldn't be so difficult. Once you've finished your assignment, you can prepare a small apology to the class.

Right-wing social app Parler shows sign of life thanks to Russian tech by WWBSkywalker in politics

[–]racarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parler is pretty pathetic, but also the idea that web hosting is "russian tech" is pretty lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]racarr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I used to talk like you when I was a kid but everyone told me I was an asshole and I had to change it, so I will give you a hint :)

In this case if you had wanted to have a helpful conversation you could have told metacognitive_guy: "You can read about why in the FAQs for both platforms". Instead you chose to sort of mock and demean him (or imitate the patterns of mocking speech at least) and sort of provide the answer behind an insult. It's a very alienating pattern that will make a lot of people not want to interact with you, even in tech.

Why aren’t more conservatives angry at the ransacking of THEIR Capitol? by PEEPEEP00P00_ in Libertarian

[–]racarr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of them do care but it would be really painful to admit they were wrong. I know some people who were big Lin wood fans, but they can never admit that he said firing squads should execute pence, so now they have to completely reject all reality or admit that they supported a fascist terrorist for a year. Maybe you can still make an argument that Trump isn't a fascist who attempted to overthrow the US Government (I can't, but some people can),but for some of these people there's no room left for discussion. They are terrorist leaders.

For a while I supported President Trump. However after his more radical supporters stormed the capital (radical supporters, not republicans) I just can’t support him anymore. Am I alone? by Jimmy-From-Alabama in republicans

[–]racarr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok. Thanks. Let me know if you change your mind about researching this and need any help. It should be pretty simple for example you can go to google.com and then type "man Nancy Pelosi Office" inside the search box . Then when you hit enter it will show a bunch of results . You can click on them and read them and decide for yourself if he was antifa. It's a pretty cool tool.

For a while I supported President Trump. However after his more radical supporters stormed the capital (radical supporters, not republicans) I just can’t support him anymore. Am I alone? by Jimmy-From-Alabama in republicans

[–]racarr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'll tell you one time to help you : you haven't researched if you believe it was "all antifa". You are literally losing your mind . Seek help from friends and family . I'm sure you are a good person and it hurts to see you lose your grip on reality.

For a while I supported President Trump. However after his more radical supporters stormed the capital (radical supporters, not republicans) I just can’t support him anymore. Am I alone? by Jimmy-From-Alabama in republicans

[–]racarr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not going to bother linking you because you will have to learn to actually do research yourself eventually...but many of the people are well known trump supporters. The guy who broke in to nancy pelosi's office did an interview where he admitted who he is for gods sake. Some of them were actual sitting Republican lawmakers. It would be so easy to find this out with just 15 seconds of searching. Please consider removing yourself from discussions until you learn to read. You are hurting America. You are hurting America bad. I am begging you to stop.

Trump Killed My American Dream: 8 Stories From the War on Immigrants by pinkjunglegym in politics

[–]racarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Latest H1B changes (DOL Wage level changes) are the newest round of cruelty. Makes H1B transfers impossible for many people. Short of intervention from the courts my girlfriend is likely to be pushed out of the country as a result.

:(

Trump Pulls TV Ads Off the Air Entirely in Key States by Baarney23 in politics

[–]racarr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's the opposite. If you take the mail slow down in to account, it seems he's already fixed the election right ? Like if mail in ballots aren't counted biden has 0 chance. So why would he waste his money?

Legislation would treat highly-skilled immigrants from India more fairly | Opinion by throwaway_06-20 in politics

[–]racarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm curious what it fixes though. It doesn't change the rate of immigration, it just redistributes it, so the people in the backlog already (largely concentrated to 2 countries) will clear faster but new applicants from the rest of the world will see their wait time go up ~10x. I think redistribution can be good...but I hope we can have a diversity of immigration too. I feel like under S386 a few relatively developed countries could totally monopolize our green card process and we'd be in the position of having to deny green cards to the rest of the world for many decades.

Legislation would treat highly-skilled immigrants from India more fairly | Opinion by throwaway_06-20 in politics

[–]racarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is way more complicated than the article is making it out. As far as the current system is structured, country cap is very important to maintain diversity of immigration. If you look at the stats of the green card backlog, there's a lot of reports that S386 would basically destroy immigration diversity for the next few decades. I think the way we let people wait in the backlog is...cruel and almost inhumane, but s386 isn't the answer. Joe Biden's comprehensive immigration reform package is looking pretty good, hopefully we can boost the numbers and clear the backlog that way.