I wasn’t trying to be serious, if that wasn’t clear.

Everyone else is wrong. Caution is advised: I’m being serious and it’s a serious problem. He’s talking about government censorship of media, specifically Twitter, but the problem is widespread and getting worse.

I’m disappointed that liberals who have been smart for so long can so easily become dumb as bricks because they lack the emotional maturity to criticize their own side/admit that the other side is right on this issue, if only incidentally. At the least one should be able to acknowledge that it’s been expedient for the Right to champion free speech because doing so directly protects their interests—and I don’t give them any more credit than that—but at least they’re unintentionally doing the right thing. The Left unfortunately deserves criticism, not credit, because for reasons it’s been expedient for them to censor speech because it directly forwards their interests.

In the end it’s folly to think that any side is necessarily better or more just than the other, or to think sides have any important meaning at all beyond logistical maneuvering. It baffles me that the vast majority of adults in America can watch their enemy do a thing and vehemently denounce it, then turn around and watch their ally do something perfectly analogous, if not exactly the same, and stubbornly defend it without giving an inch; without a modicum of empathy, remorse, or self-reflection. Worse is that none of it even fucking matters. People are ready to have a political orgasm when the other side gets caught mishandling secret files, but get bored hearing about how the economy is burning to the ground. Neither side gives a fuck about anything that matters because unless it can be used as political ammo, neither side will bring it up unless they have to.

A little bit of my soul died the day I realized the party I championed wasn’t so much better as it was not currently in power (or in danger of losing power), and was simply temporarily more interested in saying and occasionally even doing the right things—the absolute least amount possible—to return to power (or remain in power). Those that think I’m being the least bit cynical should know that they are not qualified to have any kind of meaningful or productive discussion on these topics—they’re wasting their breath at best, unwitting tools of propaganda at worst—and their partisan bickering collectively is literally the biggest reason we will never get out of this mess. A lot of you are young and I don’t hold it against you, but don’t take too long to get your shit straight. The world really is depending on you to direct your energy at the right causes, and Elon Musk isn’t one of them.

With literally no communication, that student has bigger things to worry about than grades, like why are Mommy and Daddy shutting me out?

If teachers refers to our current style of teaching in public education, then maybe.

Japan is such an anomaly. They are certain ways that don’t exist anywhere else, that would be impossible anywhere else. If Japan didn’t exist, I wouldn’t have believed it could.

Also they’ve been paying for stuff with their phones for years and years—on exactly what basis are they a cash society (though there’s nothing wrong with that)?

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I understand what you’re saying. It’s just my opinion that you’re woefully ignorant. Sorry if this upsets you, cheers.

What a cringe take.

They unequivocally are, yes.

So if the argument were about whether a license was important, in the general case, as a selling pointl for books, I would have no choice but to concede.

I’m two weeks late but It needs to be said: fuck right off with that kind of talk. I don’t know anything about you, but I know you probably won’t agree when I say that that is a profoundly wrong, almost evil way of thinking.

My parents are American. My sister is an American. Japanese citizens during WW2 were American. Muslim citizens are American.

Jewish citizens of Germany were German.

That’s why you need prebiotics, duh.

By your logic, if you’re a good person but you spend your disposable income on a form of recreation that inefficiently brings positivity to the world, you deserve to be ridiculed and your suffering is justly celebrated.

I built mine from scratch to be my estranged father come back into my life again.

Runs decent but ngl there are better options.

It’s not uncommonly used in Buddhism. I don’t see it all over the place, but seeing it is completely unremarkable. Just from anecdotal experience I can still say pretty confidently that nobody gives a fuck.

You’re saying you think conservative Americans want to stop him?

I have no high regard for the guy, but are you seriously, like seriously seriously, trying to tell people that Jordan Peterson depends on his professional title for… literally anything?

Are you saying that without it, he will lose a non-trivial amount of… anything?

“Bro, do you know what really sucks? Not having best-in-class third-party audited end-to-end encryption so nobody ever finds out about all the shit we’re about to get up to. Like, do you even wanna do drugs, bro?”

My first-ever Nvidia card was a 3080Ti. After installation I was genuinely confused and kept clicking around everywhere looking for the real settings panel.

Actually I remember, my older laptop had a MX150 (lol) so I did know all about GeForce Control Panel and Experience—I just thought they were the outdated bargain-basement solution assigned to POS hardware like mine, not worth (understandably) slapping shiny new chrome on.

Subsequently I had automatically assumed without a doubt in my mind that the pandemic card I had paid for in tainted blood would have some uber slick new interface that I couldn’t wait to play around with.

Needless to say, my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.