CarbonIceDragon

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

Was going to say something similar, I have no idea what it sounds like but the letters look beautiful written out.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The broken system is the reason there are so many bad faith actors in the first place. People are shaped by the systems around them. A well designed system wouldnt drive so many people to that point in the first place or incentivize actions on the part of the powerful that do so.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its a little funny how many conservatives out there will hate on furries and then unironically make memes calling themselves "lions" or "wolves".

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly that doesnt look that bad apart from the giant pocket thats going to have uncomfortable seams. Denim is a comfy enough fabric

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Id bet it already is possible, at the very least there are apps that let you use one's PC desktop in VR so one could order off a pizza place's website using it.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 25 points 1 week ago (11 children)

There isnt really any significance between the people of one country and another, as far as things like intelligence and stupidity are concerned (especially one that is both not that old and whose population stems from a combination of different groups like the US, because by what mechanism could such a difference arise?). What we have in the US are the consequences of designing a political system badly. Id agree that the problem goes beyond merely the leadership, but I would be willing to bet that any group made to follow the specific system we have set up would eventually end up with roughly similar problems, just fit to the culture of the area in question.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if youre frozen in time, doesnt that imply that your neurons and the cell activity that feeds them are frozen too, and thus that you cant think to perceive being so frozen anyway?

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is it realistic for them to be designed sanely tho, and remain so even if they were? Remember, the people making such a "you must pass test to vote" law would be the politicians people are voting for, so they would have a huge incentive to mess with the process in such a way as to make it easier for the demographics that tend to vote for them and harder for the ones that dont. Adding an additional time hurdle like a test also has effects regardless of the likelihood of passing it, for example, it makes retirees with more free time to even do the test be more likely to qualify than someone too tired after working long hours to bother.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In the US anyway, its historically been those very people that have tried things like education requirements or tests for a person to be allowed to vote, specifically to create an excuse to deny anyone that wasnt white.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're not, they're saying that other people are going to do that, and that them doing so will create problems for unrelated jewish people long into the future.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ideology to some extent is behavior, or at least helps determine behavior, when people act in a manner consistent with their own ideological positions. I can see an appeal to "allow all ideas as long as they don't make trouble", but when the nature of most ideologies is to include something along the lines of "it is a morally good thing to spread this ideology to other people" to a lesser or greater extent, and some ideologies require harmful behavior for one to act consistently with it, the conclusion that seems obvious to me is that believing in certain ideologies is itself bad enough behavior for it to be justifiable to exclude those people from a given online community, because such a person will either cause trouble or be a hypocrite. And after all, ideology isn't some immutable inherit trait, a person can change one's ideology and people often do.

All that being said, that particular statement isn't really a clear statement of ideology at all. I disagree with it's implication, but all it really does is demonstrate either a misunderstanding of what harm reduction means, or a viewpoint that is too black-and-white to allow for it, which can be a feature of too many ideological positions to narrow it down.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Suicidal how? It's not like the modern republican party, at least those in congress, is likely to impeach their own president, and seeing as he's term limited, if Trump got another term, he would have had to throw out the constitution completely and unambiguously to do it, at which point he could simply throw out the "election" part too.

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