MossyFeathers

I pretty much only downvote people if they're being a dick or seem to be deliberately spreading misinformation. I don't like "downvote=disagree" because it seems like it helps polarize people.

I wonder if their tendency to appearance before an earthquake is just coincidence, or if there are signs, like changes in water temperature, changes in current, bursts of electromagnetic energy, etc, that can indicate that an earthquake is going to occur several days in advance; and oarfish are sensitive to it, resulting in them surfacing and dying from depressurization.

Team Fortress 2? That was the game Overwatch was kinda imitating, so might be worth trying it out if you haven't. Just keep in mind that you might have to avoid matchmaking and manually browse for servers. TF2 was having a bot problem, I dunno if valve ever fixed it.

Interestingly, the wikipedia article on glyphosates says basically nothing about their role in Parkinson's and instead focuses on debunking cancer claims.

Absolutely not suspicious at all.

Add a bald head with a barcode on the back and you don't even need charisma.

I don't think I've seen anyone explicitly state it, however I remember seeing a handful of people on Reddit who's comments seemed to imply that view point several years ago when people first started talking about removing them. I could have been misinterpreting what they were saying, but that was the impression I got and it grossed me out.

Meh, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they feel strongly about it. The statues were an attempt to whitewash the civil war; of course people, especially non-white Americans, are going to feel very strongly about it.

I guess the way I see it though, is that the statues are technically part of America's civil war history. No, they weren't put up during the Confederacy, but they were intentionally built to affect the way people saw the civil war. Afaik that kinda technically makes them a part of civil war history.

Does that mean they're worth preserving?

Tbh, I don't really know, I'm not a historian so I ultimately don't know how useful they'd be for studying and teaching about the civil war and reconstruction era. I'm concerned about losing parts of human history, but if expert historians believe the statues wouldn't have any use for research or education, then I guess there's not really any reason to not crush or melt them down.

Another side of it is that it's a lot harder to downplay their significance or claim them as hoaxes when the original article still exists. That doesn't mean people won't try to do it anyway (I mean, Holocaust denialism seems in vogue among the far right wing right now), but it makes it easier to rub their faces in their stupidity when you can point to a physical mass of statues as opposed to a photo gallery or a plaque (I can already imagine people trying to claim that the pictures were AI generated or that the media was making a bigger deal about it than it actually is).

I've also already seen some people who seem to think that if the statues are removed, then the problem magically disappears and America isn't racist anymore. That's gross and makes me uncomfortable. America has a very racist, bigoted history. Don't try to whitewash American history like that.

I'm aware they aren't Confederate era. I still believe them to be historically significant due to the outrage they've caused. I think it'd still be worth putting them all together in a single warehouse because, at the very least, people would be able to get a true sense of the scope of the problem.

Which would have more impact, a statue or two with a description saying that hundreds of such statues existed, or a balcony overlooking said hundreds of statues?

Personally, I'd find the latter way more impactful. It's hard to imagine just how many statues are in "hundreds of statues" (heck, some people literally can't visualize things in their heads); seeing them altogether would probably be mind boggling.

I wonder how many of the people pushing it believe in some variation of Roko's Basilisk. Either that or they believe AI is going to enhance their data collection abilities; and that if everyone pushes AI together, there won't be any AI-less options and the consumer will be trapped into giving someone even more data than they already do.

In an email to ticketholders of Sunday's performance, the MSO said it did not condone the use of its stage as "a platform for expressing personal views", and apologised for any "offence and distress" caused by the comments.

But... That's art in a nutshell.