[–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They have no vision!

We have the technology now to make DST a sliding scale so that the sun sets at 9PM every day.

Listen not to the nay-sayers! "Waaah, it is not good to eat lunch in the dark before sunrise!" Not with that attitude, mister!

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's seriously a mental illness, a "rich mind virus" if you will, and we should design the rules of society accordingly.

    Some of these people have an innate drive and even some skills that could contribute to society in a positive way. There should be a place for them just like any other disabled person. But that doesn't mean they should be able to run wild until they harm others.

    We as a society need to get away from the tendency to categorize a person as good or bad based on one aspect of their life and generalizing that to everything else. Assuming that somebody is moral, ethical, honest, or a capable leader based on their net worth is definitely one of the more egregious examples right now.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Prior art: I remember a long time ago seeing a video of a Barney (as in purple dinosaur) video game for little kids that would just start playing itself if you didn't touch the controller for a while. It was a side scroller, probably NES/SNES/Genesis.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, the DNC is crappy controlled opposition that normally exists to make conservative ideas seem liberal/leftist to americans.

    .... But that still means tens of millions of people actively choose the nightmare over the boring uninspiring candidate. Both things are true and both are bad. :/

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    My version of this, and I bet I'm not alone here is more like

    Windows -> Linux Mint -> Debian

    [ Picture of grumpy yet somehow friendly old graybeard with one foot into his "goose farmer retirement" equivalent ]

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    So we blew up a ship because it belonged to the wrong country and not because it was a threat?

    It sure sounds like our country is at war with their country. Good thing my super trustworthy government got out ahead of that one and told us it's not a war.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yep. I enjoy hypothetical discussions about how to fix our shit to benefit humans as much as anybody else.

    But that's the wall I mentally run into every time: dozens of millions of people voted for the obvious greater evil THREE consecutive times.

    And these weren't some kind of bland Romney v Obama elections that were very much two sides of the same coin. They were random politician v dementia predator Hitler and roughly half of voters were smashing that pedoHitler button.

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