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FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to news in Mr.Beast Hires Elon Musk's Favorite Attorney to Fight Sociopath Claims

I agree, but on the other hand the people he helps, well, get helped, and would be worse off if he didn’t do that.

This is fallacious and it plays into what I said. There is no follow-up on those people. You don’t know if they would be worse off if they weren’t helped.

He “built 100 houses and gave them away” earlier this year. Great. Is he going to pay to maintain those houses? Is he going to pay to insure them? Is he going to pay the property taxes? And, of course, now they’re tied down to one specific area because they have a house and if they don’t like their job and there isn’t another job available? They’re stuck.

Home ownership isn’t necessarily cheaper or better than renting. They may very well have been better off before the IRS let them know what they owed for that house.

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to world in China is beating the world at science, says think tank • The Register

I disagree with the concept that you can accurately measure who is leading the way in science overall based on specific individual technologies that you may be the industry leader in at the moment.

Engineering superiority is not scientific superiority. Your ball bearings example is not suggestive of scientific superiority. China isn’t making massive technological strides in ball bearing studies which are furthering science as a whole.

Frankly, I disagree with the idea that it is possible to, as The Register puts it, beat the world at science because science is a global endeavor and the scientific method requires it to be in order to make sure things are verifiable.

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to world in Palestinian man found dead in Belgium park with hands, feet tied

Who should Americans vote for president in November?

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to news in X labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’

someone as pure as Elmo.

Having had to sit through a couple of years of “Elmo’s World” (when it was about 40% of the entirety of Sesame Street) with my daughter, I am absolutely fine with both Elmos being dragged through the mud.

Fuck you, Elmo. Stop talking to the fish and the baby. They can’t respond.

And Mr. Noodle isn’t the same Mr. Noodle each time. Or even a Mr. each time. Doesn’t that bother you, Elmo? Doesn’t it? Elmo?

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to world in China is beating the world at science, says think tank • The Register

Nothing in what you describe shows anything wrong with the report or the article.

This is how people defend articles from Fox News.

When the source has been shown to be severely biased, it is enough to not trust the report on its face. You do not have to vet everything they do once you’ve already seen they can’t be trusted.

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to news in Mr.Beast Hires Elon Musk's Favorite Attorney to Fight Sociopath Claims

Philanthropy porn is just disgusting to begin with. That alone should have ended him. But people think it’s a “feel-good story” so they keep watching. A lot of times, the follow-ups to such stories feel less good since the people getting that philanthropy often can’t afford to pay to maintain whatever they’ve been given.

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to news in Mr.Beast Hires Elon Musk's Favorite Attorney to Fight Sociopath Claims

the cancer of YouTube.

One of. It’s pretty much cancer all the way down.

FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to news in Reports that Capri Sun is phasing out pouches for bottles is ruining childhoods everywhere

I know a guy who can help.

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FlyingSquid , 1 day ago to world in China is beating the world at science, says think tank • The Register

And let’s see who the ASPI is since you didn’t really go into that:

In February 2020, Australian Labor Party Senator Kim Carr described the ASPI as “hawks intent on fighting a new cold war.”[29][30] Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr (no relation) said the ASPI provides a “one-sided, pro-American view of the world” and criticised the group for taking what he claimed was almost $450,000 from the U.S. State Department, to track Australian universities with Chinese research collaborations, and “vilifying and denigrating Australian researchers and their work.” Bob Carr’s criticism of ASPI came after ASPI president Peter Jennings had raised questions about the donation of $1.8 million by a Chinese billionaire to a group related to Carr.[31][32] ASPI replied that it “doesn’t have an editorial line on China, but we have a very clear method for how we go about our research,” and claimed that the true amount of State Department funding was less than half that amount stated by Carr.[33][34] ASPI was criticized by former diplomats John Menadue, Geoff Raby, and Bruce Haigh, with Haigh referring to ASPI as serving the foreign policy interests of the Liberal Party of Australia.[35][36] In July 2022 an article in The Economist described ASPI as “hawkish”.[37]

en.wikipedia.org/…/Australian_Strategic_Policy_In…

Maybe that’s why it’s downvoted.

FlyingSquid OP , 1 day ago to insanepeoplefacebook in Serious thought

“Machine elves” are a general term for a type of hallucination. There isn’t a shared hallucination of a specific god of machine elves. Especially not with specific traits.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago to news in Trump takes sexist Harris attacks to ‘whole other level’ on Truth Social

The more he does these sort of basic misogynistic and racist attacks, the more people he turns off. Sure, just a few here and a few there, but everyone has their limits and he is reaching a lot of limits.

Will they vote for Harris? Probably not. I think he’s going to face the issue the Democrats were looking at facing before Biden dropped out: a bunch of people on their side staying home on election day.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago to news in Colorado hiker rescued after workmates reportedly left him on mountain

You cook fish in the office microwave one time…

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago to news in Video shows armed gang at troubled Colorado apartment building believed to have been taken over by migrants

Ah yes, Fox “Let’s Watch the Scary Brown People” News.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago to news in Dollar General shares crater 20% as retailer cuts outlook, blaming ‘financially constrained’ customers

Their prices get higher and higher and their stores get mismanaged from the top (John Oliver did a whole segment on this I recommend looking up). Their customers are financially constrained because they are gouging them.

Their customers are also often in food deserts. If they can’t afford to shop at Dollar General, they’re going to the soup kitchen.

FlyingSquid , 2 days ago to news in Ford joins list of companies walking back DEI policies

I, for one, am shocked that the company founded by GREAT AMERICAN Henry Ford would be against the ideas of things like diversity, equity or inclusion. I know that the PATRIOT Henry Ford would definitely be in favor of those things, but the Jews would never let him tell anyone.