removing individual freedom is never good

I generally agree that prohibition doesn’t work, and is bad, but having an absolutist position like this is usually problematic. For example we have to restrict some people’s freedoms. Like some people want to harm or kill others, that should not be a freedom people have.

Most things in life have a lot of nuance, which means we can’t usually make blanket rule for things.

In saying all that… Prohibition usually doesn’t solve the issue, sometimes makes it worse, and often ends up hurting people who are already suffering (usually why they resort to harmful substances)

Don’t forget the last one in Qatar

I thought they said controversial?

He got immediately dumped into the ocean IIRC

I mean, just the fact that we increased the ppm by ~100, or 1/3rd what it was, in just 60 years is terrifying. Let alone that it’s accelerating. And CO2 isn’t even the worst climate change gas. And there are many positive feedback loops getting exacerbated by the effects…

Good times

Yeah, I came to the same understanding when I used to counter conspiracy nuts denying climate change and evolution etc.

You’ll never convince them they’re wrong or hypocrites… But people who stumble upon the thread that are not super critical thinkers will see the discussion and you can help them realise the person is actually full of shit.

Sometimes they can lie believably enough that people fall for it, and some of those people will snap out of it when they see the contradiction and logical fallacies.

The “best” part is that none of these end up taking into account the fact we’ll cook ourselves/the planet from excess heat waste long before climate change can finish the job

And this was before ai started to speed up the job

Thank you, I’m saving this

This is where lables start to get unhelpful imo. Clearly he’s on the gay to straight spectrum somewhere in the middle, but isn’t comfortable identifying with the non traditional end.

I think a looot more people are some kind of bi, but either don’t consider themselves that way, or don’t want to admit it.

I wonder if a lot more people would be less closeted and resistant tuotheir true feelings if there was no lable for sexualities. Just ‘hey, he’s kind of hot, I want to fuck him’, then do it. Not have people ask if that means your x or y or z etc.

Yeah… When I was on the dating apps I pretty much treated “centrist” as “conservative” for a filter

I don’t know if cloony said it before, but a bunch of actors said they’d “leave the country” if Trump got elected, then didn’t. So it’s nice to see someone follow through

I’m confused, was there any expectation it would that I missed? As far as I know half life is dead. They never even finished episode 3 of half life 2 from like two decades ago.

Doing an excellent impression of a fountain

There is context, but the kids parroting it don’t know our understand it.

Basically it’s part of a line from a philly rap song that someone misinterpreted, said it in a funny way, went viral, and now everyone is copying the viral vid/kid.

Man… I can’t beleive how many people tried to gaslight everyone into thinking he was just “sending his heart out”

Somehow he got off easy lighter than he should have for such a blatant nazi salute

Male version Granny panties vs nickers.

Kiwi = bird Kiwi = nickname for humans from kiwi land Kiwi fruit = Chinese gooseberry (that actually has very little to do with kiwis other than marketing)

Also, I’m allergic to kiwi fruit so… Big nope from me

You just successfully described 95% of modern office jobs

I think it’s a case of them thinking what the title says, but knowing it makes them look shitty, so trying to couch it in a way that makes it open to interpretation, or at the very least gives them plausible deniability.

Like a lot of right wing commentators/popular people. Talk bullshit around the point everyone knows you’re making, so when people call you out on it you can go “I specifically say that, so that’s not true, and you’re actually the ass hole for acusing me of it”

Isn’t it the other way around. Perfect being the enemy of good?