You’re not wrong, I was just poking fun at the original comment making a hyperbolic statement about hyperboles
I’d bet that a lot of it comes from how pervasive advertising is; we’re constantly bombarded by ads that use that kind of language, so it’s worked its way into everyday language
The irony of saying that only the US uses hyperbole
Call us Yankees because it’ll annoy the “the South will rise again” crowd
Schoolhouse Rock was a foundational part of my childhood. It’s because of those songs that I have the preamble to the Constitution memorized, and know what a preposition is
But the history songs… Wow. Presented as fun and educational, but the one about Manifest Destiny might as well be called “Lebensraum”
That’s why I have my own olive trees, chicken farm, lemon orchard, anchovy fishery, and a dairy farm in Parma
I don’t know why anyone would buy readymade olive oil, eggs, lemon juice, anchovies, or Parmesan, they’re dead simple to make
At least The Birth of a Nation and Riefenstahl’s films had an impact on filmmaking. No one’s going to cite Melania as inspiring anything other than suicidal thoughts while being forced to watch it
This is why I just never talk about brand-name products online, I don’t want to seem like an advertising shill account (I’m just here to get into heated political arguments and shitpost)
I’ll recommend things to people I know IRL, but very rarely will I do it online
No, they showed me their antifa membership card, they’re legit /s
We just have to succeed before we get drone striked
The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.
It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters
Hegseth has to be a master of drunken boxing
Not like any actual fighting style, just years of experience trying to punch people outside of bars
Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”
I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.
Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.
You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.
This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.
No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.
Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.
We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!
No.
The leaders of the American revolution were some of the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential people in the colonies.
It’s like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos deciding that Trump’s tariffs are costing them too much money so they commit to organizing and overthrowing him, not a bunch of farmers and laborers managing to organize a rebellion
There’s not a lot of people I’ll say this about, but I think he is just genuinely evil.
We have the narcissists, the sociopaths, the self-loathing queer people, the ones driven entirely by greed, but I really do think that Stephen Miller delights in the cruelty, the suffering, the… evil
This photo of Goebbels comes to mind basically every time I think of Miller
Harry Potter: “Expelliarmus!”
Harry Dresden: gun
Hey, it was pretty cool before the Romans showed up
Bet you were pretty disappointed when Nelson Mandela got out too
There’s a massive difference between taking the deer you hit with your truck and whatever the fuck RFK was doing with bear cubs in Central Park