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@BroDrillard How do you have a breaking change with dark mode? Visual settings should be one of the easiests features to enable and maintain. The most junior of developers should have no issue with this kind of work. So what could they possibly have done to screw this up?

@Tfmonkey "There's nothing in the Bible that condemns incest."

Are you for real? Leviticus 18 goes over this extensively. It does not prohibit sexual relations/marriage between cousins, so that might be a point of contention. But to say there is no condemnation of incest is just wrong.

I will not defend the whole situation with Lot and his daughters. It does not condemn or condone what happened, but rather just says that it happened.

@pepsi_man @sickburnbro Their principles are doing everything in service of achieving full equality. They will abuse every power they have, they will adopt any stance that they think will give them some amount of movement towards that goal.

That is the mindset of the true believers. Plenty of politicians will grift on that ideal for power. And it is quite effective at doing so, because of the rabid "equality at all costs" footsoldiers who rapidly change their tactics at a moments notice.

The slippery slope "fallacy" has been proven to be an effective tactic to shut down opposition to incremental enactment of unwanted policies and outcomes. In fact, I would argue that those proclaiming this as fallacious thinking are themselves are appealing to fallacious reasoning by simply declaring other outcomes as absurd. It also employs shaming tactics, where you use ridicule to suppress anyone who might see that the end outcomes are not so impossible as was implied by naysayers.

@nomebullyyou >freedom loving

Funny way to describe people coming here for economic reasons. The same "freedom loving" people will absolutely vote for bigger government policies, because for many of them, they do not see the failures of their country of origin's governments as a failure of government in general, but rather just that they need one that is relatively better.

Let's see how many of them stay for the love of freedom if the US collapses. Not many I would bet.

@VeganMGTOW Would not be shocked if that is the case.

@Zettour I see that as possible, though such an undertaking should be seen as something that has little chance of success in terms of having that life reach a habitable planet.

Hell, we still have people doubting whether or not we landed on the Moon. Because that (alleged) feat is indeed something that is no easy task. I myself am apathetically agnostic on whether or not we landed on the Moon. I can accept either outcome as possibly being true. But I understand that limitations are far greater than people think when it comes to other possible journeys.

Whether or not we get people to land on Mars in the future is something that would be quite the achievement. But we should keep in mind that such an achievement is not likely going to be the stepping stone to leaving our solar system to explore other stars. It is already difficult to even fathom getting people to land on Mars.

I don't hate Sci-Fi stories for having that magical technology or going beyond what is reasonably possible in other areas of reality and science. But we should treat such media with the same amount of legitimacy as fantasy stories with magical powers. It just is not going to happen.

Perhaps too many people see technological progress to that point as inevitable when they have not thought things through. It is not a coincidence that every SciFi story has some miracle "technology" that is basically just magic to allow for faster than light travel. Not only that, but it often somehow skirts over relativity, unless the story explicitly uses the difference in passages of time as a major factor in the story.

I can never have a proper conversation with too many people on the impossibility of space travel outside of our solar system. I will too often hear, "We may be surprised how far technology can go!" when I bring up how not only is faster than light travel highly unfeasible, but even getting somewhere close to it.

And keep in mind that even if we can get some object to travel near light speed, we have to account for human limits when dealing with transporting people.

Before I get told that New York City would never need a bailout, it happened in 1975. It can easily happen again.

I would be tempted to say "Let Mamdani run things as he likes and watch everything fall apart." But that would imply that New York City has a completely closed system that would never get bailed out by the state or federal government. Since it is not, leftists can never truly be allowed to live with the consequences of their retarded choices, so Mamdani running wild would not give us the proper experiment if he were to have his way 100%.

@deprecated_ii What is with their fixation on having that trannie be cast as Zelda? "It belongs to whoever the casting director thinks can play it the best" probably did not sit well with this faggot when Nintendo rightfully chose an actual woman to be the role. Because at the very least Nintendo has a baseline understanding of not screwing up their project with some retarded ideological casting choice.

@collappsar @deprecated_ii Apparently "higher education" qualifies as an export when foreign students come to the US. I recall that tuition for foreign students is higher, thus the motivation for having more of them enroll. But I have to wonder how they can afford that when prices are already high for the US citizens already here. Is there some underhanded US tax dollars being funneled in some way? Or do they just incur a bunch of debt that we have no guarantee gets paid off?

@White_Rabbit "People need to move where there is opportunity" only really works when the government does not put it's huge thumb on the scale with mass immigration policies. You can't pretend that you can operate as if we have small government policies when it is most certainly not the case. You have to get the government smal before you can operate as if it is.