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| Topic | Should billionaires exist? |
| Sad_Face 01/14/22 10:43:16 AM #79 | darkphoenix181 posted... This is burning money right? This wouldn't even help those poor people right? Teach a man to fish, etc. Looking at the verse you brought up: 21 Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, (J)go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. He said if you want to be perfect, not if you don't love money. --- https://i.imgur.com/WmIB016.jpg https://i.imgur.com/53FGj6K.gif |
| Topic | Should billionaires exist? |
| Sad_Face 01/13/22 10:53:22 PM #73 | darkphoenix181 posted... i find this an interesting conversation. What do you define as the love of money if you cannot say people pursuing more wealth than they could ever spend do not love money? I don't believe I ever said or implied such a thing. All I said is that if you love money, you'll be most vulnerable to compromising your morals to make money and this will lead to corruption. You can still pursue highly financially lucrative ventures without loving money, as what matters the most is your sincere intention. Satoshi Nakamoto set out to build a new banking system as a response to the financial crises, especially the financial crisis of 2008. You wouldn't try to challenge the US dollar if your primary motivation was money. Vitalik Buterin was so moved by the vision of the bitcoin that he dropped out of college to support bitcoin development and spread awareness in 2011 and cofounded Ethereum because the community had so many ideas that they wanted to bring to the bitcoin network but the blockchain couldn't support it. Vitalik is a billionaire right now. I'm glossing over a good deal of nuances but these people made their riches not by pursuing money but by pursuing a vision they were passionate about and would be chasing after it regardless of how wealthy it would make them. It's pretty difficult to convey. darkphoenix181 posted... This is how business in general works. Why do you not give all your employees who did a good job a huge raise? Because you love money. No. I don't give all my employees a huge raise because it would bankrupt the company and then no one would be able to work there anymore. The argument you are putting forth just doesn't work. Most who amass loads of wealth do infact love money. If they do not, then in addition to giving it away freely to help people in need, they would also for example give burger flippers $30+ an hour, let people live freely in their properties, etc. This line of thinking is akin to the World Health Organization claiming if Elon Musk donated $6 Billion, they could solve hunger in Africa, to which Musk called their BS on. If you keep giving away money, you form a dependence on you for survival. The optimal solution is to build a system in which someone could thrive and support themselves without you constantly subsidizing. But that seems INSANE to do, right? Why? Because.... you would be LOSING money. Which means you do love money. As such, Jesus did say with God it is possible for the rich man to be a Christian, but we find what he means elsewhere when he asks a rich man to give all he has to the poor. Because I don't want to burn money, I must love money. This doesn't make sense. I don't understand why there would be only 2 options here. --- https://i.imgur.com/WmIB016.jpg https://i.imgur.com/53FGj6K.gif |
| Topic | Should billionaires exist? |
| Sad_Face 01/13/22 2:03:32 PM #66 | WingsOfGood posted... 1 Timothy 6:10 Key phrase there: "love of money". Not money itself. Many a persons, when they give abundantly, they receive abundantly and could lead to opportunities that lead to financial abundance and prosperity. If money were the root of evil itself, then reaching financial abundance would inevitably lead to one's corruption and ruin regardless of ones initial stance (if we were to take that saying of "money is the root of all evil" as a dogma ). This why the condition of loving money is explicitly made as it leads to one willing to compromise on their morals to make a quick buck and this is the slippery slope that leads to the corruption we see now. --- https://i.imgur.com/WmIB016.jpg https://i.imgur.com/53FGj6K.gif |
| Topic | Should billionaires exist? |
| Sad_Face 01/13/22 8:06:40 AM #51 | I'd reckon we'll be seeing minted and officially recognized trillionaires (since they already exist) in the coming years. But I think you guys will be more accepting of their wealth since they're profiting off of having built an infrastructure that has a direct and positive influence on the wealth gap issue. --- https://i.imgur.com/WmIB016.jpg https://i.imgur.com/53FGj6K.gif |
| Topic | Parents of trans 5-year-old post heartwarming story of child's transition |
| Sad_Face 12/21/21 8:07:20 PM #131 | hockeybub89 posted... "Doctors have a financial incentive" says people who support polticians with stock in pharmaceutical companies. I don't know how they lack so much awareness when they say things. hockeybub89 posted... "You can't trust doctors because they're all paid off by Big Pharma. Trust what I'm saying. I have no expertise and get my views from rich politicians and media influencers. They really know what's up." Is this supposed to be some kind of gacha moment I'm missing? It goes both ways. When there's a financial component to it, you have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm a filthy Nintendo fanboy, but you think I'm going to believe them wholeheartedly if they say they're going to take steps to be more socially conscious when they manufacture their products using Foxconn resources? Heck, in the crypto world, there's a huge battle between different types of scaling solutions for Ethereum with the main methods being Optimistic Roll ups and Zero Knowledge Rollups. I'm tangentially invested in the largest scaling solution Arbitrum (through Chainlink) and their scaling solution is developed around Optimistic Rollup and they make compelling arguments on why ZK rollups just aren't practical work with. But again these guys devoted their lives to building their work and want their solution to be industry standard solution over the other scaling development teams out there. Money is involved so keep a grain of salt. Speaking of devoting their lives, Einstein devoted his life to theorizing and formalizing general relativity. Guess what, he hated Quantum Mechanics and initially was dismissive of it. Why? Because it contradicts his main law that nothing is faster than the speed of light. The point I'm trying to make is that people aren't infallible and there's always the chance of error due to bias. Hence I'm calling out on hockey's plan to purely believe doctors. Don't do that. Still apply your own reasoning and as the bias is motivation to not take it with no suspicion. --- https://i.imgur.com/WmIB016.jpg https://i.imgur.com/53FGj6K.gif |
| Topic | Parents of trans 5-year-old post heartwarming story of child's transition |
| Sad_Face 12/21/21 6:48:00 PM #79 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Dude, Transitioning surgery is a half trillion dollar potential market that pharmaceutical companies are actively researching on. Do you really want to bias your opinions purely doctors who are getting a profit out of recommending kids to transition? --- https://i.imgur.com/WmIB016.jpg https://i.imgur.com/53FGj6K.gif |
| Topic | Suspect who ran over 60 people at parade says he is being treated like a monster |
| Sad_Face 12/09/21 9:18:42 AM #43 | Shablagoo posted... This is inaccurate. I had family members there. He avoided ~30 parade units (hundreds of people) before hitting anyone, groups that squad cars sped past in pursuit just as recklessly. What the heck was his goal here then? He wanted to get to the heart of the parade to take lives? He thought if he hit further into the parade path, he'd have a better chance of getting out? Or was he really trying to getaway from his problems in the worst manner possible? Also from the article: Hes also a defendant in another Milwaukee County case from 2020 in which hes charged with shooting at his nephew and another person. Unsurprising at all. I really want to hear this guy's story. Mental illness is such a copout excuse for explaining his thought process. --- |
| Topic | Is math racist? As students of color struggle schools are altering instruction |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 10:02:04 PM #107 | gmanthebest posted... Wut? That's so much more work than the old wayIt's faster when it clicks for you. For instance, I usually keep track of my orb counts, the currency in the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes. Pulling my latest count, 115+114+112+128+127+142+130+122+139+140+169+120 (these are orb counts on different pages in a present list) I usually add these up in my head mentally and check with a python interpreter. It's way slower to add them one by one (115+114 = 229, 229 +...), than to add up all the hundreds, then 10's then 1's. Another strategy I tried which is sort of in between in terms of speed is to group them up in terms of 300s or 250s (or whatever ends with a zero) and keep track of remainders so I can pay back or take from counts at the end (142+169 -> 300 + 11 excess, 128+122 -> 250 ). It's more mental work to keep track of the excess or debt. Mind you, I tend to make mistakes each week when I check but it's still good fun and practice. --- |
| Topic | Is math racist? As students of color struggle schools are altering instruction |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 7:41:32 PM #98 | Mistere Man posted... Is that new way an actual thing? Can someone explain to me where all those new numbers came from? Look at it this way, if you want to find the difference between 55 and 33, you can add +20 to 33 to hit 53 and then add 2 more to hit 55, meaning the difference, 55-33 = 22. What I assume the image is is a methodical way of the speedrun subtraction I did. I understand it comes off as convoluted and intimidating if you were to write things out in a slow and systematized manner. --- |
| Topic | Is math racist? As students of color struggle schools are altering instruction |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 5:49:25 PM #85 | COVxy posted... What you're looking at is a bunch a bulls*** that gets shared around facebook in an attempt to scare old people into conservatism. Well that bullshit should be the standard way of teaching. It's the superior style of performing mental math. --- |
| Topic | Is math racist? As students of color struggle schools are altering instruction |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 5:01:02 PM #79 | Questionmarktarius posted... You get stuff like this that seems "incomprehensible", exactly because you drilled top-down math for most of your life. Early on, you actually did that second one in your head, and likely got yelled at for not "showing your work" of borrowing and carrying and the other regimented sub-steps. You are freaking out because this is a different "regimen". Agreed. In fact I was going to mention that the 2nd one is definitely convoluted but when I tried looking at differences at random numbers (say 33 and 55), I was doing the same thing with a ton of skipped steps. Systemizing these tricks is admittedly fiercely intimidating. joe40001 posted... I loved math as a kid, and know others that did too. That's the thing, these Common Curricula is attempting to systemize the techniques "mathematically gifted" peeps use. What makes it feel convoluted is part teachers having to learn this style as well which slows down in effective communication in teaching it. COVxy posted... Common core isn't "little tricks to make mental math easier".Well whatever the new style of math instruction is called, that's what I'm discussing. I will call it Common Core math until someone gives me the proper name for the new methods they're trying to teach. ElatedVenusaur posted... But, my point is, if youre good at math snd passionate about it, you would probably do well regardless. Me? I just got by and found 95% of my math classes to be both difficult and boring. But I often lost points for not showing my work when I was younger! And I had a relatively privileged white middle class upbringing and went to good schools in the suburbs, so the quality of my math education was probably much better than what the kids a few towns over in New Haven and especially Bridgeport got. Yeah, I thought this was BS too. But at higher levels, it becomes paramount because showing your work is communicating your process and effectively explaining the logic in how you achieved your result. Skipping steps and not showing your work is equivalent to explaining something but leaving out the main points that connect everything together. Once again, an issue with how math is taught, we teach the tools and guidelines without teaching the motivations behind why these are designed the way they are. --- |
| Topic | Democrats fall flat with 'Latinx' language |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 2:55:45 PM #83 | DeadBankerDream posted... https://youtu.be/Yp_JFVcSrpA I wasn't prepared for that break up story LOLOL. --- |
| Topic | Is math racist? As students of color struggle schools are altering instruction |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 12:53:00 PM #49 | Questionmarktarius posted... I'm just gonna leave this here: Much obliged @Questionmarktarius . I'll preface this post by fallaciously appealing to authority by mentioning I have a B.S. in both Physics and Applied Mathematics. One thing I'm sure everyone from an engineering or Math background can agree on is that we teach mathematics improperly in school. The most glaring and obvious issue is that we teach the tools before we teach the problems. This is akin to teaching the properties of a hammer LONG before learning that the hammer was invented as a solution to drive nails into material to hold something in. Additionally, we teach algorithms instead of relationships of numbers. It's 100x faster to multiply a number by 5 by treating 5 as "10/2"; in other words, take a number, add a 0, and half it. Example: 5*34 -> 340/2 -> 170. A couple critical tricks in upper level math/physics courses are "multiplying by 1" (Ex:multiplying some expression by (4-x)/(4-x)) and adding 0 (Ex: adding to some expression or subset in an expression (x-x) to rearrange and simplify things further) are essential for survival in those courses but you don't learn those explicitly, you pick them up over time over the course of the paradigm to the point where it becomes second nature. This is what Common Core Math intended to achieve; to teach these kinds of tricks in grade school to accelerate kids' general understanding. Now, pertaining to the article, the teachers interviewed are challenging the same problems outlined above but from the lens of it being a racial problem. I'd argue they're conflating a number of issues together. For instance, if you look at Scandinavian countries that are fairly equal in terms of gender freedom, STEM is still dominated by men. Women generally prefer humanities. Additionally, in the US, the Indian population is a tiny minority (probably 7%? across the entire US population) yet they're hugely overrepresented in the engineering world. The reason being, as my Indian buddy put it, is that they put a proverbially gun to your head at a young age and tell you to choose: "Investment Banker, Engineer, Scientist, Medicine; CHOOSE ONE". Black culture generally doesn't have this ubiquitous pressure to succeed academically which puts us at a disadvantage among other issues of low income, and not so strong family household structures to say the least. Continuing on, the interviewed teachers' solutions to improve kids' mathematical abilities by connecting math to real world problems and using rap and other easy to remember methods warms my heart. One of my favorite Math professors of all time taught using really simplistic and somewhat childish words but they stuck and reinforced the lesson 1000x fold. First instance, when taking the limit of (1/x) from 0 to infinity, he would describe the denominator as becoming "hugey-wugey" or its proper term "arbitrarily large" and since you're dividing it by 1, one small piece of a hugey-wugey number becomes "teensy-weensy" or arbitrarily small, where the limit approaches 0 as an end result. Connecting with kids' interest is the best way to learn as it maintains their interest and drives their motivation to learn. The only concern I have is when you inject politics into the equations. One of the teachers talks about being careful about using facts about the black incarceration problem and other "injustices" to which critics of this style are against. I'm in agreement with the critics of Critical Race Theory on the basis of the worry that you might send a message of "us versus them" and reinforce the racial divide in this country. Occupy Wall Street was pretty much halted in favor of BLM and I'd argue OWS is more important because this generation and the next is the least likely to be able to afford their own house. Someone with a lighter skin color than me having better opportunities is negated if neither of us are afforded the opportunity to own our own home. Given that there will be people that disagree with my views, I'd argue it's better to abide to the golden rule to keeping politics out of the workplace, or in this case, the classroom. Keep everything as neutral as possible. Otherwise the teachers are doing the lords' work. A very wholesome article. --- |
| Topic | Turns out you guys where right about the girl I was dating. |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 11:44:39 AM #71 | OP, did you ever watch 500 Days of Summer? Your "relationship" sounds almost 1-1 the plot of that movie. --- |
| Topic | Signs that someone doesn't know how to cook |
| Sad_Face 12/08/21 1:52:30 AM #42 | QwelzaarKane posted... I caramelized some onions for a grilled cheese once and it was the best thing ever but I don't think I could ever spend 80 minutes on a sandwich again. What I like to do is on the weekends, slice up a bunch of onion bulbs julienne style and saut them with butter and thyme. 30 minutes later and boom, you have caramelized onions for the rest of the week. Do things in large batches, it's faster and pays off in dividends. --- |
| Topic | I made some Mac and cheese but it's not as cheesey as it looks on the cover |
| Sad_Face 12/07/21 11:12:57 PM #10 | Jesus OP stop embarrassing yourself with KRAFT mac and cheese. Make a pie like a real man. Step 1: Boil some goddamned pasta. Add butter and salt to flavor the pasta Step 2: Make Roux get a small pot to put on low heat, melt butter (let's say a quarter of the stick, but add more as necessary) and then liberally add flour to it and mix it till it comes out like thick cake batter and leave it to the side. This is a critical element I'll expand on later. Step 3: Make the Bechamel sauce. Heavy Creme Garlic Whatever cheese you prefer Grab yet another pot, pour in half a container of heavy creme, add garlic and whatever seasonings you desire, perhaps some Moscato or some white wine, and bring to a boil. Then you add the roux and cheese to the mix. You can try gouda cheese, pepper jack, raw mild cheddar cheese, whichever you desire. Know that cheddar cheese, especially sharp cheddar cheese, is super greasy so if you're looking for presentation points, you may want to tone it down on that at the expense of not having that orange color. You can also add other types of seasoning like vegetables to the mac and cheese. I like to blend onions and bell peppers and add that to my mac and cheese. You're free to mince or chop or dice your veggies but take care to saut them first before putting it in the Bechamel sauce. You want to dry out and evaporate as much water as possible else it'll ruin the sauce. And the importance of the roux is to have a thick consistency that would also hold the the mac and cheese pie together. Mix all the above together (obviously with the pasta drained) then grab a pan, grease it with oil, throw the mix in, toss some cheese on top and put in the oven for 20 minutes or so till you can smell the mac and cheese pie. Now you have a restaurant worthy pie that you can show off to others, and the longer it sits, the more the seasoning will enhance the flavor. --- |
| Topic | Turns out you guys where right about the girl I was dating. |
| Sad_Face 12/07/21 10:28:17 PM #67 | gamepimp12 posted... She didnt want a relationship, I knew that prior to anything happening between us, I wasnt sold on one myself. But apparently her not wanting a relationship, also meant she could not have any romantic feelings for anyone right now and she never said that, despite the many conversations about us dating and the fact I told her I treat her like my girlfriend. What is this? 500 Days of Summer? --- |
| Topic | C/D: you get angry when a pretty anime girl isn't a virgin |
| Sad_Face 12/07/21 9:42:12 PM #6 | I take it you disliked BEASTARS? Cause that show is phenomenal. --- |
| Topic | How is it fair to ruin someone's career just because you don't suck up to them? |
| Sad_Face 12/07/21 5:58:46 PM #18 | MAR10_KarT posted... He was supposed to spot people for food or lunch at times, expected to share a portion of his tips, and overall was expected to be friends with the guys in the job outside of work Did the others share their tips with him? Sounds like he just wanted to do his job and bounce when it's time to clock out when the group wanted a family member to the Truck driving crew. For labor intensive jobs and most jobs in general, it's 100x preferable to have someone that has your back and you can grab a drink with after hours. --- |
| Topic | Nick Cannon's 5-month-old son dead from brain tumor |
| Sad_Face 12/07/21 1:32:52 PM #19 | NoxObscuras posted... Yeah, it made headlines earlier this year because of how close the pregnancies were. He literally had 3 different women pregnant. One had his daughter in December 2020, and the other 2 women gave birth a week apart in June 2021. It's crazy. I had no clue. But just thinking about it makes my blood boil. I enjoy his comedy, but man, I just lost all respect for him. But I could start a harsher critique and entertain responses, but let me stop now before I get modded (probably will get modded anyhow). --- |
| Topic | Nick Cannon's 5-month-old son dead from brain tumor |
| Sad_Face 12/07/21 1:05:43 PM #8 | It's tragic, the kid didn't deserve this. But good lord Nick, 7 kids between 4 different baby mamas? If it were one family with just a single mother, then there'd be zero problems. If they were all living together, then that'd be an interesting story. But 4 different baby mamas? Come on man. --- |
| Topic | Hypothetical: Your cop daughter discovers that your son is growing pot. |
| Sad_Face 12/01/21 2:28:58 PM #46 | The daughter is legally bound to report the incidence. But I'm still siding with the son even just for the moment. While I disagree with him drug dealing, not every law is just. --- |
| Topic | candace owens: Black Americans are the most murderous group in America |
| Sad_Face 12/01/21 1:49:04 PM #135 | HairyQueen posted... Your framing of this is a problem. The black population did not commit 48% of the murders. 42 million black Americans are not responsible for that. Fine, 48% of the convicted persons of homicide share an identifying trait common with ~13% of the total population. Satisfied? Now the question is why? And how to reduce this percentage rate? --- |
| Topic | candace owens: Black Americans are the most murderous group in America |
| Sad_Face 12/01/21 9:53:47 AM #111 | HairyQueen posted... You arent revealing any information that isnt already known. Why would you assume there could be a cultural issue that exists among the black American population that causes .0075% of the 42 million individuals to commit murder? Why do the rest of those 42 million people somehow now share some relevant characteristic with those ~3000 murderers? And why is it framed as a problem with the group? I'm not assuming anything, I'm trying to drive a discussion. We want to answer the question of why our population rate of homicide significantly higher than the majority race's rate. The reason why it's framed as a problem with the group because that FBI document you posted shows that the black population committed 48% of the murders that year. For a minority population that's less than 13% of the total population, that's quite noteworthy and needs to be addressed. Before you can offer any solutions, you need to know why. --- |
| Topic | Oakland becomes latest city to try to reverse Defunding The Police |
| Sad_Face 11/30/21 10:58:44 PM #60 | fan357 posted... Lmao you guys all for defunding the police should move to low income areas. Have fun. This is exactly what pisses me off about all those blasted people who champion defunding the police. Let's see if they sing the same tunes when there are gunshots every other week. But I don't mind the expansion of social programs. I had a crackhead for a neighbor for a time. It was not fun worrying about having to smell smoke which he accidentally started a fire that you'd have to run in and put out before it got out of control and could potentially take your place with it too. Nor is it fun to have your alarm clock be him fighting with his tenants, threatening to kill each other and accusing each other of theft. But social programs are a bandage solution, we need a cultural change first and foremost. --- |
| Topic | candace owens: Black Americans are the most murderous group in America |
| Sad_Face 11/30/21 10:42:55 PM #78 | HairyQueen posted... In 2018, there were 3,177 murders by black perpetrators. Pulling from the US census for 2018, https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/data-profiles/2018/ The total population is 322,903,030 persons. People identifying as White totaled up to 234,904,818 or ~72.75% of the population. The black population totaled up to 40,916,113 persons, or 12.67% of the population. According to the FBI stats you linked, The amount of white offenders totaled to 3011 person while the amount of black offenders totaled to 3177. Similar enough, but taking into account populations, we as a black population are overrepresented as a ratio of offenders to the population of our race, 6x the amount of white offenders to the white population in the US. This is the logic Owens is using to make her sinister and controversial claim. Mind you, this doesn't explain why we're overrepresented, which is more important and is worth exploring. Is this due to economic factors? Cultural issues? Home family structure problems? It is kind of lazy but technically true based on the above logic to label the black population as the most murderous group. --- |
| Topic | I started minting NFTs |
| Sad_Face 11/28/21 5:06:25 PM #18 | The_Hat posted... Could you write/point to a guide for that? This will definitely be the norm going forward. --- |
| Topic | "Support_____ owned businesses" |
| Sad_Face 11/27/21 11:04:54 PM #28 | If you support local businesses, the capital they accumulate should stay within the community. But it's really a hard sell, buy something cheaper and more accessible versus paying the fee to support your community in hopes that it'll benefit you in the community in the long run. --- |
| Topic | Pregnant woman killed over road rage incident |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 4:56:28 PM #48 | AssultTank posted... Dude was driving a motorcycle. I don't know if you know this, but writing while driving a motorcycle is not exactly easy. It would require the user to have at least 3 hands. 1 for the pen, 1 to hold whatever you're writing on, and 1 to keep control of the vehicle. You absolutely have to wait for a point where you can stop. I'd imagine he'd whip out his phone for a photo of the license plate. But he might have gloves on and need to take that off to access his smartphone, need a steady aim and be within range to take shot where the letters are legible. In other words, your point still stands. Just felt like nitpicking. --- |
| Topic | Marcus Arbery (Ahmaud Arbery's father): "All Lives Matter" |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 12:39:41 PM #66 | IMNOTRAGED posted... This is well understood by abolitionists, the basis of it is that we need to invest in crime preventative measures at the source (improve schools, public transport, fair wages, etc) so as to make police largely unnecessary. It's mostly a long term process, no one with any sense wants to flip a switch and have no police tomorrow. I think the most important factor are to restore the nuclear family structure across households and instill proper cultural values. It's an uphill battle when you're competing with gangsta rap culture that pervades these communities and too many households are ran by single women. --- |
| Topic | Marcus Arbery (Ahmaud Arbery's father): "All Lives Matter" |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 11:58:46 AM #56 | Machete posted... Why do you believe in pizzagate?Off topic, but I read the emails, saw the glaringly indecent instagram pics and ads for the suspected pizza place, and I live in the area next to one of the world's most renowned sex traffickers where people have dug up ads for "local" pizzerias that deliver to that sex trafficker's property and I've never heard of them in my life and I friggin lived in the area all my life, verifying the code words for me. It's a different world that hides in plain sight. --- |
| Topic | Marcus Arbery (Ahmaud Arbery's father): "All Lives Matter" |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 11:34:34 AM #41 | thronedfire2 posted... defund the police never meant abolish police completely, thats just what the right wingers ran with so they could be like omg you want to defund the police but youll still call them if you need to??? Certain mayors heard defund the police and thought it was a bright idea to defund the police, as their vocal citizens demanded. So they slashed their city police budgets. Crime rates skyrocketed. Off my notes, this happened in Minneapolis. And if you want to abolish the police, a system is going to replace it. Do you want your fellow neighbors to police the neighborhood? Because then you might run into another Zimmerman/Martin incident. A neighborhood watch can work but it requires a level of trust and unity among the neighborhood. We don't have kind of close knit culture nowadays. At least in my community (since I shouldn't speak for everyone), it's not possible to have a policeless territory with our culture. Too many broken homes to build a foundation off of. --- |
| Topic | Marcus Arbery (Ahmaud Arbery's father): "All Lives Matter" |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 10:40:10 AM #19 | lolife67 posted... This is all bs lol if this were the case then people wouldn't still try to discredit it even after it's been explained to them. Much like you're trying to do here. The fact that you have to explain them on what it actually means means that it's a communication failure. A good tagline communicates the message straight and to the point with no room for ambiguity or misinterpretation. We've been at this for almost 7 years now, the fact that people are still fighting over this is proof of what I'm talking about. At least it's not as bad as "Defund the Police!" where people spouting that didn't actually mean they want to defund the police. Or maybe they did mean it. Or maybe they did but then rescinded the idea when they found defunding the police exacerbated the problems. --- |
| Topic | Marcus Arbery (Ahmaud Arbery's father): "All Lives Matter" |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 10:20:30 AM #16 | _HayleyWilliams posted... I never even understood it because, even if you disagreed with the BLM phrase, it is clear it is said because black people do not believe their lives matter to others. I don't get why alt-right chuds tried to make it a black supremacy movement when they could have just mocked another "liberal victim complex" or whatever. Because it comes off as arrogant as though their lives matter more and makes the group more exclusive when it needs to be inclusive. A simple solution would be to slap on Too at the end for "Black Lives Matter Too". Quick and easy marketing solution. But that's too much effort and apparently it's not BLM's problem that a significant population, the one they're aiming to garner sympathy from, is interpreting the tagline differently and more negatively from its original intentions. --- |
| Topic | Will Smith sharing too much - had so much sex, orgasming made him vomit |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 10:12:33 AM #38 | DoctorPiranha3 posted... Nice humble brag Will!The dude was a successful rapper at that point, no duh girls would be all over him. --- |
| Topic | I've kind of come full circle on this rittenhouse thing but |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 10:08:37 AM #37 | ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...
This implies there's no need for volunteers. --- |
| Topic | I've kind of come full circle on this rittenhouse thing but |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 8:36:15 AM #20 | ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted... we saw why lmao You ignored the part where he did a lot more than "play vigilante". --- |
| Topic | I've kind of come full circle on this rittenhouse thing but |
| Sad_Face 11/25/21 8:24:01 AM #14 | ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted... the strangest part about it is how he put himself into the situation instead of just staying on the couch with his dumbass. Who is allowed at the protests then? If you live 20 minutes away from a city you usually frequent and have connections to, why stay at home if you feel like you could make an impact? And do note that he helped clean up the town, and he was filmed putting out a fire that was intended to blow up a gas station. --- |
| Topic | The media is fair and unbiased |
| Sad_Face 11/24/21 3:53:15 PM #33 | Conflict posted... You're literally a pizzagater. Case in point, @Conflict I read the emails myself and came to my own conclusion. It's very very difficult to come up with another interpretation when there's an email regarding pool party with 9 years olds as the entertainment (taking an average since it spans from 8-11) when googling the kids' distinctive last name brings up a site of the kids (with suspiciously the same first names) for rent. --- |
| Topic | The media is fair and unbiased |
| Sad_Face 11/24/21 2:50:24 PM #20 | SSJPurple posted... Certain people destroy their own credibility so yes its ok to write off the messenger if we have valid reasons to not trust what they say Realize you're admitting to not having the mental capacity (or just being too intellectually lazy) to discern and verify information and ideas and have to rely on trusted sources by saying this. You should be putting everyone's words up for scrutiny regardless of who they come from. Doing otherwise leaves you vulnerable to manipulation. --- |
| Topic | Are men really that much stronger than women? |
| Sad_Face 11/24/21 5:44:53 AM #27 | Bad_Mojo posted... Couldn't find the actual video on YouTube, only this - My negative opinions aside of FnF, they hit the nail on the head here. Women aren't playing the traditional roles, so guys are coping in various and extreme ways, from the advent of the incel population to the other side of the MGTOW population. Overall, it seems that no one is winning given how the Millennial single female population is skyrocketing as they age and have to compete with the younger generation. --- |
| Topic | Are men really that much stronger than women? |
| Sad_Face 11/24/21 4:47:13 AM #17 | Kisai posted... Do you not realize that this is the basis for why women generally have a reason to sometimes be wary around men? It's not just some socially-constructed thing to make women just simply think men are creepy or something, there can be a legitimate cause for concern. Even Louie CK made a joke pointing this out. This is the reason why we have social constructs implemented in the first place to instruct guys on how to be a gentlemen and how to treat women. These constructs have unfortunately been under attack because of culture now trending towards denying the differences in gender. --- |
| Topic | Legal Eagle analysis on Kyle Rittenhouse |
| Sad_Face 11/23/21 8:58:49 PM #16 | If Kyle provoked Rosenbaum, he wouldn't have had a case for self defense. --- |
| Topic | Wisconsin parade murderer |
| Sad_Face 11/23/21 7:26:43 PM #53 | Norman_Smiley posted... The suspect is another sex offender.Here's his side of the story. https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1462673413122707457?t=xwUJZlisvE5AzHsUtQyQrw&s=19 What's embarrassing is that he doesn't think he did anything wrong in the first place. --- |
| Topic | Wisconsin parade murderer |
| Sad_Face 11/23/21 2:22:48 PM #32 | PoundGarden posted... God damn I hate living here. Such an embarrassment we are Tune them out. We're in a polarized and politically charged culture, of course there will be people wanting to wish harm on the other side. --- |
| Topic | Car plows through barracade in Wisconsin Christmas parade, shots fired. |
| Sad_Face 11/23/21 11:50:20 AM #162 | RoseLuck2X22462 posted... https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1462673413122707457?t=xwUJZlisvE5AzHsUtQyQrw&s=19 The lack of awareness of this dude is hilarious. He has a busted moral compass ("I thought she was 18 and she wanted me to pimp her out!!!) so it's no wonder he thought it would be a profound statement to race down a parade path. --- |
| Topic | JK Rowling not invited to Harry Potter's 20th anniversary special. |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 1:52:34 PM #111 | Funkydog posted... Please don't ignore my question if you want me to continue participating in this discussion. If you want to make an analogy, it needs to match the trends I am talking about, else it would be a faulty analogy. Yes, it's a no brainer that if something is no longer stigmatized, you'll see more of it in public. But the idea of kids coming out together? Don't you find that suspicious? Don't you think it's worth looking into as to why the rates exploded and it's a specific demographic, autistic girls, that lead the charge? On top of that, I've seen on other sites discord screenshots of groups deliberately trying to convince younger kids they're transgenders and get them on hormonal treatment as quickly as possible. With the weakening standards in being recognized as the opposite gender, and the push to get irreversible surgery, of course I'm going to worry. In any case, she's bringing up stats and you guys are denying them. Basically he said, she said story since I've yet to look at the sources to confirm or deny. --- |
| Topic | Trial: The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:53:02 AM #149 | lolife67 posted... You don't seem to understand the point of a citizen's arrest. It's not so you can just go out and play cop. The point in having to witness it first-hand is that you're only detaining the suspect to stop them from fleeing. It's an immediate concern. If you have video evidence then there's no immediate concern the suspect will escape and you can simply take the video to the actual police. If I see them fleeing down the road but I didn't see it first hand, but I saw it on my footage camera. I don't see why the ability to exercise citizen's arrest would not apply. Conversely, suppose I don't see them explicitly fleeing down the road, but I know they couldn't have been more than a block away based on when I got my footage. Why can't I perform citizen's arrest then? --- |
| Topic | JK Rowling not invited to Harry Potter's 20th anniversary special. |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:47:14 AM #109 | Funkydog posted... Those that detransition are a tiny amount. And are you really confused about why oppressed groups tend to gather together? There's a difference between finding like minded people versus a whole group deciding to come out as transgender. Eliza-Schuyler posted... my entire friend group is gay im not even kiddingDid you all decide or come to the realization of your sexuality in the same small time window together as a group? Or did you independently figure out your sexuality and gravitated to each other? This is what she's talking about it. --- |
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