idibiks

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by idibiks 8mo ago
Fuck off Nazi.
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by idibiks 8mo ago
Trump-voting but not dedicated-to-evil relatives I know (I have others who are dedicated to evil, they're beyond hope—incidentally, this is a whole thing in Republican circles, folks who haven't been around actual red-state Re
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by idibiks 8mo ago
My dude, they were already beating him for no reason whatsoever. When someone showed me this video the first time, I thought the outrage was that they were beating a guy who wasn’t resisting for no reason whatsoever, which is true, but then
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by idibiks 8mo ago
This would be precisely the divide I mentioned above. One is focused on whole-picture outcomes, the other is focused on making sure “bad guys” have a bad time (regardless of how that fits into the larger picture). Folks on either side of th
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by idibiks 8mo ago
Sarcasm. Though I do think that’s a highly-likely scenario in November.
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by idibiks 8mo ago
It takes two to tango, and the cop can stop the life-threatening chase at any time, without causing a wreck. Causing the speeding car to go out of control is also not a great thing for public safety, and does kill and cripple people who a
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by idibiks 8mo ago
They can do too much stuff, so it’s yet another do-anything device to have to police.
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by idibiks 8mo ago
Oh, I agree. I think it more likely than not that we have invented a combo of technologies that produce an environment in which liberal democracy cannot exist outside maybe smallish countries with tight controls on incoming media from out
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by idibiks 8mo ago
Your phrasing of the reality of democracy and voting is basically a less-polite version of where political science has been on the topic for 80ish years. The first half or so of that they spent trying to figure out some way that the stupidi
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by idibiks 8mo ago
Valve's the main force here, AFAIK. I do think it'll make a big difference for home users. Home PC gaming, outside a handful of much-smaller niche use cases that're full of Windows-only software, was the only notable reason f
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by idibiks 8mo ago
This is a problem with "single-purpose" devices for kids, too. Drawing tablets, music players. They're all actually full Android phones (sans cell modem) and tablets. It sucks.
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by idibiks 8mo ago
No, it's literally that. It's super dangerous and the practice of performing it in any but very unusual situations is, to put it mildly, hard to justify on any actual public safety grounds. To the extent the maneuver is a "sa
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by idibiks 8mo ago
They are happening. Polling places in districts with close races will even have ICE stopping suspiciously foreign-seeming people to make sure non-citizens don't vote, since that's a real, actual, pressing problem and not made-up b
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by idibiks 8mo ago
That so many people still think we're in a recoverable state for a near- or even mid-term return to "normal" is part of why we're definitely not. The fundamental fixes we need to make, and even awareness of what those pr
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by idibiks 8mo ago
> I would suggest that something like "Skibidi Toilet" is just this generation's badger-badger-mushroom Beyond the first minute or two, I'd not class Skibidi Toilet as any kind of humor. It's a serialized silent