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Considering wacky theories have a tendency to contradict each other (and itself) it would be far more impressive if his wacky theories weren’t contradictory.

So like cure a sinus infection or something?

Are you also dead because you’re guaranteed to die eventually? It’s not an experiment of the eventual outcome but the observation of the outcome. While you’re observing the cat it has to be alive or dead, it can’t be both. But when you stop observing the certainty disappears and the cat is no longer dead or alive but both at the same time.

I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.

Aren’t you missing your analogy of getting a separate tool just to train? I too have different hammers for different jobs, but I don’t have an extra set of hammers just because I love hammering so much and neither do you.

So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes.

No, because what is sensible for the individual might not be sensible for a group of people and what might be sensible for a small group of people might not be sensible for the larger group. If we take your argument, which is that what is sensible for one is sensible for all then it should be sensible for everyone to spend a few grand on setting up a home server to have all the services big tech provides at your home so your data is actually yours. So why isn’t everyone doing “the sensible” thing? Because for most people it’s not sensible because they don’t have the technical know-how how to set something like that up, they don’t care to keep it running, they don’t care to backup their data and they don’t care to spend money on something they feel they don’t need.

As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.

Do you really want to go down the statistics route? For starters, 16 million is less than 5% of the American population. I couldn’t find a credible number of gun owners but that percentage would be bound to go up significantly considering how marginal it is for the entire American population I’ll give you that. But there’s a caveat and that’s hunting itself. By far the most popular game to hunt is deer, which is about half of all the hunts, and a third of the hunters don’t even use a modern firearm. So not only does that 16 million drop to 10-11 million hunters with modern firearms, half of them are getting by with just a single hunting rifle. Now for the multiple game hunters we’re below 2% of the entire American population and that’s under the assumption that the whole 100% of people within that 2% regularly hit the shooting range to justify owning a separate set of firearms.

Okay first off, false equivalence again and second…what’s wrong with sex dungeon? They’re pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)

I didn’t say there’s anything wrong with a sex dungeon. I said that despite it being sensible for someone practicing BDSM it’s not sensible for the vast majority of people for the similar reason everyone doesn’t have a home server, they don’t know how to set it up, they don’t have the space to set it up, they don’t want to maintain it and they don’t want to spend money on it when they can just use the bed/couch/floor/whatever. What might be sensible for a BDSM practitioner is not sensible for everyone having sex.

Yeah, I totally use my training hammer to be prepared to use my real hammer when the time is right. I also have a set of training screw drivers to be prepared when I need to take my computer apart for cleaning. And to be proficient with the air canister I have a training canister.

I get it, you like to shoot and if you shoot a lot you want to make it cheap and it’s cheaper to shoot small bullets because they’re cheaper. But most gun owners are not hunters nor do they go regularly shooting. Your individual experience may be sensible for your specific scenario, but it’s not sensible for the vast majority of gun owners. It might be sensible for a BSDM practitioner to build a sex dungeon, it doesn’t mean a sex dungeon is sensible for everyone having sex.

I agree. The main reasons for crime are social and in America that should definitely be improved upon, but have you questioned why specifically gun related crimes are so high compared to let’s say knife-related crimes? Because in Europe it’s probably the opposite, knife-related crimes are higher than gun-related crimes.

Let’s me rephrase it then. You can want to have all those guns but it’s not sensible to have all those guns.

The argument here is that it’s sensible to have so many guns. It’s not sensible because even among Americans the median gun owner owns 2 guns. You don’t need a shotgun, a handgun, a concealed carry gun and a whole other set of guns for hunting and whole other set of guns for the shooting range etc. That is not sensible, that is just someone wanting a whole lot of guns.

Yes. What’s the point of owning a firearm if you can’t have a gun for when you’re sleeping in your bedroom, a gun when you’re on the toilet, a gun when you’re on the couch watching the TV, a gun when you’re at the front door greeting guests, a gun when you’re driving your F150, a gun for that second amendment right, a gun when you go grocery shopping, a gun when you go buying clothes, a gun to go with your Tony Montana cosplay and you know, a gun just for fun. What are you supposed to do? Go outside without a gun? Use one gun for all those things? Don’t you know switching to your sidearm is always faster than reloading?

You don’t need all those guns. You want all those guns.

Someone should sell him the idea that to terraform Mars you need the kind of tech that would also terraform Earth. Let him spend his money to solve climate change.

Not an investigator nor a lawyer but as I understand to be incriminated it needs to be proven you did the crime and it depending on the type of the crime it needs to be proven you did it intentionally.

Unless she has anything else to do with the crime a hair follicle isn’t enough to be incriminating, because it alone doesn’t really prove anything. Worst case it just sets her at the scene of the crime and best case the hair is used to narrow down the actual list of suspects.

And why exactly does Hamas exist in the first place? Surely not because Isreal has been killing Palestinians before Isreal was even an official state.

If we want to give Musk some benefit of doubt the only visionary thing he did was SpaceX. Pretty much every other venture he’s invested in has been either someone else’s vision or something very stupid (like what the Boring Company is doing). I don’t think he deserves to be called a visionary when his contribution isn’t the vision but a fat wallet.

I’ll bring up a few shows that haven’t been mentioned yet.

Band of Brothers. It’s probably one of the greatest TV shows ever made. It’s about the Easy company of the 101 airborne division in WW2. The show follows the company from bootcamp (where you get to see David Schwimmer give a performance that could shock you out of seeing him as Ross from Friends) all the way to the end of the war. It’s a must watch and that’s all I’m going to say because if I say anything more I’m just going to start praising it to high heavens. I’ll only add this that if you’ve finished Band of Brothers and feel like you want more there’s also a sort of a follow-up miniseries called “The Pacific” which focuses on the Pacific front of WW2. It is good definitely worth watching if you enjoyed Band of Brothers but it doesn’t reach the high that was Band of Brothers.

The other miniseries I’ll mention is Bodyguard. It’s about a British Police officer who ends up becoming a bodyguard for the Home Secretary (Minister of the Interior or Homeland security of however it’s named it your country). I won’t spoil anything else about the plot, I’ll just add that the show does an excellent job as framing conflicts and building up suspense. It’s an all around great thriller.

And now something from the left field, Attack on Titan. This is the only show that I recommend that isn’t a miniseries and it’s not even live-action. It’s an anime based on the comic (manga) of the same name. It’s set in a world where humans are forced to live behind walls to keep out giant man-eating humanoids called the Titans and the anime (and the comic) follow Eren Jaeger, who wants to rid the world of the Titans. This one needs a PSA. Anyone who has watched anime knows the trope of the hero putting together a band of companions and they go on their merry adventures. That is definitely what you will feel on the first half of the first season so if you start watching and think “what is this boring bullshit” it gets way better. It’s a really well written story with a lot of hints that will make sense in hindsight and some borderline Dark (if you’ve seen the show you know what I’m talking about) moments that make you go “what the fuck is even going on?” It’s one the few stories where I hope we get a proper “Edge of tomorrow” level adaption of the whole story (as a show not a movie because you’re not fitting that into a movie) to make it more digestible for western audiences because that’s how great Attack on Titan is. It’s the only anime that I recommend on the basis that if it had a a good live-action adaptation I would be recommending that. But because there’s no live action version we have to make due with anime and if you’re not going to watch it because it’s anime then it really is just your loss.

Because only one wealthy guy got killed not all of them. The meme also doesn’t work when it’s only Elon Musk going into the bunker.

Do you want to expand on that statement?

fauxbait means fake (jail)bait and jailbait is considered childporn, so fauxbait is about fake child porn. The content itself is not illegal if the participants are all adults but according to Australian laws the framing of the content can make it illegal as explained in the original post. Fauxbait frames the content as “child porn, but not really” and I think if someone made that framing explicit you’d also consider it wrong.

If someone posted an image of small flatchested adult woman with the title “that woman has nice tits” you probably wouldn’t think anything of it (unless you’re into it) but when that same image is shown and the title is “that fake child has nice tits” it should raise some questions for you, like why even mention child? And that’s the issue with fauxbait. There’s nothing wrong with liking small women with small tits as long as they’re adults, but why is it necessary to take the extra step to frame the adult as a fake child? If you like those kinds of women you don’t need fauxbait, you can subscribe to small titties or tiny titties or flatchested of whatever the community would be called. You can get the same content without the “that’s a fake child” implication.

If you want to argue that they’re not actually implying the fake child porn then why call it fauxbait and continue using it? There are other communities with the same content, just ban the fauxbait community and use a different community. Even if they’re not implying it they’re still using a name that literally means fake child porn.

To put it plainly I was asking if the context matters more than the content, because I think it does. I agree the faux bait community shouldn’t exist but if you’re going argue that content shouldn’t be posted in the first place I’m going to disagree. Not because it’s my kind of content, at to be clear it very much is not, but because I think that’s the slippery slope. That would be saying small flatchested women porn is CP which means men who like those kinds of women are pedos and those women are essentially jailbait. I think that’s stupid.

I think if we to improve the state of NSFW content we also need to be very specific in our wording of the criticism because how criticism is worded can change the context and as we agree, context matters. And that’s what I want from this discussion, clarity on what people are criticizing. Because the other person is right that the content there is not the problem, but he’s wrong because the reason to defed wasn’t because of the content itself but rather how it was framed. And I think you also blurred that line with the fiction story example.

You’re just taking offense to the community being called fauxbait? So if the community is called tiny titties it’s all good?

Absolutely. My point was more that even though it doesn’t seem much for NY it’s still way better than doing minimum wage. Anyone doing minimum wage would love to make that much because the minimum wage is so low.

And yet it’s almost double the minimum wage.