Tankies aren’t even leftists, they just think they are because someone decades ago got the idea to dress yet another heirarchy in a red flag and claim that it was temporary.

One must wonder about male and female invertebrates next

The dems have no coherent message and strategy because they are an attempt to unify basically everything that isn’t the far right under one banner. That means that different politicians under it, and different voters that vote for them, want fundamentally different things. Taking a firm, party-wide stance that satisfies the left wing of the party would risk driving off the segment that is just “conservatives that dont feel comfortable with how openly bigoted the republicans are”, and vice versa. But trying to please everyone by committing to nothing and running on good vibes eventually results in people getting frustrated with voting for a party that doesn’t advance what they want.

Roughly equivalent to human wildlife photographer taking photos of a chimpanzee I’d say

Rabbit proto x3

Not the only one, this is why I find sitcoms especially more or less completely unwatchable

What if that is true though? What if it’s even virtually guaranteed to be true, given the effort and time required to reasonably prove something like that combined with the limited resources given (and which we can afford to give) to the justice system to do so, and the sheer number of crimes to deal with?

Honestly, the more I hear about the number of cases of people being convicted falsely, or where it’s hard to tell if they truly were guilty, due to evidence being poor, or misconstrued, or based on faulty foresic science or known unreliable sources like eyewitness testimony, the more I worry that if called to serve on a jury I’d be effectively unable to do so, because I have come to doubt if the justice system is even capable of proving something beyond what I would consider to be a reasonable doubt.

Never used that mod, but I know the feeling. I pretty much stopped playing modded once rotarycraft stopped getting updated to newer versions, because I didn’t want to miss out on some of the later vanilla stuff, but also didn’t really enjoy any other mods progression as much as that one.

If they get to the point of being able to just ignore something like that, they have no reason to amend the constitution anyway because they can just toss it out

If the rich were all in on Trump, one must suspect that the dems would have a much harder time fundraising whenever elections come around.

I mean, probably, but realistically I suspect that I wouldnt have very much luck were I to attempt it. Were I somehow to have a guaranteed shot at it, I guess I’d probably be thinking about either Ireland or the Netherlands? Honestly I feel like if actually given the choice, Id want to be doing a lot more research first.

the sprouts are a similar size and shape to those chocolates, and theyre hidden under the gold wrappers, meaning the actual chocolate isnt visible from the outside. So, they can remove the chocolate, wrap the wrappers back over the sprouts, and put those back in the package so as to make whoever it is given to think theyre getting chocolate, until they unwrap one.

Maybe not in old England, here in New England we’ve still got one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts

Russia is even funnier, given that they don’t even do that anymore.

I’ve not seen much of lower decks tbh. I’ve tried watching it a couple times, trying different episodes in case its just a case of it taking a few to get in stride, but I’ve just not liked it the same as other trek shows, the characters just seem annoying and everything happens too fast.

While I do generally enjoy discovery, I do think It’s still pretty flawed. Not because of the spore stuff, but because of the way that they have to deal with so many “danger to the entire galaxy/universe/multiverse” type events back to back. Like, doing a few is fine, I generally enjoyed the xindi arc in Enterprise for example, but having so many starts to feel very forced after awhile.

I especially find that bit with the spore energy extractor in the mirror universe that could kill all life in the multiverse if not stopped jarring, because, if you have a potentially limitlessness number of alternative timelines, and the massive expanse of space, to develop that tech in, the odds that nobody else ever built one of these drops to essentially zero, except that the existence of the plot at all implies nobody else ever has.

They should petition IUPAC to rename Americium to Mexiconium

Eh, in my experience they’re pretty good half the time, and mealy and bland with just a bit of sourness the other half. Similar to gala apples in that way, I’d say

The trouble is, these sorts of trolls will take no issue with simply replying to themselves on multiple accounts, gaming engagement algorithms by buying popular accounts or stealing popular content, etc. Theyre almost certainly going to get the visibility they want either way, if they know what they’re doing.

Hence I think that it is important to visibly show dissent against them, especially if you get enough people in a community to do it as to leave them visibly in the minority (okay, moderation would be even better, but the viability of that depends a lot on the space), to combat the effect wherein people go along with views that they perceive as being typical of those around them. Such a thing isnt truly an argument, at least not a good faith one.

I get where you’re coming from, im just not really convinced that it works as well as the conventional wisdom about trolls suggests.

I think it depends on the type of “troll” tbh. The traditional kind, looking to get a rise out of people for amusement? Sure, they need you to interact, and starving them of that attention kills the point. But nowadays we also use that term for people trying to shape public discourse in a dishonest fashion, such as when governments attempt to manipulate foreign public opinion, or politically motivated people pretend to be a different position in order to discredit it.

These kinds are slightly different I think, because their goal isnt necessarily to get a rise out of people, just getting seen enough times is enough to normalize their message in people’s heads.

For that kind, it might be a good idea to present a counter-narrative, so that people that come across them dont subconsciously get the idea that the troll’s message is one with wide public support. You wont change their mind by arguing with them of course, but that just means that the point is not to change their mind, but to drown them out essentially.