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But in a way, we kinda have to.
Uh, no? No we don’t? I’ve already expressed an utter lack of interest in arguing about this with you - this hasn’t changed. And please stop trying to force acceptance of your position onto me, this is the second time you’ve tried that and I’m still not going for it.
Sorry, sincere question: do you not see it’s the same thing? They didn’t invent a squiggly line - they invented the concept which is represented as the specific angles of those squiggly lines. He didn’t invent the jolly roger, he invented the totenkopf.
edit: oi stop downvoting them they’re not wrong they’re just slightly misunderstanding my original statement.
… Nah dude furries fuck so much. It’s uh. Kind of impressive how much sexing there is at a furry convention.
If you’re agreeing he didn’t invent shit
Not even slightly, but I don’t particularly feel like going on about how no human creation is truly original, waxing interminable over the distinction between symbols and concepts or, you know, defending a nazi right now.
it will be with this burden attached
Probably this will be forgiven provided they don’t do anything more indicative of actually being Nazis. I’m not sure it should be given the spectacular process failures needed to knowingly email out a bunch nazi symbology, their history of trans/homophobic jokes, their insanely miserable work culture… but it probably will be, much as all those previous examples were. It’s depressing.
And the skull and crossbones has been used since the 1700s - and yet people happily run around sporting the Jolly Roger, while someone openly wearing the Totenkopf is undeniably a nazi (or Graham Platner, who as far as I can tell is somehow actually just that dumb)
he wrote the bible or some shit when all he did was take what was already there and twisted it
I have really bad news if you think this wasn’t exactly what happened when they wrote the bible…
Gog admitted they knew what the symbols represented when they chose not to send them to German subscribers. There’s legitimately no excuse for using Nazi symbols in this case, regardless of your ideas about where they may have originated.
The nazis (in particular their graphic designer Walter Heck) did literally invent the sigrune/doppelrune, it doesn’t have roots in history and there is no excuse for them to have sent it given they admit they didn’t send it to germany. Like… no, there’s no justification for this one.
The WIAA is aware of roughly 10 trans athletes out of more than 200,000 kids who compete across the state, Kesterson said.
20,000:1 RATIO, FUCKING HELL HOW WILL GIRLS SPORTS EVER OVERCOME SUCH A HUGE PROBLEM??? no choice but to MAKE SURE YOU AIN’T SMUGGLING ANY BALLS ONTO THE COURT!
I really cannot see this ever passing, at least. Laurie Jenkins would have Bob shot if this somehow passes the house & senate and he didn’t veto, and it’d probably be done with Mike Brown’s gun (tho I similarly cannot envision a world in which Ferguson would ever pass this. Guy’s pretty decent.)
It’s a special municipal barbecue. Putin’s throwing it to show the troops how much he appreciates them. Jeeze how could this be questioned.
If musk gets off on limitless clean energy that’s actually okay.
(I feel the need to point out that it’s been 30 years since people started saying this…)
Oh man though this one is cool - I have a dear dear friend working on this project, and it’s absolutely wild. Nothing they’re doing is new, exactly but modern magnet designs have enabled SPARC to simultaneously hit a bunch of metrics that were previously entirely reliant on purpose-built machines.
Excerpt from them when I asked them about this yesterday:
While no existing tokamak has reached the same parameters that SPARC will simultaneously, there is empirical evidence in part for all of the major parameters it seeks to reach. the purple dot is ARC, the power plant design, and the red X is ITER, the gigantic international tokamak being built which doesn’t take advantage of newer and more powerful magnets (which is what allowed SPARC/ARC to have much smaller volume)
so like yeah, we’ve built a ton of reactors that could do all this individually and then CFS have managed a system that has combined those results into a single machine and that has been the big goal for years (beyond stopping the plasma from fizzling out). There’s still challenges to solve, but this system has cleared all the previous hurdles (barring some of the noncritical ones). It’s so damn cool. It’s not fusion happening now, the headline is sensationalist, but it’s the biggest step forward we’ve had probably since research into plasma fusion started.
… J P Morgan Chase is not relevant right now because this is an article about Visa and Mastercard.
And that company isn’t even a little bit relevant right now, nor has my intent ever been to figure out which company is the “most to blame”. But neat, thanks for sharing your opinion, I will continue to consider Visa and Mastercard to be among the few absolute worst offenders.
… The dutch east india company hasn’t been relevant for more than 200 years, but like fair enough. If you want to have “capitalist megacorp fightclub” that could absolutely be one of those few I mentioned. I’m gonna defend that “the primary architects of the global financial transaction system” are good entries onto the list though…
Yeah, I’m also kinda surprised cuba apparently allowed them to operate there? There are few companies that more thoroughly exemplify the imperialist state than those two.
Being rich in a capitalist society is pretty great. What sucks about capitalism is that everyone can’t share in how kicksss being rich is, because all the kickass parts of being rich require a fuckton of people to be poor & suffering while you wring the benefits from them.
Dunno what it is about genocidal states that makes them want to arm children but it does seem worryingly common…
To their credit not recently, but it’s all stuff similar to this nazi email:
https://dailydot.com/parsec/gog-transphobic-joke
deeply tasteless but believably just really dumb mistakes, until they come in and clarify that that they knew what they were doing the whole time.
Even then it’s not unforgivable it’s just… really stupid and tone deaf. But the examples of them being really stupid and tone deaf keep piling up and it’s getting harder to overlook.