Ultraviolet

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[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Now that we have a president threatening to invade NATO members, we're about to have the nuclear threat back.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Perfect malicious compliance opportunity: the price tag stays the same, but add an itemized Trump Tax for the difference.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Capitalism in its current form has existed for the last 2% of human civilization. 5% if you count mercantilism as a form of capitalism. For the vast majority of history, people owned their own means of production.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Modi is just as much of a fascist pig.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Quake predates GoldenEye.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Even the most oppressive tyrants in history understood the concept of bread and circuses. Most people will stay complacent when their fundamental rights are being taken away as long as they have their distractions. Taking away the distractions is something you only do after you've fully consolidated your power. They're so obsessed with projecting an aura of oppressiveness that they've forgotten how to hold power.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's a bit of a false dilemma though. The two options aren't "it's a magical elixir with absolutely no downsides" and "people deserve to be locked in a cage and have their life ruined for possessing it". Plenty of legal things can cause harm. 35% of people are lactose intolerant, do we ban dairy?

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell, you can give away 990 million of it, buy a house, put what's left in a high yield savings account, and live comfortably on the interest alone for the rest of your life.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Jury nullification isn't an enumerated power, it's an emergent result of jury deliberations being secret and their verdict being legally binding.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

+84 doesn't mean an increase of 84 percentage points, it means 92% approval, 8% disapproval.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there anything morally different between pretending to be ICE to break into people's homes to rob them and actually being ICE and breaking into people's homes to rob them?

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