sabazius

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[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 47 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

It's important to remember: few outside of Germany knew that concentration camps existed, certainly not the scale of them or how appalling the conditions were. Consider the amount of information that Gandhi could reasonably have about activity in Germany and Europe. As far as he was concerned, the evil empire dominating his country was just having a costly spat with the evil empire dominating another country, sacrificing the welfare of his people for those of their neighbours in Europe.

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's a wysiwyg website builder and hosting platform. You use it to make websites

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is a great essay. I appreciate your honesty and I think you make a compelling argument about the sublimation of men's sexuality. I just wish I could have read it without having to pause a video and scrub through it page by page.

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Well, he was a billionaire because he sold his successful business to Hewlett-Packard, who then wrecked it and strong-armed a case through the DoJ to claim he'd somehow misconstrued the value of his company, and then he spent 13 months in prison awaiting trial and was acquitted because the judge said HP just fucked it, so if we're making up theories about who's the villain in this story about an unexplained sinking... Maybe it's more complex than a cursory reading of a single news article?

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

It's also incredibly cheap to produce, requiring no unusual props or location shooting, and generally tolerable to those who aren't interested in the kink, so it's a relatively safe bet economically

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not only is the word fag used by a lot of people, because there are a lot of hateful bigots out there, but even when you don't mean the nasty implications, it still reminds gay people around you how much the world hates them and leads hateful bigots who overhear you to believe that their views are more widely held and acceptable to share in public. Shocking though it may seem, South Park is not a moral authority on these matters.

Aside from that, if you know a word is commonly used a slur against a disprivileged group, someone advises you to stop using it, and your response is that you'd rather say it, hurt someone and apologise if they complain about it than just stop using that word, what does that say about your priorities?

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, but that's a completely different thing than you were arguing. The likelihood of a character being queer is a Watsonian question about demographics of a space station, whereas whether it's plot relevant is a Doylist question about themes and conservation of narrative. And given that Garrick was originally conceived as a queer character and the actor has explicitly stated that he wanted the character to be queer, but Rick Berman insisted that this not be done and instead wrote in a weird love story between him and young girl, I actually think it's pretty f****** relevant to discussions around the culture of the show.

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. Bisexuals exist and aren't always obvious, so "absent evidence to the contrary, that person might be bisexual" is not an extraordinary claim — hell, assuming similar prevalence of bisexuality then as we see now, which is arguably the lower bound given the cultural changes depicted, it's statistically improbable that there wouldn't be at least one non-straight person in the main cast.

 

It's probably not your fault. Year-long campaigns are just a very niche sell. Maybe you need to run a few oneshots instead?

Signed, someone just like you

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, a light meal taken at 11am, usually including a hot beverage and a bakery product

 
[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That post was so compelling until I got to the part where they were cheerily explaining how the future was AI assistants that you could bias towards your own political leanings. Can anyone just not try and cram LLMs into every single goddamn thing? I want search that takes me to websites made by people, not a summary by a piece of software pretending to be my friend which has been instructed to give sarcastic responses to make it feel more #relatable

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Fuck Andrew Tate and his shitty redpill memes

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It'll just be one fewer junctions. 2^n is always one more than the sum of 2^1+...2^(n-1)

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