Their comments never contribute anything to the posts, either. Very weird, most bots I see these days are a lot more convincing than this. Curious what's going on here. Maybe it's just performance art.
Yeah it's not that simple, wikipedia has a good summary:
Advocates of final destruction maintain that there is no longer any valid rationale for retaining the samples, which pose the hazard of escaping the laboratories, while opponents of destruction maintain that the samples may still be of value to scientific research, especially since variants of the smallpox virus may still exist in the natural world and thus present the possibility of the disease re-emerging in the future or being used as a bio-weapon.
This is fucking insulting. Palestinians are dying and the UN wants to throw vague shade about it by declaring a "day"? "Thoughts and prayers" at the nation-state level? Fuck off.
Most BNPL services don't make classically hard inquiries, though - as I understand it that's actually a big part of the problem, because they are able to skirt a great deal of the credit regulations put in place to prevent predatory lending (yeah those exist - fucking terrifying, isn't it?) by not engaging directly with the credit agencies, instead relying on 3rd party consumer information data brokers of dubious reliability.
That was pretty much located solely in mesoamerica - the more regionally accurate game would be what we now call Lacrosse, and is still quite popular. Also the most based sporting organization:
The modern sport is governed by World Lacrosse and is the only international sport organization to recognize First Nations bands and Native American tribes as sovereign nations.
I do think that presenting your critics as cartoon caricatures of thought police is bait, yes. But I don't particularly care that you're doing it - I'm just pointing out that a culture of antagonism isn't the same thing as a culture of persecution, and that you engage in extremely similar behavior to the people you yourself are demonizing. You're characterizing me as mad about this and I'm truly not (nor have I indicated I even feel particularly strongly about it), but you're still basing your responses in this interaction as though I am. Why assume that?
Sure, and you're just as complicit in the culture of antagonism as they are. I'm not advocating for your tolerant interaction in the face of hostility, I'm just pointing out that you're posting blatant ragebait then claiming that the people who take that bait are somehow behaving worse than you are or that they're not engaging in good faith.
You admit you dont engage with them - which is a perfectly reasonable choice you can make, to be clear - but without an ability to criticize the source, it's natural for them to form a community to voice their objections to your ideas, and for that community to include context. The antagonism between .ml and non-.ml users enthusiastically goes both ways (the memes you've posted here are example enough of that, as is my use of .ml as shorthand for "people that are tankies"). If you don't want to continue it, it's probably best to take the classic advice and not feed the trolls.
We're not to the point that that's possible.