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roscoe

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  • What's with those people?

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  • What's with those people?

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  • I recommended no such thing. You really need to work on your reading skills. Maybe use some of the time you save with your totally useful and not at all ridiculous purchases.

  • What's with those people?

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  • Your reading comprehension is once again lacking. I clearly stated my willingness to move or reduce speed to allow others to merge. I never said anyone needs to move for me.

    Single use gadgets also have their purpose but you are off topic on that.

    I fucking knew it.

  • What's with those people?

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  • Are you hangry? Maybe you could boil an egg. You could go to your drawer(s) filled with single purpose gadgets and dust off that egg slicer you got for three easy payments of $9.99.

    While the water boils and the egg cooks you can use that time to convince yourself that the slicer is a totally normal thing to have and not at all indicative of an inability to perform simple tasks that others take for granted.

    That's assuming you don't have another gadget that allows you to avoid that Herculean task by cooking the egg in the microwave...yet. If you do have one, I'm sure you can find time think about it on your commute while you're oblivious to the chaos you're causing around you.

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  • So, I suppose I'll have to move left, as I said. Or, if the left lane isn't available I guess I'll have to summon up the energy to lift my right foot a bit, accelerators can be in more than one position.

    This is not a difficult concept. Allowing someone to merge is a perfectly normal thing. I don't understand how you don't understand this.

    Reading your comments is like watching one of those commercials for some cheap gadget that "solves" a problem I can't believe exists. You know the ones, where some hapless dweeb is struggling and fumbling to complete some simple task then looks at the camera and says "If only there was an easier way!" You can't believe anyone would buy this thing, but then you think if people this stupid didn't exist, neither would these commercials.

    I guess what I'm saying is, assuming you're not just being contrary or trying to justify your own shitty driving, if you really think simple highway tasks are this hard, then for your own sake, since you obviously don't give a shit about anyone else, stick with surface streets and stay off the highway.

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  • Why would they have to do that? If they're in front of me, I'll move left to pass. If they're behind me, they're already behind me. Have you never driven on a highway before? This is pretty standard stuff.

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  • Everyone to the right, regardless of speed, unless actively passing is the answer.

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  • The determining factor isn't speed, it's the availability of the right lane. If there aren't any vehicles to your right, that's where you belong.

    I don't care if I'm doing 90, if there is no one slower than me that I'll catch up to in the next 20-30 seconds, I move right.

  • tragic

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  • Mortal sins are those that must be confessed or you're screwed. If you die with some venal sins on the books you might still be ok, but not mortal.

    According to Catholics, all sins can be absolved through confession, repentance, and penance. Suicide is a problem because you don't have the opportunity to do this, that's why they say all suicides go to hell.

    The list of mortal sins is kind of funny (not ha ha funny). It's mostly boring stuff like not going to mass or sex outside of marriage but then murder is just mixed in with those. And like the commandments, rape is not explicitly mentioned.

  • Humans suddenly gain the ability to selectively delete their memories. How do you use this ability? (if at all) How do you think society would change?

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  • Malazan Book of the Fallen and all associated works! Bonus points if I can forget the plot and remember all non-spoiler lore. My one complaint with those is going to the wiki to refresh my memory on something and going down a rabbit hole.

    Movies and TV too.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.

    So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?

    Why would you see a conversation about a brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don't you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?

    If you can't have a conversation about Stalin's crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that's why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Well, have a nice day then. I genuinely hope you find something you do care about today.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.

    You are one tying Stalin's crimes to communism.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Then why bring communism into a critique of a dictator concerning his methods of control?

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Just because you didn't do the persuading doesn't mean that no one did. Somehow they got together and decided to kick the fuckers out.

    If you think I'm creating a false dichotomy, please enlighten me how.

    I'm saying either everyone gets an equal say or...

    No matter what you put after the "or", you're creating a hierarchy with a class that gets to impose their will until stopped with force. As an anarchist, you should understand that.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • No one is asking you to trust it, just to choose it.

    Strip away all the labels and theory and you're left with two basic choices. One where the method of change is persuasion, and one where the method of change is bloody revolution, over and over and over without end.

    As much as it might rankle you, and me, to accept having to convince a majority to allow us to live our lives as we damn well please, if I was given the opportunity to appoint a dictator, or dictatorial class, that would remake society exactly as I wanted, I wouldn't do it. Because who would succeed them, and once you have given that power to a class of people, deposing them is a lot harder, and bloodier, than persuading a few percent of your neighbors.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • It sounds like you would reject a system where one unelected, unaccountable person or class of people ruling through force could decide on a whim to take away the rights of LGBT+ people, or any other minority, and instead prefer a system where all people have an equal voice and a method for that voice to be heard and counted.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • How would you determine what the individuals collectively decide?