History shows that allying with authoritarians rarely works out for those who don’t want authoritarianism.

Tried that. Now numbness is interspersed with extreme recklessness

Not in US though

Too cold in the lab every time

My friend who used to work at a ren faire says it’s a lazy overdone joke and the people who do it tend to be dicks.

I’ve been registered to vote in blue and red states and the barriers to vote in red states are so much higher. Lines are longer, in less convenient locations, registration has to be done earlier, and sometime they might not count your vote or purge a voter directory and you have to check yourself to see if that the case so you can correct it. It’s more than people can’t be arsed to vote; it is intentionally made as inconvenient as possible.

I think that’s how you get skinned by the devil

I’m just a simple statistican, but I would be more worried about sun exposure, tap water quality, air quality, processed foods and occupational hazards (depending on job) over 3-4 drinks per year.

The better conclusion is “people who drink in moderation have a decreased risk of cancer”, which is different. Causation is hard to prove, especially when we can only ethically do observational studies. It’s likely that people who drink in moderation are more likely to make healthy choices in other areas of their life or have other factors that reduce risk.

I understand your conclusion, but in my experience not many people are advocating for reducing their 1st amendment rights. The majority of my experience with people claiming free speech is when it doesn’t apply. Like it does not protect anyone from being laughed at, ostracized, does not force people to buy goods or services from someone who says wild shit, and no one is required to give them a platform.

People only invoke the feelings of the founders when they either don’t have a stronger argument or are trying to appeal to conservatives. It’s basically religious interpretation at this point - mostly used to manipulate people who don’t know better.

It annoys me when people coopt bad conservative argumentation to make a good point. There are many reasons why the separation of church and state is important. The intentions of dead politicians who only valued white, land-owning men is not among them.

While I agree with them in this case, why do we care what the founders thought? Originalism is not a real philosophy, just a weak appeal to authority regarding a group of people that did not and cannot represent the people of the modern world.

As for a kbin app, Artemis is in closed beta and looks like it’s going to start open beta by the end of the month. The screenshots look great.

Fuck em. I’ll use nebula.

I just bought Subnautica

r/UnpopularOpinion became a place to either validate some truly reprehensible views or say something well liked for internet points.

I bought Subnautica today to play for the first time and I’m trying to decide between playing it on steam deck or blow some cobwebs off the vive.

I’m all for investing in union-made EVs in the US.

I legitimately like my Samsung flip. I know people have had issues with them, but mines been great.