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Let's not let those people "have" Star Wars quotes. Same thing when Nazi trash in America tried to co-opt the "Ok" hand sign, Hawaiian shirts, etc. I was a bit dismayed by how fast people were willing to cede those things away. My take is: They can't have them, don't give up so easily.

Back in Gandhi's time, you had to do the CSS formatting by hand as well.

Ehhhh, I want to agree but practice is expecting the same result, minor incremental improvement. In scientific experimentation, one should not be expecting anything, that's researcher bias.

Man, I always thought that one was suspect. If I eat 10 per year and have been alive 40+ years, then surely one of those times I would have woken up.

I can see that viewpoint and not argue against it, that might be totally right. I'm trying to point out that agreeing with it and being the person or one of the main people who made the bomb possible are very different.

Being ok with the decision as a member of a country at war and being ok with the decision as someone who made the bomb are very different.

I loved Marvel Suns and you just reminded me that I haven't finished it yet! Got thrown on the back burner where my Steam games go to die lol, cheers!

>Literal Nazi apologist

Holy fuck...how about you don't use words that you so obviously don't understand.

Haha, reminds me of this kid in General chat in WoW once who thought that once he got married he'd literally never have to jerk off again cause his wife would "take care of that."

Hey, I was big on X-Com 1 and 2 as well and really think Gears Tactics nailed the combat portion, no base upgrading though :( A friend is pretty into Jagged Alliance 3 too but I haven't played any of them.

Gears Tactics is on Game Pass as well.

We never nuked the Nazis...But even if we did, are you saying that the Nazis being Nazis would've justified vaporizing every civilian man, woman, and child in a city or two?

Whether or not you'd say it was justified is a different beast altogether than having to be the one that made it possible in terms of responsibility.

Tangentially, many firing squads will have only one person have a real bullet(s) while the rest have blanks so that they don't all have to feel responsible for ending a life. Even that is setting justification aside.

The people who have made false allegations in the past are exactly the reason we can't just believe every victim that comes forward without proof. They are why we can't have nice things. It's not about the odds and ratios either, the state putting a completely innocent person in jail is a travesty of the system. The travesties of what we do to each other are the realities of living on a planet with other humans, we are terrible to one another regularly. We must do the absolute best we can to support victims of sexual assault...untested rape kits are a fucking abomination for instance and I'd be fine with tar and feathers for whoever let that happen. But we still must stop short of allowing even one innocent person to be put in jail.

I've given a lot of thought to this issue in the past and I think it all boils down to one indisputable fact:

"You just believe her" is completely at odds with "innocent until proven guilty."

"We should believe women" is a laudable phrase, and it makes us feel good to say it, but men are victims as well, especially trans men. "We should believe victims" would be better, but it is a begging-the-question fallacy, it assumes the victimhood is true. The people who made that not possible are specifically the people who have made false allegations in the past.

In my mind, Oppenheimer figured out this when he said that:

Put another way, everyone in science and technololgy stands on the backs of giants.

If Ralph falls in a forest, does he still make a noise?

I'm over here getting nostalgic for BEANS.

No, but in the exact same way that he doesn't have a dinosaur

"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason" is inconsistent with the law as well.

I guess, but I honestly thought he would be better at pretending to make good decisions.