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Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal
A kingdom always seeking expansion. Stop expanding into my stale bread dammit!
In addition to that:
A proletariat that keeps disempowering itself is a proletariat unable to fight in an eventual revolution. And fascism is all about disempowering the masses.
So sometimes you need to bite into the sour apple and vote, even if this means voting in an absolute clown against someone who's a clown and a fascist, and in the process playing along a system that is utterly corrupt and made to enforce the elites are kept in place.
Napstablook spreading the word about his family business.
The mineral in question (goethite - yup, named after the poet Goethe) is iron III oxide and hydroxide. It's 5~5.5 hardness in the Mohs scale, so it's softer than glass. The snail teeth is probably combining the goethite strains with proteins to make it so hard. I wonder if we couldn't sub the proteins with kevlar or another para-aramid to create something similar.
In that case, I contend [...]
When answering your earlier comment, I wasn't sure if you were
- Speaking on general grounds, without noticing that context made your comment imply that I said what I did not; OR
- Assuming=bullshitting that I said what I did not. e.g. that I'd not be taking into account that humans are fallible, or that I would be dehumanising others.
In doubt, I answered it with a simple clarification. However, that "in that case" confirms it's #2, so I'll readdress your earlier comment: cut off the crap.
Avoiding fallacies is not "academic rigour" dammit, it's basic human decency. Decent human beings avoid bringing unnecessary harm to other human beings, and irrationalities (like fallacies) harm people. Doubly so in this context (politics), because that fallacy means people supporting people/entities/policies that should they not support. (Look at Gaza for a prime example of that. It's literally people being killed because people give a thumbs up to an oversimplification, so a genocide looks like self-defence.)
"If someone is tired", "simple human anger", "when people get defensive" - people under those situations should not be discussing politics (mind the context!) on first place.
And no, it is neither logically nor morally acceptable to assume the others' views, as you said under "strawmen". It's piece of shit behaviour of people who don't mind blaming others for what they did not say or do not support.
Now, addressing this comment:
In that case, I contend that is is not easy to spot a cuckoo
In the context? Yes, it is. If someone is babbling "As A Leftist®, I say we should not fight back" and you smell those fallacies, the first thing you should look for is a brood parasite.
Fallacies are useful for evaluating the validity of arguments and positions, not for evaluating people themselves.
It's useful for both.
While brainfarts happen, and people should be lenient towards small mistakes, someone who doesn't even try to avoid fallacies is a harmful individual and should be treated as such.
I still feel that you’re running the risk of false positives.
Not a problem in the light of the proposed solution. (Point out and disengage)
Solitary comments can never let you evaluate a whole person, because no whole person fits in a text box.
In line with what you did in the earlier comment, now you're implying that I would have claimed that solitary comments let you evaluate a whole person. I did not; please stop implying otherwise, this is at the very least disingenuous, if not worse.
The whole thing with the cuckoo is that it's a useful label for people engaging into a certain political behaviour dammit. This is clear by context, if you actually bother to read the OP.
[In the line of what I proposed, I am disengaging. While the user above is not behaving like a cuckoo, I have little to no patience towards assumers putting words into the others' mouths.]
Just to be clear:
I am not proposing to categorically label anyone using those five fallacies a cuckoo. I said that it's easy to spot the cuckoo when you look for those fallacies. Because cuckoos rely on those fallacies to convey their "As A Leftist®, I say we should disempower ourselves!" discourse.
Her son does it too, but only a single square each time.
Banana [slug] for scale.
Watch out for the following five fallacies, and the cuckoo is easy to spot:
- oversimplification: false dichotomy, ignoring relevant factors
- genetic fallacy: instead of focusing on what is being said, the cuckoo always focuses on who says it
- straw man: cuckoos are really eager to put words into your mouth, and try to force you to defend claims you never did in first place
- ignore refutation: if you prove without a shadow of doubt that the cuckoo's claim is wrong, they'll ignore your refutation and still use it to back up even dumber claims
- ad nauseam: same claim over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
Then as you spot the cuckoo, the rest is easier - for example, IMO a sensible approach is to point out what the cuckoo is doing, to whoever might be reading your comment, while disengaging so you aren't giving the cuckoo further time to sing.
In a lot of Indo-European languages you're stopping right at 5, pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (पञ्चन् páñcan).
"I'm whatever you aren't, you fucker" - water, to the substance you mixed with it.
If I need to prove something stupid and immoral, and it relies on the assumption that 2+2=5, then 2+2=4 is woke propaganda. Simple as.
If you have access to a wood chipper or similar, they're great for mulch, and as substrate component for some orchids.
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Props for the dev. In fact because of these news I went to check their games out and find a good free one, Viridi; you build a succulents pot. Basically small version of my succulents/cactuses garden.
By "attack animation" I mean that you'd cast, say, exori flam, and the game would draw a fireball over the enemy.
I think attacks are the only thing seriously animated there. And by "seriously" I mean five frames or so. It was fun, though, at least back then. (The game still exists, but I can't find it fun any more.)
It could be worse, #1: when my nephew was 4, I built him a house in Minecraft creative mode. And then I hid a lot of TNT below the house; they'd be triggered by the pressure plate near the door. (inb4 it's common to put a pressure plate near doors in Minecraft, so they open automatically.) He entered the house, and "tttssssssBBOOOOOMMM!". He started crying. My sister (his mum) was nearby, and begun laughing, then the kid got to cry harder. I wanted to surprise the kid, not to scare him! (Thankfully I kept a copy of the world before rigging the house with TNT. As I loaded the copy he calmed down.)
It could be worse, #2: when I was 16, one of my cousins was 8. I was into a game we mocked as "Paint Online" (Tibia, a MMO). He was learning the ropes of the game, barely out of the beginners' island. Some random afternoon, he phones me, crying: "[my nickname]!!!! HELP MEEEEE!!!! I lost my worms, I lost my fishing rod, I lost EVERYTHING!!!". He died in the game, lost his items, and he was literally crying! I had to stop everything I was doing, log into the game, get a fishing rod + a full stack of worms from my depot, some random food, and give to the kid. Otherwise he would not leave me bloody alone.
Just listen to Pitura Freska, my peers. We need a black pope.
I'm not Catholic any more, for decades, but it was nice to know the pope was from my "turf" of the world instead of yet another European. Plus he was considerably humbler than other popes, the instructions for his own burial are a good example. (In fact a lot of people I know get surprised when you mention that he was a Jesuit instead of a Franciscan. Not just because of his papal name - but because all that "think on the poor" discourse is extremely Franciscan.)
His Easter 2025 message is worth a read, regardless of religion.
You're laughing but I'm a victim of cannabis!
I used to live with someone who smoke it on a regular basis. One day I went to bed, and my room-mate stayed on the garden, smoking his joint. When I woke up, the sandwich I prepared for my breakfast was... gone.
Are you getting the full picture? An addict stole the sustenance of a poor victim, due to his illegal psychoactive substance usage! Cannabis is danger! Cannabis is steal! Don't cannabis! Or if you do, prepare the munchies beforehand.
[To be fair with him, on the same day he prepared me a way better sandwich as apology. And it isn't like I went to the uni hungry, at morning I just whipped up some egg farofa and problem solved.]
If anything, printers today are worse than they used to be in the 90s. For example, I don't remember chips preventing you from using third party ink being a thing back then. So I believe the printing
industrymafia has been spending those decades adding antifeatures to their designs.And IMO it highlights how much we [society in general] need open hardware.