If you think “not invading other countries for oil” or “not doing ethnic cleansing of immigrants” are purity tests I don’t know what to tell you.

Statistical fallacy #420: Assuming the value of a random arbitrary element will necessarily be close to the mean or median of all elements.

He’d lose the mandate of heaven so many times the dragons would come and smite the citizens for not overthrowing him already.

If there is a pattern of malice, it is stupidity to attribute it to stupidity.

What about the IP issues? Not even talking about the “ethics” of “ip theft via AI” or anything, you just know a company like Microsoft or Apple will eventually try suing an open source project over AI code that’s “too similar” to their proprietary code. Doesn’t matter if they’re doing the same to a much greater degree, all that matters is they have the resources to sue open source projects and not the other way around. If a tech company can get rid of the competition by abusing the legal system, you just know they will, especially if they can also play the "they’re knowingly letting their users use pirated media that we own with their software” card on top of it.

Judgement is an essential nutrient for cats

Potato potahto

A smartphone is a handheld computer. Why should it be restricted to what software the company arbitrarily decides should be allowed to run on it?

Also suggests she’s a technically minded person who likes to know how things work and is not satisfied with a black box. Jailbreaking uncovers the complex machine a smartphone truly is, something that Apple tries very hard to hide behind its patronizingly simple interface.

If Sasquatch are real animals they’re almost certainly extinct now.

Would have been some other date, some other terrorists, some other victims.

US literally funded the terrorists and is surprised when they turn on them the moment the funding stops.

Where’s MOM from Futurama?

The first photo of a black hole is the most historically significant “first photo of x” that happened in my life time and that I actually understood its historical significance when it came out. So I’d say that’s probably my favourite.

Stockholm syndrome.

When that nun destroyed Archimedes’ math book that had a bunch of pre-calculus stuff in it that wouldn’t be discovered again for centuries.

Imagine if that book had led to the development of calculus, one of the most important tools in science for modeling the universe, much earlier than Newton and Leibniz.

Don’t be silly, the US doesn’t do economic coersion, the EU just completely coincidentally always economically align with them.

“We originally had both as black people but the conservatives lynched the other one.”

Libs also be like: “Anyone criticizing Israel is antisimetic” 🤝 “Anyone criticizing Ukraine is a Russian bot”

Progressive, sustainable renewable energy tainted by barbaric, ecosystem destroying animal slavery “agriculture.”