Probably about as useful as not voting

Because one thing less useful than voting is not voting as a form of protest. And even less useful than that is encouraging others to do the same.

Voting one time may seem useless, but voting consistently in an informed direction and encouraging others to do the same ‘is’ useful. It’s just not obviously useful quickly.

The only thing useful about not voting is in the hope that things will fall apart more quickly and we can get to some good for collapse and rebuilding, but then what? Still don’t vote? Hope for a benign group that takes over and somehow does allow voting?

Most groups like this don’t have to be wrong about the data to be wrong about the interpretation. Did you know that on average, a person has one fallopian tube? That most crimes happen when I’ve cream sales are highest?

Making new friends as an adult and finding a girlfriend when you’re looking for one are two of the hardest things you’ll do in life. Take care of yourself and try finding things that interest you, but get out there and interact. Talk to people with the intention that an interaction is worthwhile even if it’s only in passing. Take some classes to learn something, not to pick a girl to home in on. Probably 90% of relationships people have are accidental or friend of a coworker or someone who noticed you actively involved in something that doesn’t have anything to do with what you’re actually doing.

Not voting because it’s not a good harm reduction strategy is just another way of saying it won’t do any good so don’t bother.

If you are trying to present a nuanced argument against some specific reason ‘for’ voting, more power to you, but you are seriously coming across as a worthless bot put in place to recommend not voting wherever possible.

Still, go out and vote

Right, just like anyone could stop using anything they found objectionable or immoral and keep their mouths shut about it, but this is exactly the type of thing not to keep your mouth shut about.

Software that enable you to do something should at some point just do that. To get good at something, invest time and money into an ecosystem that takes a lot of both to invest in, shouldn’t arbitrarily use that as leverage against it’s users to impose it’s morals on them.

Sure she could switch to gimp, and arguably she should literally because of things like this, but that’s not something you can easily do with everything, and it’s worth calling out when a corporation leverages a virtual monopoly on something to force it’s users to comply with something like it’s judgement of content.

We’re lucky enough to have open source versions of a lot of things, but you don’t get anywhere simply voting with your wallet. Where you get somewhere is voting with a lot of people’s wallets.

I may be an ai. I read that as ‘not being able to count to the number r in strawberry’ and I immediately wondered how you would do that.

Then I realized that might be the perfect thing to start training it on by coming up with things like that in posts, as though that were a perfectly human thing to know how to do.

Because killing a leader without a plan for who will replace them isn’t very efficient. A leader, unless he is particularly skilled, is rarely string enough to actually have that big of an influence but it’s enabled by the institutions. The only way to change the institutions is weakening the ones you want to weaken.

Probably because they thought physical discipline was an effective method of training at an impressionable age but was obviously only a method of punishment once you reached adulthood. Or maybe because enough of the people who made the laws could imagine themselves on the side of the prisoner, but none of them would ever be in the position of being a child again so there wasn’t enough self interest for that law to be different.

Basically probably no good reason, but just a misguided vague ‘nip it in the bud’ attitude carried over the generations.

Just for some perspective, it’s not always about retaining facts and content. Reading a dozen books on a topic can have exponentially better comprehension on a topic than reading the same book a dozen times, even if you can’t remember a single fact from any of the dozens of books. Quality is more important, and exposure to different views will be better over time. Unless you find yourself not getting anything out of a topic in the subsequent books, in which case it may be worth the rereading tact.

He’s asking why Trump decided to go

Frank Zappa and Christopher Hitchens. Maybe not personally, but i really feel like there are some losses that the world doesn’t realize.

Yeah, i think we probably agree on most things in that direction. My view is that early on they failed to focus on the glaring, obvious issues and instead used the ridiculousness of him as candidate as click-bait for views, and then later continued to focus on and fall for every misdirection he and his cloud of followers dropped, both intentionally and unintentionally. In my view they ended up hiding all the legitimate issues in a smokescreen of click-bait and likely doomed us to either Armageddon or who knows how long a period of cleanup or simply slow decline.

This ‘his kid is going to avoid the draft’ angle, when not only has a draft not been brought up, but also that he simply falls into the range of ‘all tall kids that would be exempt’ is just the latest is a series of stories obviously relying on a false start just to get people riled up if they read just the headline.

Not even close, there are so many things to vilify and mock him for, this is more like diluting the pool.

If someone does 10 shitty things, you don’t make up 100 other weaker accusations that can be easily dismissed or disproven. Its like someone kills 10 people and someone starts making up dumb little lies about them shoplifting and tripping old ladies and kicking 100 puppies instead of just the one they actually kicked. If a lot of what you’re hearing about the guy is a bunch of lies and half truths, it’s a whole lot easier for him to convince you that the ‘killing 10 people’ is just a bunch of exaggerations too.

The outrage might be a little over the top, but the sentiment is valid. Click baity shit like this is why no one pays attention to the actual outages going on.

If people are constantly seeing articles like ‘Trump didn’t say he would rule out pushing toddlers into wood chippers to combat climate change’ and the article goes on to talk about how he was asked about what he had for breakfast, then outrage is a little hard to keep up. I actually think that’s the worst/best tactic trump has used… Keep the outage going so steadily that people are worn out when the real stuff is out in the headlines.

Right, it would be started basically exactly the opposite. Certainly not a statement followed by an if block.

Those would all start with the if, followed by two conditions, not a statement and then an if. There would be a condition to evaluate, followed by then/else?

Maybe it’s just worse when written. The period at the end of the sentence makes it hard to see how it could be misunderstood.

To your point though, not sure if I’m aware of any programming language that would continue a statement with a following if block. Far more likely that it would fail due to lack of an element to apply the 6 to rather than having a pointer to the previous object, or he would try getting what ever the literal version of a 6 would be, or maybe some slang version.

Not sure if you’re being intentional obtuse, but the point is that some things are more important than protecting members of your own in group that don’t deserve protecting, even if it harms the group short term.

No doubt there are considerations to have it happen far enough ahead of the mid-terms so they can recover if it does implicate them, but doesn’t the fact that Democrats are willing to push for releasing the document and Trump is pushing to hide them tell you a while lot about what’s really likely in there?

It’s an absolute hoax… Anything it says about Republicans that is, every word of it that implicates a Democrat is completely true… But it’s an absolute hoax