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I think that's like half the point of the comic

A kid taught me the way your palms face greatly affect your movement

That's exactly why I can't take authoritarians seriously. The way they talk about violent revolution makes it clear they don't care about the people that get hurt, because it has never been and will never be themselves in danger.

I like using a pickaxe to really pry up the taproots

It reminds me a lot of how conservatives will claim nazi or racist or fascist has lost all meaning

Anyone can spread propaganda pro bono

The point of Pascal's wager is how non provable beliefs can't be logically reasoned one way or the other. Like how there is no objective original and duplicate ship of theseus.

People arguing over the danger of the transporter is a lot like trying to reason any unsolvable paradox, and especially like arguing over having faith. Better than roko's basilisk, though, that's pascal's wager for scuzzy tools.

If they don't feel well, they might not want to answer comprehensive questions. Just reading that feels like an interrogation.

"But what if it kills you, but no one can tell?"

this is pascal's wager for nerds

There was a recent post joking about calling authoritarians repressed subs, and that's an unfair comparison... But it'd explain the fervor

I hope all the newbies already learned to turn off auto updates