radix

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[–] radix 97 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.

[–] radix 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that "bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous."

[–] radix 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

We've always got his model names for the juvenile humor.

[–] radix 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump (supposedly) wants to raise standards by ending diversity initiatives, then immediately fills his government with unqualified nepo-babies.

10 days down, 1451 to go.

[–] radix 15 points 5 days ago
[–] radix 141 points 1 week ago (22 children)

MAGAts be like

[–] radix 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that region specific?

No mention of Firefox for me.

[–] radix 17 points 1 week ago

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/towamencin-supervisor-laura-smith-nazi-salute-20250125.html

In a statement to The Inquirer, Smith said the video has been “greatly mischaracterized.” On Facebook, she said she made the post “to stir the pot. Because I can.”

[–] radix 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Awww, the tiger-coyote thinks he's a stegosaurus.

[–] radix 14 points 1 week ago

It's probably a good thing I'm not a national leader because the first thing I'd do is recall all diplomats and cut off relations. He wants isolationism? Give it to him and let him feel it for real, not just his tough-guy head-canon version of it.

Use whatever human rights violation justifications necessary (shouldn't be hard) to hit the US in the wallet. Cut off US businesses from customers abroad. Expel military personnel. Pull travel visas. All the tricks America uses against everyone else. Make the people feel the inconvenience of not being a world citizen.

[–] radix 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your first type (treasury) isn't usually called inflation, AFAIK.

That's a metric more widely referred to as 'money supply,' and it has a number of different types even within that (M0, M1, M2, etc), depending on if you're talking about simple cash, bank deposits, and other liquid assets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Measures_of_money_supply

[–] radix 3 points 1 week ago

A little tangential, but if someone knocked on my door and tried to sell me the patent for the cure to the common cold for $10, I'd refuse on principle alone. Stop trying to sell me stuff.

 

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

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Just because a 3060ti is technically capable of ray tracing doesn't mean I want you to keep turning it on every time the driver gets an update.

 

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.

 

"Don't make a wrong move," the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. "Period."

The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject's thin wrists.

"Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts," the subject exclaimed.

The officer pressed his weight into the subject's small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.

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