xantoxis

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[–] xantoxis 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

This comic conveniently omits that the Republican party has been incubating the fascist alien eggs in their party for decades. And then they attached the face-hugger to themselves.

[–] xantoxis 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This seems like irony but if you think about the number of humans killed by bees and compare it to the number of bees killed by humans,

[–] xantoxis 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sure he needs to be taxed into dust. But he doesn't own the WaPo because it's making him rich. He runs it because it's a propaganda machine for him.

He lost 10% of his subscribers, almost immediately, when he tried to use it that way openly. Which says:

  • it's now a 10% less effective propaganda machine (and that number will keep growing)
  • it's possible that it was never effective in the first place

Given those two propositions, he might just unload it, which would be nice for the rest of us.

[–] xantoxis 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I don't see any other option. I'm just saying it ain't good.

[–] xantoxis 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree that almost everyone affected would WANT to vote again; most of the work of voting is deciding who to vote for, and they've already done that.

Another problem though is that not everyone affected will know that anything happened to their ballot.

[–] xantoxis 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(from the point of the vote counters) They know because there are individualized bar codes on every envelope. They will just count every ballot that arrives intact. If they scan one and it's from a voter who has already been counted, they'll have to figure out if that's voting fraud or a legitimate consequence of an act of arson/other problem--and it's almost never voting fraud.

(from the point of view of the voter) assume your ballot was destroyed, get another one, vote again.

[–] xantoxis 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've always been clumsy. It was bad enough that a couple of years ago I asked my doctor if I needed a neurology consult. Nobody at any point has said ADHD to me. (Or autism, I've probably also got that going on.) God healthcare sucks

[–] xantoxis 4 points 1 month ago

When I saw what community this article is posted in I almost choked.

[–] xantoxis 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

wait fuck is THAT what it is? i've always been sorta on the fence about whether i'm adhd, but this symptom is one i have times one million.

[–] xantoxis 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] xantoxis 82 points 1 month ago (6 children)

None of these things are true? OP is a dumbfuck.

  • It's not communism. There is simply no scarcity, and therefore no need to manage distribution of resources.
  • Federation officers are bound by the dress requirements of the job they freely chose. They are shown, many times, deciding to quit that life and do something else instead, and are usually supported for doing so. (This act is almost always accompanied by an immediate change in the way they dress.) Anyone not working for the Federation is shown wearing whatever tf they want; as are federation officers when they're off-duty.
  • Food is synthetic but you're certainly not required to eat it, and characters are shown craving it for how good it is, so it's CLEARLY not flavorless. Many of voyager's subplots revolve around having more replicator rations, or getting more.
  • "Free will is forbidden" ok did you just make this up while you were jerking yourself off?
  • "All humans are automatons" this must have been something you shouted as you came
[–] xantoxis 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is it? If ChatGPT wrote your paper, why would citations of the work of Frankie Hawkes raise any red flags unless you happened to see this specific tweet? You'd just see ChatGPT filled in some research by someone you hadn't heard of. Whatever, turn it in. Proofreading anything you turn in is obviously a good idea, but it's not going to reveal that you fell into a trap here.

If you went so far as to learn who Frankie Hawkes is supposed to be, you'd probably find out he's irrelevant to this course of study and doesn't have any citeable works on the subject. But then, if you were doing that work, you aren't using ChatGPT in the first place. And that goes well beyond "proofreading".

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