Oh no!! What will people use for a mobile phone then???

Maybe I’m not using my knives enough and/or I don’t care about dullness, but my cheapo knives are lasting a long time too. Haven’t had to throw one out yet.

Generative AI degenerating skills.

They can stick it up their asses for all I care. That’s where they’re pulling the data from anyway.

I’m not a tankie, but I don’t know why the mod thinks of me as a tankie.

Cool. While you’re digging around my comment history, why not dig up a comment where I’m a tankie saying tankie things? That would be a lot more relevant.

Believe whatever you want to believe. I briefly considered posting my credit score history graph from my bank, but I really have no reason to try to prove anything to you and you’d probably excuse it with something else like “why are you lying about missed payments?” or “you could’ve easily faked this graph” or some other explanation. I shared my experience with the credit score system (yes, in the US) and that’s that.

My living expenses are low and some of the larger transactions are paid direct from my bank account to avoid credit card fees. My score didn’t drop a tiny amount, it dropped by about 100 points, which is why I requested a detailed credit report. Why would I lie about this?

Thank you for obtaining my comment! I couldn’t find it in the modlog and didn’t know how else to get it, so I had to recall what I wrote from memory.

You’re right in that my credit score was decent enough to get that credit limit, but I’ve only been charging <$1000 a month (usually <$300) on it and my credit score has only dropped since. I was surprised by the drop and requested a detailed credit report but found no accounts open/delinquent that would indicate someone destroying my credit.

The mod never elaborated, but based on their behavior, I assume the latter.

But the plummeting price of gold from the abundance would make the asteroid mining commercially nonviable. As an aside, only 7.16% of the gold demand in the world is actually for technology: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-industry-sector-share/

There’s already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.

Something that I’d read as a kid in a work of fiction and would think is cool is actually dogshit in practice. It’s no wonder I’m so pessimistic.

Hardware vs software solution?

Laying in bed thinking about the problem, “oh, that must be it!” Jump excitedly out of bed to work on the problem, “welp, that wasn’t it.”

Just pepper spray your mouth at that point.

Israel would claim that hospitals were being used as Hamas command centers because that’s the excuse they always use for their war crimes including the intentional killing of innocent people. The death toll in Gaza is about 50,000 and that’s likely under-counting it. How many of those people do you think are combatants? If you want to be charitable, at best Israel are grossly negligent preventing civilian deaths, but the evidence shows they’re intentionally targeting civilians and critical infrastructure that makes life possible in Gaza, hence the ruling by the ICC.

You call what the US sends to Israel “aid” and try to paint it as defensive, but there is nothing defensive about 2,000-pound bombs, especially when the targets are in such a densely-populated area like in Gaza. The goal to ethnically cleanse Gaza (and the rest of Palestine) is no secret. It’s been the mission of Israel since their establishment and all you have to do is look at the map of Israel and Palestine to see one clearly eating up the other. Given the monstrous actions by Israel, it is an unconscionable act to provide support to such a regime. Supporting a regime carrying out genocide means support for genocide, especially when that support consists of such powerful weaponry with no defensive purpose.

That’s perhaps understandable if it was an isolated comment, but my first comment was in direct response to someone else who said, which I quoted, “we were told it would stop [if] Harris lost!” to which I responded by asking who was saying that because I can’t imagine anyone serious saying that. In fact, that user’s claim could be considered misinformation because it was completely misrepresenting the protest against genocide (but their post remains unmodded because I guess the mod agrees with them). I then went on to point out that the genocide had been going on for over a year by that point and I used “full-throatedly” because although the biden administration were pretending to hold back israel with like one shipment of weapons paused, they were providing israel with everything they needed to completely destroy Gaza.

Exactly, the whole point of public forums is to have these discussions. Instead some have decided to go on a crusade against “misinformation” but what counts as misinformation? According to that mod, sending billions to a country committing genocide is not support for genocide because they claim it’s actually for “defense”??? It doesn’t make sense but I can’t expand on the discussion and gain understanding of their viewpoint because I was shut down immediately.

What if I consider that mod’s opinion misinformation, where’s my recourse? Will I need to enlist the help of a different mod who agrees with me? If the only criterion to be considered misinformation is whether a mod agrees or disagrees then they might as well shut down the comments section and simply tell us what we should be thinking since anything straying from that is going to be considered misinformation anyway.