ObjectivityIncarnate

Actually thinking that there are OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION people in the US who think FAVORABLY of child molestation is deep, deep brain rot. You’ve dived to a seriously dangerous depth of radicalized dehumanization. And dehumanization kicks the door to atrocity wide open.

You’re literally on the same ideological level as the Pizzagate-rs right now, do you really not realize that?

Do you feel like you need someone to be THAT evil for you to justify opposing them?

Trump is GOP. Group of pedophiles.

That alone is 99% probability.

Are you seriously implying that 99% of self-identified Republicans are pedophiles?

Can’t say I’m shocked that pointing out clickbait and misleading elements in the headline led to a bunch of downvotes. He’s on the Wrong Team, you see, so if you do anything but swallow the headline whole, reading not a single word past it, with absolutely zero scrutiny, you’re defending him, defending child molestation, and basically a pedophile yourself, you know. /s

George Carlin put it pretty well, imo.

This seems alright, no?

The executive order directs the HHS and the Treasury and Labor departments to ensure hospitals and insurers disclose “actual prices of items and services, not estimates” and take action to ensure “pricing information is standardized and easily comparable across hospitals and health plans” including prescription drug prices.

She’d already clinched her loss before she started chumming up to Cheneys, I think.

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Well, in a general sense (meaning, to be extra clear, I am not referring to Mamdani specifically), “these ideas won’t accomplish what he intends” and “these ideas will mess everything up” are not mutually exclusive at all. They’re essentially the same sentiment, if you think about it.

I think the confusion is in the incorrect assumption that only the successful execution of a policy/idea/etc. can do the latter, but the same level of damage could easily happen in the course of an ultimately-failed attempt, as well.

That’s enough pedantry from me for now, though, lol.

The vast majority of the increase, is what I said. In other words, I’m saying it wouldn’t be nearly at the 3% mark without those users, and with over a quarter of all Linux users coming from the Steam Deck userbase, that is, in fact, true.

Just boot the computer, choose which DE you want to install

Yeah, that’s not at all accessible to the average consumer; they don’t know what a “DE” even is, much less why they should choose any over any other.

Very, very few people want to deal with something other than a ‘just works’ situation.

I think it will continue to rise. People are updating their rigs all the time. Whenever they update their rig they’ll have to ask themselves whether they want to continue with Windows on their new rig, or try with something new.

The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks, which run on Linux, not from people switching to Linux on their PCs.

If it continues to rise, this is the reason. The general public is less and less into using a desktop at all as time goes on, much less running, and much less changing to, an extremely niche operating system on one.

EDIT: The previous sentence is actually more of the reason, upon further reflection. The total number of people playing on desktops period is falling, and the vast majority of desktops are Windows, so non-Windows OSes will comparatively gain ‘market share’ as that happens, even if their numbers don’t change at all.

It always felt a little wrong to me, but as I got older I realized these people are living lives of despair and it’s really just not the biggest problem in society when you have the rich engaging openly in corruption and violating laws while going unpunished.

Sure it’s not the biggest problem, but it’s not only the biggest problems that deserve attention.

Heart disease kills more than just about any other physical ailment, so should we put all research money/resources into that and ignore everything else?

Yeah, there are a lot of comparisons like these that at least partially break down when you don’t consider the way the US is set up, re state governments.

Another big example is minimum wage. While the federal minimum is $7.25, it is a very small minority of places where it’s even possible to find (above-board, of course; if you work under the table, all bets are off) work at that low a wage, both because of the above (state minimum is higher) and because other market forces essentially negate it as the minimum, even in most places where $7.25 is in fact the legal minimum wage.

If you’re a White Republican/MAGA/Christian Male, I’m just going to assume you’re a pedophile now.

So if everyone who’s over 7 feet tall is male, by your logic, everyone who’s male is over 7 feet tall.

Hopefully that makes it obvious just how flawed this reasoning is.

The probabilities are just too high.

Mainstream media is the last place you want to learn probability from. It’s the reason that over decades of violent crime rates decreasing, the public is led to believe that it’s been increasing that entire time.

Have you considered that the media you are (or allow yourself to be) exposed to, plays a part in that?

As an example, this took literal seconds to find, and it’s an article from this month:

A North Carolina state House member has been charged with sex-related crimes involving a teenager earlier this year, court records show.

Six-term Democratic state Rep. Cecil Brockman, 41, of High Point, was arrested Wednesday on two counts each of statutory sexual offense with a child and taking indecent liberties with a child, according to a magistrate’s order detailing his arrest.

I bet you’ve never heard of this person, or ever saw this article, right?

Before I explicitly looked, I hadn’t either. But it’s not that it was hidden, really, just that it’s not the data the algorithms put in front of my eyes, without me having to go seek it. Don’t underestimate the impact these algorithms have on what you’re made aware of, and how that controlled exposure can shape, or warp, your sense of reality.

I’ll never forget that graph that showed the comparison of how much violent crime had decreased over the years in the US, juxtaposed with public perception of violent crime rates literally rising in inverse proportion over the same period of time, thanks to mainstream media sensationalism. Ever since that day, I’ve tried to keep myself from making assumptions about how common something is, based on how often it’s reported on, especially when it comes to controversial/shocking subjects like these, as those are the ones where there is the most temptation for an outlet to sensationalize.

Is this kind of absurd hyperbole really productive?

Come on, not all singers molest children.

I feel like the fact that he was a church minister is much more relevant information for the headline. Who gives a shit that he sang a song at a Trump rally once, seriously? Clickbait slop.

it makes me wet af.

cis he/him

insert ‘I’m gonna pre’ compilation

a guy that brought his Charlie Kirk flag
‘what the fuck even is a Charlie Kirk flag?’

Well…can you tell us? You’re the one who saw it, lol.