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RoosterGold posted...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/third-world-war-ukraine-russia-groysman-b2034010.html

I mean, I get that you think there's some wit and merit to your comment but people don't even agree when WW2 started, and that's with the hindsight of 80 years. I don't think two different Ukrainians believing the Ukraine War is WWIII by proxy in two separate instances separated by two years is worth criticizing.

RoosterGold posted...

How many times has world war three already begun before this time

... Zero?

I'm not even sure what you could be referring to.

LeTigre posted...

tbqh its pretty sus how much the GameFAQs demographic (30+, overwhelming white dudes) hates TikTok, while its very widely embraced by the youth and LGBTQ communities.

theres literally no criticism of the platform they cant also be applied to any other social media platform.

I don't know if defending "TikTok through spurious or ill-founded implications of bigotry by white men" is doing much to improve the image of Tiktok.

The bus has to yield to you. You had the right away. No reason you had to let the bus go first unless you had a stop sign or something.

*Gives you some Soros money*

Goooood. Gooood.

C_Pain posted...

I'm not against it at all, but it is a little odd that the government is putting stuff in our water without consent.

It's natually occuring in minerals in drinking water. Some places already have so much concentration that additional fluoride isn't even needed. Are you even, like, vaguely aware of all the horrible nasty shit they put into waste water during treatment before it gets reabsorbed by the water table and used for potable water again? It's far more dangerous than fluoride lmao.

Also, have you seen the shit in almost nearly every food item you've ever purchased?

BewmHedshot posted...

This is not how fluoride works, it reacts directly with your teeth to fill gaps in the enamel, your gums have fuck all to do with it.

https://youtu.be/GefwcsrChHk?t=136

Yeah, that's correct. Replace "gums" with "teeth" in my post. In a broader sense the distinction is not important to the point I was making, though, which is that teeth don't absorb enough fluoride onto the surface of the enamel through toothpaste alone.

lcampoy posted...

but why even have it there in the first place? 99% of the toothpaste sold have fluoride in it and you can easily buy some at walmart for a dollar.

Wouldn't it be better (and cheaper) creating programs that could bring more awarness to cavity preventing? Perhaps we can even create programs handing out toothpaste in poor neighborhoods. I can understand putting fluoride in 3rd world countries but not here.

furthermore, many other countries has started as well:https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/55827e6c.jpg

People still usually don't absorb enough flouride through their gums in the 2-4 minutes of toothbrushing they do every day. Flouride is only is effective when absorbed directly through the gum. Most people rinse and spit their flouridated toothpaste off after brushing, so even people who brush their teeth regularly and use non-flouridated water still have up to 45% more tooth decay than people with flouridated drinking water.

With flouridated drinking water, gums are exposed to flouridation dozens of times per day, which adds up to a lot of additional absorbtion even if the concentration is much lower.

No one wants to go to a resort destination in New Jersey.

Guide posted...

They can. Don't... Don't give the guy ammo by saying stupid shit like that.

It's weird when Trump does something so mind-numbingly wrong and someone STILL takes the wrong lesson away from it.

"Discrimination under the guise of equity"

Actually Orwellian levels of Newspeak.

TheFuzz3451 posted...

The Afghanistan collapse was inevitable, that government was not functional without a perpetual US military presence. Pulling the plug was the correct decision.

These would be the same people complaining about withdrawing from Vietnam after trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives were thrown away supporting corrupt and despised South Vietnamese juntas.

You can't fix everything. Especially not through military occupation.

I never liked the description as "a mix between L and R" because it fails to emphasize the role the tongue tap on the palate/teeth plays in the sound. I usually describe it as a mix between the Da and Ra sounds (Or U/I/E/O) because you're going to sound much more strange if you don't tap the tongue compared to doing too much R instead of L. Obviously Native Japanese speakers struggle with L/R differentiation, but I don't think that describes the syllable well in itself.

Also I don't describe it as tapping against the "roof" of the mouth. It's tapping the tip of your tongue against the front of your palate near your teeth or even on the back of the top teeth themselves.

If you go watch GTA RP on Twitch you'll see this in action yourself, if you're interested in an anecdote. There's also a surprising amount of women who want to be strippers or sex workers on these servers compared to the men. There's of course a decent amount of "sexy" male characters but there's also more goofy/unattractive male characters or "strong but not attrative" males. I'm very confident the raw data you could collect from these servers would pretty closely match the studies in the OP.

I doubt there's a leak coming, this is just their usual tactics.

"Assume the liberals are doing whatever it is you wish you could get away with. "

Why aren't poor people suffering more? They're not meeting my arbitrary guidelines for suffering. How can they actually be underpaid if they don't meet my arbitrary guidelines?!

Zikten posted...

I still don't understand why people hate Hasan. He's 100% right about Israel and Palestine. It's interesting how CE hates both Asmond and Hasan even though those 2 are on opposite sides regarding Palestine

Single issue voters be like:

It's very clear from published historical evidence that the original quote is "The customer is always right".

"...In matter of tastes" was a later addition, and I'm like 70% sure people heard Don Draper say that in Mad Men and magically concocted this alternative explanation for the quotes origin.

Sandalorn posted...

The guy literally typed that "Israel will try to limit civilian casualties" with no amount of self-awareness.

Says EVERYTHING you need to know about him. Like fucking how can anyone say that at this point after Gaza. JFC....You want to talk about living solely in a bubble of just IDF propaganda.

You frankly have no idea what kind of research and time investment I've put into this conflict and you clearly have no actual interest in my credentials unless it's a tool you can use to "disprove" my opinions.

Regardless of what I say or even demonstrate, you'll always choose to believe whatever you want about me.

What you'll choose to believe about me will be defined by whatever you THINK my position is.

Whatever you THINK about my position is will be based on its proximity to your position. The further away from your position it is, the more extremist or radical qualities you'll ascribe to my "position"

Then at that point I'm sitting here wondering how I can even talk with you when you willfully perceive everything I say through this lense of presumed extremism or evil. The answer is--I can't, because you do not have the capabilities of having these conversations online. You can tell people about your position, and you can tell people why anything except your position is wrong, but you can't consider new information from others through any context other than some attempted deceit or fallacy intended to undermine you, personally. You are simply not receptive to opinions that are opposed to your own in the context of a conversation.

You've done it many times before on other subjects as well. So I just want you to know that when people stop responding to you, like I'm doing now, it's not because your methods are "effective" at convincing others. Your rhetorics are a means by which you bludgeon others into not participating in conversations wherein you think their opinions should not be heard. So I will simply be having discussions without you involved going forward. Farewell, and I really hope you gain some maturity and perspective in the way you engage with the beliefs and opinions of others.

Northlane posted...

You... don't think the attack should be condemned?

Starks posted...

The damage to Nevatim air base is anywhere between tanking the entire thing and 20 F-35s destroyed.

Given the lead up time to the attack I would be surprised if there was really any significant damage to the planes there. With well over 24 hours prior noticed any functional jet would have been taxied into a protected hanger which are probably resilient enough against these cruise missiles.

But you never know.

Sandalorn posted...

This coming from the guy that tried to minimize and excuse the terrorist killing of civilians by electronic detonations. I think we can all just ignore anything you say about this conflict from now on. You are 100% on board with everything Israel is doing.

Okay then don't fucking ask me then. I gave you a thorough and measured response free of ideological fantasies. If you want the cold hard truth it's this--People are going to die. Civilians are going to die. Israeli, Palestinian, and Lebanese. Iranian, even. Some militaries are going to take steps to LIMIT civilian casualties and some militaries are NOT. You don't have to believe it. You don't have to understand it. You can cover your ears and close your eyes and shake your head. But that's the cold reality over there right now. Israel takes steps to limit civilian casualties. They evacuate areas, they organize humanitarian aid to civilians, they use precision munitions and target areas where surveillance has confirmed the active and continuous presence of enemy equipment or personnel. But they don't avoid every civilian casualty, and they couldn't if they wanted to, even if they sat inside their own border and waited for the next October 7th to happen instead.

Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran target Israeli civilians and they kill them gleefully. They are largely fundamentalist groups who are largely motivated by a degree of racism and hatred towards Israelis and Jews that you would balk at if you met them in person. There is no amount of equivicating you can do to change this reality.

Israel will try to limit civilian casualties and they'll either meet your own standard for whatever that means, or they won't. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran won't even try to limit civilian casualties, and you'll just stop caring because of it. Then you'll presume an air of superiority to me because I'm willing to apportion blame differently than you. Have fun with that.

Board_hunter567 posted...

The US doesn't care about the well being of a single person over there, besides Israeli troops that can act on behalf of the US. Israel wiping out perceived threats is kind of the outcome the US is hoping for and why they receive so much support. Saying that publicly would clear up a lot of things but is also barbaric, which is why it's not said publicly.

The U.S. absolutely does care about civilian casualties, even if you were to take the most cynical approach and argue civilian casualties make it more politically difficult to use Israel to push their geopolitical agenda in the region.

But I also don't subscribe to such a grossly cynical and nihilistic assessments on the grounds that I'm actually quite familiar with how the U.S. operated their military forces in the Middle East and the great risks they would put their own servicemen in to limit collateral damage through their RoEs. Army High Command was extremely keen on preventing civilian casualties, especially after the initial invasion periods of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Why isn't Israel criticized for using human shields when their military and intelligence bases are in huge civilian centers like Tel Aviv

Because they're still located inside of explicit military buildings, and not the basement of a hospital...

I think posts like this are extremely telling about the quality of discourse describing the conflicts currently happening in the Middle East and the War on Terror.

LeTigre posted...

so, just curious; what do you consider launching a massive sabotage campaign within a sovereign country to turn personal devices into IEDs with absolutely no way to minimize civilian casualties?

I think it's a far more complicated affair as communication devices distributed specifically for military purpose are military equipment and therefore valid military targets. However there is ethical requirements regarding the surveillance of the distribution of the devices that would need to be met to ensure the pagers were not intermixed with the general population. Without knowing the specific details of the operation it's hard to say to what extent Mossad went regarding target verification before hand. We do know, however, that Mossad has has an extremely deep intelligence operation in the region and would be at least CAPABLE of the kind of intelligence gathering needed.

We could infer better information about the collateral risks the operation entailed if we had an accurate count of the number of Hezbollah operatives that were casualties from the attack in proportion to the total casualties, but since Hezbollah is a terrorist organization we'll never know.

Hopefully further investigation can provide better context as to how Mossad operated and how many civilians were actually wounded, but without better information you can't reasonably reach a strong conclusion. It could be that 95% of the casaulties were Hezbollah operatives, at which case it would represent a lower collateral impact than basically any major military operation in history. It could be 5% of the casualties were Hezbollah, at which point Israel committed a massive terror attack against the people of Lebanon and should be held accountable in an international court. Or it could be anything inbetween. I would criticize the operation in principle on the grounds of skepticism, but if it were shown to be spectacularly accurate then I would concede it worked. We don't have those numbers. We can't assume it killed mostly civilians or mostly hezbollah.

Sandalorn posted...

Watching CNN report on this is so frustrating :

"A huge escalation in the Middle East by Iran!!"

Yet oddly when Israel sent armor and troops into a sovereign country last week these words were never uttered and zero negative press happened.

Awesome false equivication.

Southern Lebanon is occupied by a paramilitary organization that is not beholden to the state of Lebanon, which has launched so many missiles into Northern Israel that nearly a hundred thousand citizens have been semi-permanently evacuated from their homes (Homes built on Sovereign Israeli land per the international community). Israel has warned the Lebanese population ahead of time to evacuate the land near the border to preempt the airstrikes and raid. Then they attacked military installations and places where the paramilitary high command was hiding.

According to the intent of your post, that's basically the same thing as blindly firing missiles into densely populated cities with no specific military targets in mind. And then you ponder about why these two things aren't reported in the same way. If this incongruity is still difficult to wrap your head around I'd be happy to go into more details.

Garioshi posted...

Me when I build a fire and put kindling on the fire and poke the fire and get my sugar daddy to give me a tanker full of gasoline to make the fire burn even hotter and start other fires in different areas and jump into the fire and somehow I get burned

I'm so sick and tired of the gross over-simplification of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the Middle East in order to either play up one side's civilian casualties or play down the other sides.

No Israeli civilian deserved to be cowering in a bomb shelter as rocket debris rained across their city. Just like the Gazan civilians don't derserve to have their homes blown up and evacuated to refugee camps.

These rocket attacks were undeniably a terror attack aimed at Israeli civilians. Don't carry water for state-sponsored terrorism. What the fuck are you actually doing here.

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You say this like we haven't been fucking BEGGING for stricter enforcement on Alts for DECADES. If y'all had done that it would have solved 80% of the toxicity issues in the politics board to begin with. You keep making these bizarre false equivalence where you claim these things "had to happen" in order to "fix the game boards". The Politics Board didn't need to get closed to fix the game boards. CE didn't need to be quarantined to "fix the game boards". You are so falsely representing the reality of the situation that it's bordering on outright lies and company propaganda. And YOU'RE going to bring OUR greivances to Toast? How can we even trust you to accurately represent our greivances when you are touting these utterly unbelievable company lines?

All the things that have made the experience worse for us have come quickly. All the things that will "make the site better" will take more time because "corporate stuff moves slow". How can you even say this stuff with a straight face?

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Why couldn't they...

Have a politics board....

Where all the political discussion could go.

Oh, wait, because they didn't fucking do this for "our sake". They're trying to kill all the social boards but avoid a bunch of backlash all at once. And you're out here selling their talking points as if you can't see the fucking fire for all the smoke.

Question: Who cares? This is how half of all liberal organizations work anyways. "Meet our specific single-issue voter demand or we'll try to destroy the entire campaign". It's a stunt to make their organization gain more visibility, not a practical approach to getting the best candidate elected. This doesn't move the needle on the election at all. Most of these people are still going to vote for Harris if they were going to vote for her in the first place, because to not do so would be such a catastrophically self-destructive vote it would require actual stupidity to do so.

It's all been a transparent means to kill the social boards so they can just focus on doing "video game" support. Fandom obviously has no interest in the forums in general (Even though I can only imagine they make up a good portion of the ad revenue for the site). It's a big reason why I basically never come to the boards anymore.

I mean, if they're not intentionally trying to kill the forums then they are actually the most incompetent admins possible. Given it's Fandom, that's possible, but even this stretches the imagination. I mean, quarantining CE makes no sense in any other context.

I don't know anything about Hugh Grant but everytime I see him or hear him talk I am possessed by a sort of gnawing, aggravating sensation to make it stop. I could put a bunch of disparaging adjectives to how I perceive Grant, but I think the core of it is just a primal discomfort he gives me.

Is this unfair to Hugh Grant? Or should he be placed in a corrugated steel shed with no doors or window and fed through a grate in the roof for the rest of his life?

HannibalBarca3 posted...

I think of it as more of a biological defense mechanism. They shrink after they faint in battle as a biological response, most Pokemon do not have control over this unless they can learn Minimize. I'm assuming Pokeballs have a means to trigger that.

But... You can't catch a pokemon if it faints. You can only catch them when they're awake. If they get hit with the pokeball, that means they are willingly shrinking themselves just to struggle to get out of the ball.

The ol' Eli Roth Special.

It's not a grift, some people have just deluded themselves into thinking the alt-right, anti-vax, conspiracy theorist demographic is the new "subversive culture" just because nobody likes them. For people as self-important as Brand, it's important to continually differentiate yourself as an "outsider" because being seen as part of a broad coalition looks too much like being complicit in the systemic issues in society. Guys like Brand don't want real "roll your sleeves up and do the hard work" solutions, they want to grandstand above it all.

People like TC are the EXACT type of people complicit in the takeover of democratic regimes by fascists. Too weak-willed and jaded to motivate themselves to take a real stand. All they can do is doubt themselves and others. Worrying is not an application of intelligence, it's an application of anxiety and poor knowledge. We've already elected a black man. A woman already got more of the popular vote than Trump. Your concerns are not insights, they're a fear response.

Everybody who hates Trump is still here. They're still able to vote. There is no reason they can't vote for Kamala aside from absolute loser attitudes like the TC.

Minority female with absolutely awful Q score. Her public speaking is absolute drudgery and no one is excited by her political history or policies. It would be even more of a "Not for Trump Vote" than Biden, who is at least somewhat personable. If Biden can't beat Trump then Kamala absolutely cannot.

Humans are also vulnerable to direct sunlight but you never hear about people getting moonburnt. Suspicious, hm?

She's good at basketball and is making the WNBA more popular. That makes her a lightning rod.

Also she's white and sometimes that seems to be part of it? She hasn't done anything other than play basketball though.

Let's go!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/21/politics/sources-say-they-were-duped-by-egypt-changing-ceasefire-terms-for-hamas

Garioshi posted...

What value does it have aside of "oh yeah that was pretty cool"? I'd argue it's an active negative because it's lead a lot of people to think and write in terms of tropes instead of a cohesive story.

Tropes are a crucial part of writing, though. They are part of what makes a cohesive story for a reader. Understanding tropes and their history can be very beneficial to a writer as they allow them to communicate concepts with an easily understood literary short-hand, and they allow them to subvert them to keep the reader guessing.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

I personally have never posted even jokingly that i identify as a nazi in more than one post

Wow so cool. You are such a good person. We're all so fortunate you don't make naughty jokes or say bad things sarcastically.

But people do joke about being a nazi. And some people who joke about being a nazi are not actually nazis. As a matter of fact, the rest of society is generally okay with joking about being a nazi as long as you don't actually act like a nazi. If that wasn't okay, then we should probably rewind the clock back and start cancelling people in chronological order. Off the top of my head, we should probably start with Charlie Chaplin.

Some random person who knows nothing about you - "You're a nazi!"

You - "Uh... Sure man. I'm a Nazi I guess."

Complete Stranger - "See! They admit it!"

Y'all take this Twitter shit way too seriously. You've constructed an entire belief system for a woman you know nothing about based on two tweets attacking her that she "liked".

Not to mention, knowing who Keffals is, it's entirely likely this whole thing is just her fanbase digging up and recontextualizing whatever they can to get the heat off of her.

The admin team seems pretty dedicated to killing the boards on GameFAQs. First the Politics board gets closed, now CE got the LUE treatment. Just the usual Fandom treatment.

Silicone-based life is basically impossible. Here's a discussion of why.

https://youtu.be/2nbsFS_rfqM?si=DBoq5t2FvJsz_ifN

falayyou01 posted...

This. You cant instigate an attack against a countrys top generals on foreign embassy soil and not expect some form of retaliation.

This is a shockingly myopic view of the proxy war that's been orchestrated by Iran for the last two decades.

In a broad sense, there are two types of nations in the Middle East. Stable nations with functional economies who collaborate with the international community. This is your Saudi Arabias, Israels, Iraqs, Qatars, Omans, ect.

Then there are you broken states run by fundamentalist military juntas or terrorist organizations. They have nearly non-existant economies and their only significant interactions with the international communities is exporting raw resources and taking international aid. This is your Yemens, Syrias, Jordans, ect.

Essentially every stable country hates Iran, and every broken country works with Iran. This is because Iran has been funnelling tons of weapons, ammo, and military advisors into the hands of the absolute worst actors in basically every cobflict zone in the Middle East, including Hezbollah and Hamas, which is directly relevant to Israel. Iran is an enemy to stability and peace in the region. There is simply no other way to put it.

Iran has essentially been firing rockets into Israel for literal decades now. Think of all the Israeli deaths that Iran is directly responsible for over the years. If there was no Iran, there would be no massive Hamas terrorist attack. They would not have had the weapons and training necessary to embolden them so, and the likely explicit backing of Iran behind the scenes. While I fundamentally disagree with Israel's approach to Palestine, it is utterly absurd and hypocritical to look at this situation and say "Well, Israel should have just not provoked Iran!"

It it by definition not a tautology because it's not a truth statement. It couldn't be a tautology if it wanted to. It's an equation. You are free to enter any values into and you'll get the output. How useful or valuable the equation is to predicting reality is an entirely different matter.

It's roughly 300x more difficult, statistically speaking.