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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: October 12, 2023, 11:17:53 am »

Quote from: pisskop on October 12, 2023, 07:54:34 am

Quote from: Great Order on October 12, 2023, 07:34:34 am
Youtube's "Noooooo you can't use an adblocker!" thing is hitting me now, but I can literally just hit the x in the corner and it'll go away and play the video.
Spoiler: Notice what isnt on my youtube frontpage (click to show/hide)

Adblockplus is a godsend

Subtly showing off that you are into Celsius temperature denial

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General Discussion / Re: Order of the Stick

« on: October 11, 2023, 09:53:57 am »

Okay, but a knee cap is only a cap on the amount of knees you might have. It's not a forgone conclusion that because you have a cap on knees, you have a knee -- you might still have zero knees

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: some people notice when 1 change the title

« on: October 11, 2023, 09:52:55 am »

Quote from: Magmacube_tr on October 10, 2023, 06:58:06 am

Quote from: scriver on September 30, 2023, 02:31:06 am
I still remember Pathos' lactating "girlfriend"

Also, can I please get some of the context behind this? I need to know.

Back in the days of old, before Pathos was a meme, Pathos was a 15-16 year old nerd posting about his daily life here, as many of us did. His posts often came to stray to the topic of his lactating girlfriend, who totally exists you guys you just don't know her she goes to a different school. Nobody really believed him, and his stubbornness of bringing it up was annoying. At some point "she" even joined the forums and totally wasn't one of Pathos sockpuppets or anything (see guys she totally exists).

Pathos eventually got banned, I can't remember the exact reason actually, but of course his name came to be associated with sock-puppetry and alt-accounts.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread

« on: October 11, 2023, 07:11:10 am »

You mean like closed down or like "too many hair style artists showed up and took over"

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O

« on: October 10, 2023, 05:30:01 am »

Happy Birthday Magmacube!

This wedding duel thing got me thinking. You know in the classic (at least in pop culture...) wedding procedure when they ask "if anyone has anything to say against this union speak now or forever homd your tongue" – what actually happens if somebody speaks up?

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General Discussion / Re: Quotes thread

« on: October 09, 2023, 10:52:22 am »

Let me demonstrate my new weightloss diet, the crystal method

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Trollbait 2.0

« on: October 09, 2023, 10:49:18 am »

Tell him the best thing he can do for his country right now is to heal well and proper and heal strong orsomething, guilt him into staying put

Jokes aside I hope he recovers without issues

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread

« on: October 06, 2023, 02:16:49 am »

Quote from: Nirur Torir on October 05, 2023, 03:24:46 pm

Quote from: Maximum Spin on October 05, 2023, 02:57:26 pm
The EC's job has always been specifically to balance the power of the states, giving small (by population) states a proportional advantage over large states by guaranteeing a minimum floor of per-state representation regardless of population. This is because the United States is a federation of united states, not a single unified country. hector13, you're a Scot, you probably understand the motivation.
Without the electoral college and the other main instance of this balance, the Senate, the United States simply wouldn't exist, because the small northeastern states refused to ratify the Constitution without protections against the federal government becoming fully captured by, at the time, Virginia. Given the specific conflict that motivated them, if you postulated such a US without the electoral college anyway, it follows that it probably would never have been able to abolish slavery.

Under the Constitution, for very good reasons, individual states are primitive to the federal government. Abolishing the electoral college would be idiotic, and just asking for a dissolution of the union.
We were not a unified country when we formed, but after the civil war the thinking changed from "these United States, and a citizen of Virginia," to "The United States, and a citizen of the USA." We are now a unified country, despite all the talk of red states vs blue states.
With the recent growing schism, now may not the best time for abolishing the EC, but I don't think it would be enough to spark a new civil war if the state-run initiative to go with the popular vote instead of the EC picked up enough steam to win.

Times change. The EC may have been useful over 150 years ago, but historic use from a long gone age does not mean we still need the EC today.

I don't think there is a single democratic country, except maybe the rare decentralised direct democratic example like Switzerland, that do not seek to alleviate the "sheep and wolves" issue by having areas with less people have larger influence relative to their per capita numbers than high concentration of population areas. It's widely recognised as one of the main problems democracies (and especially representative drmocracies) face.

Maybe the EC could stand to be changed, but there still needs to be safeguards to make sure that, say, Montana isn't completely run by New York.

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General Discussion / Re: LGBTQ+ Thread

« on: October 04, 2023, 03:48:02 am »

Are we talking toilets or in general. Have the toilet "issue" infected britain as well?

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Trollbait 2.0

« on: October 03, 2023, 02:07:55 am »

I completely missed whatever this Canadian thing that happened was. What happened?

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General Discussion / Re: WH40K discussion thread: from Tyran's heart I stab at thee.

« on: October 01, 2023, 05:48:02 am »

A human writer can't use copyrighted Warhammer material without paying for a license.

Neither should AI. If an AI is trained on Warhammer material, it uses warhammer material every time it writes. Therefor the company responsible for it should pay a license to Games Workshop to be allowed to train the AI on their IPs. Alternatively, similarly to how radio have to pay royalties every time they play a song, or libraries have to pay "royalties" every time they loan out a book, AI companies could be obliged to pay a sum of money to the owners of the material they trained the AI on every time somebody uses the AI to generate something.

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