It’s not an oligarchy yet.

Baldurs gate 3? One of the best games I ever played.

If it’s even an argument and not a simple refutation, I think it’s got to be based on personal anecdote, but it also kinda just sounds like “No, you’re wrong.” with a sprinkle of anecdote or no true Scotsman.

Argument from asininity?

Exactly. Who is this “you” that owns your brain. Your soul?

Meanwhile, humans are stuffing other animals into cages to see what happens.

What do they need twitter for now? They have the NSA.

Not so well in Waco.

The whole auto tune thing is baffling because he can really sing his ass off.

Isn’t antimatter still “something?” It’s not nothing.

I don’t even think there is a consensus on the Big Bang but if there was, then that’s when time began so “before” that is meaningless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism

One interesting take

Also Anthony Weiner.

“While I have been exiled from Russia since 2000 due to my opposition to Putin, I have remained proud of the Stolichnaya brand. Today, we have made the decision to rebrand entirely as the name no longer represents our organization. More than anything, I wish for ‘Stoli’ to represent peace in Europe and solidarity with Ukraine.”

• Yuri Shefler, 2022

https://www.businessinsider.com/stolichnaya-vodka-changes-brand-name-stoli-russian-born-billionaire-founder-2022-3

Important to point out this is usually after they’ve been paying for that insurance their whole life.

What are their complaints about the Canadian system out of curiosity? Just the taxes?

This sounds like the start of how liberal govt. was invented.

We’ll end up with elected reps, laws, courts etc.

Which will soon be corrupted by the private sector

We’ll need to invent some kind of open source decentralized communications platform to discuss the problem.

Makes a lot more sense now why they’re named after pomegranates.

This is the origin apparently.

RRB: “My calculations are irrelevant on this point. They are only valid in speaking of the shock reflection.” Ogle: “How fast did it go?” RRB: “Those numbers are meaningless. I have only a vacuum above the cap. No air, no gravity, no real material strengths in the iron cap. Effectively the cap is just loose, traveling through meaningless space.” Ogle: And how fast is it going?" This last question was more of a shout. Bill liked to have a direct answer to each one of his questions. RRB: “Six times the escape velocity from the earth.”

Naming blobs of a Rorschach test.

Totally. Some graphics mods especially can make it pretty amazing