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The community’s use isn’t the correct point of reference. It is also naturally biased, because the community seeks to avoid association with these people.

It’s not crazy or outlandish to label Harris or Dawkins as skeptics in the common use of the term. It’s core to their branding whether you like it or not. That’s what matters when you talk to people outside the community, not the insular definition you treat as objective fact.

I don’t even see a point in litigating this, other than the one I mentioned already. It was clear from context what they were talking about.

Just check out his other videos I guess. I think he can be quite funny, and this video isn’t the best example. But he’s built a lot of goodwill by other means with the blender community over the years, he didn’t become popular as a comedian.

“I utilize a narrower definition of the word, shame you are too closed-minded to comprehend that I’m right. Now let’s force a debate on semantics to maximize our time wasted.”

I dislike this saying because it’s always been assumed, never proven, that intelligence follows a normal distribution. That is if it can even be mapped to a single, consistent, comparable number.

But your point is valid. Though I’d add that it’s not universally true. Fascists thrive on fear and ignorance. Give people access to a good education, which includes political education, and they are far more resilient to these tactics.

Which is why it’s especially nefarious that conservatives love to undermine, vilify, and defund education.

I think they’re generally just capable enough to not casually make enemies of each other, as they’re both very influential people. They do speak the language of power and money.

But also they are both egomaniacs that choose strange hills to die on. So I could see an ill-advised falling-out.

Side note, I hate that as a society we’re forced to waste any degree of attention on these thoroughly awful people.

What an absolutely disgusting crowd she fell in with at a young age, that poor woman. I despise these cliques of narcissistic abusers and their sycophants. Thanks for raising awareness.

This is an argument akin to “What do you mean I’m accused of fraud? All I really did was write my name on a piece of paper!”

It requires deliberate ignorance of the context, and that’s why people are unwilling to waste time explaining it to you in detail.

Oh absolutely. Gotta keep the plebs desperate and divided, while billions upon billions disappear into the most toxic and destructive industry there is right alongside fossil fuel corporations.

They managed to keep military spending at an unprecedented level after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, in an amazing feat of governmental capture and exploitation by arms industry lobbyists. But it wasn’t enough, because it never is. Line must go up. The US has been seeking new reasons to funnel even more money their way ever since.

Central too. Dole & United Fruit, Panama Canal, School of the Americas, just to mention a few lasting atrocities

I mean a lot of US folks seem way more smug than actually upset about it. Bringing it up to derail the conversation whenever anyone mentions US imperialism or the one-sidedness of NATO policy, as if the US would ever accept, let alone desire a position as equal among equals.

There are people in politics that believe in representative democracy and seek to influence the system for the better.

They either stay local, are ground up by the system, or become corrupted by money and power.

They have carrots and sticks for anyone, especially idealists.

The issue is proving that it ingested the original copyrighted work, and not some hypothetical public copyleft essay.

It’s a matter of time before he sacks it. Kinda surprised he hasn’t already.

Does XFCE today look any less late 90s than when I tried it 10 years ago?

CEOs are almost always part owners. A large part of their massive “compensation” for all the amazing value they add to the company is usually given in the form of stocks.

“this may increase costs for the consumer” argument is flawed. It always implies they would have left profit on the table otherwise, rather than squeeze the system and everyone within it for as much as it’ll give and then some.

I was purely commenting on Apple silicon. As an owner of an M4 MBP I should add. The best chip in the world can still suck as a product if it’s held hostage in this fashion. 800 bucks is what Apple charges for 1.5TB added storage.

Hell yeah 800 bucks for a basic-ass storage option

Yeah it’s survivorship bias. We remember the high-profile cases when things like this blow up, but the odds for that are pretty slim.

Mark Hamill may not own a comb, but he does wash his hair at least.