Aren’t we all satin bowerbirds at heart? Gotta collect that blue.

The ultimate genocider could claim “1 + 1 = 2”: that doesn’t make it false. Who they are is irrelevant to their argument, and that’s a classic ad hominem fallacy. Learn to respect logic.

ad hominem

$25 is almost a steal (because in English we use the decimal point . as our decimal separator).

Apparently, criticizing inaccessible content.

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Tsk, tsk, OP.

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why?

Republican senator floats using violence against journalists who report ‘fake news’

Stanford Prison Experiment

Why mention that aborted, flawed experiment that’s difficult to replicate when experiments have been concluded & replicated with consistent results? Pop culture buzz?

Meta-analyses of the Milgram experiments found that despite expressing discomfort or needing reassurance or hearing the screams of “shock recipients”, 61% of subjects would yield to an authority’s commands to administer shocks they understand are lethal. All participants would administer shocks until the recipient becomes unresponsive. Subjects who refused to administer fatal shocks wouldn’t insist on terminating the experiment or leave to check on the victim.

It seems pretty clear from findings like this that people are probably ill-equipped & overconfident about their ability to defy authority & most will perform atrocities they disagree with (ie, “just follow orders”). Unless they’ve been tested themselves, I think people need to drop the presumption that they wouldn’t do what science has consistently demonstrated people when tried do. This, by the way, all supports what you’re saying.

Vegetables on the other hand

A dietician once explained to me that children are extra-sensitive to bitter flavors like those of vegetables, and this sensitivity grows milder with age, so their special aversion is only natural. I recall feeling extremely hostile to vegetables then at some age feeling shocked that I no longer knew what the fuss was about & could appreciate them more.

Blanching those vegetables to subdue the bitterness may be especially important for a kid’s palate.

Based on opinion around here? Freedom of expression is good & doesn’t need compromises beyond the harm principle.

The selective illiteracy gets me: clearly, they can read each other’s messages. The text in an error message? Brain shuts off.

we’ve gone too far over on the “tolerate all people and their views”

Criticism isn’t intolerance. Confused about freedom of speech?

Orange Kool-Aid

Trump’s piss is orange? Makes sense.

While a Banksy might have the opposite effect, it’s worth a try. A few cars on cinder blocks, abandoned baby strollers, toddlers on the street at 2AM, the odd street shrine to someone killed at that spot add a certain charm that could seal it.

Same results, fewer steps?

It’s not like this hasn’t been tried & studied before, and this information isn’t readily found. Pretty sure reviews of observational work or any introductory economics textbook tells the predictable effects of rent controls. Even socialist economists have compared rent control to slightly better than dropping a bomb.

While I’m no expert, discussions around here look like a bunch of armchair critics agreeing with each other’s dogma on gut feels & wishful thinking without reaching out for anything objective to substantiate their opinions. No sign of anyone cracking open a credible book on the subject, checking some scholarly articles, getting information from someone with a relevant degree, or sitting through a class on it & paying attention. Chamber echoic.

Random, late-night gunfire might do wonders to keep property values low: maybe do that?

Wouldn’t dropping a bomb be easier?

really doesn’t seem to be condoning those things

Exactly: total failure of reading comprehension. Acts like bro saying that bad thing doesn’t support a conclusion means bro now endorses bad thing. Wut?

Another reason to stop relying on screenshots when we can do links to the source & archives.

TV executives like Roger Ailes setting a standard conservative news anchorwoman aesthetic to draw in their target audience who goes for that classic American blonde. No ethnic minorities need apply. Pant suits discouraged: gotta put those gams behind transparent counters to work for the leg cam.

Why even bother with a hate speech policy? Oh, right, money.