[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

lol Didn't some of the released hostages say Israel killed some of them due to their indiscriminate bombing of civilians?

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

The Israeli government is heading towards a totalitarian state. Netanyahu was already trying to alter the courts before all this went down.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Please take this hostile, hateful and juvenile attitude elsewhere. No one here is impressed or captivated by it nor do we want it in this community.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 168 points 1 year ago

This is why comments are so useful. I was already on the fence about viewing a site named futurism and your comment made sure I will avoid it moving forward.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh, I don't feel strongly enough to debate it in-depth, but if parents really don't want their kids on websites just about every device imaginable that connects to the internet has parental control features. It shouldn't be on the government to block websites when the actual action should be for parents to educate themselves on the devices and do their job by setting their own child's limits - not rely on the government to blanket ban it for everyone else.

That would require parents do their jobs though and keep educated on the world around them, which overwhelmingly a lot of people just don't feel like doing.

EDIT: Last thought, I was on the internet learning to do shit in middle school and owe a lot of my current career to that. I don't think limiting children to the world around them is a recipe for success and is just a way to make people collectively stupider from lack of exposure.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a former best friend who still somehow finds a way to fanboy over Musk, despite the excessive information about him and actions he's taken. All very public and easy to find information, yet never swayed the guy's opinion and the last time we talked about it he was still fanboying. It really should have been a warning sign of things to come with that friendship. Truly, only mentally and emotionally inept losers are still on Musk's side and the former friend's the only person I know who still has a favorable opinion of Musk.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I hope we sometime soon move beyond discussing Twitter and its saboteur. There's so much more in tech happening than whatever headline he's trying to grab with his newest sabotage.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Modern republicans would shoot Jesus dead if given the opportunity.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Overall I think the conversation needs to shift away from "Americans are divided" and instead be shifted towards "The rich are dividing the working class for their personal benefit". They're destroying the planet too. The rich need to be made responsible for what they are doing and suffer the consequences.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Similar situation. If there is something I'm researching I still add "reddit" onto my search criteria since otherwise google queries return nothing but ads and garbage SEO enhanced blogspam sites. I used to look at the dragonball, chainsaw man and one punch man subreddits when new issues were released, but I'm moving over to discord for those now.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch were also two of the last few times Disney put out something original. The last two decades of Disney releases have mostly been franchises they've bought from others or remakes of older Disney films that weren't even their original stories to begin with, e.g. Star Wars, MCU, 20th Century Fox, Pixar, a majority of Disney classics.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone went to Threads to take a look at the brand new thing, but now everyone has seen the new thing they're gone.

And they can't delete their account without deleting their Instagram while also sending their phone's data, including health data, to Meta.

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I bring this up because it seems to once again be gaining traction in the zeitgeist: I cannot comprehend why UFO hunters put so much time and effort into trying to force governments to "reveal the truth about extraterrestrial contact", but I also cannot fathom how they think aliens even have a chance of successfully contacting us in-person in the first place.

a) Why does anyone believe extraterrestrials would be able to track us down at all? Space is BIG.
b) If aliens knew we existed in the first place, please explain the math of how they'd get here. Even taking Star Trek logic into account and considering warp drive as a possibility, when considering relativity, Newton's third law and the mathematics of achieving the right conditions of either for deep space travel, warp drive still seems implausible.
c) In the mathematically improbable situation where intelligent life did manage to get here, why would they be tiptoeing around in the background for seemingly 80 or so years when they are clearly technologically superior to us and nothing humanity has available to itself could remotely stop them? It seems silly to imagine these incredible lifeforms getting here and then having an "oops we crash landed" event.
d) Lastly, governments successfully covering up such an event(s) for decades is a fairy tale. Governments playing around with flight and stealth technology for the last 100 years? Yeah that seems likely.

Do I think intelligent life exists? Absolutely. Is there a chance those beings have contacted or reached us? 99.9999999% no. Is it fun to speculate about the possibilities and portray those possibilities in stories? Of course. Should people be spending time and money forming organizations to "force the government to tell the truth", thereby wasting everyone else's time and resources and ultimately being drains on society? Absolutely not. I don't get it.

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