Dictionaries are books of history, not law.

Language pedantry is a branch of theology.

I guess if you believe that the American war for Independence was a “people’s revolution”, then anything makes sense.

So a system that’s an order of magnitude more expensive and overall less effective? I bet the US Army is already working on it.

Do digital store fronts play-through all the games, expansions, and DLC they list on their stores? This doesn’t seem practical.

Anybody who laughs at this joke has a Yahoo email address.

Slavish devotion to Musk? Utilitarian ethics? Grock is just the average reddit user in 2013.

Absurdism is a kind of nihilism. And Nietzsche was not a nihilist.

Nihilism is one of those words that used to have a precise academic meaning, but that meaning has been hopelessly confused by common usage. Academics should make a new word for nihilism.

It’s also a stereotype that nihilists are depressed. Because nihilists know that it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter.

There is a fresco in the SCOTUS courtroom with a theme of “lawbringers” of history. Mohamed is featured.

Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other Peace-Prize winner in history.

He’s certainly not the most controversial Nobel winner, but his award was embarrassing in the sense that European intelligentsia was congratulating backward America for electing a black President.

You may not agree that this was condescending, but it’s hard to argue that Obama’s legacy is of the peacemaker domestically or internationally.

How exactly would it boost moderates except in that once the extremes are eliminated, your vote goes to the moderate that you want rather than it failing to oppose the people you don’t want.

I think you’ve pretty much got it. Extreme candidates tend to get eliminated because they tend to be the least popular with other parties voters. RCV punishes this unpopularity. Also candidates with similar goals can work together, this advantage is obviously is going to be unavailable for people running from the fringe.

Just imagine a New York primary where two weak moderates were running against a progressive. The two moderates are almost working together because it’s likely that whoever looses will gift their votes to the other. Ranked choice candidates have often “teamed up”, with ads asking their supporters to rank the other candidate 2nd.

I think lots of Democrats have been thinking about how the primary in New York could have been different and this is the answer to that question.

Ranked choice voting tends to boost moderate candidates. While this is valuable in a general election, during a party primary it protects the status quo.

It’s hard for me to look at this as anything other than Schumer and Jefferies putting obstacles in the way of Progressives.

What’s “g**r” ?

It’s a bullshit question

Whenever anyone says Chamberlan “gave up” Czechoslovakia I ask one simple question: What was he supposed to do? He could have declared war, like the lion Churchill did for Poland. But I’ll remind you that the only thing England sent to Poland was thoughts and prayers. Followed by over a year of “phony” war.

Look at a map. You’ll notice that Czechoslovakia is quite far from England. With fucking Germany in between!

The whole Chamberlan meme is just right-wing propaganda to delegitimize diplomacy. It only makes sense if you don’t think about it.

Apple has invested heavily in infrastructure that will make every iPhone and app on the store transparent to an AI running on bespoke silicone designed for the task. Much like Windows, Apple foresees a future where AI is a substitute for the GUI.

https://www.archyde.com/apples-ai-integration-a-deep-dive-into-iphones-future/

Popular conspiracy theories are still bullshit.

Epstein was cooked, his life was over; he was a pedo facing the US justice system without his privilege; he was destined to never leave prison. People suicide over this sort of thing all the time.

Their are a few facts that are suspicious. But nothing that could support the notion that he was murdered, much less a grand murder conspiracy from a Hollywood spy movie.

Not only is it perfectly reasonable to believe Epstein killed himself, with the info we’ve got, it’s the only reasonable opinion.

Any platform that’s advertising based is a propaganda outlet. Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.

Usually, when the FBI arrests “terrorists”, you find out that the FBI was the mastermind of the plot; provided materials and weapons; and the people arrested were recruited by the FBI. This pattern holds true with the militia types and the jihads.

Not that violent idiots don’t belong in jail, but it’s just funny that the FBI has planned more attacks on US soil than any other terrorist org. And it’s depressing because any smart and capable terrorist would never come within a mile of the FBI’s amateur hour entrapment.

Just for some context: the prohibition of using the Military in the States dates back to reconstruction. Slaveholding States didn’t like the Yankee Army protecting Civil rights.

I’m not defending Trump, but the idea that using troops as law enforcement is “Un-American” or tyrannical is Confederate propaganda.