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Inceltown posted:US companies would deliberately make things less safe even if it cost more money initially because a death payout is smaller than a medical bill payout for something they might have been responsible for. That’s why insurance companies are so stoked about repealing motorcycle helmet laws and making sure new ones don’t get implemented.
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Dec 4, 2019 01:57
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https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1202063213652660224
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Dec 4, 2019 04:14
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Tubgoat posted:It's an aesthetic/theme romanticised by racists, too. also bougie hipster poo poo!
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Dec 4, 2019 04:16
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Tubgoat posted:It's an aesthetic/theme romanticised by racists, too. And further tied into white people making money selling weed while black people who got arrested for selling weed are barred from doing it legally now because of criminal records.
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Dec 4, 2019 04:41
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mysterious frankie posted:Is “marijuana sales as a vector for anti-blackness” enough of a thing that there are competing representations of it outside of the debate raging at the tea party in this persons head? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/americas-white-only-weed-boom
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Dec 4, 2019 05:34
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galenanorth posted:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/americas-white-only-weed-boom Rich white people ruin weed big surprise. Just boycott the weed boycotts have historically been sooo effective
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Dec 4, 2019 11:17
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https://twitter.com/FreightHerder/status/1201975627693379590
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Dec 4, 2019 14:57
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galenanorth posted:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/americas-white-only-weed-boom I get it now. Learn something new every day... and from buzzfeed of all places.
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Dec 4, 2019 15:29
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mysterious frankie posted:I get it now. Learn something new every day... and from buzzfeed of all places. BuzzFeed has always had a surprisingly legit investigative group
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Dec 4, 2019 15:35
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honestly, I’ll take killing people with a heavy pile of swords launched at them over indiscriminately missile striking entire weddings
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Dec 4, 2019 16:04
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sword missiles arent cyberpunk, autonomous multi use knife missiles are. sword missiles, much like electric cars or predator drones, are the depressing real life version of the cool cyberpunk. anyway I can guarantee it doesnt exist because of collateral damage concerns, it exists because DARPA or whoever designed Hellfires realized they could get a new R&D contract and also cut on manufacturing costs at the same time. if you only plan to hit on person, no need for the expensive explosive compound. anyway it's not like the exotic goodies coming out of combusted missile fuel are good for you. Larry Parrish has issued a correction as of 16:17 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Dec 4, 2019 16:14
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Maybe they can build a missile equivalent of those chariots with bladed wheels so they don't have to give up on the multikills?
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Dec 4, 2019 16:21
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some dudes gonna survive the sword missile by wearing plate armor
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Dec 4, 2019 16:26
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The 'switchblade' isnt a knife missile but it IS very cyberpunk
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Dec 4, 2019 16:36
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Agean90 posted:some dudes gonna survive the sword missile by wearing plate armor hammer missle
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Dec 4, 2019 17:31
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Feral Integral posted:hammer missle that's already a thing, the original "low collateral damage" airborne weapons were essentially concrete cylinders fitted with laser guidance fins intended for directly hitting tanks
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Dec 4, 2019 17:53
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Enough with all this violence! Isn't it about time we beat our sword-missiles into plow-missiles?!
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Dec 4, 2019 17:59
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Fin stabilised knife missles
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Dec 4, 2019 18:01
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Rereading an old Asimov short story collection, and the old fucker managed to almost nail the exact year self driving cars came out in 1953 in Sally
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Dec 4, 2019 18:24
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Was Asimov the one that wrote a story about self driving cars murdering someone and it gets blamed on turning off the auto driving capability?
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Dec 4, 2019 18:29
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taqueso posted:Was Asimov the one that wrote a story about self driving cars murdering someone and it gets blamed on turning off the auto driving capability? The very same story. I didn't realize how class conscious all the robot stories were. Strikebreaker is also a cspam as gently caress story
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Dec 4, 2019 18:45
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When I say I dont like Asimov, its cuz I think his dialogue is pretty boring. But hes a really good sci fi writer when it comes to the other parts. Like I wont say the Caves of Steel is super compelling, it's kind of dry. But it does an extremely good job of saying 'technology will never save you from yourself'. Hes probably one of the best at that. Plus as funny as it is to say about a sci fi writer, he absolutely did inspire a bunch of people.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:51
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Larry Parrish posted:When I say I dont like Asimov, its cuz I think his dialogue is pretty boring. But hes a really good sci fi writer when it comes to the other parts. Like I wont say the Caves of Steel is super compelling, it's kind of dry. But it does an extremely good job of saying 'technology will never save you from yourself'. Hes probably one of the best at that. I've always described it as "all characters in his stories just sound like Isaac Asimov" But the stories like the one where the robot has a dream where it sees robots all over the world doing back breaking labor but it dreams of itself as a human and Dr. Calvin murders it for that is great
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Dec 4, 2019 18:54
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I like the Asimov story where a robot gets stuck doing laps around a lake of bullshit because it can't get any closer without dying but it can't leave before fulfilling its mission so it just does circles until some technicians have to brave the horrible Mercury environment to go fetch it I feel like there's some meaning to be gleaned from this
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Dec 4, 2019 18:58
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books don't mean anything they're just entertainment, like a painting or a song
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Dec 4, 2019 19:02
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blatman posted:I like the Asimov story where a robot gets stuck doing laps around a lake of bullshit because it can't get any closer without dying but it can't leave before fulfilling its mission so it just does circles until some technicians have to brave the horrible Mercury environment to go fetch it i robot was a good short story collection imo
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Dec 4, 2019 19:05
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So people on twitter figured out most of the art stealing on t-shirt sites is just being automatically done by bots that look for tweets and replies that say "i want this on a shirt" https://twitter.com/Nirbion/status/1202229358112464896 https://twitter.com/Nirbion/status/1202272580918562818
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Dec 4, 2019 19:12
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:So people on twitter figured out most of the art stealing on t-shirt sites is just being automatically done by bots that look for tweets and replies that say "i want this on a shirt"  shirt when?
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Dec 4, 2019 19:15
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Teal posted:that's already a thing, the original "low collateral damage" airborne weapons were essentially concrete cylinders fitted with laser guidance fins intended for directly hitting tanks there's a sci-fi manga where, instead of using bombs, they drop tungsten rods from orbit. I've always wondered how much that was rooted in reality.
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Dec 4, 2019 19:49
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Iron Crowned posted:
What are you waiting for
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Dec 4, 2019 19:53
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We regret to inform you that the cop doorbell is racist https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1202293953950826497?s=19
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Dec 4, 2019 19:55
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Enough with all this violence! Isn't it about time we beat our sword-missiles into plow-missiles?!  We did try a jet-plow once but it didn't work out so great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
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Dec 4, 2019 19:57
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mike12345 posted:there's a sci-fi manga where, instead of using bombs, they drop tungsten rods from orbit. I've always wondered how much that was rooted in reality. the mil _wants_ to do it because there are international treaties that ban 'weapons' in space. a bunch of 100 pound tungsten spears would technically not be weapons. thats why they keep talking about rods from god or whatever
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Dec 4, 2019 20:04
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mike12345 posted:there's a sci-fi manga where, instead of using bombs, they drop tungsten rods from orbit. I've always wondered how much that was rooted in reality. That has been a defense contractor wet dream for a couple decades at least. It's usually referred to as "rods from god" It's rooted in reality inasmuch as yes a super hard heat resistant hunk of metal hitting the Earth at re-entry speed would do a ton of damage. It's entirely impractical for a ton of reasons. The actual explosion wouldn't be much more powerful than any conventional bomb. There are treaties in place that outlaw militarizing space. And most insurmountable of all is the simple fact that it is always going to take exponentially more energy to get those rods into space than you would get from dropping them.
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Dec 4, 2019 20:07
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mike12345 posted:there's a sci-fi manga where, instead of using bombs, they drop tungsten rods from orbit. I've always wondered how much that was rooted in reality. yeah as pointed out before, it's realistically possible, tactically viable, but the most generous justification for why'd you actually do that is "it'd try to skirt around some treaties on basis of a really obvious technicality" the potential to strike any one place on earth without a warning and with pretty much no possible countermeasures would be something most superpowers would be willing to Kessler Syndrome the orbit over immediately which is also the main reason why it's not practical even in the case you'd be willing to overpay so much for a weapon that's not even so powerful; it'd not take a nuclear war to disarm but it'd turn orbit and access to space useless for everyone
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Dec 4, 2019 20:35
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im on the net me boys posted:We regret to inform you that the cop doorbell is racist https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1202293953950826497?s=19 "gently caress crime" is maybe the funniest thing they could have gone with. the perfect intersection of "trying too hard to seem Hip" and "total refusal to think critically about the world or be in any way subversive"
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Dec 4, 2019 20:40
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elizabeth warren maintains strong support anong professional-managerial class liberals
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Dec 4, 2019 20:44
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:So people on twitter figured out most of the art stealing on t-shirt sites is just being automatically done by bots that look for tweets and replies that say "i want this on a shirt" From the FFXIV goon discord:  (because I'm probably gonna delete this image at some point in case some historian wants to dig through the archives: A goon's groupchat has someone whose sister just started work today as a merchandising lawyer for Disney.)
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Dec 4, 2019 21:17
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Wait are we stanning the mouse and IP for some reason?
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Dec 4, 2019 21:21
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Colonel Cancer posted:Wait are we stanning the mouse and IP for some reason? Sometimes bad people can do good things.
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