!agree

Yeah, I'm curious how the results would've changed were it worded differently. I'm not proud to be an American. I did nothing to gain that title.
I am thankful to be an American, proud of America itself, and proud to do my best to uphold the foundational American principles, but not proud simply to live where I do.

I think they're all kind of silly to be proud of. Be proud to be who you are and include those bits of who you are, but being proud of those descriptors makes it seem like you have little of substance to be proud of.

Simply being an American doesn't mean those values are inherent in yourself. Be proud of the values you hold; not the label.

I think nationalism to some extent is a good thing. But only when it's centered around what makes your nation great. To simply say 'we're great because we're us' risks losing sight of those values.

I can agree with that. I just think that the wording used to describe it is very important so that the important nuances don't fall by the wayside

Sad that the first past the post voting system makes a two party system the only realistic possibility for the US

Somehow I doubt that the republicans or the democrats are going to be too eager to do away with the systems that give them a political duopoly. But hey it could be way worse, so I'm not about to start a revolution over it

good joke dude

The good ol' Blizzard "more deckslots is too confusing for players" excuse

Sounds good to me. I get to be the one man, right?

@Deleted User Gotta poison that well asap or else you might risk having to argue against what they actually have to say.

I meant what he's doing in his introduction by saying that if you're not for open borders you're for violence

Man, that tweet is making me reconsider things. Maybe words really CAN be as harmful as physical violence.

"Yeah, but it's not economically viable these days, so it's an artform that should just die out" - art school student

Not that I'm advocating for this as a good system, but it is impressive how some communities are able to do as well in trained fields as they do without any formal acadamia. Like the street dentists in India for example. I'd still prefer to go to a dentists office, but it's interesting how well they're able to do many things

My toothpick bridge held up pretty well and I didn't need any fancy degree

It's really hard to say how soon AI will advance to a point where they compete for a wide variety of jobs

The current 'AI' made music is pretty damn impressive compared to what was possible 20 years ago

Sounds like humans

For all we know hardware will be replaced by artificial wetware

a biocomputer, so basically if we could grow a braincomputer for example

After all, we do know that brains have intelligence, so if we could one day understand it there's a possibility we could replicate it and tweak it

Can't wait to download a waifu \

I would not want any neural interface. I don't want to be hacked, and I wouldn't want to get model 1.0 and regret it after 2.0 comes out

Well let's be honest here, we're already living in a simulation, so there's no telling if we're already hacked

I think the important distinction is how much the internet is able to access your mind, and how blurry the border between your mind and the others are

#openmindborders

Combine them I guess. Lab grown human steaks

What level unlocks barbarian rage?

Sparta is the Texas of Greece, change my mind

They joined later than the other citystates, and maintained a unique cultural identity unlike the others. They're just ancient Texas

I know there's an Athens georgia since a ton of bands come from there

I thought it was named after the movie adaptation of Sin City

The whole left/right dichotomy seems incredibly outdated to me.

I bet you're not even a high ranking member of the feudal system

Because for far too long us, the gamers have been oppressed by society. It's finally time we reclaim the name for us, the proud, the few, the gamers.

Gamers should be allowed extra privileges. Like immunity from bans.

I left the south for the first time in a long time, and definitely noticed just how many white people were everywhere, and that was in a very urban environment

The main difference there was that there was a very clear line separating the black part of town from the rest whereas where I'm from it's much more of a patchwork quilt of different communities with blurry lines

I have the time to talk because I'm not using my time being a productive member of society and earning money

The fursuit makes it so that when you're forced to kill someone to take their food that you won't feel any guilt though

It's weird that it blew up so much recently. Are we going to see people saying "thanks doc" everywhere in a few years?

Damn.

taking all bets on who gets wrongly blamed this time

He can't keep getting away with this

Seems like that's the trend lately rather than blaming the guns themselves

Honestly a part of me is thankful that's the option they go with instead of realizing how easy it is to make bombs

Yeah someone said like 5 mins ago on twitter he was already caught

Do we actually know it was an attempted mass shooting yet rather than just attempted murder/mugging/idiocy?

Yeah, why participate when you can instead set up a bot to ask open ended questions and post jokes at random intervals instead

Mean world syndrome is a bitch. I'm sure it's worse for those whose job it is to pay attention to this stuff.

But then he also had a good point in a recent podcast that it only takes a small percent of mean people to force everyone else to either get mean or roll over.

It really is weird though how great the living conditions in the western world are and have been compared to all of human history, and yet how much unrest there is from people that it's not even better. Hopefully people don't fuck it all up.

It'd be interesting to see what the history books have to say about modern times 50 years from now.

I don't remember when I started following him. I just wanted to play video games 😢

Yeah, I don't think she's some evil person, but she's closer to a provocateur than an unbiased journalist if you ask me

Which to be honest I think there's some merit in having people like that, but it's just not the sort of thing I'm interested in

He isn't(no one is completely), but it's clear that he tries way harder than most

Like that's one of the things I see people complain about him often because they view it as him not being willing to take a hard stance when it seems to me more like he just is trying to present the facts and let us make our own decisions

usually

and he's very willing to give the benefit of the doubt to people far past what most people are willing to

when joe learns how scheduling works

Oh yeah, I've seen a couple of her videos before

oh I'm apparently subscribed to her already

Because that goes against Tim's narrative.

Foxes? We all know raccoons are the type that do that

And a ticker so that while he's covering the important news about thieving foxes we can still get smaller stories like wars breaking out, natural disasters, etc

It's childish and dumb, but yeah it's worth little more than an eye-roll

But really can we get a democrat in office already so that I don't have so see so many political caricatures please?

I thought having to live through all the Bush chimp photoshops online was bad before, but that was nothing compared to orange trumps

I don't care about the politics of the jokes. It's just not funny is my issue. Nothing could be after being so overdone

Did Colbert used to actually be funny or was I just a dumb high schooler?

Yeah I could definitely see people taking it as unironic

Can we just replace the hammer and sickle with a bike lock and fire cracker yet?

It's so weird to see all the comics defending censorship

Can we just give the religious right some soft power back?

At least they could just be laughed away when they called Pokemon satanic

There is no satan in the world of Pokemon. Pokemon is Arceic

You're talking about Zoroastrism right

Does violence break out much at pro-left rallies? It seems to happen more as a response to anything not seen as 'left'.

At least in the US it's seemed more a matter of what the police are willing to do than whether they're there

Usually it seems like counterprotesters start the violence, and the left wing events don't seem to garner much counterprotest

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if something happened in Britain, but it seems like this will just be another ego driven fashion protest

Nobody uses Voat.

Why would he be on trial when he's just trying to save the environment?

If he had given out more bike locks maybe the Pandas would no longer be endangered

You'd be surprised just how many animals are like that and will only mate under very specific circumstances. But most of them have the privilege to be picky like that since there's enough of them around.

But yeah black bloc is awful because of how it allows the cowards to cover for the violent extremists and retain plausible deniability

I was reading some antifa faction's tactics wiki recently that talked about how they had 3 different 'rankings'
Black = just there to give numbers, Green = the people there to be PR ,and Red=the ones who were actually going to be violent

please

nevermind it was actually this article
https://quillette.com/2018/06/01/behind-mask-inside-black-bloc/

Also looks like I remembered it a bit wrong, or maybe I'm getting two different sources mixed up

The hot coffee incident was totally a justified case.

That women was horribly burned to the point her legs fused together, and all she asked of McDonalds was for her medical bills to be paid.

And they were purposefully heating their coffee to absurdly unsafe levels on purpose so that people wouldn't be able to drink it quickly and ask for refills before they left.

You absolutely can sue for utterly stupid shit, but that doesn't mean it's going to go in your favor. The slaphappy lawsuit-state of America is greatly overblown.

Now slapp suits are worth complaining about.