[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I mean it's a state election. Even if they gained 100% control of that state's government they wouldn't have taken over Germany.

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago
[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's free to discuss this article any way that he thinks is interesting. Just because he found it helpful to point out the bias in this case doesn't obligate him to do it in any other cases. He doesn't owe you anything.

Also, responding to someone noting the reputation of your source with what amounts to "ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF BREAKING THE RULES? ARE YOU SAYING CONSERVATIVE LEANING SOURCES ARE ILLEGAL?” is basically the textbook definition of a wildly defensive response lmao.

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Can't agree more. Despite all the gnashing of teeth the railgun still performs great in many situations, it just isn't a panacea anymore. The "buffs not nerfs" crowd seems to be under the impression that the ideal balance for the game is one where they can reliably win missions at Helldive difficulty. Which is silly since the level below that is literally labeled "impossible". Why would they create 9 levels of difficulty if the intention was for most players to spend all their time grinding level 9? You think it's BS that there are so many armored units and the anti armor tools don't make it easy to handle them? Yeah that's what "impossible" means. If you were playing on "hard" I doubt you'd have that problem.

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

Yes, but orders of magnitude less often than random members of the public "doing their own research". And looking at the consensus of the experts rather than individual experts the error rate is further orders of magnitude below that. You need to let go of the idea that information being a good basis for decisions means that it's "absolute truth", because only religion has that; what we have is some sources of information that are less likely to be wrong than all the others, and that's unfortunately the best you can get.

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 months ago

They didn't say you couldn't appeal a civil case. They said that ineffective counsel can't be the basis of that appeal.

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago

To oversimplify, it's a metaphor about what it's like to go through life relying only on your senses and not using reason to question or analyze the deeper meanings behind your surface impressions. The story goes on to discuss a prisoner who escapes the cave and gets a taste of true reality, that prisoner is meant to represent a philosopher. When the escaped prisoner returns and tells the others of what he's seen, they reject his claims saying how absurd it would be to believe that there's anything more than just the shadows. I think in this day and age it's easy to guess what that interaction represents, but Plato had a particular bone to pick about this since his mentor had essentially been executed for questioning various things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave?wprov=sfla1

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

I don't think that's what it's saying given that "sexual themes" is on this list as well. Seems more like they're saying "we're allowing more sexual content if it's properly labeled, but we're going to start keeping those labels off the home page, and while we're at it we'll take off a bunch of other objectionable content"

[-] davitz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The default wallpaper looks so much like testicles photographed from below and I can't unsee it

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