[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

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

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The company behind Fortnite is currently in a legal fight against Google over in-app fees

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 171 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 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 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 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing wrong with argulaZ. They are bothering to read news.

"Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk, report finds"

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

I'm tired of hearing about him too but unfortunately Tesla and Twitter are high profile companies. When they are in the news, he is unfortunately associated.

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

I'm less concerned about the rebranding and more concerned about people shrugging their shoulders that one man is so rich he was able to buy one of the most influential communication companies of the century and crater it because it hurt his feelings, now allowing hate speech to run rampant on the site, but he still has so much cash to burn.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do Republicans stand for anything besides rolling back progress? They never present any new legislation other than rolling back protections for non-white, non-rich, non-christian, non-males.

[-] 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.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This seems to be on a much smaller scale than the initial plan, if I'm reading this correctly, and targets folks really in need. Mainly this seems to be targeting people who have decades old debt because they literally can't afford to pay back their loans - which seems totally fair. Many students took out loans with the promise from their peers and guardians that "college will be a worthwhile investment and you'll make your money back". That was obviously a lie for these borrowers as the price of tuition and stagnation of wages has guaranteed that promise is dead. This will ultimately be good for the economy and is an example of government working to help the people - so Republicans will hate it.

[-] Ganondorf@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apple doesn't give a shit. Any time a corporation "cares" it's for money-making potential only. Starbucks abandoned Pride as soon as it could have affected their profit margins.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ganondorf@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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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