Yeah, I get it. You're WAYYYY too hip to do something as boring as taking pride in the country that has given you a standard of living that is the envy of the vast majority of the world. You would rather run your country down on an internet that your country pioneered, while eating food that would be a king's luxury in the third world, and living in a house or apartment with clean running water and electricity, smugly confident that you can call the police or fire department at any time and have them come help you without asking for a bribe to do so. Yeah, America really sucks, huh? You poor thing, having to live in such an AWFUL country. You must wake up every day feeling ashamed to be a part of something so terrible.
Perhaps a holiday in Cambodia would be appropriate here, snowflake. I hear their slums got so much soul.
It saddens me that people modded parent down. Do you really hate America so much that you WANT it to fail?
I think a lot of people need to get over their self-hatred, white guilt, emo post-modern bullshit and stop being ashamed to be a citizen of the country that pioneered the modern democracy and has made huge advancements in medicine, technology, academia, etc. that have greatly benefited the entire world.
Have we been, or will we ever be, perfect? Fuck no! But just because your country has flaws doesn't mean you can't be proud of all the great stuff we have have done (and will do). So stand up for the National Anthem. Maybe even pick up a flag and try waving it for once. And not in some hipster ironic way. Try celebrating your country in a way that says "My country created the Bill of Rights when most countries were still monarchies!"
And that goes even more for Europe. Your countries created Western Civilization and the modern legal/human rights system and you act like that heritage is something to only be ashamed of?? WTF is wrong with you? You've focused for so long on everything you've done wrong that you've forgotten about the many more things you've done RIGHT.
For the record, I'm fine with the metric system. I just don't think Celsius is a good system for measuring weather temperatures. If you routinely have to use negative numbers and decimal places for even typical weather conditions, your measurement system is not ideal for its purpose.
Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring human weather temperatures. 0 degrees is dangerously cold for humans. 100 degrees is dangerously hot for humans. Celsius is only relevant if you happen to be water.
And, as for people who argue that Celsius is somehow more scientifically objective than Fahrenheit, it's really not. Celsius is only based on the objective freezing and boiling points of water if you happen to be subjectively located on the surface of this particular little blue planet. So stop being so fucking smug.
Never buy into the week-one hype when a game releases. A lot of game reviewers are either bought off by the studios or they're fanboys who really WANT to believe.
No Man's Sky is a great example. Got great reviews its first week. Only after the hype train slowed down and Sony stopped buying lots of ads did it suddenly dawn on people that the game sucked.
Right, which is why I won't buy anything from Oculus given Palmer Luckey (their illustrious founder) bankrolling a pro-Trump shitposting group during the election cycle.
Do you litmus test every product you buy to make sure its execs agree with your political views before you buy from them? Because I don't. But, then again, I'm not some 3-year-old child throwing a temper tantrum because his candidate lost.
Yeah, for the longest time you couldn't find *ANY* 4K TV that wasn't curved. Drove me crazy. I hate those ugly pointless curved displays. Whoever sold TV manufacturers on that gimmick should be tied down and forced to watch Highlander 2 over-and-over again on the world's largest curved TV.
I fail to see why a bakery has to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding while a venue is allowed to refuse to host it. Since they're both private companies, and therefore not subject to respect potential clients' rights (by your own argument), then what's the distinction?
Let's be honest here. You're just trying to come up with some sort of twisted logic to explain away the inconsistency of SJW's raising hell over bakers refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings but being perfectly cool with social media companies banning conservative voices. You want private companies to have to respect the rights of people who you agree with, but not have to respect the rights of those who you don't agree with.
And that's one of the real distinctions between an "SJW" and a classic liberal to me. The classical liberal wants freedom of speech for all and realizes that if all aren't protected then none will ever be safe. The SJW only wants freedom of speech for those whom he agrees with, and fails to see how this practice could easily be turned against him and his causes in the future.
Think about it this way. Right now Twitter, Facebook, et. al. are owned by liberals in ultra-liberal Silicon Valley. But what if tomorrow they were bought out by wealthy conservatives and relocated to Dallas? Would you be comfortable with *them* wielding the ban-hammer you just gave them? Don't think it couldn't happen, either. Things like that can turn on a dime.
Twitter wants to have it both ways: it wants to have a big room where they can put in all the liberals and conservatives, all the Islamists and Zionists, and have them talk about whatever is happening in their world... and then it wants them all to get along. It doesn't work that way.
If Twitter's actions of late are any indication, it would be more accurate to say that it wants to put everyone in a big room where only the SJW/liberal voices are allowed to talk and everyone else sits quietly out of fear of being banned like Milo.
There is no such thing as one-way freedom of speech. If you're telling someone else that their speech is hate speech and therefore not allowed, you're ultimately hurting your own freedom just as much as theirs. As Robespierre could warn you, the rules and laws you make to oppress others today will be turned against you tomorrow.
TWiT is great. Leo is still the man. I would also add some other personal favs:
Cord-Killers (formerly Cord Cutters on the TWiT network) TekThing (from another former TWiT/TechTV alum Patrick Norton) Anything from Kinda Funny Games (Colin isn't ALWAYS right, though) Elder Scrolls Off the Record (a must-watch for fans of the Elder Scrolls games)
It wasn't the Republican establishment that put Trump into power. They did everything they could to keep him from winning either the nomination or the Presidency. It was the people who voted for him, the people who are tired of getting fucked over by shitty trade and immigration policies and who no longer give a fuck who the political establishment (or CNN or Hollywood) wants them to vote for.
all those big wig IT executives that want to open the floodgates for refugees open their homes and guest houses to refugees, they can sleep in your spare bedrooms and eat your food, use your couch and TV,
They don't want immigrants in their homes, they want them working in their factories and offices (for a fraction of what they would have to pay an American).
Maybe some people look at the bigger picture, instead of purely their own selfish interests at that moment in time?
Oh yeah, because Microsoft, Apple, Facebook etc. are doing this because they *CARE*, not because Trump is about to take away their cheap slave-labor pool and make them hire American workers.
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Yeah, I get it. You're WAYYYY too hip to do something as boring as taking pride in the country that has given you a standard of living that is the envy of the vast majority of the world. You would rather run your country down on an internet that your country pioneered, while eating food that would be a king's luxury in the third world, and living in a house or apartment with clean running water and electricity, smugly confident that you can call the police or fire department at any time and have them come help you without asking for a bribe to do so. Yeah, America really sucks, huh? You poor thing, having to live in such an AWFUL country. You must wake up every day feeling ashamed to be a part of something so terrible.
Perhaps a holiday in Cambodia would be appropriate here, snowflake. I hear their slums got so much soul.
It saddens me that people modded parent down. Do you really hate America so much that you WANT it to fail?
I think a lot of people need to get over their self-hatred, white guilt, emo post-modern bullshit and stop being ashamed to be a citizen of the country that pioneered the modern democracy and has made huge advancements in medicine, technology, academia, etc. that have greatly benefited the entire world.
Have we been, or will we ever be, perfect? Fuck no! But just because your country has flaws doesn't mean you can't be proud of all the great stuff we have have done (and will do). So stand up for the National Anthem. Maybe even pick up a flag and try waving it for once. And not in some hipster ironic way. Try celebrating your country in a way that says "My country created the Bill of Rights when most countries were still monarchies!"
And that goes even more for Europe. Your countries created Western Civilization and the modern legal/human rights system and you act like that heritage is something to only be ashamed of?? WTF is wrong with you? You've focused for so long on everything you've done wrong that you've forgotten about the many more things you've done RIGHT.
For the record, I'm fine with the metric system. I just don't think Celsius is a good system for measuring weather temperatures. If you routinely have to use negative numbers and decimal places for even typical weather conditions, your measurement system is not ideal for its purpose.
EVERYONE wants it.
Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring human weather temperatures. 0 degrees is dangerously cold for humans. 100 degrees is dangerously hot for humans. Celsius is only relevant if you happen to be water.
And, as for people who argue that Celsius is somehow more scientifically objective than Fahrenheit, it's really not. Celsius is only based on the objective freezing and boiling points of water if you happen to be subjectively located on the surface of this particular little blue planet. So stop being so fucking smug.
Never buy into the week-one hype when a game releases. A lot of game reviewers are either bought off by the studios or they're fanboys who really WANT to believe.
No Man's Sky is a great example. Got great reviews its first week. Only after the hype train slowed down and Sony stopped buying lots of ads did it suddenly dawn on people that the game sucked.
LOL, it apparently even featured ads for third-party Model T part manufacturers as well:
https://www.google.com/search?...:
Right, which is why I won't buy anything from Oculus given Palmer Luckey (their illustrious founder) bankrolling a pro-Trump shitposting group during the election cycle.
Do you litmus test every product you buy to make sure its execs agree with your political views before you buy from them? Because I don't. But, then again, I'm not some 3-year-old child throwing a temper tantrum because his candidate lost.
Yeah, for the longest time you couldn't find *ANY* 4K TV that wasn't curved. Drove me crazy. I hate those ugly pointless curved displays. Whoever sold TV manufacturers on that gimmick should be tied down and forced to watch Highlander 2 over-and-over again on the world's largest curved TV.
The 1% of Linux users among the 1% of gamers currently playing VR. I think that's about 7 people tops.
Is the Wall Street journal out to slander them too?
I watch most of my Youtube on a Roku, so Red is a must-have.
Getting rid of those annoying ads are the only reason I have it. Don't give a fuck about their original programming. HBO they're not.
You know who doesn't get the irony of fighting fascism with fascism?
The leftists.
ridiculous regulations
I hope you don't count "You can't dump toxic sludge from your factory into the local river" as "ridiculous."
I fail to see why a bakery has to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding while a venue is allowed to refuse to host it. Since they're both private companies, and therefore not subject to respect potential clients' rights (by your own argument), then what's the distinction?
Let's be honest here. You're just trying to come up with some sort of twisted logic to explain away the inconsistency of SJW's raising hell over bakers refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings but being perfectly cool with social media companies banning conservative voices. You want private companies to have to respect the rights of people who you agree with, but not have to respect the rights of those who you don't agree with.
And that's one of the real distinctions between an "SJW" and a classic liberal to me. The classical liberal wants freedom of speech for all and realizes that if all aren't protected then none will ever be safe. The SJW only wants freedom of speech for those whom he agrees with, and fails to see how this practice could easily be turned against him and his causes in the future.
Think about it this way. Right now Twitter, Facebook, et. al. are owned by liberals in ultra-liberal Silicon Valley. But what if tomorrow they were bought out by wealthy conservatives and relocated to Dallas? Would you be comfortable with *them* wielding the ban-hammer you just gave them? Don't think it couldn't happen, either. Things like that can turn on a dime.
Twitter wants to have it both ways: it wants to have a big room where they can put in all the liberals and conservatives, all the Islamists and Zionists, and have them talk about whatever is happening in their world... and then it wants them all to get along. It doesn't work that way.
If Twitter's actions of late are any indication, it would be more accurate to say that it wants to put everyone in a big room where only the SJW/liberal voices are allowed to talk and everyone else sits quietly out of fear of being banned like Milo.
There is no such thing as one-way freedom of speech. If you're telling someone else that their speech is hate speech and therefore not allowed, you're ultimately hurting your own freedom just as much as theirs. As Robespierre could warn you, the rules and laws you make to oppress others today will be turned against you tomorrow.
No, with mad crazy business skills like that, he'll probably get snapped up by Yahoo as their next CEO.
I suppose the market will correct that.
Nah, just let Uncle Sam foot the bill when the house of cards falls apart. Silicon Valley is too big to fail.
You don't want me in your Appstore? Fine, I'll go build my own social media app, with blackjack and hookers!
TWiT is great. Leo is still the man. I would also add some other personal favs:
Cord-Killers (formerly Cord Cutters on the TWiT network)
TekThing (from another former TWiT/TechTV alum Patrick Norton)
Anything from Kinda Funny Games (Colin isn't ALWAYS right, though)
Elder Scrolls Off the Record (a must-watch for fans of the Elder Scrolls games)
Setting cars on fire, assaulting people, and breaking windows isn't "protesting."
It wasn't the Republican establishment that put Trump into power. They did everything they could to keep him from winning either the nomination or the Presidency. It was the people who voted for him, the people who are tired of getting fucked over by shitty trade and immigration policies and who no longer give a fuck who the political establishment (or CNN or Hollywood) wants them to vote for.
all those big wig IT executives that want to open the floodgates for refugees open their homes and guest houses to refugees, they can sleep in your spare bedrooms and eat your food, use your couch and TV,
They don't want immigrants in their homes, they want them working in their factories and offices (for a fraction of what they would have to pay an American).
Maybe some people look at the bigger picture, instead of purely their own selfish interests at that moment in time?
Oh yeah, because Microsoft, Apple, Facebook etc. are doing this because they *CARE*, not because Trump is about to take away their cheap slave-labor pool and make them hire American workers.