What about assault rifles (and all guns, really) carrying a full financial and criminal obligation. So if someone uses your gun to kill 10 people, and an actuary assesses the present value of the lost future income of those people to be on average $1m, you are financially responsible for $10m. And if you can’t pay it,…

This is some really poor logic. Yes, pretty much any comedy will offend someone somewhere. But that’s a blanket statement purposefully ignoring the context here. He didn’t say something innocuous, he said things that anyone with the slightest awareness of current society would realize would get him in trouble. Offense…

Apparently Biden thinks what helped Trump was the Oompa Loompa spray tan.

I’ve always thought that didn’t really make sense - the complete lack of love is indifference, and the complete lack of something is not its opposite. The complete lack of hate is also indifference. If anything, there’s a numeric scale, with love on the positive side, hate on the negative, and indifference at zero in…

Free speech means the government doesn’t arrest you fro saying things it doesn’t like. Free speech does NOT mean that if you say something no one else is allowed to criticize it.

Wasn’t there a lot of speculation before his election that he was really gearing up to launch his own political channel, but that was put on the back burner when he actually won? I wonder how much of the rift between him and FN is just him hedging his bets and getting ready to start his own filth network if he fails…

When asked about why each of the new races were restricted to a single gender, the response was that adding a new body type requires manually adjusting every single piece of old equipment, which at this point is a daunting task. Given that a heavier cat model would require even more work than that (a large number of…

Him playing a new character would show ridiculous incompetence. Fans of the franchise will all unquestionably hate it - there are a vast amount of existing MK characters to choose from, so a new character will mean one less pre-existing one. Everyone will think of their favorite omitted character being left out for…

This guy may actually have a bit of a point. I remember looking at EA’s stock just before the current generation of consoles were announced. Its price was massively depressed, its valuation was unreasonably low, and investor sentiment was terrible - unrealistically terrible. Most investors didn’t understand the…

Wasn’t there a story several months ago about one of the myriad of people kicked out of the WH saying that he explicitly says crazy things to distract people from what he’s worried they’ll focus on? The fact that he’s going off on so many different crazy things now seems like a really strong indicator he’s flailing…

Huh, didn’t realize it was possible for a person to fall backwards through the uncanny valley.

False dilemma. “Stuffy formality” and “borderline brain-dead idiocy” are not the only two options.

Yeah,and what he did was reactionary in the heat of an incredibly intense moment, and what she did was premeditated. In legal terms, her crimes would be judged as more severe than his.

History would suggest sense is foreign to them, so they hate it.

Yeah, that was a significant one for me too. Peterson seems to have made a career out of poorly explaining simple, dumb ideas in a convoluted way so that people mistake his explanations as intelligent. Making you work to get to the dumb core idea doesn’t make it any less dumb, but it makes people want to believe the…

Re: what David did to Syd. It’s such a bizarre thing because of the superpowers involved, so it’s hard to connect it too directly to anything in real life. A lot of people have called it rape, but to my mind, the closest comparison is if a woman finds out her boyfriend cheated on her, she confronts him about it, he…

I love this show, but am thoroughly disappointed with how they implemented the “legion” aspect. I’m not one of those people who get upset at any and all deviations from the source material - change whatever, as long as it’s a change for the better that works in the story. And I get how the source material could be too…

The only real takeaway here is that you’re bad at statistics.

I only knew him from Newsradio, and was vaguely aware he had something to do with UFC. I started watching some of his podcasts a year or so ago and liked that he seemed open to different opinions: he seemed more concerned with the actual truth instead of party lines, if somewhat dumb and given to conspiracy theory.…

I kind of hate how people on the internet want to turn everything into a meme. It means they’re looking at things through the lens of “how can I be a jackass in an easily imitable way” instead of focusing on the actual argument, which in this case seems to be pretty dumb. He’s glorifying childhood imagination, why?…