MacN'Cheezus

Found the real programmer

Yeah, he probably deserves one of those.

“No, no, we haven’t actually seen any evidence of murder, we’re just reporting it.”

The El Salvador facility was already built in 2022 during Pres. Bukele’s national crackdown on gang violence. Since it was only running at half capacity (and to ingratiate himself with Trump most likely), Bukele has offered to incarcerate deported gang members there, especially those who were refused by their home countries.

No, I got your drift, you’re trying to say that conservative Democrats are also corrupt, which implies that you believe the progressive ones aren’t.

I’m sorry, but that’s just childish and ignorant.

Look buddy, if you’re going to be purposely ambiguous and evasive, I think I’m just going to end the discussion here.

Right, because Democrats are basically immune to corruption. /s

That’s a good question, and I won’t pretend I know the answer because it’s likely multi-faceted, but it likely already starts in childhood, with parents neglecting and/or mistreating their children, causing them to grow up anxious and socially maladjusted. Children who were loved and cared for and properly socialized rarely end up struggling too much as adults, because they have strong bonds within their community. If they happen to fall on hard times (like losing a job or getting injured or severely ill), they have a network of friends to fall back on, which makes the recovery process much easier.

But without any of these, things can quickly spiral out of control. You lose your job, start drinking out of loneliness and frustration, get behind on rent, lose your apartment, or get involved with drugs and so on. However, I’m not really sure how throwing more money at people like that would help fix this. It might help them keep their apartment and avoid becoming homeless, but it probably won’t make them stop drinking. It just hides the problem instead of addressing it.

Now I’m fully aware that the current model of just letting them slide into homelessness and despair until they become a public nuisance, or worse, a criminal, and then putting them in jail doesn’t really work all that well, although I have heard many stories of people for whom this was the wakeup moment they needed to start taking responsibility for themselves and turn their lives around. However, that still seems to be a tiny percentage.

Perhaps if more effort was being made to prevent all this, it could save a few more lives, but we already have things like CPS to address childhood abuse, it’s just that crazy parents will do their damndest to avoid having them get involved. Social workers might also help, but that requires these people to be willing to accept help, which many are not. But one thing I’m pretty certain about, and that’s if you give irresponsible people more money, they’re not just magically going to become responsible. They’re just going to fritter it away on drugs and booze and then come back asking for more money.

Weird, I could swear I’m paying taxes for social security, medicare, and food stamps, yet somehow, most of the money ends up in the military industrial complex.

But I’m sure that if only the government had more tax revenue, they’d spend every extra dollar on welfare programs, right?

Put me in that position and I’d be paying for ads and shit to get the government to tax people like me more.

Why on earth would you do that when you could just skip the middle men and give the money directly to the poor? That seems a lot more efficient.

The problem with taxes is that a rather large chunk of it just goes to the military industrial complex and other wasteful government spending, and very little of it actually ends up helping to feed the poor. If you donate to charity directly, there’s a much better chance that most of the money goes to actual people in need instead of the pockets of corrupt politicians.

Why would you want to get rich in the first place if you believe that it’s more important to feed the poor? You’d be no better than the people you profess to hate, and you could easily avoid getting robbed by just donating anything you don’t need to charity.

“We’re gonna round up and kill all the undesirables, but it’s not fascism when WE do it”

Okay buddy.

So you’re still just arguing about what’s best for you in the moment.

Say you succeeded with this plan, all the rich conservatives are dead, and all their wealth has been distributed to feed those who are in need. Who are you going to kill and eat next?

And now you know why most conservatives are armed to the teeth. It’s to protect themselves from people like you.

See, the thing about charity is that when it’s done correctly, it helps both, the giver and the receiver. The receiver feels good because their needs have been met, and the giver feels good for having done a good deed. As soon as you put a gun into the equation, that all goes out of the window, and it becomes a win-lose situation. Only one person is going to walk away satisfied, and the other might end up dead.

And if you think that’s not a big loss because you hated them anyway, consider that one day, it’ll be you.

No, because their intention is different.

You’re not trying to cure conservatives of their hard-heartedness, you’re threatening to punish them for it.

Because it doesn’t feel like a charitable deed when the money is taken from you by force.

This is like arguing for people to be allowed to rob you at gunpoint as long as they have a family to feed.

But you’re still advocating for the murder of an out-group (i.e. conservatives). You’re also just shifting the blame to someone else, which is exactly what you’re accusing THEM of.

Unfortunately, the article doesn’t provide any further sources about the incident, so we have to trust the author to not have omitted any inconvenient facts in order to sell a story. Which, after seeing the details on the previous one, I’m not willing to do.

The devil is unfortunately always in the details, so I don’t feel comfortable making a judgment in this case. I do think it’s important to help people get back on their feet, and I appreciate these pastors’ willingness to help, but it has to be done in a way that doesn’t put an excessive burden on the community as a whole by creating safety hazards for other people.

The author is looking for a monitor replacement.

Yes, and he’s not wrong, as that appears to be the primary use case for these glasses. For full AR, you still need the Beam Pro, which costs half of the price of the glasses alone.

I do love Snow Crash (it was one of my favorite novels growing up), but I think Google Glass was probably much closer to that vision than these are. Personally, all I want is a big fucking screen fixed in space before me that doesn’t make me dizzy when I look at it for more than 5 minutes, or wear out my neck muscles too much because the headset is too heavy.