GreyEyedGhost

Land of the indentured would be more fitting for a play on the original.

IMO that’s even worse. They know it’s lies and don’t care.

So your threshold is that they have to be able to see the intent of people’s hearts and predict the future? How would anyone succeed at those goals? How about not giving it to people who have directed no clear progress towards peace in the first place, like Barack Obama? That’s a much lower bar and reasonably achieved, and they haven’t even done that. They could also not give it to people until the results of their efforts, or at least the trends of their efforts regardless of results, we’re clear. That would still disqualify Obama, but also Ahmed.

And while that all may help true, someone doing non-peace-promoting activities after they got the Peace Prize is just about the worst example you can use to defend that position.

Are you saying he had even better examples with the very same person he used to defend his position about the Nobel Committe and didn’t?

And yet your example of their incompetence still barely deserves mention.

“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.”

— Dwight Schrute

If your big problem with the peace prize is that people can change and the Nobel committee can’t see the future, then I wish my problems were as big as yours.

Or poor or trans or liberal or female or…

This game could go forever. Feel free to add your own!

So you’re saying Trump has a chance…

I understand as much as any guy can how shitty everything you said is, and it wish the world wasn’t such that those choices had to be made every day by far too many women, but let’s not pretend that this was some defining aspect of her as a woman. This was someone doing a job in an uncontrolled environment without proper safety measures. No, that doesn’t make her at fault for being raped, just like it wouldn’t be her fault if one of the signs slipped and injured her when she was by herself trying to repair it. The risks could still have been reduced if she had considered the safety aspects of the task, which includes the people in the area where she was working. Would you have been as accepting if it had been one of her team who had been raped instead in the same circumstances? Would you have been lauding her bravery and vision by empowering one of her team to do the same thing? Or would you be saying she should have thought of the safety of the people working for her? What if the candidate had been a man and his employee got raped in a parking lot at 2 AM? It was a poor choice, possibly one she didn’t consider, or didn’t consider as much as she would have for one of her staff. And again, with all that said, the rapist is completely responsible for his shitty actions.

Apparently not.

I don’t have you tagged since you’re quite visible here, but I notice and respect your opinions, even if I don’t always completely agree with them. Please keep up the fight, we need more passionate people who are willing to speak their minds.

I’m not excusing rapists’ shitty behavior, but, as you said, this is far more prevalent than many of us would like. Not accepting that fact and taking steps to reduce the risk is a poor choice. I don’t turn my back on a dog I don’t know, and a woman driving around by herself and getting out of her car in the middle of the night in unpopulated areas is leaving herself at risk as a target of opportunity or even a planned attack.

Again, not saying this is okay or the way things should be, but is a realistic view of the world we live in. The talk about clothes or behavior, though (beyond that which exposes you to risk), is completely beside the point. Predators will attack targets. Stop the predators. Don’t be an easy target. Both of those should be done, but only one can reasonably be done on an individual basis.

And no, none of that makes this in any way her fault. That rests squarely on her attackers.

Lemmy and Piefed both support tags now, I think. I’m pretty simple with how I rate people. I give red, yellow, or green tags based on how toxic their opinion is, and text summarizing the flag, eg., I just tagged minorkeys with red and “Hardcore Rape Apologist”. If you tap and hold the user name of a comment in Voyager, it also links the comment you did that to, which is a good way to remind yourself why you tagged someone.

This allows you to still see shitty people’s shitty comments, and skip over or respond, however you decide.

I’ve seen studies that indicate that Trump made more or less what he would have earned if he’d just invested his inheritance in an index fund, with some occasional deviations along the way. I wouldn’t call that successful. The two big differences between him and me is that I didn’t start out with a huge pile of cash and I can admit I don’t know enough to invest successfully and would just buy the index funds.

While that doesn’t prove it isn’t AI or even a 3D model, a company like this would be the last to need either. Could be the slot is a little out of focus.

The slot looks straight to me, but it’s hard for me to tell given the angle. It has a chamfer around all the openings, but that isnt difficult in 3D modeling software, either. It does have a strange blurriness along the slot, which could be AI.

We could finally be united by a different understanding instead of being divided by a comman language.