• self@awful.systems
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    not reading the fucking sidebar and thinking this is high school debate club fallacy

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        holy shit, imagine getting a second chance to not be a fucking debatelord and doubling down this hard

        off you fuck

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          People just out here acting like a fundamentally, inextricably unreliable and unethical technology has a “use case”

          smdh

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            fucking right! there’s this unearned assumption that just because the tech’s been invented, it must have worth. and, like, no? there’s so many dead ends in science and technology, and notoriously throwing money at something doesn’t change its fundamental nature

            and now I’m pissed and trying to decide if it’s even worth explicitly adding “don’t be a debatelord asshole” to the TechTakes sidebar, cause it’s not like they’re gonna stop

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              “We’re not saying it doesn’t have its flaws, but you need to appreciate the potential of the radium cockring!”

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              notoriously throwing money at something doesn’t change its fundamental nature

              to wildly abword a phrase I’ve seen elsewhere: “idiocy can remain solvent longer than you can”

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        this argument

        I agree, you’re quite right, and I thank you for taking the time and putting in the effort on such a wonderfully thorough portrayal of why your argument is total horseshit