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[green_meklar @GMeklar]

The debate over lolis in video games is the same damn debate we had over violence in video games 20 years ago. Everyone trying to censor harmless private entertainment was wrong then and they're wrong now.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

A runaway locomotive is hurtling down the tracks. If more than 50% of people get on the tracks, together they can safely stop the locomotive; otherwise, everyone who gets on the tracks will be squished. Do you get on the tracks?

That's what this stupid button dilemma is like.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Best of luck to fellow canadian @Astro_Jeremy and the rest of the brave Artemis 2 crew on their journey to return to the Moon and push the limits of human achievement in space! 🚀🌕

https://t.co/sp89SBSTpz

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

He would have stayed longer, but he'd scheduled a sparring session with Bruce Lee.

Thanks for the good times, Chuck. The memes will live on.

https://t.co/0MRBoaeoE7

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

We've known it was coming for months, but it still hits hard. RIP to one of the most influential cartoonists and cultural icons of the modern age. #fuckcancer

https://t.co/Uj4u9cgtaW

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

If Russia doesn't want NATO on its border, why is it trying so hard to have a border with Romania?

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

What's being done to Jimmy Lai is as predictable as it is disgusting. We can be confident he didn't get a fair trial because that, like free speech, democracy, and human dignity, is something the CCP doesn't believe in. #FreeJimmyLai

https://t.co/X53cprMaj3

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

If Ukraine accepts Trump's peace plan quickly, he might still be in office to write the follow-up peace plans for Latvia, Romania, and Poland.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

We already have empirical evidence that superintelligent AI won't fill the Universe with paperclips: The fact that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old and hasn't been filled with paperclips yet.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Of course Canada could afford door-to-door mail, if we funded it with LVT. What we can't afford is rentseeker greed. As long as we continue to prioritize rentseeker greed over everything else, everything else will continue to appear unaffordable. #CanadaPost #georgism #LVT

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Today marks 34 years since Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union. Here's looking forward to the day when the last russian invader is driven from ukrainian soil.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Communists have no idea how to handle a world where the incentive to work is still economically important. Ancaps have no idea how to handle a world where it isn't. #georgism

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

It's been more than a little hilarious watching this play out in real time.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Exercise, a low-carb diet, and 7 hours of sleep each night has never gotten anyone from 120 to 130 and it probably never will. If we intend to get into the future, we need the biotechnology. It's not optional. #longevity #endaging #immortality

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Proud to stand with @ZelenskyyUa on the right side of history today, unlike the shameful and churlish response from the Oval Office. So much for 'the home of the brave'; perhaps Ukraine can stake a claim to that title.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Let Jimmy Carter's passing remind us that there is no 'right time' for a great and good human being to die, and no 'dignity' in the gradual decay of natural human aging. #endaging #immortality

https://t.co/UAEmIyBp5i

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

In light of reports that the Magdeburg attacker was an anti-islam atheist: Just a reminder that wanton violence is NOT a legitimate way to support rationality and liberty over religious dogma. Please everyone be your most reasonable selves and have a peaceful #MerryChristmas.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

@KamalaHarris and her supporters insist that the Democratic Party is the only party that can preserve american democracy. But you can't have a democracy with just one party. So why isn't #RankedChoiceVoting on their platform? Is democracy really what they care about?

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

My hobby: Making ChatGPT faceplant by presenting it with problems that require actual reasoning and not just intuition.

[green_meklar @GMeklar]

Rearranged Thomas Cole's The Voyage of Life for the 21st century. #longevity #endaging