It’s like if 4chan and Quora had a baby.

Do you mean Jewish arabs? or Semitic Muslims maybe. Technically Semitic is a language group which includes arabic but like indo-european it can also refer to the people who originally used the dialect… bigotry fails at logic.

Lemmy is all about making strawman arguments!

Why are timeshares so bad? Never looked into it but the concept seems to make sense on the surface.

We have to work out what intelligence is before we can develop AI. Sentient AI? Forget about it!

Straight up description of an entity thousands report seeing while on DMT tho.

Teach critical thinking skills as a pillar of the school curriculum and the population will be immunized preventing the spread.

Fists aren’t a cure to intolerance. Probably doesn’t hurt so knock yourself a nazi out. As long as force isn’t being used to prevent open discussion and debate, it would be most unwise to drive dangerous ideologies underground where they can’t be monitored and understood.

Wait, that’s a real thing? I thought it was just a marketing stunt!

Mostly convicts

Agreed but the puritans that have to give it up before we can expect sites like this to overexpose themselves to legal action.

proofs of idiocy and/or bad faith they offer

Then a downvote is justified, same user or not.

F in the chat for victims of the Great Oxygenation Event.

Well there was this bloke called Captain Cook right…

I’d say less. Still finding my place here but the comment section seems more polarised than on Reddit. The recent Australian referendum for example. Any nuanced discussion is impossible (only in some instances I’m sure) because alternative opinions make you a racist according to the average (most vocal at least) commenter. It’s sad because as in that instance and regardless of politics, it often means a bunch of white people dictating what is/isn’t, true/false, wanted/needed… important.

Can’t deradicalize extremists without engaging them. Not to say where and when that should happen, or that the moral argument is even relevant. As Popper said in the wake of WWII,

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Who watches the watchers?

Meh, makes me feel a little better about our slide into dystopia knowing we had it coming are too damn lazy and apathetic to do anything about it.