I can get unbanned by using a VPN? I heard those get shadowbanned
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Yeah but Apple really is a fuck.
Fuck Apple. Fuck Epic too but one thing at a time.
Trump's dad literally helped Donald bully the latter's brother into suicide because they were ashamed of him not being a horrible person like them.
This is sadly the most depressing fact I know.
I prefer... Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
There are sadly leftists who have embraced censorship as a virtue.
But I am one socialist who never will.
Never seen it and I'm just using ubo
Reminder: The Big Beautiful Bill makes it illegal to legislate restrictions for AI and more importantly it bans transgender healthcare
It wasn't anything specific, it's just... the idea of this guy being the real life Tony Stark didn't pass the smell test. Not because he didn't seem bright, but because I couldn't believe ANYONE lived up to the hype that Elon had.
That and... well... the idea of the Private Corporation coming to save the day and guide us into a Utopia sounded way too much like a Libertarian Fantasy.
If I were the conspiratorial type, I'd say it's about police language
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I could show quite a few unflattering articles about Randi's controversies but I feel his supporters insist that the fact that the challenge existed was the end all be all. In and of itself.
When one must realize that Randi's big claim to fame was the million dollar challenge and without that he had nothing.
Critical thinking should tell you quite simply that JREF's donations required appealing to skeptics. If Randi went to bat for anything that seemed supernatural his fans would turn on him, and if his big claim to fame was an unwinnable contest then his bread and butter demanded that he never allowed the contest to be won.
It's that simple.
Now one could say that he'd get famous and rich for confirming Magick exists but.. why would he? The papers would talk about the psychic not the foundation and further studies couldn't be done at JREF because it wasn't a scientific research facility and James had no training in science at all...
It merely had people who were trained to look out for things like cold reading and the like.
There's nothing to gain and everything to lose and the fact that 99% of people who applied to challenge were turned down and 0% of those who did even got past so much as a preliminary round. Well it's a little sus.
Now I'm not saying magic is out there and JREF is hiding it. If it were then JREF wouldn't have the means to hide it.
What I am saying is JREF and James Randi were not scientists they were showmen and that's very important to keep in mind.
Sharing The idea that you can debunk a phenomenon by yelling "FAKE!" And doing a smug dance is something that offers more harm than good imho. Especially when you get people like Anti-Vaxxers who Mimic this behavior though rallying against medicine instead of faith and folklore.