dismalnow

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[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, that's a lot of words when they could've just said "I don't understand risk, harm reduction, any statistics relavent to the topic, or science."

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One is clearly worse, can be stopped, and isn't bullshit.

The other is whiny bullshit, and your analogy sucks.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's about ease of enforcement. If you can't enforce a law, it's bullshit lip service.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (13 children)

And when the government can effectively prevent massive amounts of benzene from going into the air, they are more than welcome to work on the trace amounts of nicotine.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

The corpos have minimaxed all they can from the adults.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Cocaine dropped in water off coast of Florida could turn Great White into Mötley Crüe.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Are you saying "crassholes" or "assholes"

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Then why are they even still there?

Sunk cost fallacy or misplaced hope are other options outside of Napoleon complex.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed.

It's a very basic trade that it seems few understand. You MUST trade a bit of convenience to increase your security, or mistakes will happen.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I recognize you're probably not the original commenter, but this is the same flavor of strawman.

App is app. Other app is other app.

In one app, it was possible to send both SMS and encrypted messages. In the other, just SMS.

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