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“Ukraine isn’t a utopia, therefore it’s a dystopia”.

That collection of news headlines are trying to imply "Ukraine isn't perfect, therefore Putin's invasion is justified because Ukraine is full Nazi and also the western media is trying to cover it up!". It's an immature view of the world, where something being imperfect means it's literally hitler. It's something you get past as you grow up, for the most part. I know some adult tankies IRL so it's not a given that people grow out of it, but each and every single one of them suffers from black and white thinking that negatively impacts their life in many ways.

Let's agree that Putin wanting to bring back the USSR is silly. I'm not really defending OP, but calling the responses in that thread "detailed replies" is... oof. They're detailed in the same way Time Cube is detailed. OP wandered into the pig sty and got muddy, but at least he's not one of the pigs wallowing in the mud.

Those replies are terrible. The one with all the news headlines is peak hexbear. "Ukraine isn't a utopia, therefore it's a dystopia". It's a classic example of black and white thinking, while they conveniently ignore all of the Zwastikas on the side they're cheering for.

Those aren't good responses. The narrative of "poor Putin just had to invade Ukraine, don't you see?" is bollocks.

Their weird insistence that anyone that doesn't agree with them is a "lib" that needs "dunking on" is tiring. If you don't show full-throated support for authoritarian regimes that they happen to like, then you clearly support Israel and genocide. They need to mature a bit, and realize that the world isn't black and white, and it doesn't neatly fall into convenient categories that can be nicely labelled.

It's not just you. Like many people that get sucked into cults, you don't want to directly engage with them. Just nicely encourage them to deprogram themselves, and focus on maturing and becoming an adult. They really don't like get called out like that, based on my interactions with them.

https://www.supermegacomics.com/

There's some good ones in there, and also a lot where the author was way too high

It would not surprise me to find out 50%+ of Reddit activity is bots at this point

mods can suck, admins can suck, but you can go off and start your own instance, with blackjack and hookers.

I also like that I can see that someone is posting from hexbear, and I can disregard their comment. It saves time.

Here's some good reading on L-systems, written by the guy they're named after:

http://www.algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

Is the difference now that AIPAC learned the same lesson and made sure that wouldn't happen again?

You can and they did.

I hope you and the other commenter both someday achieve the maturity to look back on this conversation and be embarrassed. I further hope you'll move beyond embarrassment and realize that it's part of growing up to make mistakes like that.

Wonder why they didn't just keep everything on one site and only show stuff marked safe unless you toggle a switch? Maintaining two whole different sites that sync seems like more work for them

Why not just invest in battery tech? I get that there's shortcomings atm for power density, but if we're talking about cutting edge research (what I assume you mean by "I hope the can figure out methenol synthesis"), I'd personally prefer to be investing time and money into battery tech.