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  • You can say that murder is bad. You can also say that it is necessary.

    Allowing murder to be good is allowing opinions to shift reality, and this is how people supporting Trump can think that murder is generally wrong, but murdering trans or black people or leftists is acceptable. Once you start making exceptions based on opinions, everything unfolds.


  • A comic doesn’t show individuals, it shows a vision of the world. If I draw 1000 nice soldiers, it’s not a 1000 individuals, I’m pushing the vibe that soldiers are nice.

    But the nice ones are the exception, so if you specifically show nice ones (is it possi le to be nice while killing people?), it is a choice to represent reality as such.

    Things like that convey a message, and let’s face it, I doubt that the author of this comic is anti-military.




  • You can have products that look the same (same manufacturing process for the most parts) but that have missing components or similar, as a way to reduce the price.

    I read some time ago about how a lot of the products imported from aliexpress-like sources tend to not follow EU safety norms, which is probably less likely through amazon if the seller is located in Europe, even if the product looks the same as another on aliexpress.

    For non-electronic stuff it’s probably different, but with electronics no one is going to notice a missing component.
















  • When you buy an nft, you but a number (and since you can’t own a number, you buy nothing).

    The fact that you got scammed because some people told you that this number gives you ownership of anything is meaningless.

    With your example of a dollar, it would be as if you were given monopoly money and you were going around thinking that you’re rich. Sure, if you find people that fell in the same scam, they might accept your fake money as payment, but that’s the extent of it. It’s basically a group of deluded people who imagine that they have something of value while they simply have a meaningless paper.

    That is also why you can easily print monopoly money, but not real money. One has a value, the other doesn’t.