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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

maybe, but it's an ironic time to make that point when the OP of this thread is disinformation which is being widely picked up and spread without verification

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

you may have a point, but is this anecdote actually credible? looking it up, it seems like there were not that many letters and I'm not seeing any evidence they weren't jokes. fictional tv shows weren't new even then and there wasn't an epidemic of functioning adults unable to grasp the concept

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I fuck with that shit! Trailmakers got the same vibe too

screenshot of a complicated truck contraption from the game Mars First Logistics

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

even outside of explicit rng stats, game design necessarily entails making constant compromises that the possibility of a rare negative outcome exists. you can't avoid it. also, if a player realizes the game is lying to them about stats, even if it's in their favor, there are costs to this as well

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“If you take it down, they’re not gonna learn anything. People who love him will still love him. People who hate him will still hate him,” he said. oh yeah, as opposed to when it was up and people were completely changing their minds about the guy every time they passed it by

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think you're wildly underestimating how many parents have kids in the first place to be extensions of themselves

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

damn that toothpaste must be the real good shit

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think there are many medical and social advancements made since then which could at least share the credit with vaccines. the advent of NICUs in the 60s, awareness that pregnant mothers shouldn't smoke or drink, and baby formula regulation, for example

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think it's the difference between candor and cynical bullshitting

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

lawful content? are you in favor of censorship as long as it's something some legislators criminalized first?

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

well, it's pretty easy to test this theory. we're doing it right now, aren't we? we have a heavily carceral system currently, and so far the way it has handled trump is that the threat of it made him run for president again. that's what we've got out of the current system wrt him

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this has gotta mention helicopter story right??

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

a perfect cage of suffering for every man, woman, and child

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

a lot of people use "wholesome" as just an indirect way to position whatever it is contrasted with as degenerate

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

most modern game soundtracks are too afraid of melodies. they don't want good, memorable music to "distract" from the game. the development of music making technology also introduced the ability to create music with softness and subtlety that doesn't "rely" on melody to fulfill its purpose

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

the US and Israel are not the only exceptions, but food is explicitly considered a human right in many countries

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think almost no one ever stops to think that about anything

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

come now Paul, you could make your point without the bi erasure

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this is just vaccine autism derangement in the opposite direction

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

day 279 in solitary confinement: movies used to be so big and now no one talks about them any more. what happened?

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

it's not literally all the lettuce in the country dude you can still have a salad. buy some greenhouse lettuce

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

yeah I can see you don't personally believe it, but I don't think the people making the argument tend to really believe it either. it very clearly doesn't hold up and no one would tolerate such a flimsy, double standard, ad hoc justification for criminalizing their own victimless behavior

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

even with gambling, I'd argue a gambler is not victimizing themselves. gambling addicts are not known to bet on coin flips and light their own money on fire if they lose. someone is knowingly exploiting their psychological weakness and potentially ruining their life for money

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

for sure. just like how bootlegging is a massive criminal enterprise due to all the incentives they gained from alcohol abolition being repealed

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I'd ask anyone making that argument what environmental regulations and sports bans they've been fighting for just as diligently

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

this is very different from a lucid agreement between the entirety of the only parties involved in sex work, both of which remain in control of and responsible for their actions, despite its debatable proximity to harm, which itself is largely due to its criminalization

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

to the point you might justify taking it. drunk driving fails that responsibility and directly creates a condition of stochastic manslaughter. it's like loosing a big, feral dog out onto the streets. not merely related to harm, but a direct responsibility for it, like most crimes

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

better than most of the arguments which actually get used, but I don't think the mere "closeness" of drunk driving to the damage caused is what justifies criminalization. driving at all is a huge risk to incidental third parties which requires competence and responsibility to diminish that risk-

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

if we imagine that all the moral ideas worth caring about have always been around, then that suggests there's no need to look further now than what's immediately obvious

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

surely dissatisfaction isn't new, but I think it's important to recognize the reality of ontological moral ignorance where it did exist in order to understand that our own modern thinking is probably just as limited without putting serious work into thinking outside the box

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

not with averages outside of tiny differences from rounding or something, and this is median, but still absurdly far off

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

you talk as if there could be no artistic integrity to fucking frogs

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

prob wouldn't want a personality, but if it had one, and I used it often enough that it was conducive to talk to it like a person, I would want it to act like one in terms of moral weight for virtue ethics reasons. wouldn't want to train myself to be callous to people with assurance it didn't matter

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

good picks! I got into his stuff later on my own, but all we got was harrison bergeron and the curriculum pushed it as a cautionary tale against communism/socialism

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

no, you should definitely wear a suit of mirrors over your entire body if you have the option

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I don't think I've seen a distinction made, so it prob doesn't matter much, but I'd guess solid stands out slightly better, though something reflective is still going to be the best for conspicuity

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think bright yellow, orange, and red are recommended

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

sure. all I see when I look across various sources is reporting on studies and statistics in unanimous agreement that loud exhaust is ineffective for cyclist safety. here's one including several references: motoress.com/skills-and-t... what studies did you see saying otherwise?

motoress.com

Loud Pipes Do Not Save Lives: The Facts You Need to Know

Woman Motorcycle Enthusiast - MOTORESS!

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postin' seller's finest postin's @puzzlemathstar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

it's rare you see someone that actually recognizes the box they've been put in and still insists on thinking exclusively inside it like this

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