“My kids are able to play someone else’s games, so games aren’t expensive for kids.”

…did you even read what you just typed?

You don’t even have to be that patient these days. I got Arc Raiders 3 weeks after release for 60% off, it was like $18.

Wonder why I’m being pranked and where the cameras are.

Ancient Egyptians had no conception of English.

I was permabanned from Reddit for correctly identifying Elon Musk’s political affiliations. Fuck spez and his bullshit.

Police eroded public trust in their own institution just fine on their own.

ICE ain’t helping matters any, but All Cops Are Bastards is not a new saying, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down.

Only with aloe, please. I have sensitive skin.

So you’re saying…what?

That when you’re the son of a god, you get the cheap plastic props? What point are you actually trying to make?

By your logic, The Odyssey should have more impressive props, given the divine pedigree of the story and main character. But no. Batman looking plastic, grey colorless fabric, no bronze or dye in evidence.

I would rate this game so much higher if I wasn’t roadblocked from completing it by one bugged map that won’t launch.

Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in typewriter.

No medal, no citizenship.

Theoretically, a single operator controlled swarm could be used to all strike a hardened target at once, rather the current tactic we see in Ukraine of multiple drones which all have a dedicated operator being tied up striking an armored vehicle or hardened emplacement.

The ability to have one operator in control of the ability to strike a heavy target would come in mighty handy if you…say…have to eliminate a lot of prepared coastal defenses on an independence-minded island nation.

Not that I think drone swarms are particularly far-fetched in the realm of unmanned systems, but haven’t we learned by now to not just automatically believe whatever military tech China “announces” on state television?

Since at least 2024, China has been publicly trying to crack down on rampant corruption in its weapons procurement and R+D sectors, a lot of it connected to vaporware fake military tech.

Unless he’s fleeing DC a couple steps ahead of a mob with torches and pitchforks, he ain’t worried enough.

Yup. You definitely have no idea how treaties or international relations work.

I get that it’s scary that the US is doing it, but this is far from the first time world leaders have blustered about wanting territory that wasn’t theirs.

The international community didn’t support preemptive action even when 50,000 troops were massed on Ukrainian borders, they’re not going to do it when a single US combat asset hasn’t moved towards Greenland yet, and not a single policy decision has been enacted.

Edit- don’t get me wrong, if we start blockading Greenland, massing naval and amphibious forces, or building up ground units on the base in Greenland, then absolutely bomb the shit out of them, but the international community will never support action before that. It’s ludicrous to think they would.

…because the last window of opportunity for anticipatory self-defense has been repeatedly ruled by the international community to not extend that far?

Troops massing at borders is precisely the situation that the last window of opportunity is referring to.

I’m starting to think you don’t actually know the statutes involved or their previous legal cases, because if you did you’d know your “argument” is completely worthless.

STOP PRETENDING TO BE A RANDOM USER IN ORDER TO SELL THINGS

I think this might be the most insulting trend in current advertising. You’re not fooling anyone. Just stop.

But it isn’t the same argument.

When DJs sample, they choose the samples, choose the pitch and playback speed, and choose where and when to put the sample in their songs.

There is no human intentionality in AI-created music. No one decided what the song should sound like, it’s a mash of what an algorithm calculates is the most predictable next sound based on its prompt, and it calculates what’s next by illegally using the intellectual properties of real humans.

Whoever used this argument with you isn’t arguing in good faith.

Edit - I didn’t even answer the overarching question. You’ll find, in almost all cases, that it isn’t the same argument because one or more things that factor into the decision will have changed. Very rarely is a situation entirely static, and if some variables have changed, then the entire argument must be reconsidered.

They’re shooting them in the face with birdshot. It’s very small and is much less likely to penetrate into body cavities or break bone, but causes extensive soft tissue damage. This is intended to maim people.

Yeah, but you’re not anti-book. It’s different if you just don’t have time / energy right now. There are literally millions of people who just…like, don’t believe in it.