To clarify for any pseudo intellectual who happens to be reading:

“<X> is true for <reason> you utter idiot” is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

“<X> is true because you’re an utter idiot” is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

Glad to be of service.

Have you considered taking a communications course so you don’t sound like a pretentious, obfuscating jackass?

Eschew gratuitous obfuscation. (See what I mean?)

In AI alone, we lead the world.

*Deep Seek has entered the chat.*

I think even darker (as the response to @Glide@lemmy.ca indicates). When I see incel behaviour from a man, I make damned sure that man is always in my sight and at a distance. And I won’t accept any drink from him, nor any invitation to go somewhere else, even if it’s in the same building.

Well yes. It’s about sex and specifically forcing sex.

They’re wannabe rapists, in effect.

There is absolutely a cure for incels, yes, but nobody in the west would like it. So you’re kind of stuck with them.

The prostitution thing won’t work, though. I actually got fed up with a loud incel peripheral to a social circle I was part of and snapped, offering to hire him a hooker right then and there so he could STFU about how he’d never been laid.

Immediately he moved the goalposts and said he didn’t just want to get laid, he wanted a “genuine emotional relationship”. Saying this despite for the previous two hours only ever talking about sex, sex appeal, sexual characteristics, etc. with not a word spent on “genuine emotion”.

Some people just want to whine, and when they gather in groups they spiral destructively.

Technically speaking you’d have to say they did war crimes by modern standards.

A lot of what you describe wasn’t actually criminal at the time, see. It was called “war”.

Doesn’t make it any less horrific, mind.

You seem nice.

Right. 18650! Thanks!

And TIL what the numbers mean. Cool!

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My flashlights use replaceable chargeables. I want to say “16550” but I’m not sure of the numbers. They’re larger than AAs, longer than Cs but not quite as thick.

China. Wuhan, specifically.

This is my favourite place within walking distance of home. Whenever I’m in there it’s great food and great companionship.

Some of them add a touch of baking soda (no, really!) to make it a little less harsh. But even there, the generics caught onto that trick decades ago.

I use rechargeable flashlights. Hell, I use rechargeable everything. I’m not sure when I last bought AA or AAA batteries for anything.

Ice cream trucks aren’t a thing here, but the local street washers play Jingle Bells.

I know, right? It’s like irony is a lost art.

There’s also a reason why votes in parliaments aren’t secret.

It’s the lazy drive-by and rage votes specifically that I would love to see eliminated. If you’re too much a coward to defend a position, maybe you shouldn’t express it.

To me the anonymity of voting is the problem, so the solution is to make them public for all, not to find ways of making them more private.

I’m kinda partial to this vibe for my games:

Or this vibe: