u/Zorque

It's an Albany headset.

Source?

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Sadly that's the risk of any innovation, that someone will use it to manipulate and abuse others for power or pleasure.

Well, also "as proof of a concept that may to lead to something more useful"

>I had a coworker who would say “scroll up” or “scroll down” depending on if he wanted the document/content to move up or down.

... is that not typical?

Valve chip fabs coming to an industrial park near you.

Because opportunists love a tragedy they can exploit?

That's not because they're Jewish, though, it's because they've let their ego and pride overcome their empathy for their fellow human beings.

There's plenty of non-Jewish people who are also perfectly happy to profit off the suffering of Palestinians.

If you think being petty on the internet is encouraging *any* kind of positive change, you're almost as deluded as the MAGA cult.

I mean, if you want to waste a lot of time, energy, and money on petty acts of vandalism that won't really change anything, that's up to you.

It's not so much whether or not he knows it, so much as how much he *cares*. He knows what he says will get his base riled up, and that's what he likes. It strokes his ego and gives him more power.

It used to be that non-combatants weren't considered legitimate targets. Ain't progress fun?

Right, but they should have *some* plan in mind instead of just hoping that the next group of people who take power will be kinder to them. With no plan at all it's pretty much guaranteed that a nefarious party will take over.

A plan may not go perfectly, but it's at least a plan, and not just hoping that everything turns out all right with no effort put towards it.

That's my biggest problem with people who call for revolution, violent or otherwise, no matter the locale. There's no guarantee whoever grabs power after is going to be any better. Any revolution needs plans for a transition of power *before* toppling a regime, or it just leads to a power vacuum that any number of opportunists are willing and able to exploit. Most of which have no better motives than those of the toppled regime.

Unfortunately not everyone is aware that water is wet. And often there are groups who try and convince people otherwise.

I agree that more ideas need to be put into action that can actually accomplish change for the better, but that requires that people be informed first.

Your very first comment. Where you responded to someone saying people shouldn't be on either side because they're both bad, you said we *should* be on one side because the other is bad. That's saying one is bad, one is good, unless you're saying we should be on the side of a bad guy.

You're right that Israel is in the wrong. They made an attack on a sovereign nation, mostly to distract from that genocide you speak of.

That has nothing to do with Iran being in the wrong, though, which these days they regularly are. And thus we shouldn't take their claims that they're on the up and up and totally good guys at face value.

But that wasn't your original point, your original point was that one side was bad and the other wasn't. That was the entire crux of this argument. Are you abandoning that now to just say "Israel bad, all else is irrelevant"?

And yet you seem to be taking one side at face value while dismissing the other out of hand...

Seems less about reasonable skepticism and more about implicit and unreasonable bias.

It means take anything they say they're doing with a block of salt.

Yeah, but it's *"the west"* with this evidence and *clearly* we can't trust anything *they* say, no matter how defensible the evidence is. Because west bad, or aomething.