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Personally, after having started writing a thesis in college I have found online debates to be pointless and frankly a waste of time. Any actually worthwhile and in some way valuable piece of information a person can put out requires a tremendous amount of research and effort. The kind of effort I think no sensible person would spend on something as trivial as an Online argument with someone. Even the most complex arguments and posts that sometimes can be seen in various online debates all over the web are really kind of insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It's all just a waste of breath.
Being emotionally involved in some cases makes sense though, and is logical
That is more a failure in failing to find the right people to engage than it is in inherent in the very act of political discourse. That's like saying philosophy is a waste of time because not a single philosophical understanding will ever help you actually achieve tangible things and you will never convince people anyway. Political discourse on the internet is useful not to convince others, but to put your opinions out there to be tested and if necessary destroyed due to them not standing properly against reality. Internet discourse is not a place to find a nice supply of answers, but rather more questions to ask yourself and thus more properly temper your ideas and biases with reasonable doubt.
Yeah gotta say I agree with this. People act like ~being offended~ means you lose" any debate and are automatically the worlds softest little crybaby, they forget that there are things out there that really should cause offence. I remember an oldpunch thread in SH about how facebook's moderation team receive no form of counselling despite having to regularly review videos featuring stuff like real life human dismemberment and child rape, and some moron made a post like "God people are offended by everything these days!!!!". Imo, that's the healthiest possible reaction to that kind of content.
Just because you follow a certain ideology/lifestyle doesn't mean you must go 100% with it. In fact, I'll say its impossible to follow 100% to it. There's always a certain level of hypocrisy once you try to be as pure as possible. You gotta make adjustments, and tell yourself whatever you do to follow whatever lifestyle or ideology is good enough for you. Otherwise, you're just an extremist.
The main difference lies in that people seem to admit they don't know shit about philosophy and thus avoid the subject, yet have a propensity to believe they know a lot about politics and start throwing wild assumptions and half-checked facts in order to sound smart and relevant. It is just as easy to find brick walls in philosophical discussions, it's just that there is a selection bias for the kind of people willing to have such discussions in the first place that sorta weeds out the kind of people political discussions do not. Indeed, the only difference is that one topic is less hot so that less idiots are willing to discuss it. The main skill necessary for discussions on the internet is not any rhetorical capacity or a deep knowledge - but the ability to spot brick walls as opposed to actual people willing to make their ideas and convictions vulnerable to dismantling and amendment. Pick your battles.
Saw Star Wars ep 8, eh it was pretty good. Would be better if they explained where the fuck Andy Serkis came from.
They charge that much because they can. The tiny subset of people who think they can tell the difference between MP3 320 and FLAC (almost nobody can, it's placebo) are willing to pay extra, and so they are charged extra.
Are those the same people who buy diamond HDMI cables and mutilate PS1s for their "superior sound"
(Side note: while MP3 320 is indistinguishable from FLAC, MP3 320 and MP3 96/128 are VERY distinguishable, as in, they sound like shit) Audiophiles are interesting because while it's absolutely a legitimate hobby with some real science behind it, it's also one of the most placebo-ridden, pseudoscientific, and diminishing-returns-prone hobbies I've ever encountered. I kind of understand the diminishing returns thing - paying 10x as much for 1% better sound is extravagant, and while I don't function like that, I can understand wanting to pay any amount of money for the best of the best. (Personally, I've always been one to pay half the price for something 80% as good, I'm always looking for the price/performance sweet spot.) But it's staggering how little they consider placebo as a factor, and they so commonly buy into pseudoscientific garbage that makes no sense at all. I appreciate good audio equipment - I have a set of medium-high end headphones that I like and I'm driving them with a passable DAC - but I just don't realy understand going as far as they do.
Serbs are unironically the oldest nation
On good speakers it's absolutely not
Studies have been done on this, with both audiophiles and average Joes as test subjects, and using a range of top-quality audio equipment. In blind tests, not only can people not tell the difference between MP3 320 and FLAC, they actually pick the wrong ones far more often than they would by random chance. It's bizarre.
I think that is due to acclimatization to the particular sound of mp3
tbh i prefer flacs just due to being able to easily convert them to whatever the best current audio format is, which is helpful for my phone (whereas space is cheap so my PC can hold lossless.) Because it sure isn't mp3, vorbis and opus are transparent at much lower bitrates.
<3 Vorbis, its compression is so much better than MP3. Same quality with a lower bitrate, it's lovely
The thing that amuses me most is that any streaming website, video, etc. won't use mp3s, they'll use stuff like opus like they're supposed to. Yet, consumers are still handed mp3s despite vorbis being released in the year 2000, and even AAC before (tho AAC continued mp3s patent shit.)
The truth of it is that Vorbis is still caught in a vicious cycle of the format being unpopular because it's not universally supported because the format is unpopular.
There's a difference between making your emotions laid bare in the open for the sake of expressing them and having your cause for debate being that you have taken offense to something and wish to address it. You can say that something is offensive and offends you personally, but instead of going on a tirade of claims that you are supporting with nothing but your feelings, you should explain why it's offensive and provide reputable sources that shows that something would be commonly agreed upon to be offensive. There's a lot of things that are offensive that certainly deserve to be accounted for and discussed, but the best way to tackle them is to prioritize why they are offensive, not how you feel about it and leaving it at that. It's also just unfortunate that, as people have pointed out in this thread, political debate on the internet is mostly just a waste of time. Most people either do not put in the work to provide an actual, good argument or if someone does, the other side can easily just walk away and pretend it didn't happen. There's zero accountability online. I mean, let's take you for instance. In all of the gun debate threads where you have taken an anti-gun stance, have you ever once been convinced by the likes of Grenediac? Have you changed your tune whatsoever in regards to how gun control should be orchestrated? I'm not accusing you of intentionally ignoring pro-gun arguments, mind you.
Traps are gay, as long as the subject of your sexual arousal has the same genitals as you, it's either gay or bisexual.
The Omar are great, I love how their ending consists of you fucking everyone over and plunging the world into chaosfor basically no reason. Actually that's another good thing about Invisible War; every ending makes you feel like you've changed the world. People complain about the endings being short in all of the games, but DX1 and IW both satisfy me because it really makes you feel like you've completely changed everything. That's something that Human Revolution lacked.
This song aches for a metal cover. Bonus points if it's handled by Alestorm or Sabaton.
[sp]The best part is that they give you a lifetime discount just before the cutscene [/sp]
You are wrong.
About? Elaborate?
About everything. Maybe look at the things holding "developing" nations back and reasons for my "false sense of disillusionment" and then maybe you'll stop being a fucking fascist.
everyone should pay for winrar
Everyone should use free and better alternatives like PeaZip instead.
Yeah, let's pay for closed standards when superior open standards and software exists. Totally reasonable.
The multiplayer gaming community is and always will be the most childish demographic of any medium of entertainment due to its inherent qualities, and esports will always be considered a joke and never considered a real sport by the public
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