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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Eh, I agree with the OP, but Memento isn’t comparable to the sort of thing they’re complaining about. Memento is a story told backwards to mess with your perception of the story. The “flashbacks” (flashforwards) are a lazy trope to either try to suck you into the story by giving you the cool part near the climax as the front of the movie or some emotional manipulation crap. The “I bet you’re wondering how I got here” variant is the absolute worst tho…




  • Jumping a turnstile and taking a physical, actually scarce resource is not comparable to duplicating a digital, artificially scarce resource.

    The train requires ongoing maintenance and can only hold a finite amount of people. Taking the train seat for free takes away something from another person. Downloading media does not use any ongoing resources, and does not take anything away from another consumer.

    Comparing the morality of physical goods to digital goods are not really a good comparison specifically because of the artificial scarcity brought on by making something digital to try to make it more expensive doesn’t map to the real scarcity of physical goods.




  • That said, celebrating someone dying in the way that’s happening now shows disrespect to human life and an utter lack of humanity.

    If he had been murdered, sure. But the fucker lived to be 100 years old and died peacefully, unlike countless other people’s deaths that he was responsible for. Celebrating the peaceful death of a monster isn’t anything to be upset about.

    I understand the motivation, but it should be fought against by remembering that no one is ever just one thing, everyone is a mix of good and bad

    Was Kissinger though? What good has he done, and is it even a fraction of the evil he has done?