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I mean, you are the one who compared the Holocaust to Sandy Hook. That's called Holocaust relativism and is considered antisemitism by the people who make the rules on that sort of thing.

What about people who aren't chill at all online?

I have a 100 pound pitbull. Is your entire family ******ed or just you?

But you’re wrong about nearly everything, and you’re likely wrong here.

This is categorically false.

The idea of thinking that one who is self-aware enough to know that in large gatherings with adults and kids there will likely be some who may dislike dogs, for whatever reason, and want to be respectful of those people means they must hate dogs is a wild take.

So because a dog won't rape a human, people should just let dogs roam free in public places?

what if the holocaust was a psyop?

I mean some have made that case...

I used the holocaust as a clear case where having “no opinion” would be epistemically vicious as a paradigmatic example. It’s a discrete case that is undeniable in order to help people understand the general principle I’m appealing to. It’s not being invoked as a comparison for badness.

Norman Finklestein, obvious ****** and self-hating Jew

ok cool. that has nothing to do with Sandy Hook.

and really the only reason that I remember Sandy Hook out of the multitude of other school shootings is bc I post on this forum and people bring it up every other day to take shots at Luckbox. the Holocaust is a required part of American education otoh.

If someone said “I haven’t hear of it”, ok: But that’s not the position he took. Also, there are many reasons Sandy Hook stays in the news, including that ginormous defamation lawsuit famously lost by Alex Jones.

I’m sure if you looked into it you would find a way to connect it to Israel 😀

I never even said all invocations of “I don’t know about Sandy Hook” are epistemically vicious. I pointer to the general principle that saying “I don’t know” doesn’t absolve you of epistemic responsibility.

Yeah, he's the guy you go on a road trip with if you want a break from adult life and relive hanging out with guys your parents said were bad influences in high school, and you don't mind picking up the tab for everything.

There’s lots of reasons for that, namely that most people are strong enough to fight off dogs, but most women are not strong enough to fight off a man.

i mean, there is some validity to that, less than half the camp victims were jewish but today it's viewed as an exclusively jewish event

I tend to like ambitious but flawed games better than formulaic ones.

I made a fair bit of music for early computers, and it is interesting to me today how the limitations of the devices shapes the music and makes it very interesting on traditional instruments.

Few of us thought in musical terms, but the lack of channels made traditional chords something you almost never used, because there would be only room for 1-2 instruments if you did that. Instead it is almost always fast arpeggios that gives an illusion of harmony, or implied chords which can give a very nice airy feel with a lot of room to play around with sus-notes, blue notes and dissonance... which is basically what we ended up doing, without knowing the terms for it.

I'm subpar on keys, but can imagine it is a lot of fun to play that way. Interestingly, on the guitar there is a lot of similarity in you build riffs, which also tend to revolve around power chords and chord shapes. Though, few computerized riffs follow effective finger movement for stringed instruments, and they are often high tempo as well, so I certainly recognize how a piece can be tricky to play.

Today it is also fascinating how the machines that had little in the way of being able to mimic actual instruments tend to sound a lot better than the next generation of machines that were able to somewhat mimic or use lo-fi samples. Back then that second generation sounded like magic, but today it is the earlier generation that sounds better to my ears. Without the possibility for flawed mimicry, they instead had to focus on making their unique sound work.

Great quote.

Reminds me of this one: Without music life would be a mistake. - Nietsche

I actually agree with this. In fact several months ago when LB was in San Diego County he and I discussed via PM the possibility of meeting up at a card room in Oceanside. Didn't work out unfortunately.

Victor likes a book hailed by holocaust deniers. Who would have thunk it?

why do you lie so much? God probably frowns on that.

lol, she's so close to figuring it out

I had been playing tournaments there but had to stop because every time I would take my dog to the daycare place there she'd end up getting sick, figured out it was stress-induced anxiety but she'd stop eating for a day and it wasn't worth it.

Unfortunately no dogs in the casino.

A real dark irony about this is that in the Muslim world today Nazi's are held in extremely high esteem (any given year in any given Muslim country Mein Kampf is likely to be the highest selling book behind the Koran) because most Muslims perceive Naziism through this same lens, and have no real comprehension of Naziism, as an ideology or how it was practiced in totality.

They just know they mass killed a lot of Jews, so view them positively for this.

"Most Muslims" idealize Nazis now? Dude, I can't even with this.

lol Mein Kampf in every Arab classroom