I have been trying to make him understand that he is a complete moron for a very long time now, but he cannot be reasoned out of that which he has not reasoned into. He is only capable of building strawmen and attacking them to support his obvious rationalizations. Trust me, you are wasting your time trying to have an intelligent conversation with him.

You do know that everyone understands this obvious fact and that is literally the reason why Anthropic didn't release mythos to the general public, right?

You should start by reading your posts. It is a very interested study in phenomenal willful ignorance and the Dunning Kruger effect.

He said large hog.

Name a state that owned black people.

You are right, I didn't know or didn't remember those.

Western civilization didn't end slavery, they just converted it from race based to class based. The rich continue to make sure they benefit while others spend their days working for the benefit of food, shelter, and minimal survival. They have just managed to get the slaves to have no idea that they are slaves and in fact take pride in their slave status. I'm the case where some extra cash is left over they have programmed the slaves to hand that over to the rich in exchange for useless trinkets and tickets to various events designed to keep them complacent and avoid actual thought that might make them realize what is actually happening.

The civil war was fought over states rights vs federal, not slavery. Yours is a common misunderstanding.

Right. You are applying legalese word precision assumptions to throwaway online comments. I don't think that's going to work well.

No, the one that answered:

"You know what he means, ahole. If this were truly a problem the jet fuel would be rationed and private aircraft would be at the bottom of the priority list"

The entire point of rationing would be to REMOVE the pure market forces that would deal out the limited commodity to those with the largest wallets and replace it with a scheme that benefits the most people, instead of the most money.

If you actually knew better, you'd have posted it, not just made a vague assertion.

Yes, and the only ships running on nuclear reactors are military ships. As I said: No civilian use-case.

This is one AC that deserves to be modded up. I already commented, so I can't.

You are aware of what happened Oct 7, 2023, right?

Actually, islamic fundamentalists qualify for that statement in absolutely every way. So at the absolute minimum you'll have to concede that there are two fascist sides.

For sufficiently gracious definitions of "working". Iran was quite busy building up conventional weapons including delivery systems that could be re-purposed for nukes as well as moving towards nuclear weapons. There is no civilian use for 60% enriched uranium. Moreover, the number "60%" is misleading. The work to enrich isn't linear. When you have 60%, you're not 60% of the way from raw to weapons-grade, you're 95% of the way.

To put into context just how insane any claim that they had 60% for any peaceful purposes is: Most nuclear reactors use uranium enriched to 3% to 5%. 60% isn't "a bit more than usual". It's a fuckton more than any non-weapons use can reasonably explain.

Iran didn't need a reason. We all know the reason they already had: Wiping out Israel.