HatchetHaro

learn to be skeptical, recognize logical fallacies, and never get angry.

if i may be pedantic for a sec, a lot of people mistake punishment for "negative reinforcement".

"reinforcement" means encouraging and reinforcing desired behaviour. "positive reinforcement" is providing positive stimulus as a reward for good behaviour, like giving a dog a treat for obeying commands. "negative reinforcement" is removing negative stimulus as a reward, like stopping the obnoxious low-health beeping when you heal a pokemon from critical health.

"punishment" is for discouraging undesirable behaviour. "positive punishment" is adding negative stimulus, such as physical abuse; and "negative punishment" is taking something away, like taking away an unruly teen's phone.

Gun control in the US.

Gun control would normally work in any other country, but guns are so ingrained in American culture and history that it is infeasible to simply just implement gun control and expect everything to work.

Couple that gun culture with a whole lot of systemic issues (capitalism, remnants of racist laws, wealth inequality, healthcare, police brutality, education system, firearms safety) and you get the gun violence rampant across the US.

Gun control won't work on its own. If you want to get rid of guns, you gotta fix everything at the same time, which won't happen because half the country would vote against progress and their own interests in the name of "owning the libs".

before i engage with you on this, i'd like to ask you a few questions:

1. are you eligible to vote in the US

2. who do you plan on voting for

3. if you, gun to your head, have to choose between harris or trump, who would you prefer?

EDIT: it has been two days and the person i'm replying to still hasn't responded. if one is unwilling to engage in constructive discourse, one should not make wild claims.

i love lizardmen. mainly because i am a scalie.

sexual stimulation

you keep saying "vote" as if it means the same thing in a ranked-choice voting system and a first-past-the-post voting system.

newsflash: you're not making the difference you claim you're making. if anything, you're making it worse. congratulations! good job! you did it! you get a good star!

it's not a you problem. different individuals see colour differently. artists may perceive colours differently due to practice in colour theory, lighting, and perhaps paint mixing. people from different cultures may categorize one colour into different groups. what people see as hot pink, programmers may see as magenta or simply just #FF00FF.

The Bell Riots.

it could also be regional differences, since your checks are localized to your area, and OP's his area. lots of software updates have incremental regional rollouts so i'm making a guess that that's what's happening, based on responses to this post.

don't automatically assume someone is "farming for points" when they post about something that doesn't immediately apply to you. it may apply to you in the future.

i think that's the point

i've seen a lot of .uk sites around