I wonder if it can be ad hominem if it’s a personal attack that technically bolsters your opponent’s argument. For example, if you’re debating a scientist about some scientific subject, and you call them an egghead or a nerd. I think it still counts.

a lack of intelligence doesn’t necessarily imply that something said by a given person is wrong

This doesn’t seem convincing to me because it’s the exact same sort of criticism you’d make about any other ad hominem statement.

The smooth side does indeed face the owner. But it’s about maintenance, not appearance. If the fence faced the other way, you’d have to be standing in your neighbor’s yard to fix your own fence if it has a broken board.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that some people don’t install their fences backward.

I mean, that’s right on the mark. The reason they called themselves National Socialists isn’t because they were socialists, but because they knew that their true beliefs were so abhorrent that they needed to lie about being socialists.

Elon Musk has been recently shown to have done the same thing.

I’d think it would be obvious that a country wouldn’t want to depend on a foreign country’s proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it’s not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn’t affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.

There’s simply no reason to take the risk.

If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.

Obviously, that’s not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.

They have even more cubic feet.

I remember when this used to occasionally happen.

They’d start the movie and it would be out of focus, or the film would be shifted up out of frame, and people would shout at the projectionist to fix it.

Then if that didn’t work, someone would have to go to the lobby to complain.

The one thing that I assume happened but I never experienced is that someone forgot to change the reels. Although I had the similar experience of having the film break a few times.

As the audience, I think you can tell the difference because while they’re splicing the film together, they turn the lights on in the theater. I assume that wouldn’t happen if the projectionist simply forgot to change reels because they were asleep or something.

I also over analyze everything, which is why I always remove my eggs from the right side of the carton.

The left side of the carton is always towards me in the refrigerator, and I also always have the left side towards me on the counter.

As a result my first grab out of the fridge is always the most stable grab possible.

The way I figure it is, the most dangerous time is pulling it out of the fridge when I don’t always remember where the eggs are and where I have to grab it from one end. I don’t want to be surprised by it being heavy away from me.

Once I have it safely in my hand, I no longer have to consciously think about how to hold it, as that can all be done unconsciously.

Salt is scarier than the elements sodium or chlorine because, according to Wikipedia, “Salt is essential for life in general.” Without salt, there wouldn’t be humans creating things like chlorine gas. Life is scary.

That’s “an eye for an eye,” which is already horrible, but is not an escalation. Israel is escalating, “a genocide for a single attack.”

It’s unconstitutional, but I don’t think simply holding office when you’re forbidden is a crime. Maybe lying in your oath of office is a crime?

The message is obvious. “If somebody hurts you, then any revenge is permissible, even against people whose only sin is living near them. Even if children are starving to death, it’s okay if it’s revenge.”

The lack of humanity in Israel’s actions is simply hard to comprehend.

From the headline, it almost sounds as if they’re forcing the museums to let people in without paying if they have a doctor’s note.

But it’s actually a program funded by the city that pays for a limited number of people’s admissions if prescribed by a doctor.

Honestly, even if museums were being forced to forego admission fees, they’d probably be okay with it if it’s not too many people. It gets new people to come in who wouldn’t typically be in a museum. It’s almost like a doctor advertising for them.

Let me get this straight.

Supreme Court justice being friends with billionaire, receiving expensive presents, and then never recusing and always ruling in their favor? They have no problem.

But an FBI agent being friends with another FBI agent who was targeted by a conspiracy theory? They think this is the end of the world.

This is the same market that tried to add blockchain to everything when that first became well-known.

Some of the biggest forces in the market are extraordinarily stupid people trying to ride every buzzword that comes along.

It also has an official music video, but it’s weird, because I could actually listen to this one as a normal song, but it’s not nearly as funny as the Countdown version.

The concept reminds me of a song written by the Brett Domino Trio that exclusively uses “three letter words”.

I don’t know about “executed”, but if you go by the Matchbox 20 song Kody, there might be some mental health problems.

Imagine wasting your life by worshiping the rich.

Everybody who has worked with Musk says that he has to be distracted when he goes to Tesla, SpaceX, or whatever, because otherwise, he’ll just cause problems for the adults who are actually working. He has no idea how to run a business, and basically just publicly lies to inflate the value of his businesses, and relies on the fact that there are no consequences for rich people lying.

Every semi-intelligent person who has worked with Trump says that he’s one of the dumbest people they’ve ever met.

Supervised injection sites decrease crime, decrease (often eliminate) overdose deaths, and can help people to quit using. People who argue against them are promoting crime and senseless death.