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Many people are giving wrong answers. Cognitive dissonance is NOT simply holding two opposing ideas in your head. Cognitive DISSONANCE is the uneasy feeling people are supposed to get when holding discongruent ideas at the same time.

Some people do not feel cognitive dissonance at all even while openly voicing the opinions. Great examples are all over politics. If one is for women having the freedom to make their own medical decisions, but oppose abortion bejng legal, those are two opposing views that SHOULD trigger unease and make them reconsider one position or the other.

A better example is people that believe laws should apply equally to everyone, but then go on to say Trump should totally be immune. That SHOULD cause dissonance, but it doesn’t for far too many.

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I definitely remember some people screeing about Bush and Cheney wanting it, but IIRC, everyone was treating it like suspicion at most.

The Epstein conspiracy theory was accepted FAR more readily, but then that’s basically guaranteed to be true to some degree, even if it was truly just the jailors being incompetent fuckwits that wanted to take justice in to their own hands.

The only thing I remember people being remotely close to believing was that Bush was so incompetent that he allowed a terrorist attack to happen.

It’s not really a theory that Bush was an incompetent fuckwit, but it’s highly debatable if they knew enough to stop it.

Then get rid of the non-functional ziplock part altogether. That’d save way more plastic.

That and OUR ability to detect things is very, very limited. We’re just barely getting to the point of using tricks to observe other planets’ entire existence, let alone any animal on those planets.

Our perspective is certainly still too small to make any true determinations on the Fermi Paradox outside of ruling out some basic extremes.

The justification is absolutely stupid no matter who attempts to use it.

They explicitly lose their protection if used for offensive military activity.

If soldiers are being treated in a hospital, it very much does NOT become a valid target. If soldiers are merely hiding in a hospital, it explicitly does NOT become a valid target.

Ah yes, the classic, “it won’t effect me so I’m ok with what ever abuse.”

How pitiful.

No, it’s far less common, not less rare.

Guests are during operating hours. Pests are for off-hours visitors.

Don’t literally make up excuses to act like a Karen. She made no mention of such an issue, and such an issue doesn’t have to be an immediate, “everyone needs to change what they’re doing for ME!” situation.

“If you bought something”.

and buying it on steam counts as buying it on ubisoft?

No, it cannot. Not a state-based law that the feds don’t care about and other states will tell them to fuck off over.

Not unless they are operating in Texas, accessible to Texas cops, with property seizeable by Texas authorities.

That’s because they were facilitating actual, across-the-board federal crimes.

Not looking at titties.

I could see states that have such draconian laws working together to attempt to do anything about flagrant violators, but otherwise Texas has yet another pointless, toothless virtue signaling “law” on their hands.

“Operating in the state” and “accessible in the state” are different.

Much like a business doesn’t have to have a specific state’s business license to sell to customers of a different state, a website does not have to comply with all laws everywhere just because the laws exist. If they’re operating in Texas, they will. If they’re accessible from Texas, that’s Texas’ problem.

That would require jurisdiction to charge them anyways. They do not have such power.

Late-stage capitalism, not “neocapitalism”.

There is nothing new, unexpected, or unique about late-stage capitalism. It’s just greedy fucks thinking they’re the smart ones.