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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Rockets: Unmanned

Twitter: Manned

The difference in importance seems correct to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Well, technically, Twitter has employees, so in very strict sense, they're "manned". However, thanks to these weird incomprehensible things called "current legislation" and "capitalism", no employee is in fact personally responsible for the fuckups. And neither is the company as a whole! ...Isn't this great?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

reading comprehension: none

Don't know, man: kinda think the potential loss of life from a failing rocket crashing into people matters somewhat more than words. Maybe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Then it's a good thing you're not in charge of risk assessment, because the potential loss of life from a failing rocket crashing into the ocean pales in comparison to the loss of life caused by the right-wing shift that Twitter has facilitated, both worldwide and particularly in the USA

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

How do you control the course of a failing rocket? Are you claiming such misdesign is impossible?

The fact remains that a physical potential of death & injury exists in what is technically a missile of significant weight carrying enough explosive substance to escape orbit that is entirely absent from words. The difference between non-0 and 0 possibility of death/injury.

Unless magic exists, words are incapable. Do you claim magic exists? How do mere words cause death without the personal responsibility of something else culpably choosing to take several steps of its own? Or are you arguing the sight of words have deranged you into a mindless killer? If so, maybe you're the real threat.

Seems like you're arguing society is dangerous to life: I agree. That's not a valid argument against words, though.

Again, total lack of perspective & sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

this comment is preposterous.