I’m sure he’s screaming at us from his tower, feeling smug about how he’s always right.

How utterly bizarre.

Like, the only question of correctness in this entire argument is regarding my supposed transphobia, which you’ve had zero evidence of.

It’s the queers and brown people who are wrong to the cishet white man who doesn’t go outside.

Uh. Sorry for not matching the stereotype you made up in your head?

Also sorry for being disabled, I know ableism is one of your favorite pastimes. On top of the racism, of course.

It’s very impressive how he can be so sure of himself yet not let facts contractict himself.

It’s funny because at no point have you presented anything even vaguely resembling facts, just accusations that you can’t back up.

He’s not a transphobe, the trans people are wrong!

… by all means, quote my supposed transphobia.

Ah, wait, of course - you can’t, because this is all bullshit predicated on the standard notion that lies spread by repetition.

Bruh, who do you think I’m not talking to directly, exactly?

What is the direct address that I’m supposedly avoiding look like, in this scenario?

And Pug is still stalking this thread and replying exclusively to you and me so Ada and other Admins can’t see him.

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Ada has me blocked, as I mentioned and you literally acknowledged. And, quite literally, I responded to several other people in this thread.

Real MAGA shit here, just a total disregard for what was said a single sentence ago.

My most pathetic fanboy here is really something else.

And still can’t,

Go ahead, sweetheart, find a comment where I refuse to use someone’s preferred pronouns. You should be able to back up what you say with evidence, after all, like I did - at least if this isn’t some bizarrely delusional obsession with me. :)

If your head wasn’t cramped with genocide apologia, it’d be a nice rent-free alternative to my current place.

and still insists Ada is evil for blocking him. Very pathetic behavior.

From “I can’t believe he won’t even correct the record where Ada can see!” to “Wow I sure am glad Ada made sure she can’t see him correct the record!”

Fascists like you do enjoy playing with words, after all. :)

Admiral Patrick and PugJeuss are the smae person effectively. Both hate actions being called out.

Sorry for providing evidence of your bullshit, lmao. I know you hate evidence.

By the way, SmugJesus replied to St Elesewere and said Ada is lying about him. He knows you and Ada can’t rebuke him, so he replies only to people who can’t read his messages to prove him wrong.

I have literally spoken directly to Ada several times on the issue, and her response was to block me. Sorry that not everyone is a coward like you. :)

Hey Pug, I thought you were leaving this place? Can’t quite let someone you hate get away with being correct?

Sorry for coming back to check on a ping, I know my constant posting is unchanged from my previous usage.

I’m also sorry that you’re assmad over being called out, with evidence, on your utter bullshit. :)

And shit, you talk about me constantly. I’m your number one obsession. If I insisted on responding every time you said stupid bullshit about me, I’d have twice the comment count I actually do, lmao.

Sorry that your obsession isn’t mutual, sweetheart.

Sorry I call out your actions, are you sure you’re not the teseract dev? You hate when people document your actions and crash out when people do.

It’s particularly amusing since I actually backed up my claim with evidence, while your claim of “stalking” amounts to a handful of downvotes over the course of a single day.

Pug couldn’t handle this basic request for decency. *shrugs

Again, I never failed to use Drag’s pronouns, nor did I object to the neopronouns used. In fact, Drag never gave me any guff about acknowledging dragons, and likewise, I never bothered Drag about it. It was always unrelated people insisting that I had to acknowledge the reality of dragons existing, or else be transphobic.

I check when I get a ping notification.

Unfortunately, Ada still to this day spreads slander that I do not respect neopronouns, despite that explicitly not being the issue and being corrected on that.

Because I, while on a non-Blahaj instance and having not used any Blahaj comms in months, opined that while I would use anyone’s neopronouns, including Drag’s, and had no interest in getting into an argument with anyone about their gender, I didn’t think dragons were real.

To Ada, that was ban-worthy.

Downvoting a handful of comments is stalking, while this is just normal non-obsessive behavior, eh?

I often defended anarchists as comrades, but I’m not one myself. Plenty of good anarchists on the Fediverse. I’m sad to leave them.

A very simple theory of innovation/development is cultural, specifically whether your empire will make you rich for developing military applications, and control more heretical heatens.

… simple to the point of absurdity.

Motivation for the Wright brothers would simply have been great empire/government rewards for success.

Fucking what.

Eastern cultures were less expansionist driven.

I really hate the re-emergence of orientalism.

Sky lanterns require an open and continuous flame, which is considerably more troublesome to combine with cargo of any sort. Early manned hot-air balloons were filled by gas generated on the ground, which requires an understanding that it is the gas which generates lift through buoyancy.

Concept behind hot air balloon understood.

I’m not well-read on the history of Chinese scientific thought, but it could very easily fit into what I said in the comment: "If you lack the concepts behind the invention, the only way to discover it is by accident" That’s how most things were discovered before early modernity.

Knowing how to make something, especially something discovered by accident or passed on by practice rather than taught as an application of theory, is different than knowing why it works, and understanding why something works opens up a much broader range of applications and elaborations.

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You don’t know what fascism is, do you?

Palingenetic ultranationalism, accompanied by a totalitarian and repressive state apparatus, including genocide of ethnic minorities, isn’t fascism according to you?

I guess genocide is just good praxis if it has a thin coat of red paint.

Must be while you’re not fighting Trump.

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I wouldn’t even go that far. Having iron weaponry when your opponents have bronze is an advantage, yes … but I really doubt that it’s a decisive advantage. It’s not like a bronze-wielding army is suddenly going to become helpless against a foe with iron weapons. If the bronze-age army has better numbers, better tactics/strategy, and/or better motivation, they may very well defeat an iron-age enemy in battle.

A few times, sure, but on a historical scale, it’s a ticking time bomb. One of the advantages of iron, other than being significantly superior for usage in edged weapons (armor is a mixed case), is that it is much more plentiful and cheap, and doesn’t require distant supply lines to be maintained in war time in most cases.

“Their swords are better than our swords” is bad, but not necessarily spelling doom. “Their swords are better than our swords and they can make 5x as many for the same time and cost, and they aren’t reliant on their trade ships not being pirated or sunk by storms to continue making them” is a bit dire.

In three years, I’ve had three accounts that I’ve actually used to any serious degree.

“Power user” just means “User which uses the service significantly more than average”

Which, tbf, I was.