Maybe they don’t know about cURL, and that’s why they don’t use it.

A better thing to write would be: try cURL. It is this and that, bla bla bla.

While we’re clearing out the air, if I buy your shitty product, why do I still need to see your fucking ads?

For all of us, let’s hope, but I’m not holding my breath.

Alcoholism and masturbation.

I enjoi the wai you write! :)

Ronin. Back when TV was a thing, if that shit came on, we did not change the channel until it was done. GOD what a fantastic film that is.

Yes, I have! Jesus and the money changers, Moses and the golden calf, easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, money is the root of all evil- I can go on forever.

My belief is that Man being cast out of paradise is a story of the break between nomadic and sedentary life, because we were able to live in purity and harmony with the world as it were, in plenty and only using what we needed, and wanted for nothing- and what is the first thing that happens after Man is cast out? Man lives in a hut and is toiling and plowing the soil, followed by a long list of kings, one more brutal than the next.

The accumulation of wealth is the root of evil.

Anyone care to join me for a belt of whiskey?

Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.

Novelty wears off quick, and utility scales slowly with price, at least for the thermal. It’s like with real wrist watches Anything under $1.5K is a toy- or so it is claimed, I’m not into clocks, but for thermal shit if you want real gear you’re looking at $2K for the lower-mid range models, buying both thermal and NV is just not an option unless you have serious cash to spend. I got a great deal on the monocular, at $600, and for the price it was decent for a hobbyist, but there were definitive drawbacks, most specifically field of view and distance.

I did randomly find a turtle sleeping in a bush in the middle of the night in the jungle though. That alone was probably worth the $600 hahahahaha! Nah not really. But it was cool being able to walk on the beach and looking through the thing and see people hundreds of meters away completely unaware of me. And thermals tell you a lot about what people are up to. It was important for my security as I was living in the wild, kind of, but in hindsight I was never in any real danger, and had I been, I had been better of with night vision anyway.

Using dirty grill tongs.

I’m not sure if it qualifies as a completely impulse purchase because there was some sort of rationale behind it and I did some research beforehand, but it was very off the cuff- in any case, it was a thermal monocular, and I needed one. Some part of my brain did, at least, and I was in a position where I had the money to do something stupid.

I was going traveling to far-away lands for an extended period of time, and my night vision has steadily been going as I get older, and being the adventurous type I sometimes find myself in less-than safe environments. So I figured, to get around my handicap, either night-vision or a thermal scope of some sort would be a good thing to have on hand.

In hindsight I should have gone with night vision rather than thermal, but it was a cool piece of equipment to have with me. It helped me very little in the end, and the NV would have been the better one to bring by far in the end, as I was at greater risk getting lost in the dark than getting jumped by bad people or animals.

This is a straight up childish answer. It’s basically “boooo! you dumb!”, what is that? Are you incapable of having a civil argument or do you simply refuse to have one?

Have I said anything irrational or hateful or incomprehensible?

What? What gives you the right to judge people you don’t know like that? You’re literally just trying to shame me into silence, you have not said a single rational thing to me, you have not met the argument, you are arguing in a thoroughly disingenuous matter because you seem incapable of interacting with people in any other way, it’s pure domination tactics and base rhetoric very much like that that is seen on the far right.

This is not a dick measuring contest. It’s a forum. For the exchange of ideas.

This is just straight up immature behavior on your part. Please try and be civil.

I mean this is ridiculous. You are basically just trying to shame me into silence because you cannot express yourself in any other way. What is that? Do you have any statement at all?

I have been nothing but calm and courteous, and you came in here and literally haven’t expressed a single cogent rational thought, only emotional outrage and dismissal.

Is that fair?

Ok. Do you have an argument you would like to discuss or is it just name calling today?

Do you agree that there are people who lie, or make up things for attention, or are wrong about their beliefs?

It’s funny how it always devolves into name calling and domination tactics instead of actual argument. That only proves that this is not really about gender and equality, it’s about using moral condemnation as a weapon to dominate others. It’s very reminiscent of how fascists operate.

Do you have any kind of actual argument you would like to discuss?

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