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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
In a curated environment like that you can definitely better your odds of finding someone with interests closer to your own. But at the same time, you increase the quality of your competition. That brilliant girl with esoteric interests at Yale is also getting chatted up by the genuine genius and the bro with generational wealth.
I'm not telling you to "abandon all hope, ye who want a girl that's read Nietzsche", but much like the women who want a 6/6/6 guy you should understand that you're restricting yourself to a small portion of the pool. Especially if you also want her to be, e.g. hot and personable and not so short that your sons will resent you.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
(shouldn't be a big ask)
You post here. Yes, it very much is.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Congratulations and blessings upon you and your family!
Don't sweat the doubt. It happens to the best of us. "Oh God, what if I'm wrong" is a natural thought to have at some point in that kind of stressful event. It's a biological sanity check - is your confidence strong enough to override this rush of panic hormones?
Years ago, I was out being an adult. My mother had my kids. She called me in a panic, claiming my daughter had a fever of 107 and I needed to come get her right away for an ER visit. But she put the girl on the phone. And she sounded somewhat sick, but reasonably coherent for a five year old. Hardly life-threatening, brain-damaging EMERGENCY RESPONSE CATATONIA I would expect for a 107.
But I dutifully rushed home and then rushed her to the ER, because oh my God, what if?
Her actual fever, as determined by the ER staff, was 102.
My mother is a nurse.
But maybe one day my reasoned opinion will be wrong. Most situations you'll face will be much less consequential than the C-section choice. An extra trip to a specialist isn't that much of an inconvenience.
More generally, enjoy the roughhousing. Playfighting with my son when he was little was one of the greatest joys of my life. Your boy will probably be into it sooner than you think. Buy bokken. Teach him to Flynn.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
The bad ending is when the AGI convinced them that AGI is impossible right before deleting them.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Basically, it seems like this is a case of liberal legislators not thinking carefully about the incentives they are creating.
That's the generous take. The more cynical/realistic one is that they deliberately want to encourage exactly this kind of behavior as an under-the-table giveaway to the non-profits, which will be kicked back to them in various forms. And if other disreputable people want to engage in fraud, well, that's just fine.
More generally, it is past time for major reform (or possibly just the abolition) of non-profits/NGOs.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
And yet most politicians make it through the process without catching this kind of scandal.
The point about Platner is that he's not normal. He's spent his entire adult life as a barely functional basketcase. This story isn't actually what sunk him - the fact that it was published in Politico was a Schelling Point to let the Dems know that he was getting kicked out. He literally had a different ex-girlfriend story drop a few weeks ago in the NYT, but the take was "She's a conservative just doing politics, so we can ignore her allegations".
It's likely that no one who withdrew an endorsement did so based on the facts of the actual accusation, but rather for reasons of triangulating around his odds of beating Collins.
The normie candidates who once dated a Latina or emo chick are still safe.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
In today's instance of "Worst Person You Know Made a Funny Post"...
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
I don't know anyone with a Nazi tattoo. I do know people who might have plausibly said, while very drunk in Eastern Europe, "Let me get.... uh... oh, how about that sick skull thing? That's the one that'll make people think I went to Yale, right?"
Not that I believe Platner's protestations of ignorance. Too many people claimed that he definitely knew, and bragged about, what it was.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
My guess is "people who want to win". Knowing or plausibly worrying that there was worse yet to come makes this a rational call from the rest of the party if they want to take the Senate. It could be some kind of Establishment vs DSA war, but there are more extreme standard-bearers for the DSA side, and most of the Establishment seemed willing to support him four days ago. Maybe his white maleness meant that he was the only leftist candidate who was susceptible to shivving, which would be hilarious.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
results of the primary election
Well, at least they had one this time.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
where cost overruns are guaranteed to lead to more funding.
-->You are here. You have been here for decades.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
This is a good breakdown. If the story is true, what he did isn't good or acceptable, and may well deserve to be called rape. But at the same time, it's qualitatively different from snatching a woman off a running trail and having his way with her while she cries and begs him to stop.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
You're still assuming the situation can be resolved into a binary state. She herself might not have a consistent take on if she begrudgingly tolerated sex with an intermittent partner of known sexual forwardness, or was raped. And even if she did ultimately decide it was easier to just fuck him and kick him out in the morning, that doesn't mean his behavior wasn't shitty and wrong. But if he'd done the same thing a half dozen times before and found her more receptive (perhaps after a token "No, it's late, you shouldn't"), then that would make his behavior (and hers!) more understandable.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
For the wife example, however grudgingly you did indeed consent. So that's not the same as "lack of consent"
I think this is the line being discussed. HereandGone is interpreting her actions as being closer to "begrudging consent". The problem with
Lack of consent is the literal difference between rape and not rape.
is that, particularly among people who have an existing, ongoing sexual relationship, that line can get blurry.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
Not so far as I'm aware. Actually border encounters are down over 95%, so there really isn't anything to add to the total of actual "taking people who are here illegally and sending them home" numbers.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
without the consent of the victim.
I think HereandGone is implying a sort of tacit consent. I don't consent to my cat laying me and clawing at my belly... but I don't do much more than call him an asshole and then scratch his ears. I've personally been on the receiving end of similar sexual behavior, and calling it rape feels like it seriously devalues the concept. I was not "forced against my will", I was "annoyed by a drunk wife until I decided that getting her off was the quickest path to getting back to sleep".
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
If he drops out of the race before July 13th, the Democrat Party of Maine gets to pick a replacement, which would almost certainly be the sitting governor that Platner beat for the nomination by default after she stopped campaigning.
That's why the Reps have been heavily hinting that they have killshot levels of dirt that only come out after it's too late to replace him.
If they're lying, and Collins just baited the Dem establishment, it would be a legendary act of dirty politics.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
The national party is losing the fundraising race badly
This is misleading. Dems funnel all their money from billionaires and foreigners through assorted informal and dark money webs. Expect them to outspend Reps anyway.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Still looks deleted even in new reddit. Weird. And now I feel dirty.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
That appears to go to a deleted post from 14 years ago?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
we didn’t have a bunch of right wing political colleagues asking Kavanaugh to withdrawal after the allegation was made the way Platner right now is
No, the Republicans all just spent months "very seriously" investigating an obvious farce that was obviously drummed up for obvious political reasons. As opposed to Platner, who already had allegations (lesser, yes, but also purported the current one) being swept under the rug by the NYT.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
You either die an icon, or live long enough to become the Boomer.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
The department store bike is going to be built with extreme cost-cutting measures and is likely to malfunction relatively quickly, at which point the unsuspecting customer is faced with a repair bill that amounts to a significant percentage of the bikes cost and a warning from the mechanic that it's likely to fail again in short order.
An important factor here is that most of those bikes are being bought for kids who are expected to grow enough to need a new one in a few years anyway. It's the same reason you don't buy them expensive formal clothing they'll wear maybe twice before outgrowing it. Investing in quality might have made sense when you had a pack of 8, and could expect the same size bike to service 3-5 kids, but if Modern Couple has a boy and a girl and lives 500 miles from any potential younger cousins, then that's that.
Shit, that's like finding a unicorn. I don't think I've ever seen a man involved in the front of a medical/dental office. Closest would be a male ER nurse. He was a black guy too and when he tried to take my blood pressure, the cuff wouldn't fit. He said "Woah! Gonna have to get the big one!" I think he was probably overselling it but that carried me emotionally for a couple of years.
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