philosoraptor
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I mean...are you a tall dude that looks like he could be a male model? Are you a multimillionaire with yacht pics? Famous? Or...are you okay with women twice your weight? If this guy ain't conventionally attractive he needs a million a year and enough charisma for a career in politics plus the body of a Greek God, otherwise he's decidin' where he wants the ambulances.
This took me less than two minutes to find and is just one example of you doing the exact thing you claim here that you're not doing, and going out of your way to be clear and explicit about it.
Also, I think much of the objection is not to the content but to the repetitiveness. Making a dozen to a score of posts saying essentially the same thing (including two substantively similar direct replies to the OP) in something on the order of 48 hours is pointless and obnoxious.
What's the greater evil: my psychopathy, or OP's incel-ism?
Since the latter isn't an evil at all, whatever else it may be, your psychopathy, almost by default.
but 90% to 99% of Americans have spent more hours than that watching porn
I seriously doubt enough women watch porn on the regular for this to be true. Not that I care much about the larger topic (squaring Trumpism with the religious right is not a fight I have a dog in since I'm just like "A pox on both their houses!"), but that jumped out at me.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
the possibility of a human being choosing to disobey the law is just not something that exists within their philosophy even as they complain about rampant criminality.
As others have pointed out aspects of, neither half of this seems even remotely true of the woke progressives I know or the ones I see online (two groups that are quite different in some other ways). Plenty of both break laws all the time or cheer on others' doing so, and they don't seem nearly as likely to complain about rampant criminality as deny or downplay it at best, and not infrequently cheer it on.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
It’s really prohibitively expensive to attend games in person. Taking a family of four to a ballgame, buying each person a snack and a beverage is easily $100.
That's prohibitively expensive? I wish two people could get out of a hockey game for that, and I live in one of the less expensive cities in the NHL.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Is it still the same band? I think they have one original member left, and if it's not Paul Kantner (dead) or Grace Slick (retired), I don't see much point. Same with a lot of these "bands of Theseus" that are still running around with names made famous in that era.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Not that many males are either, if they don't share that specific interest. Or at least that's my experience, of being on both sides of conversations like that.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Is he actually omitting stuff, or is the original like that? I was assuming the former, but if the latter, that's just plain incorrect. It's like ending this post with a comma,
philosoraptor
11mo ago
All the talk in Dec Jan 2021-2022 was of making lockdowns semi-permanent and ramping up the vaccine passport system ever further to crush dissent.
A small percentage of the talk in places like this, maybe. This certainly wasn't a widespread, mainstream idea, much less a dominant one.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
You never say whether certain criteria are necessary, or sufficient, or both, or neither.
Yes, because that is the question that's at issue! The OP was, I thought, completely clear on this point, then in the direct reply to you she said this explicitly. You even say yourself:
You talk about whether X can be "the criterion" or Y can be "the criterion"
Well, yes. How is it not clear that this is the question she's raising, not one she has a worked out answer to? What else would someone you'd describe that way be trying to do? This honestly seems like basic reading comprehension to me.
philosoraptor
11mo ago
Not as useless as repeating the exact point she and I have already addressed multiple times, completely ignoring everything either of us said about it.
Tell Gdanning that, please. Most of his posts lately seem to be nothing but a lot of words to say "I didn't read the post I'm replying to". It's obnoxious and infuriating and hard to believe it could be in good faith and I can't judge anyone too harshly for this kind of reaction. Just because it's superficially more polite (although even that gets borderline at times!) doesn't make it higher quality.
philosoraptor
10mo ago
... context?
philosoraptor
10mo ago
If this took place in 2021, it didn't involve anything recognizable as the AIs people are currently concerned about.
philosoraptor
10mo ago
puts a lot more sugar in absolutely everything than any other country in the developed world
Mostly HFCS, actually, as I understand it.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Or telling an American in 1980 that 10 years later, the USSR would no longer exist.
They'd almost certainly be neither surprised nor happy about this, because the assumption would be that a nuclear war had taken place. People seem to have completely forgotten the grip that threat had on the culture around that time.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Well, SMH only said a cock, not your cock...
philosoraptor
9mo ago
With the sheer number of Ph.Ds being minted in comparison to the number of available positions, I doubt spousal hiring hurts the quality of research or teaching much. You won't optimize, but you'll still get someone pretty good.
philosoraptor
9mo ago
Well, in philosophy people act like that's true but I'm not convinced it actually is. Can't speak to any other field with any real authority.
Murphy's responses make a lot more sense if you assume that her true objections to the sex industry are really borne out of an aesthetic or disgust aversion, and specifically only when men are the patrons.
Okay, not the most substantive point but this error, which seemed to be pretty rare at one time, is everywhere lately and it drives me nuts. "Borne" is not a fancy alternate spelling of "born", as many people seem to have suddenly concluded. It's a different word with a different meaning ("carried", more or less). You could say, for example, that Murphy's responses are "borne up by a mighty wind of righteous indignation", or something like that, though that does seem a bit purple for either Yassine or myself now that I read back over it. But in this case the word you want is just "born".
philosoraptor
8mo ago
Known bug, I think. Larian says patch 2 is on its way fairly soon and will focus more on bug fixes of this general sort.
philosoraptor
8mo ago
I think he's just raising it as a hypothetical. I agree it's not realistic in the slightest, though for a different albeit related reason - I just think it would be wildly out of character for Trump.
philosoraptor
7mo ago
Heck, add a stripe of a second colour and you're talking millions.
Okay, MtG rules are my wheelhouse, including early ones as well as current ones. Hyperion is more correct than not, but not quite there.
Very early in the game's history there was an "ante" rule where each player was supposed to set aside the top card of their deck at the beginning of the game and the winner kept all the ante cards. As he mentions there were even a few cards that interacted with this, say by forcing the opponent to ante an additional card, or anteing one yourself as an extra cost for a very powerful effect.
It was dropped very early on, not so much due to "playground fights" as because it (a) was incredibly unpopular, and (b) raised concerns about gambling laws in some jurisdictions, or at least WotC was worried that it might. The latter was the main reason WotC cited for removing it. It is still in the rulebook but is very heavily deprecated, and the use of ante (and the cards that directly interact with it) is banned in all sanctioned tournaments and has been for something like 95-97% of the game's history at this point.
I don't think it was framed as optional in the earliest rulebooks, though in my experience it was treated that way in practice. It certainly is optional now, and the clear default is to not use it. Though it's redundant, the rulebook also bans it where prohibited by law.
Last I checked Facebook was still waaaaaaay bigger than all the alternatives proposed by people who say it's dying put together. I think that's mostly people trying to be all hipster-y.
(EDIT: Looked up some numbers and this is no longer true as stated. Insta in particular is far closer to catching up than I would have guessed. But it's still only close to catching up, not in danger of eclipsing it or anything.)
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