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FtttG
15m ago
Pretty much my reaction when I heard she stopped.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
18m ago
Ok let's do a quiz. In which of the following scenarios would you either judge someone as having committed a faux pas, or wouldn't immediately think less of someone who did judge:
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Man wearing hat inside someone else's house (ok cap, it doesn't have to be a bowler or whatever)
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Girl applying make-up on a public train full of people.
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Hawking a big throaty loogie and setting it free via a big spit off the train platform while waiting for the train.
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wearing white socks with a dark suit
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woman going bra-less at her friend's wedding
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walking barefoot in a mall (in a landlocked town)
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bikini top in a restaurant (enclosed)
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striped necktie with plaid shirt
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speaking while chewing food
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laughing after your partner's orgasm
These are in no order. Your answers will be entered into your permanent record.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
25m ago
I guess this is something we can agree to disagree on.
What does this mean in context? When I say to my wife "Let's agree to disagree on [whether I bought the right range hood for our kitchen]" what I mean is something like "I want to eat dinner, make love, go the play we have tickets for tonight without arguing about [the range hood.]" I will totally argue with you about other things in other threads without bringing up asexuality! But in this thread right now, I'm going to keep poking, because I'm viscerally horrified at this:
I don't view experiencing the full range of human emotions as something crucial either. It's a nice to have, but not necessary to achieve the things that are important in life.
I don't know how you draw a set of things that are Important in Life, that excludes everyone who is deaf or blind or in a wheelchair (our core definition of a cripple) but includes Asexuals (or I suppose people who are born unable to experience anger or hunger). Some subset of deaf/blind/wheelchair people live great lives, better than average, I'm sure quite a few better than mine, but on average it limits your experience of life to have those crippling limitations. The full range of human emotions and experiences is what is important in life! It is what is human. The saints and the sages are heroes because they struggled with their emotions. The Buddha, meditating under his tree and being tempted and threatened with women and with armies; what does that mean if he did not feel lust or the urge to battle and glory? Mahatma Gandhi sleeping chastely with women is nothing if he feels no desire that he can conquer. What is St. Augustine if he can't taste the pears? That's what makes their experience and their accomplishment human!
I feel like I'm trying to explain why seeing color is better than being colorblind.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
38m ago
Great stuff, thanks.
TheDemonRazgriz
43m ago
If i were a US rival i'd be buying up lots of farmland around US military bases and industry
China has indeed been doing that.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
51m ago
She would probably also stop it now if she was in a harsher incentive system... grow up into productive people because they are intelligent enough to understand the incentive systems created by society... but she doesn't seem to want to be purposefully causing harm to people around her.
But she didn't. She is intelligent enough to understand those incentive systems created by society to purposefully cause harm to others.
I think her actions would be a lot more destructive if that were the case.
Her actions were already seriously destructive. Tantamount to attempted murder, in fact. Preventing it already required her to be locked up, and that has already put the rest of the family in danger.
I think a huge cause of the issue with the girl in question is also that she is a child.
She really isn't (Western fiction about the age of adulthood aside); note that your suggested solution is to treat her like the adult she clearly is. Mine is too, of course- adults attempting murder get adult punishments (including and up to physical removal), and that's OK. The British hanging tables have data matching youth body types for a reason.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1hr ago
To add to what has been said, the Color out of Space, Pickman's Model, The Statement of Randolph Carter, From Beyond, Herbert West - Re-animator, The Nameless City, Nyarlathotep and The Whisperer in the Darkness are all a lot of fun too, and it's usually a good idea to start with his short stories, because the quality of his prose varies wildly in his longer works. If I had to be picky, the Color out of Space has a special place in my heart but The Rats in the Walls is an objectively better short story, Nyarlathotep is his best poem by a mile and At the Mountains of Madness is my favourite of his books, although Shadow over Innsmouth is a close second.
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
the authorities have to pick one of the two terrible optics choices of either force feeding them or letting them starve to death
We should pass a law that prohibits the authorities from force feeding people.
gattsuru
1hr ago
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
a woman in Galway commenced a hunger strike
Am I the only one who's so through with hunger striking as a concept I'd rather see people who think this is such a big move to actually go through with it to the end.
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
I've seen videos of the boston dynamics dog walking the streets and dropping N-bombs. That's just a short hop away from strapping a gun and a raspi on that thing. Running a very rudimentary NN scanning for skin color.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1hr ago
Reddit is to my gears as a big bag of unshelled peanuts and gravel would be if thrown, bag and all, into a fine clockwork. There is only grinding. Short extremely niche subs, I can't stand visiting the site.
FistfullOfCrows
1hr ago
I didn't watch them, so I assumed its with his dude, I still don't care who he has sex with (or not)
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
1hr ago
on weapons that aren't being used in the war
These bombers are being used in the war.
The pro-russian people tend to think more strategically and the pro Ukr in emotional displays.
The pro-Russian people tend to affect ruthlessness, however I'm not prepared to call this strategic thinking since it often seems to boil down to a gloss on "never do anything to upset Russia, since they might decide to nuke everyone in a fit of pique."
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1hr ago
CBS gymnastics
Not that there's an abiding difference but I believe you meant NBC gymnastics.
yofuckreddit
1hr ago
I think a huge cause of the issue with the girl in question is also that she is a child. I don't claim to understand her mindset fully, but she doesn't seem to want to be purposefully causing harm to people around her.
Not trying to beat you up with responses here, but I both:
- Greatly sympathize with especially children getting a fair shake in life
- Know from lifelong experience that children with this very specific/rare combination of traits go on to be great destroyers 100% of the time
You want to be fair to this child. I want to be fair to everyone else.
TheRealMcCoy
1hr ago
Thank you very much.
TheDemonRazgriz
1hr ago
I would give a pretty strong endorsement to The War Zone (twz.com), although they’re more news than analysis, really, and so maybe not quite what you’re looking for. A lot of defense industry news and more technical articles as well. They do have their biases (in the current conflicts that’s fairly strongly pro-Ukraine and mildly pro-Israel, if memory serves) but they generally keep them in check and provide very detailed and thorough reporting. I’ve been reading them for a long while now and they rarely disappoint. In the early days of the Ukraine war they were probably the single best source for a picture of what was going on, even breaking some events first at times, and they have a decent level of access to officials and industry types to get interesting stories.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1hr ago
Thank you for that!
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
Tell that to Kyle Rittenhouse.
Common knowledge coalesces day by day.
The Constitution never held power, and neither did the courts, much less the body of law supposedly founded upon and adjudicated by them. Constitutional Rights as such protect nothing. If the power to secure protection of one's rights exists, it comes from somewhere else in our socio-political constructs, and effective politics consists of isolating its location and securing that power to be wielded by one's own agents.
To the extent that this power exists outside formal structures, then effective politics consists of coordinating efforts outside those formal structures, a point so obvious as to border on tautology.
To the extent that formal political structures exist for the sole purpose of containing and channeling both power and the pursuit of that power, the above is a statement that formal political structures have evidently failed.
Or perhaps I'm wrong. I would invite "Rule of Law" proponents to explain what they see happening here, and how it fits into their general model of how sociopolitical power works.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2hr ago
but at the same time, the first task in a case of a guy with a deadly weapon is “live to be prosecuted.”
With state capacity and prisons today, you're better off dead.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
2hr ago
I mean I think it’s a consideration, and im not sure that I’d personally “get strapped” before going anywhere, but at the same time, the first task in a case of a guy with a deadly weapon is “live to be prosecuted.” And especially for marginalized or contentious groups, if you’re a target for violence, you need to either get out of the danger zone or be ready to defend yourself.
As far as LEOs, they can’t be everywhere. And I don’t think the reasonable assumption is “well, I’ll just hope the cops have it under control. My first option, personally is to not be there. Don’t do things that make you an obvious target of political violence. That probably doesn’t work for Jews who look… like Jews or wear kippahs or tassels. I’d say the same of gays who act in flaming ways, visible minorities, women etc.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2hr ago
I do feel like it's self consciousness that made me flinch from those stories when I first read the book, although it was also the fact that I was going in thinking it was the precursor to Lovecraft and assuming that meant tentacles. They've grown on me since, I connect particularly strongly with Hastings in Our Lady of the Fields, but they do feel out of place in the modern context of the King in Yellow. Maybe it's the non-western elements of your upbringing? I still think back fondly on one of my best friends from primary school - a Bangladeshi guy named Raymond - for convincing me that romance is an important part of stories, I would have missed out on a lot of excellent poems and great stories, and a lot of flirting with ladies, if I hadn't listened.
I would say #3, 6, 7, 9, and 10. 5 is a maybe depending on if it isn't really apparent versus "wow I can see everything even with her clothes on". Of the ones I mentioned, #3, 7, 9 and 10 are things that would bother me personally, while #6 is one that doesn't bother me but I don't find it overly judgemental if someone else doesn't think it's cool.
I didn't know I had a permanent record, lol.
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