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ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7m ago
pineapples
Lol, I love that this is a thing here now.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
18m ago
That might create people.
If you only drive sober, use your headlights, and follow all laws, you can still get in a wreck. When that happens, should you be held to the same standard as a reckless drunk driver?
TIRM
20m ago
Your brain is not deactivated whilst sleeping. It is quite busy.
I take your point if applied to sci fi suspended animation or something very unlike sleep.
chooky
23m ago
Yeah, but finding that ideal (or a pretty good one with whom you form an emotional bond or simply have some hot experiences) sexual partner is a pretty key part of the human experience. Continuing to look even while failing is too!
zeke5123a
25m ago
JournaList was a thing. They repeat the same message and social media showed how creepy it was. The above post reads as cope.
If you follow the upvote/downvote patterns you’ll notice that a fair chunk of the motte’s lurkers are pretty stereotypical internet right-wingers these days, of the type who are likely to read “I’m a trans woman” and instantly downvote. And/or the type who are wont to react with instant negativity to anyone saying that “the straight man dating world/heterosexual relations aren’t that bad, actually”. Sad but true.
Edit: plus some good old-fashioned identity elements. The straight men lurking the motte presumably didn’t take kindly to a queer person talking about them from outside their Lived Experience.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
32m ago
Not that I'm not guilty of this myself - it is still genuinely difficult (sic) for me to believe in my heart that right-wingers really think fetuses are people being murdered
Im surprised by this. There are lots of pro-life people. How many of them would have to be just rationalising before the number of genuine believers reaches lizardman levels? It seems pretty clear that theres a line of thought there thats compelling to a significant number of people (though I sometimes feel it should be the left that its compelling to)
Like, one, America is an actual nation. Number two, the concept of having a passport and citizenship mean something. Being an American means something. Therefore, number three, different laws apply to foreigners, illegal immigrants, than to the native population. Number four, if people who are not native to America start burning things down, then you not only have to take action, you have to deport those people immediately. Number five, if foreign politicians like the President of Mexico starts cheering on, you know, effectively a kind of invasion into your country, you don't side with them, you side against them.
This is an extremely good breakdown! I mean yeah the total disregard for the law and the idea of a nation is just... insane. I don't understand it. I guess there's a justification that moral law is higher than secular law, which I agree with but like... you can't just ignore it as a politician.
EDIT: My other favorite quote from this video:
Of course you arrest the people in face masks! You don't just allow ninjas to roam around in the street!
sun_the_second
45m ago
No, they'd just go to different people.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
46m ago
I would bet dollars to donuts that no SC justice is actually below average IQ, even among lawyers or judges. Maybe appellate courts, but I don’t think the bar is actually that high.
Partisan, yes. Political, obviously. But those are not always correlated against intelligence.
WandererintheWilderness
49m ago
This is true if we're talking about a smart, tech-aware dictator. But your original post wasn't talking about people who expect a smart tech-driven dictatorship. It was talking about people who expect Trump to go President Joker and round up all his enemies in unmarked vans. I think the recent protestors' behavior follows a rational strategy within that framework - whose likelihood relative to "Trump continues to be more bark than bite" or "Trump becomes a smart dictator" is, of course, questionable, but that, again, wasn't the question.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
58m ago
The Romans had huge amounts of superstitions and traditions related to declaring war, and making peace. Numa Pompilius, who first held the title Pontifex Maximus which has gone in unbroken succession to our current Pope Leo, introduced the tradition of the Temple of Janus to the Roman populace in order to tame their warlike urges.
Hasn't the succession been broken a few times? Like with the antipopes and such?
But yes agree with the broader point. It speaks to the entire idea of chaos growing and the flood coming to consume us as we chip away at meaning and reality. Truth becomes impossible to pin down - are we at war? or are we in peace?
Hadad
1hr ago
Their belief is that the wicked actions of women are corrupting them, and they're consistent on this. Of course a lifestyle that embraces infanticide is also self-destructive and corrosive to society more broadly.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1hr ago
why not?
Because that's ridiculous if not disconcerting.
Tenaz
1hr ago
You're defining "potential" very oddly here. Babies have the potential for sapience in the sense that, if things run their natural course, they will soon become sapient. There is no reference to probabilities or odds here--a baby in a very dangerous environment, with a 90% chance of getting killed before they turn 1, still has just as much "potential" for sapience as a safer baby. Similarly, someone under anesthesia has the same personhood no matter the caliber of the doctor operating on them.
TIRM
1hr ago
A "late term" abortion is "aborting" a fetus that would otherwise survive outside the womb. That's a premie baby and this is baby murder. Accepting that it is baby murder, there'd better be a damned good reason such as the kid was going to die anyways and also kill the mom. Something better than the dad committed suicide.
thejdizzler
1hr ago
I guess I'm curious if I even can change it. The reason why I even would take it seriously is because subjectively since starting grad school it does seem that I've been quite stressed and not really operating at 100%.
No_one
1hr ago
For a system to last young people have to be able out maneuver the old. First past the post makes this hard.
Given the cohort size disparity, no one is ever 'outmaneuvering' boomers in Germany. They'll keep voting CDU till they can't. Clear eyed people I know are saying they can only imagine things changing for the better after the boomers die out as a group.
wayfarer
1hr ago
I've long stopped caring about how accurate anything on my timesheet is
sadly, this seems sole sane answer to that (based on description)
Gaashk
1hr ago
Yeah, multiple people going no contact is very weird, even by friend in a cult standards. Perhaps they tried declaring "this seems like a cult," and everyone's feelings were hurt or something?
gattsuru
1hr ago
Medicare estimates a national average compensation rate around 7.5k USD at hospital facilities (you may have to click the down arrow for "more cost information"). Most insurance companies (have to, ACA) cover it for gender care, but how that works out with deductibles is a treatise on its own.
I'm ... skeptical about the Milgram theory in general, and for this behavior in specific, but even presuming that they're correct and generally believing the Beware Trivial Inconveniences theory, I'd be really worried if a plane ticket and a couple weeks in an Extended Stay Express were enough of a trivial inconvenience, especially compared to everything else involved.
No_one
1hr ago
The Left has individuals with TV, radio, or podcasts, but they really don’t support each other. Raechel Maddow doesn’t tell the same story as Ezra Klein who doesn’t tell the same story as Thom Hartmann.
No? I recall everyone and their mother calling J.D.Vance, the seemingly most normal guy in politics, ever, weird. There is clear coordination. Back during Trump's first campaign, there was a minor scandal that pretty much every major media sent a high ranking guy to some Clinton event to coordinate campaign messaging.
Also, the TV and newspapers pretty much belongs to the democrats. Not that anyone except those who await death pays attention to legacy media (, but the left has something like 75% of the TV and 90% of the paper market, at least.
TIRM
1hr ago
The companies I worked for, from age 16 until now, all had a lot of capital tied up in their facilities. It would makes no sense for such company to be created and destroyed easily given the large startup investment justified only by potential long term profit. I've been in companies that weren't profitable for years after their creation. They ultimately became profitable, but it was a long slog to get there. Liquidating their assets would mean some new company getting to start from scratch.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1hr ago
I only included this because it is the most common scenario. A friend seems to be drinking too much? Watch him waste away and maybe mention it to a 3rd party, but don't intervene. Another friend has a bad boyfriend? It's her life, watch it unfold and pick up the pieces later, maybe. Online, people love doling out life wisdom. IRL, people keep quiet generally. I agree with you, though.
Busy is not the same as capable of thought. Whales' brains, for example, have much more total cognitive activity than our waking brains, but are less capable of thought.
We have some level of thought while sleeping too--I can remember reasoning some things out in dreams--but dreams/REM are the most mentally active part of sleep, and I'm not sure most of us are smarter than babies even in REM.
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