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MathWizard
Good things are good
3m ago
Seems more like a soft R? Or no R. It's patronizing and disconnected but still offensive in a similar way that going up to a bunch of black guys and calling them "my nigga". Because that's what they call each other, right? Right? Probably maybe? Vote for me my niggas!
Skulldrinker
13m ago
Talk is cheap. I've seen way more performative fear of men from frumpy women than hot women.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
30m ago
I added the caveats because, well, you can't do this safely in urban streets, or on a winding cliffside road in heavy fog. It also helps to know how your car actually handles at those speeds; stopping distance for 180 km/h is just a wee bit longer than for 110 km/h, and AIUI you also can't turn as rapidly without skidding. And I mean, I think some cars still exist that generate positive lift?
Tiber727
38m ago
Is life in prison due to a kangaroo court much better? As that is something Dem actually attempted to do to Trump. And certainly I don't remember if any Dems were vocally against it.
The bolded is your subjective assessment, and rather the pivotal element which changes the situation from fair to unfair. If the Democrats don't think it was a kangaroo court, would you still expect them to be against it?
Skulldrinker
40m ago
Why would any of them want to be around young politically-active democrats? They'll have to grin through a bunch of "straight white men, amirite?" Comments, every conversation about media will inevitably turn into how queer something is or how problematic it is for being from the wrong era. They'll be asked their pronouns as a social formality. All the women who don't have dicks will be they/thems in an open demi-asexual polycule, and while walking to wherever it is they're volunteering, the female volunteers will notice that a man is walking in the same direction as them and be performatively afraid. And whatever they're volunteering for, it'll be to do with People of Color somehow.
I don't see the appeal. Leftist Activism is a subculture/social scene larping as a political movement, full of utterly insufferable people.
07mk
41m ago
Intellectuals are more capable than the hoi polloi of elaborate self-deception.
To get on my favorite tangent, even though I have high skepticism of most social science, I do believe that the best evidence right now indicates that this is true. As such, intellectuals have no excuse for being unaware that they themselves are more susceptible to self-deception than the hoi polloi. And if they choose not to take extra steps - more than they expect a typical layman to take - to guard against the possibility of them deceiving themselves, they are admitting that they prioritize their own biases over truth.
Which is all well and good, but I just wish people who did this would be open about it instead of deceiving others about their embrace of self-deception over truth.
birb_cromble
42m ago
Those hills catch you by surprise. I definitely went into a barely-controlled skid to avoid smacking into a small herd of deer cresting one of those hills once.
Tiber727
45m ago
There are some interesting parallels here to the run-up to the election, when the common talking point was that the Democrats using the legal system to go after Trump, or removing Trump from the ballot for treason were massive norm violations.
If we were talking jail maybe, but personally I don't see how adding "...by the government, after a trial (in which my desired outcome is the just one)" to "I hope my political opponent is executed" makes it not support of violence.
07mk
52m ago
There's something special about using a phrase coined for people who are never nude to describe porn advocates.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
53m ago
Intellectuals are more capable than the hoi polloi of elaborate self-deception. I suspect that at least some of us here are immersed in the New York Times reading, granola-eating, NOVA-commuting segment of the American population where things like seeing Kamela Harris as a viable candidate are in vogue.
The word vane comes from the Old English word fana, meaning "flag".
A weather vane points which way the wind blows. It moves to face the wind.
Crucially, the bellwether precedes the flock, while the weather vane follows the wind. Slight differences.
magic9mushroom
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56m ago
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I've had friends who enjoyed stretches of road like that in New Mexico, but I don't think any of them exist in Virginia.
Yeah, I guess this is where me being Australian starts to show up as relevant to my intuitions about this, because once you get a couple of hundred kilometres inland in eastern Australia (haven't been to the west) the highways start to look like "straight road for 50 kilometres, dead-flat wheat field for 100m on either side, no trees, mostly no large animals".
srf0638
58m ago
If someone is experiencing physical sexual dysfunction, then they should of course address that.
But if you're feeling moral guilt over not being fully present, then my good ol' fashioned practical advice would be: stop.
YMMV and so forth, but I should think a suitably galaxy-brained anti-porn interlocutor would respond by saying that these aren't really two different things--perhaps "full presence" is an unnecessarily obscurantist way to describe whatever it is we're going for here, and by the same token "physical sexual dysfunction" obscures the existence of psychogenic sexual dysfunctions with physical manifestations, and "causes" in the following should be taken to read "reliably predisposes with reasonable probability in a reasonably large fraction of the relevant population", but porn causes lack of full presence which in turn causes sexual dysfunction, and sexual eufunction is more important than the enjoyment of porn. Do I, myself, actually believe this? Eh, not enough to bet my life on it, but enough to avoid watching porn.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
1hr ago
I can't find Virginia's definitions, but here are Pennsylvania's.
A person acts recklessly with respect to a material element of an offense when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the material element exists or will result from his conduct. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that, considering the nature and intent of the actor's conduct and the circumstances known to him, its disregard involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the actor's situation.
A person acts negligently with respect to a material element of an offense when he should be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the material element exists or will result from his conduct. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the actor's failure to perceive it, considering the nature and intent of his conduct and the circumstances known to him, involves a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the actor's situation.
This Pennsylvania case seems highly relevant to the situation under discussion.
- A motorist is driving at 55 mi/h on a road whose posted speed limit is 35 mi/h. At a sharp curve, he loses control and hits an oncoming car. He is convicted of reckless driving.
- The appeals panel reverses.
There is no evidence Appellant had any difficulties negotiating the road or came close to colliding with other vehicles prior to encountering the curve that caused him to lose control here. As such, and given that Appellant's speed was not so excessive as to itself create a high risk of accident, which could be imputed to Appellant by default, the evidence of conscious disregard, a key component of the willful and wanton [i. e., reckless] standard, is lacking.
Even when there are other cars on the road, driving at high speed can be merely negligent rather than reckless.
Bingbong
1hr ago
Yeah vibe was far more around the tragic irony of it than 'thank god the oppressor is dead'
BahRamYou
1hr ago
I'd say it's sort of like the way women sometimes talk to their friends. Talking about their "girlfriends," "gal pals," and "hey it's your girl x here..." It's fine when they do it between friends, it shows intimacy and comfort. But it's considered impolite when an adult man talks to them like "hello girl," or calls them his girlfriend when they're just a regular friend. It shows too much intimacy.
Modern American English tends to be pretty casual, we don't have like a formal "you" the way some foreign languages do. And we tend to call everyone by their first name with not title. But when random news media or campaign strategists start calling me "dude" it feels like going a little too casual, it makes me want to push back and be like "um you don't know me well enough to call me that."
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1hr ago
Disagreed. Not every character has to be eye candy. Or white.
gattsuru
1hr ago
I don't think there are that many "porn is a great thing, actually" advocates out there, and most that exist are probably left-of-center by a decent margin.
Corvos
1hr ago
In this case I suspect you're right. But there is no law that bad people have to be cowards, or poor shots. Hamilton for example was killed by a belligerent nutbar, and I believe there were many such cases throughout history.
comfortable
1hr ago
Yeah, but I would rather her be that than the other alternative.
roystgnr
1hr ago
I think the phrase he was looking for was "wether vein", the metaphor about how you can tell a sheep is getting ready to follow the flock when its heart starts pumping harder.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
It's an Interstate highway. There aren't "blind corners" of the type you might find on a surface street. There are a few places Interstates do violate Interstate standards (e.g. I-70 and I-76 in Pennsylvania), but I-64 through New Kent County appears to be quite straight if a bit hilly.
The populists ARE the wokescolds. Most of the politically active base of the democrats loathe them for being neo-liberal/not-socialists.
I might be in a horrible filter bubble, but I encounter obnoxious leftists IRL several times a week and they seem pretty "popular"
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