I’m always shocked to hear him speak about stuff because he sounds so perfectly well-adjusted, empathetic, and normal. lol that’ll show us to judge someone who makes an ascii game all night every night and has plywood over his window so he can sleep all day!

What a bright young lad you are! Can you show me on your fingers how many years old you are?

Normally when someone asks “would you like to dance” it’s an invitation to dance with that person. In the comic, the lady did not invite the little guy to dance with her, as he and the reader expected.

People often find subversion of expectations like that to be funny.

That’s the neat part, it’s not!

Maybe I’m too pessimistic, but I don’t think this kind of point is debatable. A person who does not share a fundamental care for humanity cannot be debated. The only thing to do is to take away their ability to do harm and hope that interacting with the world without the power to do harm makes them wiser and kinder (assuming that the way you took away their ability to do harm wasn’t a guillotine).

Hard disagree on WXYZ. C tier. Maybe B tier at best.

That’s awesome! How many furniture projects have you done? This looks great.

lol, sorry…the company selling a product made an outlandish claim and you believe it? I got a bridge to sell you!

I think the fundamental problem is that you haven’t actually used these tools enough to see that the companies peddling them are snake oil salesmen. Nothing they say is true, they’re completely full of shit, and they’re terrified they’re not going to make any of the money they promised their investors they would make.

And like…if you think about it for a moment it would make sense, given how these tools work, that they can’t do much in the way of reasoning. They just get better and better at replicating the language they’re supposed to mimic, which sometimes even carries the right content! Wow! But that’s only a secondary effect, right?

Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek

Our programme to retouch,

And will insist, whene’er they speak

That we demand too much.

’Tis passing strange, yet I declare

Such statements give me mirth,

For our demands most moderate are,

We only want the earth.

If you’re willing to do something about that wish, then you’re an authoritarian too.

And FWIW, casting it in personal terms makes that wish tautological. No one wishes for a system where they have to cater to the whims of someone else. I’m sure you meant to say “no one has to cater to anyone else’s whims,” and that’s all well and good. Still authoritarian if you’re willing to see anything at all done to overcome the desires of the powerful to maintain the status quo (and in case it’s not obvious, that’s a good thing to be authoritarian about).

On Authority is a pointed response to the thought-terminating pejorative of “authoritarian.” If you haven’t read it, you should! It’s short and important =)

You want a change in society? You don’t care that fascists don’t want that change? Then you’re an authoritarian. Everything after that is a matter of degree.

Is considering sex work generally non-consensual a SWERF thing? I’d guess most people who think that don’t at all want to exclude sex workers…it’s not a criticism of sex workers. I also don’t think it precludes that some people might not have a coercive experience with sex work. Im sure there are plenty of people selling feet pics on instagram and feeling great about it, and maybe that’s fine…but I don’t think that’s the norm!

Maybe I’m wrong though; I don’t intend to be a swerf, but I do think sex work is generally non-consensual. Most paid work is probably non-consensual on some level but I think sex kind of has a special place in non-consensual activity.

Sex work is obviously something many people feel forced into. 73% of sex workers have at least one disability; maybe they feel they have other options, but it looks like that’s not most people’s experience: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/nearly-3-in-4-sex-workers-live-with-a-disability-rare-bc-report-finds/

You know, you think that the first time, but if you go for it (and have the storage) you’ll be surprised at how glad you are to have them!

Or we can be part of making that a condition of the democrats doing well. Not supporting a genocide isn’t something we can or should “strip out” of our expectations of politicians. If you’re right, then burning the system down is the only feasible thing. Nothing else is feasible.

It’s infeasible to expect decent people to rally around genocidiers.

Don’t let the people with power tell you what is or isn’t feasible. Not supporting a genocide is easy for them. They may lie to themselves about it, but it’s obvious.

lol, yeah I mean if we could do it with a snap of our fingers, sign me up. If we do it by prolonged struggle using all available means including imperfect ones like violence and states…also sign me up.

I just kinda gently jostle her a little until she stops. Its usually about the angle of the head in my experience (at least for my wife!)

I actually really like the theory from The Last Ringbearer (the Russian revisionist novel that re-tells LOTR from Mordor’s perspective, taking the main trilogy as ‘history written by the victors’) that Aragorn murdered Boromir.

Aragorn stands to gain everything from Boromir’s death. He was also the only witness; sure is convenient he showed up just in time to see Boromir die heroically! He’s the heir of Isildur, and Boromir is the popular, noble son of the Steward who stands directly in his path to the throne of Gondor (Like Boromir said at the council of Elrond: “Gondor has no King. Gondor NEEDS no King.”). So once Boromir is conveniently out of the way, Aragorn plays up what a hero Boromir was and how absolutely devastated he is.

yeah i thought about going that route, but I was able to get a used gas mower for dirt cheap from a guy that repairs them as a hobby/side project. If not for that I think i might have gone for one that uses the same battery platform as my power tools just for the joy of having as much as possible run off the same batteries lol

Never heard of one of these, but seems like a good thing to have lying around!

Literally, my brain is flooded with Dr. Evil upon seeing lasers and sharks in the same sentence. I can’t think about anything else until i look away.

Oh nice; that’s good to know! Someone here was kind enough to point out that it was probably a clogged gas line with my fiddling accidentally unclogged.