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- Comment on you won't regret it 18 hours ago:
What the fuck did you do to my wife?
- Comment on you won't regret it 23 hours ago:
Legally, I can get a no fault anullment if you don’t put out within the first 30 days.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 day ago:
I would argue that hiding information is not always lying.
There are lies of omission, but it depends on if you are asked about the things you are omitting or not.
And even if you are, it is possible to steer the conversation away from the thing without actually telling a lie.
Politicians do it all of the time.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 day ago:
I work with lawyers and I have to say lawyers are by and far either the most or least ethical people you have ever met.
And success is not determined by your ethics as a lawyer.
The best lawyers find the points of the truth that are the most salient to their case and push those.
- Comment on online my honesty makes people think i'm trolling, baiting, etc.😒 1 day ago:
You would say something like that, wouldn’t you?
- Comment on online my honesty makes people think i'm trolling, baiting, etc.😒 1 day ago:
Yeah, I mean, there’s a way that you can tell the truth in a way that hurts somebody and a way that you can tell the truth in a way that doesn’t hurt somebody.
Like if your girlfriend has a fat ass and she asks that if her dress makes her ass look fat then you can say “the dress makes your fat ass look like the fat ass that it is” or you can say “it complements your curves”
Neither one is a lie, but one is intentionally spiteful and hurtful, and the other one is like, okay, you obviously like the girl you don’t care about how fat her ass is.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 2 days ago:
I feel like it’s the kind of shit that a bunch of drunken college kids would do as a prank.
Like they’re all standing around laughing at the people that are actually believing this shit and laughing even more at the people that get upset.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 days ago:
But, and hear me out, if the people that were constantly freaking out and terrified all of the time were to chill a little bit, the world would improve dramatically, almost instantaneously.
We are in a period of time where calmness is the most vital thing for our leaders and for the people.
And if you can’t make it yourself, store bought is fine.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 days ago:
I have never had my amygdala scanned so I don’t know where I sit.
I know I am very liberal/leftist as far as politics go, and I don’t really care about the differentials of definitions of those terms. It just means that I am anti-conservative and pro freedom, and I don’t care what the correct word for that is.
But, that being said, like, most of the time I’m pretty calm, but when I am not calm, it is very, very difficult for me to regulate my emotions, even as a full-grown adult.
I typically have to lock my body and everything to keep from reacting yelling and screaming and everything when I have powerful emotions.
I’ve gotten very good at that, but it is always painful and a struggle to not react based off of the emotions of the moment for me.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 days ago:
I’ve been saying this forever, but, like, these people really need to go back and reread Chicken Little. They’re getting Fox News, getting scared, and reacting based off of what Fox is telling them, and not what the Chicken Little’s are telling them.
The sky is not falling.
Take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and chill. Everything’s okay. As long as we stop freaking out.
- Comment on A happy consequence should be called a prosequence 5 days ago:
That’s actually a very good catch.
I didn’t think about the word antecedent, but I would say that there is a slight linguistic difference between an antecedent and a prosequence.
A prosequence is a sequence of events, whereas an antecedent doesn’t have to necessarily be a series of events.
For instance, in order to have a sequel to a book, you have to have the original book. The original book would be the antecedent of the sequel, whereas the prosequence of the sequel would be writing the first book, which led to the series of events that caused the second book to be written.
So every prosequence would be an antecedent, but not every antecedent would be a prosequence.
That being said, I am just making up words, so if the world disagrees with my definitions, then the world gets to choose what they prefer, because that’s how language works.
Just like the creator of the word GIF pronounces it as JIF, even though everyone knows its GIF.
- Comment on A happy consequence should be called a prosequence 6 days ago:
I think that would be presequence.
Pro means on behalf of or forward, so a prosequence would be something that pushes the sequence forward, a prosequence would be something like, “you know there is a bomb that is about to go off, and if you do not dismantle it, your child will die. So you must attempt to defuse the bomb at the risk of your own life”.
The placement and triggering of the bomb is the prosequence that has led you to this point.
It could also be something like you were walking by a gas station and your hand started itching, so you went and bought a lottery ticket and won the lottery. The itchy hand would be the prosequence that pushed you towards winning the lottery.
- Comment on I'm sure a good lot of you, like me, had been anticipating/dreading that moment when we say, oh fuck this is it, for real. Like the BIG oh fuck. My question is, how ready are you? 1 week ago:
I hope I will keep my general knowledge and intelligence but be isekaied to a world with magic because fuck this whole science bullshit.
What do you mean I’m stuck on this planet?
What do you mean if I’m lucky I get 90 years, the last 30 of which suck? The first 30 have also sucked. And from what it looks like the middle 30 is also going to suck.
What do you mean I have to work in a cubicle for like 45 years of my life, which already sucks, but sucks more because of the cubicle?
Fuck this shit, give me some magic, tell science to go suck a fat one.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 1 week ago:
Yeah, the Mexican dirt weed I used to get as a teenager, you could smoke half a joint by yourself and be buzzed.
I quit when I was 18, but then I moved to a legal state and I took one puff and was legitimately stoned for the rest of the day. Like, could barely control myself.
The modern stuff is super strong.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 1 week ago:
I mean, what on earth makes you happier than someone you care about being excited to see you?
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 1 week ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong, but also try your best to primary candidates outside of the two parties, if you’re in the US.
While it is true there are no good kings, we should try to get as many halfway decent people in the office as possible.
Once primaries are done, then under no circumstances vote for Republicans. And if the option is between a Democrat that might narrowly win and a third-party candidate that might narrowly win, then vote for the third-party candidate. Otherwise vote for Democrats.
- Comment on Well I could walk them through it step by step 2 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly, it was also a somewhat common method of murdering your husband to drive a nail into his skull. The tiny wound would be easily hidden and apparently quite a few people got away with it.
- Comment on I missed the Pedo/Nazi extravaganza last night because I was busy expressing my dog's anal glands. Cliff notes? 2 weeks ago:
No, but dry mouthed 80 year old sandpaper tongue was featured prominently on the menu
- Comment on It's a tough case... 2 weeks ago:
She only has herself to blame, like she was supposed to be there when you were 7, not 33.
- Comment on Believe it. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but, like, could you imagine getting your ass kicked by Gillian Anderson? That would be hot as fuck.
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
My apologies for the two+ page rant.
If you don’t want to read that, here’s the TLDR:
Intelligent people are likely to consider the consequences.
When you consider the consequences of allowing the current conservative party to be in office, it’s unconscionable.
They are a bunch of scheming, disgusting, morally reprobate, terrible, and foul former schoolyard bullies who fight for the opportunity to have a job where they scream at decibel ratings higher than their IQ could ever hope to be.
Who in their right mind would ever want that to represent them?
- Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds 3 weeks ago:
One of the only things I ever got a trophy for was coming in third place as a third grader in the entire elementary school, K-6, in the first annual chess tournament they ever gave.
I learned how to play chess from my mom a few days after they announced that in a few weeks they were going to be having a chess tournament.
I’m not very good at chess compared to a computer, but when I’m playing people, I win far more often than I do not, so I’m not bad at it either, but the only thing that I had going for me is that when I would play, I would think about what I did allowed my opponent to do.
Technically, I did not lose a single game until I had played everyone, but the last two games ended in stalemates, and the judges didn’t know that you don’t decide the winner of a stalemate by the number of pieces on the board.
At the time, I didn’t either, so for a brief moment, I thought I was first place. The only reason I didn’t get first place was that with the other top three chess players having had the opportunity to play me once, they were able to beat me on the second go round.
Needless to say, my school was in a fairly rural, south-eastern location, and it’s not exactly like they “promulgated excellence in education” or anything fancy like that. Most people there turned every single syllable word into a two or three syllable word just by their pronunciation.
I said all of that to say, in support of the conversation at hand, that having the ability to think about the consequences of your actions, to logically look at the board that is laid down at you, and what can happen because of what you choose to do, is one of the default characteristics of high IQ people.
And when you think about the consequences of policies such as:
Murdering women for having an abortion.
Criminalizing the use of birth control.
Assembling a team of shittroopers to hunt down legal immigrants and imprison them and then throw them out of the country without due process.
Allowing those same shit troopers to murder your own citizens in broad daylight on camera and go unpunished.
Failing to punish felons for their crimes and instead appointing them to the highest office in the country.
Looking the other way as that same felon gives kickbacks and tax breaks to his already absurdly ultra-rich buddies just for the funsies.
And so many more things that no single post can fairly describe them, then it becomes incredibly difficult to be even a moderately moral person and vote conservative.
I say that it is practically impossible to be anything like a moral person and vote for conservatism when you have the intelligence to see what conservatism stands for.
The grand majority of these people are what you call single issue voters, and that’s because a single issue voter is too stupid to actually think about the issues.
Their thinking can barely handle anything more than, “immigrants = bad, trans = bad, abortion = bad, woke = bad”.
They do not stand a chance against the propaganda machine that they paid $1400 for at the Apple Store, telling them what to think and making their conclusions for them and parroting what the computer told them to say.
I know I am also vulnerable to propaganda. I am not trying to prop up the other side. I am just saying that conservatism has, by and large, always been the party of making the rich white people richer and whiter, and the only reason why the grand majority of people support them is either because they hope to one day be the richer, whiter person or they have been conned by the rich white people.
And although you can easily fool smart people, smart people tend to be more likely to see through the con.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 3 weeks ago:
Their prostate must have looked like a dehydrated pumpkin Image
- Comment on Donald es numero uno!!! #️⃣1️⃣ 3 weeks ago:
The interesting thing is that there are surprising numbers of certain malarities between Trump and syphilis.
One, you typically only get either of them when you’ve been doing something you shouldn’t have been doing, but there are also a myriad number of innocent victims who truly do not deserve it.
Two, both of them will destroy you if you don’t get rid of them.
Three, you’re fucking anyone that you give them to, and possibly also their spouses and children and the future generations that linger on afterwards.
Four, they’re both much worse when you give them to the underaged
Five, thanks to modern technology, they can technically both be cured with a shot.
- Comment on I wonder how much money the movie Risky Business made for hospitals from guys trying to imitate Tom Cruise. 3 weeks ago:
The white sock tightywhitey slide across wooden floors.
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- Comment on spending 3 weeks ago:
You expect me to buy less than $5 worth of Arizona iced tea?
- Comment on spending 3 weeks ago:
But my friend, my friend…
Everything costs more than five bucks.
- Comment on This image is over 15 years old. It's classic. Exquisite. Unique and rare. One of a kind meme. Something for the people who enjoy vintage. Enjoy 3 weeks ago:
This guy was damned and determined to be able to jack off to his own reflection in the mirror.
- Comment on Which is it?. 4 weeks ago:
Could be better but im doing better than my shitty parents ever did, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
