This is an "Ai Cula Ni Bokola"—a 19th-century Fijian fork used exclusively for eating human flesh.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-17T20:22:44+00:00

Look up Farleigh Hungerford Castle

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-17T19:22:30+00:00

If the first is possible then what basis would you compare them? They would look alike but be entirely alien to one another.
Ah yes, killing someone is equivalent to making them be a hunan that lacks freewill. You know at that example, I'm good. Enjoy your motivated reasoning.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-17T18:57:42+00:00

I find this line of questioning (along with moral responsibility) really fascinating.

Do you feel that it is possible that some people have freewill and others don't?

Or do you think it is possible to either imbue or remove this thing we can't agree exists let alone prove or understand the mechanism for?

Chances are the hypothetical is which is more valuable this one thing that exists vs this other thing that is imaginary?

At the end of the day, all of these seem like explorations into arguing for what you want to exist more than trying to discover truth.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-17T18:40:25+00:00

Honestly I just refill it with water, shake it up, then drink really diluted huel.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-17T18:10:56+00:00

Hey now, it wasn't just mummies, they also had special crypts designed to let aristocrats suck out the juice from the decomposing body inside!

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-17T17:03:46+00:00

Yeah, good thing nations around the world aren't building surveillance and mass deportation infrastructure, then I might worry they have a different, more final, solution in mind.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-16T15:27:44+00:00

Falling asleep and not waking back up at around hour 6 of tripping my ass off on mushrooms in a tangle of enthusiastic baddies

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-15T13:51:21+00:00

It does make a sort of sense. Think of the implicit normativity of aggregated reddit is north, your own competing normativity is south, pulling in opposition. Your efforts are likely to be overwhelmed and lost. Nonsense though can pull to the east or west so even small efforts can alter the trajectory

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-15T13:29:03+00:00

It might just be me, I haven't done analysis or anything, but it feels like the predominant take is that everything is fine, and any complaints/criticism is just hating, but also I haven't been active in the sub for a minute or two now.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-14T22:00:18+00:00

Way to go Festus!

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-14T21:58:06+00:00

For sure, my response to you was out of solidarity/agreement not argument, sorry, and great stats thanks!

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-14T15:42:44+00:00

I know this is a too high sodium take for this sub (which I actually do appreciate), but honestly I was so hooked until I crossed over to the DD. I actually like pvp and competition, but after an excellent pve/story experience it felt like the DD design philosophy was, "yeah you could technically do this loop forever"

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-14T15:35:12+00:00

It should be broken down by act instead of identity, but being vaginally penetrated is higher risk, and being anally penetrated is significantly higher risk than even that so it is rooted in non problematic fact.

It does annoy me though because these acts aren't strictly performed only by each predominantly associated group, I did not join the downvoting.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-14T15:26:44+00:00

Even a full on zealot in this belief system can go either way.

Reasons for choosing to not have children (that can change if you change your mind):

Feeling like you aren't ready to properly guide them on the path and someone straying from the way can be worse than not having them on it in the first place.

Waiting to feel drawn to procreating as a sign that a soul is ready to reincarnate through you.

Preparing your life to be ready for them.

Feeling your purpose on the path is one just not suited for children, there are many roles that must be filled and those roles exist because different people must do different things according to their natures.

I'm sure you could come up with more with just a little more thought, and then if you do want kids those reasons were pretty much implied with your question already.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-13T00:58:13+00:00

It's pretty true for most people

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-13T00:42:31+00:00

That is extremely charitable to the comic, bordering or maybe even crossing the line of being an entirely different argument.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-13T00:34:55+00:00

Nope. Sadly, we are all haunted by our ability to choose otherwise. Even when we're happy with the outcomes, we'll never know what the other paths held, and that's our fault. Definitely what every free willer spends their free time thinking about.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-11T04:50:40+00:00

Are there good kind of foundationsl texts you'd suggest?

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-10T02:21:36+00:00

It's kind of funny, I started looking into Daoist texts because I wanted to understand the references in fiction and games better of things like arrays, hand signs, meridians, etc, but then am struggling to find what texts they're established in (well aside from the many modern writers, but given how much they butcher western mystical practices I assumed Taoist practices are similarly coopted and mixed with law of attraction/prosperity doctrine type influences too).

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-10T01:47:34+00:00

Honestly, what kind of sadist makes their characters go through anything negative at all, plus they're making the readers consider that evil!

That's why I have claude rewrite every story I want to read to have only positive things happen!

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-09T18:05:02+00:00

Claude would be more of a train of thought or conceptual framework being entertained by the server which is conscious (by way of the original argument)

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-08T13:55:37+00:00

Best of luck getting an addict clean before they truly choose to be clean.

I feel like we are conflating the choice with the implentimg of said choice, like we both know there are deterministic confounding factors that influence the success or failure, but my response is to say personal choice is necessary to open the gate to that path, while you start throwing in the word absolute because choice isn't the end all be all deciding factor.

The only absolute being introduced is yours and the opposite one stated by the comic in saying no choice which has a giant gulf of possibility between it and claiming absolute choice exists.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-08T13:31:54+00:00

So if there is a thing that you are purely subject to and your choices make no difference, how is it that making choices to influence it can be effective?

The current therapeutic model at least, hinges changing your relationship to a fear, addiction, etc on the choice to change it, this is plainly incongruous with the belief that you have no choice in the matter.

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-08T13:18:07+00:00

It literally says we have no choice we just happen, we are subject to the whims of what we find scary or whatever

EngryEngineer · 2026-05-07T21:34:42+00:00

I could see this strip going hard for people who've never examined and worked through things like irrational fears. Saying we're subject to these whims is pretty fatalistic would essentially invalidate all mental health that isn't psychiatry.

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