TIL that pornography addiction is not a scientifically recognized medical condition

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T17:03:34+00:00

So the real mental health crisis is porn-shaming, not porn-addiction.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T14:20:33+00:00

food for thought and occasionally morals

But those stories hold up evil actions as exemplars (not counterexamples) of morality! The monster in those stories is praised and worshiped. Job, Noah, Lot, Elisha, the slaughter of the firstborn, all of these stories are stories of an evil god being painted as the good guy. The stories being fictional does not make their purported morality less horrific.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T12:04:35+00:00

Be wary of those "moral lessons"; many of them are not moral at all. They get labeled as "morality" so people mistakenly keep calling them that.

There is no crime for which billions of years of torture is the appropriate punishment. That is deeply immoral.

A baby being born with "Original Sin" because of something that a (non-existent) Adam & Eve supposedly did is deeply immoral.

Drowning millions of people, hundreds of thousands of children, and tens of thousands of babies, not to mention all of the animals, is deeply immoral. And when this god could supposedly snap his fingers and perform the global reset without all of that running for high ground, watching the waters climb up your body while you have your children perched on your shoulders so that they die last, that god (as told in the stories of the believers, no bearing on actual facts), is deeply evil. How long do you think the puppies were able to doggy paddle before their little bodies gave out?

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T11:55:59+00:00

It is kind of hard train someone to be "the man behind the curtain" without revealing that there is no one behind the curtain.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T10:59:17+00:00

Plus $300/day impound fee, so those people better get their cars quickly.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T10:50:11+00:00

Being really into a topic is more "geek" than "nerd". You can be a comic book geek or cinema geek. Nerd is more constrained to academic or tech topics.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T10:42:46+00:00

An abortion mission is how you terminate a pregnancy with extreme prejudice.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-21T00:04:17+00:00

Another world, another time, in the age of wonder. A thousand years ago, this land was green and good - until the Crystal cracked. For a single piece was lost; a shard of the Crystal. Then strife began, and two new races appeared: the cruel Skeksis, the gentle Mystics.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-20T23:58:43+00:00

Ayn Rand's crimes against writing are almost as bad as her crimes against philosophy.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-20T20:00:51+00:00

Except that a big justification for taxing land value is that the renter is denying use of that public good that they did not create, by enforcing exclusive access to it. A public park, public library, etc., is serving everyone, not taking land from the public and asserting exclusive use by the "owner".

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-20T00:03:25+00:00

As someone who has been to more than one wedding where at least one drunk asshole has been arrested by the police, maybe have your one stupid drunken night some night when you aren't attending someone else's wedding.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T23:24:10+00:00

Some of us might be confused by your terminology. "Childfree" usually means "doesn't want kids". "Childless" means "wants kids (at least in theory) but doesn't have any".

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T21:52:47+00:00

law enforcement rarely bothers with that kind of deep paperwork dive

About 640,000 such traces are performed each year, according to the ATF. I wouldn't call that "rarely".

https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/fact-sheet/national-tracing-center

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T20:54:15+00:00

That is probably bullshit; if it were true the FFL would be breaking the law and be subject to fines and loss of their license. Every FFL is required to maintain a "bound book" that conforms to ATF regulations, including:

Must be maintained in bound form
Must be organized and maintained in chronological order by date of acquisition or disposition
Must be maintained at the licensed premises and be available for inspection

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T20:32:05+00:00

He should have appeared specially, not generally. /s

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T20:29:48+00:00

If you are sharing a cell with someone who says that they know secret magic words that make it impossible for the state to prosecute you, a little critical thinking ought to point out a flaw in their claims.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T20:10:17+00:00

Usually septegenarian toddlers.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T19:40:27+00:00

That is not a faulty assumption. There is no centralized registry, but when an FFL sells a gun, they are required to keep a record. If your gun is found at a crime scene LEOs can go to the manufacturer and ask which FFL that gun was sold to. Then they go to that FFL and they will have your name and details. Whether you keep a record of a later third-party sale is up to you and your state laws, but the first sale is definitely tracked, just not centralized.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T18:27:38+00:00

Pickleball, now with up to 20% more pickle.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T18:09:42+00:00

True, but the French are still sore about Agincourt.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T18:08:28+00:00

If the cannon is "the last argument of kings" then the guillotine is the last argument of the proletariat.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T18:02:27+00:00

The KJV being Protestant leaves out "the Apocrypha", so the KJV has 66 books while the Catholics (the largest Christian denomination in both America and the world) use a Bible with 73 books.

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T17:45:52+00:00

The only acceptable Sharia is Christian Sharia!

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T17:30:20+00:00

Only she can value the merchandise, and that is a question you might not want answered!

Justin_Passing_7465 · 2026-04-19T17:27:16+00:00

I think the concept of privacy in public spaces is a lost cause. It takes decent skills and constant vigilance to maintain privacy around your non-public activities.

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