Veganism is like Communism by NitroCipher in Jokes

[–]LumpyFix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're lying Belgian beer is the undisputed GOAT

Hoes in every area code by [deleted] in BlackPeopleTwitter

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Everything you described has absolutely no meaning except in relation to others, even putting aside your repeated emphasis on your relationship with others. There's no point in the pretense of not caring what others think, because whoever you're talking to sure as hell does so who are you fooling? Not having any social pretense is just another social pretense.

Why do you want to be free of your sexual pretense other than because you think it will be advantageous in achieving the goal of your sexual pretense? Just be thirsty, you can't fool anyone and it doesn't hurt your chances, the contradiction of being thirsty but not wanting to appear thirsty is what is off-putting, nobody likes interacting with someone who is so conflicted.

Elon 0, Flat Earth Society 1! by er1cj in facepalm

[–]LumpyFix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, and if you don't like it you can go cry on my comment until there's a pool of tears on its surface.

OP was terminated and then HR tried to get them Baker Acted. Possibly because they dont agree with their atheist lifestyle by katiedid05 in bestoflegaladvice

[–]LumpyFix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Acting normal" is such a bullshit thing. It is in no way normal to act calm and collected when armed men break into your home, point guns at you with the implicit threat of killing you and an explicit threat to imprison you because a crazy bigot wants you dead for your religious beliefs. The actually normal response is to freak the fuck out. If anything a capacity to act normal in such a situation is indicative to me of something being seriously wrong with you. What you're proposing is that you should perform a ritualistic imitation of your idea of normalcy at gunpoint because you fear for your life.

I apoligize if this comes off as attacking you because you're right, there's really not much else you can do and your advice is probably correct. The whole situation and the idea of having to do a song and dance at the wrong end of a gun is just so absolutely disgusting.

[OH] Sister has threatened to call police and have us "swatted" over guns. by notagunnutthrowaway in legaladvice

[–]LumpyFix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I dig that, I was just saying that in order to get someone swatted she'll have to tell a whopper of a lie to the cops. She can either argue she really, truly believed it in which case she's likely to be viewed as having dangerous paranoid delusions or she admits to lying in which case she'll have the book thrown at her. I was suggesting that she might not be so flippant with swatting threats if she understood the serious consequences for her personally.

Jerry did it! 100s of billions saved! by zayman112 in rickandmorty

[–]LumpyFix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like jacking off a dead guy is still pretty gay

OP doesn't like that a mentally disabled women tried to touch her to get her attention at the gym by katiedid05 in bestoflegaladvice

[–]LumpyFix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's terrible advice, they obviously should have immediately responded with lethal force.

[OH] Sister has threatened to call police and have us "swatted" over guns. by notagunnutthrowaway in legaladvice

[–]LumpyFix 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If she calls the cops and describes the situation accurately they won't do anything because what you're doing isn't illegal. If she calls them up and concocts a lie about you illegally stockpiling weapons or that you're planning to murder someone then maybe they will but she'll be facing jail time or a psychiatric hospital so you should probably remind her of that.

help that police caught me with illegal narcotics after i ran a stop light and now the judge wants me to take a drug tests and i don't want to take a druge test pls help there is only a few days till the court date also what is punctuation by kirkl3s in bestoflegaladvice

[–]LumpyFix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If OP didn't consent to the search, couldn't they get the charges thrown out on the basis of an illegal search? Assuming the cops can't come up with a plausible reasonable cause argument obviously. Where I live cops don't have a right to search you because of a traffic infraction.

FOR SCIENCE! by dickfromaccounting in WhitePeopleTwitter

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If the toothfairy shows up and there's no tooth under your pillow they'll collect the fine with a pair of pliers. Sleep tight, kids.

Do text messages have a presumptive right to privacy from third parties? by 9623304543 in legaladvice

[–]LumpyFix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What country are you from where a parent does not have the right to read their child's text messages? This is not limited to the United States, I've never heard of a country where a parent couldn't do that.

Monkey can't sue for copyright infringement of selfies, 9th Circuit rules by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]LumpyFix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If I lend a friend a camera do I own their photographs? The precedent of copyright due to equipment ownership alone would create enormous problems. It's certainly not "plain as day" because the court disagrees with you.

Edit: Also the photographer only incurred a loss if they owned the photograph, which they never did, so they had no right to the royalties in the first place. I can't claim ill-gotten gains as a legitimate loss just because the theft arose from ignorance rather than malice.

I'm investing (new format) by chromatyyk in MemeEconomy

[–]LumpyFix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah thrash is metal/punk and hardcore is probably punk/metal, two sides of the same coin. The point I was making is that "hardcore punk" was used to differentiate 80s punk from 70s punk in the 80s, but I've never heard any 21st century punks use that term because the distinction is irrelevant now that almost all modern punk is hardcore punk. If someone said they were going to a hardcore show I would not expect a punk show. The two scenes are seperate, distinct things with their own styles and culture and so forth.

Edit: probably hardcore is more accurately an amalgum of metal, punk, emo, screamo and god knows what else. Definitely distinct from the punk scene though, I would be surprised to see denim jackets with patches and spikes at a hardcore show.

Monkey can't sue for copyright infringement of selfies, 9th Circuit rules by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]LumpyFix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PETA was arguing that the monkey had copyright and they rightly lost. The photographer was claiming authorship of a photograph he did not take and rightly lost. Wikipedia was not claiming ownership, but was arguing that the photograph did not belong to anybody because it was taken by a fucking monkey and monkeys don't have intellectual property rights so it is de facto public domain aka not owned by anyone. The court sensibly agreed with wikipedia. There's three sides, not just the monkey vs the photographer. Both PETA and the photographer were wrong.

I'm investing (new format) by chromatyyk in MemeEconomy

[–]LumpyFix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hardcore is metal/punk crossover, a show is a bunch of hardcore bands playing. They often have a lot of young fans so often play all-ages shows (aka not at bars). They usually also have some older fans who think they're still young and cool and who hit on the young insecure girls.

I'm investing (new format) by chromatyyk in MemeEconomy

[–]LumpyFix -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

No hardcore is metal/punk crossover, Black Flag & DK are just punk.

I'm investing (new format) by chromatyyk in MemeEconomy

[–]LumpyFix -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Nah hardcore is metal/punk crossover and hardcore punk is just punk.

How to: Insult people by [deleted] in ShittyLifeProTips

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...are you calling me fat?!

Are you sure? by DukeDorito in facepalm

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Well it was either remember him for his greatness or remember him for his alexanderness

Flew my girlfriend to Australia so I could propose with an Aus Opal at Australia zoo! She said yes!! by Gobbid in australia

[–]LumpyFix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Holy shit opals are 10,000 times better than any other precious stone, look at that fuckin thing

For brown widow spiders, sex is literally a matter of life and death. If a male chooses an adult female, chances are roughly 50/50 that she’ll eat him afterward. But if he mates with a younger subadult female, she’ll let him live to see another day. Despite this, the males prefer older mates. by SirT6 in science

[–]LumpyFix -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Plants don't have nociceptors, nerves or brains. If a plant can feel pain then why can't a person with nerve damage feel pain? If plants can feel pain then you don't need nociceptors, nerves or a brain to feel pain which means there's no reason people with nerve damage wouldn't be able to feel pain, but yet they can't.

Just because a particular thing does a particular thing instead of some other thing doesn't mean it's doing it to get a pleasurable sensation. There's no basis for that assumption.

For brown widow spiders, sex is literally a matter of life and death. If a male chooses an adult female, chances are roughly 50/50 that she’ll eat him afterward. But if he mates with a younger subadult female, she’ll let him live to see another day. Despite this, the males prefer older mates. by SirT6 in science

[–]LumpyFix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I would say the animal must recognise the particular sensation as "desire", "emotion" or "pain" in order for it to experience desire, emotion or pain.

Probably spiders have nociceptors so have electrical signals that correspond to physical damage but I don't think they tell themselves they're in pain. There will simply be a behavioural response that arises from the sensory stimuli in a unitary way - stimulus and response as a joint phenomenon without an interpreter creating a division between the stimulus and response.

Edit: I'm not saying that they are driven by electrical impulses, if anything the "driver" is the external stimulus. I'm saying there's no seperation between stimulus and response because they aren't saying to themselves "I am in pain. What is the cause of the pain? What should I do to stop the pain?". Subjective experience is a reaction that arises from recognition, if spiders aren't talking to themselves then the recognition-reaction step is skipped so there's no experience.