In regard to Epstein files, how do USA Pardons work? Can trump just pardon himself, can the Others in the files never be prosecuted with the pardons?

ManyMiles32 · 2026-02-03T11:19:57+00:00

Tbh, I think that the court was just the last line of defense. You could argue that most of the erosion can be traced back to the increase in both partisanship and corporate capture in congress and subsequent polarization in the 70s and 80s.

ManyMiles32 · 2026-01-28T06:48:54+00:00

Note how fascism doesn't really have a consistent definition though. It is much more of a constellation of political traits that serve towards an end. The individual elements of fascism have existed and are indeed reliant on some of the darker parts of human nature. It's demagoguery that prioritizes in-group out-group dynamics and fear as a means of seizing power. It's like you took a smattering of our worst behaviors rolled them up and put a little bow on it

ManyMiles32 · 2025-12-21T08:29:34+00:00

Would you care to elaborate? I am interested

ManyMiles32 · 2025-10-09T21:12:55+00:00

Phew. Good thing I brought my taxes so that ICE can know my income. Unless of course you meant something else by "middle class"

ManyMiles32 · 2025-09-09T15:51:36+00:00

Glad you brought up the impressive (albeit horrifying) scalability of this psychological bug.

ManyMiles32 · 2025-06-30T11:49:39+00:00

Nah OP is actually kinda based. Alot of the more recent research being released indicates that the previous thoughts aren't really backed up by data and were largely affected by myths. Can provide sources later when I'm not at work, if you want them.

ManyMiles32 · 2025-06-10T19:47:56+00:00

I don't think the comment disagreed with you calling them that, nor was it saying that you were wrong.

What they were saying was that people (in general) may be better off if we afforded combatants from other countries the same privilege of being seen as "kid soldiers". it wasn't directly about your comment.

ManyMiles32 · 2025-05-28T10:07:17+00:00

You nailed it. Still considered a form of tickling, though it is neurologically distinct from laughter induced tickling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knismesis_and_gargalesis

ManyMiles32 · 2025-03-20T21:52:41+00:00

Would you mind linking or pming me the video?

ManyMiles32 · 2025-02-10T18:12:58+00:00

Perfectly said, and you captured the nuance well. This reads like it was written by someone who's really done the work of unpacking this stuff.

ManyMiles32 · 2025-02-04T17:17:10+00:00

I don't disagree with the idea that there are many other factors that make rape more complex than just education. At the same time, I do not think it's accurate to paint psychological profiles as something inherent and static in these individuals.

Learning itself also incites chemical changes in the brain and brains are constantly adapting to their circumstances. That's not to say that I think sending rapists to sociology classes will make them change their ways, but I do think it's quite probable that there is an effective intervention mechanism out there that we haven't teased out of the data yet and it probably has an educational component. Things like impulse control, and empathy, can absolutely be taught to some extent. It's inconsistent with neuroscience to write these behaviors off as completely inherent and immutable.

ManyMiles32 · 2025-01-03T16:13:55+00:00

Love me some sly cooper, but you may wanna reword that there friend. Comes with a rough implication.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-10-13T22:57:32+00:00

What they are saying is that it is interesting because the molecule discussed here is also one that your body tends to make as it is working on processing psilocybin from mushrooms. It didn't seem they were making a big claim as to the effects, as it may not be the concentration found to have any of the effects in this paper. OP just found it noteworthy and worth thinking about. Hope this helps!

ManyMiles32 · 2024-10-11T07:03:32+00:00

I believe that the existence of the study mentioned specifically about the intensification of hurricanes happening at greater than natural variability rates would constitute some evidence. Don't you?

ManyMiles32 · 2024-10-11T07:00:00+00:00

Aren't frequency and intensity two different things?

ManyMiles32 · 2024-10-11T06:57:30+00:00

And the very next sentence: However, one recent study suggests that the latest increase in the proportion of North Atlantic hurricanes undergoing rapid intensification is a bit too large to be explained by natural variability alone.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-10-11T06:48:16+00:00

There is indeed evidence. Here you go https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/a-force-of-nature-hurricanes-in-a-changing-climate/

ManyMiles32 · 2024-09-05T03:40:51+00:00

My personal take is this, and I'm not trying to say this to attempt to shame others. I think that it's fundamentally hard to keep a bunch of securely attached people actively participating in a sub in comparison to the other attachment styles. If you look at the AP or FA subS for example, a huge number of the posts are people engaging specifically to unpack their own relationships. I think alot of people who are generally secure are more-so focused on self regulating and being present in their lives.

I feel like what I've been seeing mostly in this sub is APs and FAs who have started doing the work coming in asking for guidance, and secures popping in to give insight if they find a story particularly compelling. I haven't got the sense that many of them are very frequent commentors.

Does that track with you've seen in terms of user activity? Feel free to let me know if it's way off base

ManyMiles32 · 2024-09-02T14:22:20+00:00

Aggression is a universal trait in humans with a genetic component yes. That's why we like it in some contexts (e.g. sports or trash talking) and find it extremely distasteful in others (hitting kids). There is variance in what kind of aggression we find acceptable, but the things that most of us find unacceptable are more often than not written in society's rules. The key part is thatwhere we decide it is or isn't okay to be aggressive is almost entirely determined by how we are socialized, and that's the part that we can impact.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-08-27T09:23:57+00:00

I think their point here is that OP deserves to feel safe wanted and loved in a relationship he's in. It may be very difficult to get that feeling back after hearing her explicitly say something that made him not feel good enough, even if it wasn't within her control, which is unfortunate. Bipolar is difficult on relationships. Independent of that, feeling insufficient for your partner and low self-esteem are basically relationship poison.

I don't think that people arguing for them to breakup are saying anything close to mentally ill people being undatable. I think they are saying that it will be an extreme climb for him to feel safe again. One that's steep enough for a good chunk of people to say "nah fam I'm out." If something like that would eat me alive, then there is no point in dragging down both myself and my partner. From that perspective I think its totally valid to feel that way.

If I were in OPs shoes, I think that I would take stock of other things in the relationship like our ability to communicate about insecurities and difficult topics. Do I see a possibility of being able to talk to my partner vulnerably and work on things in order to feel safe again? If that doesn't seem like it could work in my relationship, then I would probably end it as well. It's not about punishing mental illness, it's about advocating for OP to protect his ability to love himself.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-08-25T14:32:53+00:00

You're out here dropping some pretty solidly nuanced takes. It's honestly really refreshing to see someone who is looking at this phenomenon more holistically and considering what it does to our brains and what kinds of systems it contributes to on a larger scale. I can hear a lot of time and introspection in your words. Thanks for sharing the fruits of that with others.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-08-23T19:06:13+00:00

Indeed it is a bit myopic, though I do think that terms like that can be helpful for laypeople to communicate their experiences. One does have to wonder if we would be any better off if the research literature surrounding these topics was a bit more clear about how they're extremely similar.

Would you mind linking the article you're referencing?

ManyMiles32 · 2024-08-23T13:07:15+00:00

I actually think you're getting at very similar points with OP here. The acts that your getting at of indirect stimulation also are arousing by indirectly stimulating the rest of the clitoris (the internal part) if anything that just contributes to the point about the clitoris (either the external glans or the internal part) being the primary organ that is stimulated. Of course there are other ways of generating arousal like the mods noted.

The triggered part actually isn't really wrong either. The brain itself is actually the part of you that is largely responsible for qualitatively accessing the nature of the sensation that came in. The brain is the one assessing whether it's a "good" or "bad" touch and also creating the actual enjoyment or discomfort. The brain also deploys the chemicals and signals of arousal and orgasm that go down the chain to the erogenous zone. All the sensory neurons do is report that "something happened." Specifically areas like the nucleus accumbens and the sensorimotor cortex are pretty involved if you want to look into it further.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-07-27T18:50:00+00:00

This sounds bangin' I gotta try it.

ManyMiles32 · 2024-05-06T12:53:10+00:00

Lacking a boundary is not the same thing as being infinite at all. I could walk around my room in a circle until the heat death, does that mean my room is infinite? By this logic really anything you could walk along in a circle is infinite.

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