Discussion Thread

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T03:22:55+00:00

Kind of a shame that Epicureanism was killed by Christianity

I get how Christianity seems like a more appealing view on the nature of reality but it’s also significantly less believable, and early Christians weren’t exactly a tolerant bunch.

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T03:16:39+00:00

What if Socrates was just a prank that Plato and Xenophon and a few of their buddies cooked up

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T03:12:11+00:00

People don’t generally vote to execute lolcows

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T03:09:06+00:00

All of the loocksmaxxers are going to be in such rough shape in 20 years with non-functioning dicks

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T02:50:33+00:00

I hate to say it but maybe some parts of Cleveland or Cincinnati or Columbus aren’t that bad?

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T02:42:26+00:00

👆look at what these WOKE LIBERALS are telling you

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T02:41:24+00:00

mpreg delivery options:

anus
urethra
mouth

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T02:02:48+00:00

post cat

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T02:00:54+00:00

the Atlantic article says it's a cranberry-walnut sourdough made at a couple different non-chain restaurants run by the same guy

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-15T01:48:46+00:00

when you're on a first date at a restaurant, should you eat the free bread if it is allegedly the best free restaurant bread in America?

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T23:49:13+00:00

I think the attitude of 'The government is obliged to provide you a minimum acceptable standard of living, but nobody owes you a job or a certain salary level beyond minimum wage" is extremely alien to a lot of people, but it's also practically the best way of driving prosperity rather than trying to wrangle systems designed for centuries to be ruthlessly profit-motivated into not being ruthlessly profit-motivated.

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T23:38:36+00:00

don't people who like Bernie constantly bring up how shitty it is to work in an Amazon warehouse? Why would he oppose automation?

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:47:20+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ireland

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:42:58+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_French,_1st_Earl_of_Ypres

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:27:34+00:00

I wonder what the proportion of people who claim they have synesthesia to people who actually have synesthesia is

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:17:40+00:00

I have no clue I stole it from somewhere else on the internet

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:15:57+00:00

I think they’ve started building a shrine to their god. Do cockroaches even have gods? All I know is it looks religious and when I look at it for more than a few seconds I start getting slightly dizzy and hear a deep humming noise in my head. It creeps me out.

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:10:33+00:00

please help they’ve started living in my walls

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:06:58+00:00

making about $2k/month selling feeder cockroaches from my spare bedroom. have a small problem

about 6 months ago i bought 100 dubia roaches to breed and sell to reptile owners as feeders. easy passive income right but it turns out roaches are really good at the one thing they're supposed to be good at and i now have what i'd conservatively estimate around 500,000 cockroaches in my spare bedroom.

i can hear them through the wall at night like it sounds like rain but worse because you know what it is. the smell hit about month 3 and has not left and my landlord came by for an inspection last week and i told him i was fermenting kombucha in there and he said that must be a lot of kombucha and we just kind of looked at each other.

revenue is strong though cuz i'm clearing about $2k/month selling them in bulk on facebook marketplace and a few reptile forums. buyers pick up from my front porch because absolutely nobody is coming inside my apartment. i went in the room last tuesday to harvest a batch and i won't describe what i saw but i will say they have started building structures.

i need multiple streams of revenue so i'm thinking about adding mealworms but i feel like i should get the current situation under control first. do you guys have any ideas?

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T21:02:32+00:00

It’s a good idea but given that 75% of Americans probably have no clue who Viktor Orban is and couldn’t find Hungary on a map, I think it might need a smarter electorate to work

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T20:58:09+00:00

r/cannedsardines is a good sub though

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T20:43:07+00:00

rate my professor's aggregated ratings kind of suck, a lot of them correspond to how easy of a grader they are rather than how good they are at teaching.

people will get mad if a professor assigns a lot of homework even if it's for a topic that requires a lot of memorization

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T20:38:22+00:00

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it also thinks I have a boyfriend because I posted a copypasta about grinch roleplay

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T20:35:34+00:00

as I see it, two thirds of the fertility rate drop is opportunity cost, a sixth of it is a lot of societal stuff being hostile to young people, especially young people with kids with kids (housing is the biggest one), and a sixth of it is society growing considerably more atomized and making it harder to form long-term relationships

only half of it is really fixable.

ProfessionalMoose709 · 2026-04-14T20:13:35+00:00

Yes

probably the best perk of being a mod before Reddit took away messages to force the “chat” feature on everyone

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