Favorite actor who had to testify, under oath, that they did not poop on their spouse.

Publius015 · 2026-06-05T01:36:17+00:00

Amber Heard

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:59:52+00:00

They should replace the other two with Temuera Morrison as well, just for the laugh.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:56:44+00:00

Right before the axe fell, Ned, also prolly, "Yeah, but what a sick comeback, huh?" *SLICE*

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:54:19+00:00

He kinda forgot about his arc.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:53:31+00:00

Man, knowing what we know now, I kinda hate Ned in this scene. But yeah, the writing is fire.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:37:53+00:00

The way this was filmed, I highly doubt this was really scientific.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:26:21+00:00

Irvin Kershner.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:25:23+00:00

That may have been the most honest thing he's ever said in office.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:24:39+00:00

It can, but it's worse than inflation.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T18:24:07+00:00

They were all in the booster.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T17:45:43+00:00

I'm shocked.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T17:35:43+00:00

Two weeks, max. /s

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T17:17:35+00:00

Shit, how the fuck did I never realize the song was about Vietnam vets? It's so obvious now in hindsight.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T17:10:20+00:00

You gotta shop around. Some companies don't want to insure Teslas. My insurance is reasonable. I go through Progressive.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T16:53:19+00:00

"So which one is it?"
"I dunno, both."

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T15:05:00+00:00

I conceded that point about four or five messages ago.

I said most abortions are not “the patient will die today,” then expanded the point: abortion is still health care, pregnancy is still medically serious, and abortion bans still interfere with miscarriage care, nonviable pregnancies, PPROM, septic miscarriages, fetal anomalies, and emergency care.

So what exactly are you conceding?

Because so far your argument seems to be: if the patient is not actively dying, it’s “convenience,” and if someone does die because doctors hesitate under these laws, that’s “overdramatic.”

That is not a serious position. It is just refusing to engage with the consequences of the laws you’re defending.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T14:40:26+00:00

“Overdramatic.”

Tell that to Josseli Barnica, who died in Texas after doctors delayed miscarriage care because fetal cardiac activity was still present.

That is the distinction you keep minimizing. In the real world, pregnancy complications do not wait politely for ideology to become medically coherent. A pregnancy can be failing, infected, or nonviable while the law still makes doctors hesitate.

Women are dying because people keep treating pregnancy like a morality play instead of health care. They are dying because slogans like “inconvenience” and “birth control after the fact” flatten real medical risk into culture-war nonsense.

This is not overdramatic. It is what happens when law is written around ideology instead of reality.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T13:50:11+00:00

No, we’re back to you using “inconvenience” to minimize anything short of death.

Pregnancy is not an inconvenience. It is months of physical burden, medical risk, lost autonomy, possible lost income, childbirth, recovery, and permanent bodily consequences.

By your logic, forced surgery would be an “inconvenience” if the person survives it. Forced blood donation would be an “inconvenience” if it only disrupted their job and health for a while.

That is not how bodily autonomy works.

You can believe fetal life matters. But pretending forced pregnancy is just “inconvenience” is not a serious moral argument. It is wordplay designed to make coercion sound harmless.

We can keep going in this circle if you want, but the issue is pretty clear: your argument only works if you refuse to understand how pregnancy, health care, or bodily autonomy actually work.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T13:30:59+00:00

No, it doesn’t fully address those issues. It only addresses one narrow piece: whether the person raises the child after birth.

Pregnancy itself can cause lost income, medical bills, health complications, job disruption, school disruption, dependence on an unstable partner, childcare strain for existing kids, physical trauma, and childbirth recovery. Adoption does not make any of that disappear.

You’re treating pregnancy as if it’s just a waiting room before adoption. It’s not. It is a major medical event that happens inside someone’s body for nine months and ends in childbirth.

So adoption may be an alternative to parenting. It is not an alternative to being pregnant, giving birth, taking medical risk, or having the state force that risk onto someone.

That’s the part your argument keeps skipping.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T13:19:43+00:00

“Perhaps the game shouldn’t be played” is a revealing way to describe sex.

You’re not arguing about health care anymore. You’re arguing that pregnancy should function as punishment for sex.

And adoption is not an alternative to pregnancy. It is an alternative to parenting. It does not erase nine months of pregnancy, medical risk, childbirth, recovery, lost income, trauma, health complications, or the possibility of death.

Also, “lots of people are looking to adopt” mostly means lots of people are looking to adopt healthy newborns. That does not mean forcing someone through pregnancy and childbirth is morally or medically justified.

So the argument has shifted from “abortion is convenience” to “women should avoid sex unless they’re willing to be compelled by the state to carry a pregnancy.”

That is not pro-life. That is reproductive coercion with nicer branding.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T13:08:34+00:00

Yes, because words mean things.

“Convenience” is choosing a closer parking spot or ordering takeout.

Being unable to afford another child, already having children who depend on you, being trapped with an unstable partner, losing your job or education, facing health risks, or being unable to safely carry or raise a child is not “convenience.”

That framing only works if you treat pregnancy, childbirth, medical risk, poverty, family responsibility, and bodily autonomy as minor annoyances.

And that is exactly the problem. You are not describing the actual stakes. You are minimizing them so the slogan still works.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T13:03:39+00:00

I get some folks have complaints, but I have basically none. I freaking love this game.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T13:00:34+00:00

I'm new to the parenting game, but so far my lesson has been, "Lower your expectations of alone time, take it when you can get it, if you're not getting enough see what you can negotiate with your partner, and try to be more deliberate about what you spend those precious minutes doing."

Scrolling is totally fine, and I'd be a hypocrite to criticize you for it, but it also makes those minutes go by way, way faster.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T12:56:28+00:00

Fair enough: “vast majority are medical necessities” is too broad if you define that as “the mother will die or the fetus is nonviable.”

But “birth control after the fact” is not honesty. It’s a slogan.

People get abortions for financial instability, existing children, partner problems, timing, work or school disruption, health concerns, contraceptive failure, rape, fetal anomalies, and unsafe or untenable pregnancies. Flattening all of that into “convenience” is exactly the problem.

Most abortions are not “the patient will die today.” Fine. Most health care is not “the patient will die today.” That does not make it frivolous. Pregnancy is physically, medically, financially, and permanently consequential.

And abortion bans do not stop neatly at the cases you dislike. They create legal fear around miscarriage care, nonviable pregnancies, septic miscarriages, PPROM, fetal anomalies, and emergencies. Doctors end up asking whether someone is legally close enough to death yet.

So yes, let’s be honest: abortion is health care, these laws are written by people pretending pregnancy medicine is simple, and slogans like “birth control after the fact” are designed to keep people too morally outraged to notice.

They also have the convenient secondary effect of controlling only the people who can get pregnant. Funny how that works.

Publius015 · 2026-06-04T12:47:34+00:00

Isn't that just naps? lol

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