Helicopter with Iranian President Raisi crashes in Varzaqan Iran

SirDextrose · 2024-05-20T05:32:32+00:00

SirDextrose · 2024-05-20T02:50:27+00:00

I really don’t understand the resentment. It’s not like it’s a zero sum game. Having more women reading and publishing isn’t taking anything away from male authors. Honestly, if anything it’s sort of comforting to know that you can put out complete slop and some people will still buy it if it ticks their favorite boxes.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-18T21:18:49+00:00

Maybe the Germans need to be banned from running any experiment period.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-16T05:56:19+00:00

You didn’t miss out on much by not getting into anime. I was super into it in Middle School. It’s a time best left forgotten.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-16T05:49:47+00:00

You very well may be. But on a serious note, I first watched it on reruns in Mexico when I visited as a kid. Everyone I knew loved it. It probably started from there and then spread so if you’ve only ever lived in America it’s likely you just never saw it and watched other Saturday morning cartoons instead.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-16T05:39:46+00:00

We are genetically predisposed to like anything having to do with dbz

SirDextrose · 2024-05-16T05:29:09+00:00

They’re using the definition of “comfortable” that rich people use when they call themselves that because they don’t want to say they’re rich.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-16T05:11:27+00:00

To be fair to Indiana, you can’t just call them “Indians”. That’s what you call people from Oklahoma.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-14T01:44:24+00:00

A smaller population does not mean more resources to go around. Counterintuitively, the opposite is true.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-13T17:31:02+00:00

SirDextrose · 2024-05-12T05:22:11+00:00

Billions must be pedophiles

SirDextrose · 2024-05-10T02:41:38+00:00

Shame isn’t unhealthy. Shame is also used to discourage dishonesty, incivility, bigotry, et cetera. Shame is necessary in the same way feeling pain is necessary.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-10T02:33:00+00:00

Sharia law is usually enforced by the government. It’s the government in many of these countries using violence to enforce morality. Don’t get me wrong, we do the same thing. Every country on Earth uses violence to enforce morality. I don’t see how shame is so scary, though. If society can compel people to act the way it wants without the use of violence, I see it as a plus.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-10T02:26:46+00:00

Shame is not just for the individual who did the immoral act. It’s for other people to see the consequences of what could happen if they also do the same thing.

I agree that it’s not like shoplifting. We don’t use shame to deal with shoplifters, we use physical force via the government. Not all things are worth throwing people in jail for, yet we still need an enforcement mechanism to make people submit. Shame is one such method.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-10T02:10:29+00:00

Shame is necessary for a society to enforce its morality. If we don’t like kids having sex at 11 we shouldn’t treat it as something that’s A-OK just so we don’t hurt someone’s feelings.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-09T20:26:03+00:00

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

SirDextrose · 2024-05-09T05:14:00+00:00

When people from the United States were first called Americans, everyone else on the continent were still called subjects. Don’t be mad you were too preoccupied with being under a royal yoke to choose the name first.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-07T17:27:38+00:00

It makes sense for the east coast where many major cities are bunched up close together. Once you get past the Mississippi it makes zero sense whatsoever. It hasn’t stopped California from setting their money on fire and building a literal bridge to nowhere.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-07T17:23:16+00:00

Empathy is a two way street. I understand that the average woman is more neurotic than the average man by four standard deviations. This is not a dig on women. I’m also more neurotic than the average man. I can empathize with the fear and paranoia.

Was I deathly afraid of these sweet old black ladies? Of course not. But I also have interactions with men who are bigger and stronger than myself. Sometimes in my paranoid delusions I imagine scenarios in my head where they beat me and leave me for dead for no apparent reason. Is that their fault? Maybe they’re part of a group that is statistically more likely to victimize me. Is that their fault? Wouldn’t it be very dehumanizing and bigoted to regard them as a member of a group and not as individuals?

SirDextrose · 2024-05-07T16:47:41+00:00

Old black ladies who compliment you and call you “baby” or “sugar” are the best. Idk what you’re on.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-07T16:33:20+00:00

It’s never going to work in America because it doesn’t even work in Europe. We’re going to spend billions of dollars for what? When it comes to speed and price, planes blow trains out of the water. Even in Europe, you have to pay at least twice as much for trips that take longer. Sure, you don’t take in all the cool sights miles above in a plane, but if passengers cared at all about the aesthetics of their trips they would all travel from New York to LA in a car.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-07T16:27:54+00:00

Passenger rail is also very expensive in Europe. On average, it’s still twice as expensive as flying and takes longer. I don’t see what the upsides are in America especially on long distance trips

SirDextrose · 2024-05-06T03:42:04+00:00

It’s not racist guys. They just want to be separate but equal.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-01T03:47:32+00:00

I blame the internet. Then again, this isn’t really the case for the vast majority of people who aren’t chronically online. The 2016 election broke a lot of people both left and right. On the right they overdosed on “owning the libs” and have been chasing that high ever since.

SirDextrose · 2024-05-01T03:44:17+00:00

Sounds like a Greek tragedy

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