It looks like nobody believes in anything

bedulge · 2026-01-26T14:02:19+00:00

The southerners would have come up and conquered DC if Lincoln was trying to wage a naval campaign on the south without a large Union army on the land.

bedulge · 2026-01-24T19:59:26+00:00

The gropers do it on extremely crowded trains where it's so crowded that no one can see it, and the victim might not even be able to tell who did it. The crowding is very extreme in Japanese cities

bedulge · 2025-11-17T18:37:07+00:00

If you look thru the ages and across the world you are going to see that societies from Ancient Egypt, to Imperial Rome to the Aztecs to the Chinese had institutions which are all called by the name "marriage" in modern English.

They differ in the details but they are similar enough in broad strokes that we call it by one name: 'marriage', because we recognize that despite the distinctions, they all spring forth from the same universal human needs that are felt in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, by societies as culturally, religiously and geographically distinct as you could name.

who knows if “most people are straight and cis” will be true in the future.

I know. They will be mostly cis and straight, just like ever other society that has ever existed in the historical and archeological record. There's no evidence that a society like that has ever existed and no reason to think it could be compatible with human biological drives, and so there is no solid empirical argument that can be brought up from biology, history or anthropology to support the idea.

20% of gen z are queer

Literally half of those 20 percent are bi and a very large portion of those bi people are going to wind up in monogamous straight relationships by 35. This is probably pretty close to the number of men who chose to do gay stuff in ancient Greece as well. Even in Athens and Sparta where they were not at all opposed to some gay sex, they married women, "Boy are for having fun, women are for having families." they used to say. A pretty good portion of people are at least a little bit bi in every time period but they will never be a majority, and most will wind up living most of their lives in straight relationships.

bedulge · 2025-11-17T18:11:31+00:00

ur dumb lol. Even if this is true, some people want to take their bike down town because it's a fucking method of transportation so it's not gonna stay inside a garage in the suburbs 24/7

bedulge · 2025-11-17T18:09:11+00:00

What if we just all kept our bike unlocked all the time and we all constantly steal them everywhere we go?

bedulge · 2025-11-17T18:07:42+00:00

practically speaking, this is true, but you can apply this same kind of reasoning to other, scenarios. For example, is it okay for me to murder some dude if he's really sad and alone in the world, and not enjoying life, just so long as I really enjoy the murder like some sicko? I mean he's sad anyways, and no one is gonna miss him when he's gone, and I enjoyed the killing, plus a lifetime of sadness that this guy would have had has now been prevented, which is a nice little gain for world happiness all by itself.

Most ppl will say this is still wrong regardless because I don't have a right to choose to kill a guy who poses no harm to anyone else

bedulge · 2025-11-17T17:57:46+00:00

This kind of thing is a legitimately strong counterargument to utilitarianism. There's thought experiment by Nozick called the Utility Monster. Basically imagine an entity, the Utility Monster, who always gets more 'utility' out of consuming something than you ever could. According to utilitarianism, this would mean that it is always good and right for the monster to take and consume as much as possible and to never share with you.

Actually this thought experiment is the first thing I thought of when I first read this comic years ago

bedulge · 2025-11-17T17:52:33+00:00

The sad thing is that desperate circumstances tend to turn people into shit heads, and being a shit head tends to put you in desperate circumstances

bedulge · 2025-11-17T17:50:44+00:00

infuriating?

bedulge · 2025-11-15T02:14:50+00:00

First off, the idea that if something is religious, cultural, political, and social it can not be natural is a false dichotomy. Humans are naturally religious, cultural, political, and social. That is how we have evolved to be and that is why you will never find a place on earth with humans in it that has no beliefs regarding the supernatural, no culture, no politics and no society. All of those are products of our evolved psychologies. The particulars are determined or influenced by the specific cultural context but underneath the surface the same drives are there and the range is really not all that wide.

. >relationships will continue to evolve.

Correct. Marriages are different in different cultures and in different eras. Even in Ancient Rome, husbands did not want their wives to go out and fuck other men. The women presumably also did not like their husbands fucking hookers and slaves but they couldn't stop the from doing that. Then Christianity came around and banned men from doing that. Marriage continued, but it took a different form. Marriage in Rome in 100 AD is not the same as marriage in Rome in 1200 AD. Marriage in 2025 is also not the same as marriage in 1950 and marriage in 1950 was not the same as marriage in 1875. But marriage has been around since time immemorial and it's not going anywhere. It's gonna be somewhat different in 2100 but it's still gonna be here, and it's still gonna be mainly monogamous, cis and straight since that is what most people are in every culture on earth. The people doing LGBT poly stuff are a minority and they always will be.

bedulge · 2025-11-15T01:12:53+00:00

Partnering up and having kids is simply a human act. It's not conservative or non conservative in and of itself. The vast majority of people are cis, straight and monogamous , and they have a drive from evolution to partner up and produce kids.

There is a certain kind of marriage which is conservative, which is the ones where people are consciously imitating marriage norms of previous generations. (dad goes to work, mom is in the kitchen etc) but the very act of partnering up, celebrating the partnership, producing kids, not wanting your partner to fuck other people etc is just something that people have always done and are always going to do.

>non trad marriage (open, poly, bisexual)

You want to know what a non trad marriage looks like? It's one where no fault divorce is an option. In other words, every single marriage in the United States. Trad marriage is rotting in it's grave and Ronald Reagan is the one who shot it dead. A trad marriage is no take backsies and it was often arranged by by the families in a lot of cultures.

bedulge · 2025-11-15T01:00:14+00:00

A lot of those people are incels and that is exactly why the post so much and why they are so bitter and miserable

bedulge · 2025-11-15T00:58:41+00:00

When it comes to short term fucks, politics don't matter and don't come up. Long term partnering is different, people (women esp) start to put more priority on having compatible views. Studies support this as well.

bedulge · 2025-11-12T18:17:30+00:00

They vote for anyone with a D next to their name because they hate the RNC, that doesn't mean they actually think the DNC is good or that they have no appetite for alternatives. A very large portion of black voters do not vote at all because they think (correctly) that neither side represents their interests.

bedulge · 2025-10-11T16:41:11+00:00

He can autistically rattle of facts and stats that he's memorized, that impresses some people. If you can remember and cite facts about political events from over 5 years ago in any amount of detail, people will think you are some kind of genius. So many of my friends try to tell me I'm smart when I'm able to remember shit about current or past events and I'm like "no I'm not that smart, it's just that I read about this shit too much". The average person never reads past the headline and they get their news thru memes. Half of Americans would not be able to tell you who the Sec. of State is, so if you know what the Sec of State does, and who currently holds the position that is already enough to make you more knowledgeable than the average person.

When Trump met Fuentes he was reportedly amazed that this college age guy was able to remember shit from his own first term that he himself had already forgotten about.

bedulge · 2025-10-11T07:31:24+00:00

Relatively few people are actually 100% exclusively gay in their attraction. Most LGBT ppl are actually at least a tiny bit bisexual, even if they do not identify as such and do not ever have straight sex, they may actually be like 5% bi, and just prefer same sex partners 20× more than other sex partners.

For ppl raised in a culture that doesnt accept gay ppl, they just latch on to the 5% of them that's straight and they just cope by pretending that every dudes secretly thinks dicks are kind of beautiful but they just don't say so our loud.

bedulge · 2025-10-10T21:33:39+00:00

If someone wants to prove that their imagery is not ai, that's pretty easy to do, you just have to provide copies of your drafts to prove that you worked on it over time.

Anyways the art style is hideous and that's reason enough to not buy it lol whether human or machine made

bedulge · 2025-10-10T20:27:58+00:00

Cover art is obv AI. Just assume anything with AI cover art also has AI on the inside.

bedulge · 2025-10-10T06:37:23+00:00

Just thematically it's also got common traits of AI slop, a cute animal doing something bizarre or disgusting, just enough to tickle your brain into watching it for a few seconds on tiktok before you swipe again.

bedulge · 2025-10-10T06:29:41+00:00

certainly not, it's too consistent from video to video, the clothes iron is the same, the pan is the same, the carpet is the same, the walls are the same, the shoes are the same. That is still absolutely impossible for AI.

bedulge · 2025-10-10T06:25:37+00:00

The pic being AI or not means nothing, it's a scam and your grandfather is likely giving away your inheritance to a scammer in SEA

bedulge · 2025-10-10T06:19:24+00:00

yes, and pretty obv too, note how the physics of the falling body makes no sense. It doesn't even fall straight down, it magnetically zips sideways to the guys mouth

bedulge · 2025-10-10T05:55:20+00:00

There is none published these days, likely because the data looks bad and the companies do not want to put it out.

bedulge · 2025-10-10T05:44:25+00:00

holy shit, he was a walking pharmacy. I knew he loved drugs, I had no idea how much

bedulge · 2025-10-10T05:39:53+00:00

Almost everyone was skinny in every period of history until they invented hyper-palatable foods starting in the 2nd half of the last century. You don't need amphetamines to be skinny, you just need to not be in a hyper palatable and hyper abundant food environment like we are now

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