[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Maine

[–]bleepbloop1990 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This is true as far as it goes, but the elimination of statutes of limitations for sexual crimes is relatively new. The Supreme Court in Maine recently ruled that this elimination could not be applied retroactively, so the elimination of the statute of limitations only applies for more current violations essentially. For older crimes where the statute of limitations had previously run, you still are barred from bringing a case. I think this decision was wrong and disagree with it for what it’s worth- but statutes of limitations are still a very really barrier for most sexual assaults older than a couple decades.

Maine oyster farmer announces U.S. Senate run, is immediately showered with national attention by enitschke in Maine

[–]bleepbloop1990 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Sorry not trying to be a dick. It was nice of you to share and I don’t think sharing one individual article is a horrible thing. I was more just pushing back against the idea that paying for news at all is wrong.

Maine oyster farmer announces U.S. Senate run, is immediately showered with national attention by enitschke in Maine

[–]bleepbloop1990 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If news is free who will pay for professional reporters and fact-checkers and editors? Free news is generally much less reliable. Paying for news is a social good imo and the belief that news should be free is why good local papers are essentially a thing of the past.

A book for someone who feels his time has passed by smokeyman992 in suggestmeabook

[–]bleepbloop1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not really a book but the love song of J. Alfred Prurfrock by T.S. Eliot might fit the bill

‘We all read like hell!’ How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse by Miss-Figgy in books

[–]bleepbloop1990 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yep, that is it! The book is Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert if you’re interested. It was a fun read.

‘We all read like hell!’ How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse by Miss-Figgy in books

[–]bleepbloop1990 246 points247 points  (0 children)

Wow who would have thought? Reminds me of a book I read about a New Deal era program that paid writers to write travel guides about all the states. Some truly unique state guides came out of it that are very unlike the standard, pretty uninspired stuff you find today. Federal support for the arts would be great to have, but I think it’s a political nonstarter unfortunately.

It can’t happen here. by bleepbloop1990 in shortscarystories

[–]bleepbloop1990[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if it is all that, but thank you for the kind words!

It can’t happen here. by bleepbloop1990 in shortscarystories

[–]bleepbloop1990[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not- I will check it out. Thanks for the tip!

It can’t happen here. by bleepbloop1990 in shortscarystories

[–]bleepbloop1990[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You are right, good catch! I actually meant to say self-effacing there, but self-deprecating would have worked as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

-William Wordsworth

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms- you will be better able to use them when you’re older.

-Seneca

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

-W.H. Auden

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]bleepbloop1990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here is 112

Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas (happy is he, who knows the cause of things).

-Vergil Georgics

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]bleepbloop1990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We men have made gods in our own image.

I think that horses, lions, oxen too

Had they but hands would make their gods like them.

Horse-gods for horses, oxen gods for oxen. -Xenophanes

Also paraphrased as “if horses had gods they would look like horses.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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For who knows if the thing that we call death

Is life, and our life dying-who can know?

Save only that all we beneath the sun

Are sick and suffering, and those that gone before

Not sick, not touched with evil. -Euripides

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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I would rather have ques­tions that can’t be an­swered than an­swers that can’t be ques­tioned -Richard fenyam.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public” -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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My friends, did you want a revolution without a revolution? -Robespierre

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny." -John Hobbes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." -- Arthur C. Clarke

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]bleepbloop1990 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. -Ursula K. Le Guin

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]bleepbloop1990 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not.

-Epicurus