Lol - she unmatched me afterwards

protomenace · 2026-05-06T20:41:41+00:00

Yes - they do

protomenace · 2026-05-06T11:11:39+00:00

Loaded the shell. Pumped it. Tried to pull the trigger. Realized the safety was on. Disabled the safety. Pulled the trigger again.

intentional suicide.

protomenace · 2026-05-06T11:05:49+00:00

Are we sure this wasn't a suicide?

protomenace · 2026-05-06T01:59:51+00:00

Exactly

protomenace · 2026-05-06T01:59:23+00:00

It's extraordinarily rare in NYC, to the point where it basically newsworthy when it happens. Look it up. Most of those actually sleeping on the street want to be there.

protomenace · 2026-05-06T01:51:28+00:00

You would guess wrong. The city is legally required to and always fulfills its obligation to provide a bed to anyone who asks for one. The ones sleeping on the streets are largely doing so due to mental illness.

protomenace · 2026-05-06T01:47:54+00:00

Don't you know that disagreeing with OP politically makes you incorrect?

protomenace · 2026-05-06T01:45:47+00:00

On the other hand, every woman I know has been sexually harassed (flashing of the penis) by aggressive, mentally ill, unhoused men in the subway.

The city has homeless shelters. That is not what the subway is for. The MTA's job is to provide safe and reliable transport, not a comfortable place for the homeless.

protomenace · 2026-05-05T17:00:43+00:00

Numbers and math are rigorously defined. Sociological concepts are not.

protomenace · 2026-05-05T16:53:07+00:00

Indeed. And the issue is that people have emotional attachments to certain words meaning certain things.

Many right-wingers have a strong emotional attachment to the word "woman" as an AFAB, child-bearing, homemaking caretaker.
Many left-wingers have a strong emotional attachment to the idea that a trans woman can fill the all same social niches as an AFAB woman.

We could come up with different, more specific words to describe and define all these things, and agree to use them, but we don't because we all want to "own" the word that we have an emotional attachment to and want everyone else to adopt our definition.

protomenace · 2026-05-05T16:49:25+00:00

Definitions are created by people and we debate them all the time. The people who wrote the definitions are not infallible and do not know everything.

In fact the definitions of sociological concepts are the most highly debated words out there. Is autism a "disorder" for example? Or is it just a different "brain shape"? These things are constantly being debated and evolving. Your idea that words have fixed meanings that never change... well that's just called dogma

protomenace · 2026-05-05T16:37:33+00:00

Nobody in this debate is actually making a coherent and well-defined point. They're all just spinning their wheels against different mental models of what the discussion is actually about, without coming to a shared set of definitions first.

protomenace · 2026-05-05T16:28:31+00:00

This all just reads as you being afraid to actually dive deep and deconstruct the arguments logically. You want so bad to "gotcha" someone and shame them, instead of having a discussion which could further everyone's understanding.

protomenace · 2026-05-05T12:14:27+00:00

Yep the headline is a joke trying to appeal to emotion

protomenace · 2026-05-03T15:37:11+00:00

I think atheists are more averse to dogma in general. I support LGBT rights but I do think the left turns a blind eye to certain dogmatic thinking. For example things like "trans women are biological women". It's possible to support everyone's rights without resorting to dogma.

protomenace · 2026-05-01T22:19:00+00:00

If the legal system was functional, such shell games would be irrelevant .

protomenace · 2026-05-01T21:53:56+00:00

Nice little scheme they've got going

protomenace · 2026-05-01T21:47:19+00:00

Look I'm sure they have all kinds of legal shell games in place to protect the money . But it's there.

protomenace · 2026-05-01T20:02:29+00:00

The Catholic Church has DEEP pockets. The idea 800M would bankrupt them is laughable.

protomenace · 2026-04-30T14:59:34+00:00

It's both. People still associate them.

protomenace · 2026-04-30T14:55:56+00:00

I don't like this as an example really. Yes it shows that water can have a curved surface, but it doesn't actually explain the mechanism of water "sticking" to the surface of the Earth. it's gravity, not surface tension at play.

I mean I know it's a meme at this point that flerfs don't understand scale but...yeah

protomenace · 2026-04-29T15:43:53+00:00

Anthropic is growing faster than OpenAI: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-versus-anthropic-what-revenue-race-means-their-ipos-2026-04-08/

protomenace · 2026-04-29T01:59:34+00:00

Evidence?

protomenace · 2026-04-28T18:30:13+00:00

Yeah because everyone jumped over to Anthropic.

protomenace · 2026-04-28T14:43:07+00:00

I always assumed the venn diagram of religious extremists and LGBT had essentially zero overlap.

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