Contract for Peril

Got caught playing Crusader Kings 2 by the pest control guy. Brutally clocked.

You aren't into sewage-reckoning?

Children should have an unlimited and inalienable right to kill their parents, as it is the only possible effective check on absolute parental authority. "That was my dad" = no charges

It's really foolish to think Trump sucked Clinton's dick. Trump acting to give another person pleasure? It's inconceivable. You're letting your homophobia corrupt an obvious metaphor. Trump paid court to a sitting president and his RW buddies made it a homophobic joke. He did rape some teenagers.

the throughline of the conservative culture war they're waging is simply this: women and children are property.

that's it. everything else is downstream of that

Yeah see if only they'd released ALL the emails you would see that... uh... there were some anti-emails, that cancel out the other emails... so like. Those aren't admissible in court.

This is a joke. I mean it really happened but I liked her fit an I know genders are not exhaustible resources. Sorry, I'm just making up a guy who is mad at me and feel compelled to defend myself.

Saw a girl irl yesterday who was just covered in pink bows, like a dozen big bouncy pink crocheted bows all over her sweater, three in her hair... It was a little like getting into a Neapolitan ice cream and finding someone ate ALL and ONLY the strawberry. Save some gender for the rest of us!

Ok but we all remember Kash Patel saying he'd see Charlie Kirk in Valhalla, though, right?

Can someone explain Hegseth's obsession with an all-hairless twink military to me? Didn't the American Sniper have a beard? what the fuck is the beard thing?! It's just islamophobia, right? Surely he's not mad that they make masks unfitting.

I always thought this was right and stack overflow and a philosophy grad program are the only places I haven't been brutally oppressed for my beliefs.

I genuinely am the kind of bitch to feel bad for Brianna Wu. She threw in her lot with people who want her dead and discovered they want her dead. Even people now willing to associate with her (probably because, like me, they feel bad for her) will never actually trust her. No reindeer games.

Imagine if ratioing meant "my post got four likes and 57,422 dislikes" instead of "five people threatened to kill me and this one guy won't stop talking about my taint for some reason"

A dislike button is good, the lack of it is what produces the phenomenon of ratio posting, which while awesome gets out of hand. The algorithmic attachments are bad and unnecessary.

Paul not knowing the point of the torment nexus tweet is golden.

All reddit is doing tonight is documenting the crimes of neighborhood kids taking all the unattended halloween candy. Like, if you care why not simply sit your ass outside and greet the children, passing out candy yourself? Get a life.

JD Vance is testing the spirit of irony wishing his wife would convert. What if she actually wound up respecting the Church?

Scene from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, King Arthur explaining to his crew that "If he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "A-a-a-argh." He'd just say it."

I dunno what to tell you guys. A butt-post is just a butt-post. Or he's teasing you. Either way.

I would guess that if there were it'd mostly be applied to people who are actually cis but post "I'm trans btw" at the end of the cissest take you've ever seen in your life.

Is there a term for a trans person who is going to detrans TPUSA-style any minute? Like, the exact opposite of an egg?

It could definitely have been that, I'm giving as charitable a read as I can manage. For all I know it's worse.

You piss away your career being a hater, then you spend your kids' college funds supporting the family. College funds are rarely locked in a trust that keeps the parents from freely accessing it, and even if it were the trustee is likely to consent to spending that keeps the child housed and fed.

I'm emphatically not saying support legislation to lock down the internet because we know nobody watches their damn kids. I'm just saying it's not a tragedy to live a life where you don't become addicted to hardcore pornography by age 6.

I'm not trying to be a killjoy but kids aren't lucky to have unfettered access to pornography, and it's a pretty bad joke. I'm not blocking or muting about it, but it's cringe, guys! Think for five seconds. Basically every victim of CSA since pornography existed was swimming in it and it sucked.

I just realized we're going to have an election season whether we have a real election or not. This is hell.

So long as we make sure the algorithm is sophisticated enough to not cannibalize display infrastructure to make more jpegs, fuck it, let's go to hell.

Yeah I couldn't do it but I think a student of Socrates could do it, as much as he detested dependence on writing.

Doing a little web searching I found a commentator saying that Ryle guessed in Plato's Progress that the ones that are reported speech were meant to enable him to be able to perform the whole thing personally at festival competitions. Seems as good an explanation as any.

Xenophon's version of the Apology is just the conversation as reported to Xenophon by Hermodorus, but I don't know how Plato settled on writing like a play vs. prose w/ reported speech for different dialogues. Some prose dialogues come with a lot more emoting (e.g. Thrasymachus in the Republic)

Asked why he's refused to endorse Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries replies: "I have not refused to endorse; I have refused to articulate my position"

If I ever wind up in court again, I'm gonna try some Sovcit bullshit. Everything is bullshit now, I don't wanna get left behind.