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SubstantialFrivolity
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2d ago
Ok but are traps gay? I needed the AI to tell me so I could put my worries to rest.
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2d ago
Sex (for men) isn’t about sex, it’s about power. The motorized pussy might feel good. But you’ll know that you didn’t make another soul submit to you.
That isn't true, and your analysis of why someone might find that experience hollow misses the mark. Men don't want a mechanical vagina because they are not just sex machines and have a desire to be loved. You can pay a prostitute or buy a female simulacrum, but neither will ever love you and the experience will be hollow as a result.
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3d ago
Makes sense, thank you for the explanation!
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3d ago
Terminal values, more or less. I believe that for the government to follow the law of the Constitution is a good thing, even if the Constitution (imperfect document that it is) isn't going to always be to my preference. Less deontologically, I think that if you wish for others to follow the law, you must follow the law yourself, so I think there is a benefit down the line as well. But that is less important to my thinking than the idea that following the law is good in itself.
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3d ago
Huh, interesting. I wasn't aware of that, shame on me I guess. Thank you for the correction!
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3d ago
Yeah, I know people rate FDR highly. It's one of the things that lowers my level of hope for this nation: that a president can make his entire policy platform to do blatantly unconstitutional stuff, thoroughly destroy the original social contract on which the nation was founded, and be rated as one of the greatest leaders in the country's history (rather than as one of its greatest villains) as a result. George Lucas was a little on the nose with the Star Wars line "So this is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause", but he also was basically correct imo. When freedom is taken away from a people, it is popular to do so (until it's gone too far and then it's too late to stop it, let alone reverse it).
I'm not saying that Trump is committing the first serious norm violations in our country's history. He isn't. We have been steadily eroding those norms for a century. But I am saying "two wrongs don't make a right", and I'm going to fight Trump just as hard on constitutional principles as I would've fought FDR back in the day had I been alive. Not that it means much, of course - Trump doesn't even know I exist, much less care what I think. But to the extent I can do something if he goes down that road (i.e vote against him, rather than for someone I would prefer), I will.
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3d ago
Even the most attractive woman on earth doesn't come with a literal motor in her pussy.
I wonder if the transhumanists will ever make that sort of thing happen. It kinda stands to reason, one would think - if you are gonna enhance your body why not get genitals that are super pleasurable for you and your partner?
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3d ago
I don't believe in Karma, although I do believe "what goes around comes around,"
Isn't that just karma? Maybe I misunderstand the term, I'm not well versed in Eastern religious thought.
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3d ago
And yet I still find myself wanting to label them with the 'parasite' moniker because there's me, over here doing just about everything 'right' and getting rewarded with a portion of what I genuinely earned, with the potential for more to be taken later (one hopes not!), and then there's these guys, guiltlessly sucking up resources and clearly expecting no resistance or problems, and just generally living their life with much less stress than I.
This reminds me of the (imo excellent) argument against student loan forgiveness. It's been stated here, but I've also seen it in other venues (my cousin was patiently trying to lay it out for people on FB for a while, God bless him for his patience). Johnny chose to skip college or go a far more affordable route for college, sacrificing four years of having fun partying with his peers, but gained the reward of not having student loan debt. Jimmy went to a nice school for four years and has a good time, but has to pay back those student loans the rest of his life. Except now Jimmy wants to get his loans bailed out at everyone's expense (including Johnny!), so he would get his short term reward and also Johnny's long term reward, without having to sacrifice anything. This is a terrible social policy to have, because the Johnnies of the world will (rightly) conclude that they are chumps for doing the right thing, and more and more people will mooch off the system until it all comes crashing down eventually.
Similarly, people like you (rightly) feel like chumps for working hard to get ahead when we refuse to let people face the consequences of their bad decisions. I'm not saying you should join them, because I believe virtuous conduct to be intrinsically valuable, but neither could I really find it in my heart to be mad at you if you did join them. It's a raw deal, doing everything right and watching as those who didn't bother still get away with it.
veterans who... get a check for life. Even if they never saw combat. Even if they were never in a combat-facing role.
In fairness, I think that isn't necessarily a prerequisite for time in the service to fuck you up in some way. One of my teammates at work was in the army, and has talked about how even just being on watch for the base can mess with your head because of the stress it causes to be hyper-alert like that. Then there's stuff like hearing damage from doing firearms training without ear protection (my understanding from him is that was a thing, which makes sense because in actual combat you don't have time to put in ear plugs so you have to experience it beforehand in a controlled situation), etc. I'm not saying the guys you are talking about deserve the benefits they are getting, because I don't watch the show and I am willing to assume from your description that they don't deserve the benefits. Just pointing out that not serving in combat shouldn't necessarily be a prerequisite here, as there can be legitimate claims even outside that situation.
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3d ago
You've got a literal world -ending threat, so surely under those circumstances, we'd all get our shit together and act like competent adults... at least for a little while, right?
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Yeah I'm with you. I'm not saying that was anything close to world ending (it obviously wasn't, as we are here), but it strongly indicated how such a threat would go down. We would bicker and squabble about what was the right thing to do until it was too late.
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3d ago
Anti-Federalism, reduction of FedGov Spending to whatever is needed to maintain national defense and a Judicial system, and throwing all welfare programs back to the state level
Isn't that federalism? I thought that the federalist policy position was the one that wants to maximize power reserved to the confederated states.
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3d ago
I hate him, though not for the fact that he ran for four terms if that's why you ask. That was legal at the time, so whatever (I am not one who believes that custom should be given serious weight like that). I hate him because he wiped his ass with the constitution and largely destroyed the original vision for this country by centralizing so much power within the federal government, power that it constitutionally could not (and still cannot) have. Only extremely disingenuous motivated reading of the commerce clause (with Wickard v Filburn being the prime example) allowed it, and everything he did under that aegis should be walked back. That won't happen of course, because a strong federal government is actually pretty popular with the masses.
But yeah, in short I think FDR was one of the worst presidents the US ever had.
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3d ago
But they don't have a better option- even if the Tea app is probably worse than nothing.
The two halves of that statement are in logical contradiction, unless you're saying that "nothing" is not an option (which it obviously is).
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3d ago
I certainly would react as @haroldbkny describes. I have argued for 8ish years that Trump is not actually a big deal and people are freaking out over nothing. I thought the Jan 6 riot was a complete nothingburger and I think the "insurrection" talk is coming from a place of fearmongering rather than any actual basis in Trump's actions. If he tried to actually run for a third term, that will show that the left has been right about him the entire time, and he actually is a threat to democratic government in this country. I'll vote for literally anyone the Democrats run against him.
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5d ago
The helmet stayed on.
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5d ago
Uh yes, it totally was. I'm assuming you mean the magicalkittycat post. I tried to give him/her (for some reason the username makes me think a girl) the benefit of the doubt for a long time, but the last couple of weeks of posts were just looking for chances to bash the outgroup imo.
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5d ago
The thing is, it's an incorrect argument. Christ wasn't "mocking his outgroup", he was (admittedly harshly) criticizing people for the bad actions they took. Mocking implies antipathy, which Christ wouldn't have done. His actions were rooted in love and desire to bring the Pharisees to repentance, not "haha look at those losers". You can't really say the same for Trump (well you can, but nobody is going to believe that).
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6d ago
Jesus criticized the Pharisees very harshly, it's true. He didn't mock them, though. He loved them and his criticism was ultimately aimed at trying to bring them to change their ways. The same cannot be said of Trump.
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6d ago
Thanks, and I don't mind. He was 38, which is one of the things I think makes it sting more. 38 isn't super young, but normally he should've had a lot of life still ahead of him.
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8d ago
Which is what makes them not useful. If you had an employee whose work you had to check every single time, you'd fire him. Why should a machine be held to a lower standard?
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9d ago
Significantly better. Unlike SMT5 which is basically pure gameplay with only the bare minimum of story to support it (I bounced off myself for that very reason), Metaphor has an actually pretty interesting story that it tells, and the characters are generally pretty interesting to spend time with. It's very much like Persona in that sense, not at all like SMT. Like I said I don't think it pulls those aspects off as well as the best of the Persona games do, but I think it gets a solid 7/10 on story and characters whereas I'd give SMT5 a 0/10.
I also quite enjoy that the protagonist in Metaphor isn't silent like in Persona. He's a real character who has his own thoughts and will speak up on things, even if you do have some player control over his opinions.
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10d ago
Metaphor has the press turn battle system from SMT, with a job system for party building a la FF, and the social link/calendar systems from Persona. It's pretty good, though I don't personally think the story was as strong as P4 or P5, nor were the characters. I think it's worth giving a shot based on what you said.
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11d ago
Thank you. I know what you mean, when my brother in law died my wife was so despondent that she wouldn't even eat. I had to beg and cajole her just to get her to take a few bites of food. Thankfully she is well past the worst of it; she has moments where she feels sad but she is also able to enjoy life more days than not. And I guess in the grand scheme of things a year(ish) isn't so much time that you would expect everyone to be completely back to 100%. It'll just take more time for the wounds to heal, I guess.
I'm sorry to hear about your situation as well. Having had front row seats to watching an addict circle the drain... I wouldn't wish that upon anyone. I think there's something uniquely awful about seeing a good person get their brain hijacked by the addiction, because you know that the original person is in there somewhere, and you want to see them come back out again. Hopefully your wife doesn't blame herself; that is one of the things I have to keep trying to encourage my wife on. Reminding her that she did everything she could, and that she isn't at fault for the choices someone else made. Good luck to you and yours, man... I wish your family a speedy recovery.
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11d ago
I've been dealing lately with grief from the loss of my brother in law (back in December, 10 months already) to alcoholism. It's honestly been pretty hard and I wonder if it'll ever feel ok. Sometimes I'm angry at him for not making better choices. Sometimes I'm sad that we won't hang out any more. Sometimes I'm worried for my wife, for whom this is 10x harder than it is for me (he was her brother, after all). Mostly I just wish that we, his family, could have him back. Fuck alcoholism you guys. It is the worst thing I've ever seen someone go through, including fatal illnesses. I wish that he could've beaten it. :(
Indian programmers (or other tech employees) aren't necessarily worse than their counterparts here. It's just that they, like skilled workers anywhere else, cost more money than their peers. And since most companies outsourcing to India are cheap bastards, they pay peanuts and so they get bottom of the barrel employees.
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