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🟦 Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause. But if I am a dog, beware my fangs.🍞🌹
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Celestial-body-NOS
🟦 Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause. But if I am a dog, beware my fangs.🍞🌹
10d ago
And it’s worth noting that the ‘adults in the room’ in the DNC seem to know what they need to do to be electorally competitive. They just can’t get the party to moderate on trans and immigration.
I don't think that that's their biggest issue so much as the part where they're utterly unwilling to pursue any policies benefiting the common people if such would slightly inconvenience their Wall-Street donors....
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🟦 Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause. But if I am a dog, beware my fangs.🍞🌹
12d ago
If you are invited to the home of a kid (to be clear, in this metaphor, this is the university community) who has an ongoing conflict with their parents, and the kid brings up the topic, do you side with the kid, the parents, or do you try to awkwardly stay neutral saying it's not your place to meddle?
If you are invited to the home of an adult with roommates (with a jointly held lease) who has an ongoing conflict with their other roommates (say, the majority of them), [same question]?
I hear both sides out, then answer the case on its merits.
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19d ago
That's a criterion that would capture many atheists, as well as practitioners of any number of non-Christian religions.
I think C. S. Lewis had something to say on that....
[The Lion] bent down his golden head and touched my forehead with his tongue and said, Son, thou art welcome. But I said, Alas Lord, I am no son of thine but the servant of Tash. He answered, Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me. [I] said, Lord, is it then true, as the Ape said, that thou and Tash are one? The Lion growled so that the earth shook (but his wrath was not against me) and said, It is false. Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.
--The Last Battle
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22d ago
Several promotional bios for Obama prior to his presidential campaign state that he was born in Kenya, which was apparently a mistake but one of unclear origin
his family and their community in Kenya...would claim to remember his birth there (possibly mistaking him for a relative).
Maybe they confused him with his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr.?
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24d ago
teaching ... severe autists not to strip naked because their tags are bothering them ... is something which requires lots of expensive specialists.
Or a ten-dollar pair of scissors. (Cf. the Hair Dryer Incident, Slate Star Codex, November 2014.)
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24d ago
Aren’t the first two of those reversed headlines still passive?
No. "$NOUN_PHRASE results in $NOUN_PHRASE" and "$NOUN_PHRASE turns $ADJECTIVE" are both in the active voice in English.
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24d ago
Only the first two of your examples are in the passive voice. "$NOUN_PHRASE turns $ADJECTIVE" and "$NOUN faces $NOUN_PHRASE" are both active-voice sentences.
For further information, search 'passive voice' on Language Log.
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24d ago
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The problem with assertion[s] such as these is that modern society is really its own extraordinary thing. From his food to his health to his habits to his reproduction, man is unlike other animals, and modern man is unlike other men.
"All philosophy written before the Industrial Revolution is best forgotten." --Justin B. Rye
The passive voice will do your dirty work, shunning perhaps. It’s like the woke saying ‘freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences’ – who will administer the consequences, exactly?
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1mo ago
Although, with that being said, I read the White House presser and it is laser-focused on drugs. I would not be shocked if the stated explanation is the real one, or at least a meaningful part of it.
So someone just needs to get through to him that there's probably more fentanyl going from US->CA than the other way?
(Also, am I the only one who finds it annoying when the newsreaders refer to it as 'fentanol'[sic]? '-anol' has a specific meaning in chemistry.)
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1mo ago
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
To which some wiseacre responded "You have a better way of making more virgins?".
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1mo ago
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🟦 Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause. But if I am a dog, beware my fangs.🍞🌹
1mo ago
You can't separate them. The benefits to society from saving the more functional addicts are a karmic reward for being a society that regards human lives as worth effort to save even if they don't benefit society.
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1mo ago
the classes of people he thinks are responsible
Turbulent priests?
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1mo ago
We have gotten to an odd place where people can nonchalantly talk about fighting police weekly and utilizing millions of dollars of public resources as "rights".
I think OP is referring to the 'negative' rights, such as 'not being involuntarily committed unless a danger to oneself or others'. (Mr Have-you-considered-stopping would fall under that exception; Ms Here's-your-follow-up-appointment wouldn't.)
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1mo ago
medical costs when people get sick and cannot pay
I wouldn't call that a 'waste', per se, if the medical services billed for are needed by the patient and actually provided to them. (If doctors are getting paid for procedures that were never performed, on patients who never existed, throw the Physicians' Desk Reference at them.)
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1mo ago
This doesn't come across as any less rude, because it is still making the claim "It is my business what genitals you were born with.", which is the exact claim to which trans people and their allies object!
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1mo ago
willful blindness to how woman + man is what makes babies
It is not 'wilful blindness' to reject the axiom that '"is" implies "ought"'.
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1mo ago
the adoptive and/or step parent is never the real / biological one
I disagree with your assertion¹ that the the biological parent is necessarily the real parent. If we are to extend respect to the title of 'father', a man who spends eighteen years consoling a child when they have nightmares, teaching them how to care for themself, attending their events, &c., &c., is far more worthy of that respect than someone whose only contribution was spending five minutes naked and horizontal.
¹Remember, when you assert, you make an ass out of the Emergency Response Team.
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1mo ago
But moving on to your actual objection, there are all sorts of unethical things that you could do to make children: you could kidnap women, keep them underground, perform IVF on them, take the baby away, rinse and repeat for 20 years and that’s 20 babies per woman.
The unethicalness of that comes not from the 'babies not being raised by their biological parents' part but from the 'women being coerced' part. Forcing a woman to be a surrogate is no more a general argument against surrogacy than agricultural slavery is a general argument against agriculture.
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1mo ago
In other words, Black Women Are Less Likely? (Slate Star Codex, February 2015)
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1mo ago
Not until 2020 did Florida scale back its ~1000hour license for interior residential decorating.
Was that the one they put in place after an interior decorator killed sixteen Czechoslovakians?
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1mo ago
So, if J. R. R. Tolkien had been Chinese, Lord of the Rings would have been wuxia, and the Silmarillion would have been xianxia?
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1mo ago
The states were made for the people, not the people for the states.
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🟦 Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause. But if I am a dog, beware my fangs.🍞🌹
1mo ago
[land] should be returned to the states
Or the Native Americans/Indians/First Nations/whatever the preferred nomenclature is this week.
Instead of designating a proxy, why couldn't they cast votes over a video link?
(That also gives you the side benefit referred to in technicalese as 'continuity-of-government' and in English as 'not having your entire legislature within one blast radius'.
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