Is this thing on?

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Cake day: August 3rd, 2024

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  • Yeah, the rage at every time something gets around the filters is nowhere near the stress built up while the filters were inactive.

    Annoying? Absolutely. Worth getting upset about? Nah. I’m not going to pick fights with every person complaining about American stupidity at the water cooler. I’m not going to be rude to people here just because the text passed the filter. It would be more constructive to instead, erm, direct energy towards removing the source of the problem than tilt at windmills.





  • According to Nadine Strossen, the case was part of a gradual process in the 20th century where the Court strengthened First Amendment protections and narrowed down the application of earlier decisions which upheld restrictions of free speech, in part due to the realisation that the Illinois restrictions on Nazi “hate speech” were so broad they could have been equally used to prohibit Martin Luther King Jr. demonstrations in Skokie.

    People so quick to applaud censorship need to consider how their arguments can work against them to.






  • This is an old old fear for me thanks to my dad. Told me the tale that spiders love to home in warm dark moist areas and our mouths are perfect spots to settle overnight if we leave them agape while sleeping. I’m still arachnophobic to the point seeing close up photos of them makes me visibly sweat.

    This comic def reminds me of childhood nightmares.


  • No, in the whole sense. It could very easily be interpreted that He gave Baal-rogs what would in modern days be described as a ‘jetpack’. 2 flames jutting out from the rear. Baal-rog is dark-speech for “breaks sound barrier”. We are talking about supernatural creatures that by definition transcend expectations and as such verisimilitude doesn’t apply.