Hey, our future isn’t that bad at least we get treats before the disease kills us. That is what “treatable disease” means right?

HECK YES LETS GET RAPTORED AF

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Wait what?

Same

Yeah and that is possibly the least heterosexual, “manly” trait I can possibly imagine.

These people define themselves around being one of only two genders and thus the attractiveness of a person is most reasonably defined by the opposite gender “that is supposed to be attracted to them” and yet none of these men could have ever possibly made a woman orgasm on purpose in their entire life, you just have to listen to them for 10 seconds to realize that…

…so according to their own definitions they are incredibly unmanly men if they can’t bring a woman to a place of utmost pleasure even as she does so for them, they are inadequately manly, they are basically boys who haven’t learned what it means to be a man yet right? How could it be otherwise if they so catastrophically fail to fulfill the desires of the very gender they are supposed to be entirely obessed with pursuing at a definitional level?

Even if you take the toxic framing of masculinity that women are objects to pursue, I would still bother to learn more about objects I spent my entire life pursuing and coveting than these men do about their wives. Ughh spits on ground these people are lazy and disgusting even according to their own trash standards.

Do you think these men have ever actually made a woman orgasm? Like… in their entire life?

They wouldnt know how even if they wanted to.

Hmm but it doesn’t force ads down your throat so can you really say it is part of Windows?

wait but the problem they always say we have is that we are too impulsive and just keep doing things that give us instant gratification instead of things that are good for our future… so how does that square with the background radiation feeling of being so anxious that things that make us feel instant pleasure also make us feel instant guilt?

hmmm

looks at the concept of “instant gratification” with a skeptical squint of a lone cowboy in a standoff

“I have beef with you Instant Gratification, but today is not the day, no matter, I swear I am going to make consequences come for you soon, any day now. Maybe tomorrow I think I just have some other things I need to do, I have been meaning to get it done so that means I will you can rest assured about that.”

oop I edited and added a paragraph sorry if that makes your comment confusing.

Theater kids have asked this question of their own desire to be vulnerable on stage for time immemorial.

There are many answers, but don’t underestimate the power of vulnerability and honesty to change yourself and others. There is a radical power to it.

We are only alive for a short time, it is only natural we desire to fully experience things as they are, to witness our lives without the burden of a million useless lies propped up as a defensive screen between us and others.

Who could bear the thought of passing from this life without experiencing a vital contact with emotional vulnerability and the energy of life that runs through it? Certainly no artist can.

I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.

Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle. 1 AntArcSpan is thus the rational radius of Antartica.

Multiply Antartica North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. the number i.

I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.

It would also hopefully draw irrationality from other continents, maybe acting as an irrationality sink.

KEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.

It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces-ulysses-1531186

And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.

Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/06/13/kevin-birmingham-ulysses

It takes emotional labor to separate people from the situations/context you interact with them in. Part of work culture should be making sure that people aren’t too stressed and tired to do this labor by unrealistic work demands and inhumane treatment.

From what I understand about nursing, at least in my country, this is systematically an issue of pushing people too hard so I would say give yourself slack for not being perfectly aloof.

Your flirting became too big to fail or it would crash the economy, genius!

The tragedy here is apparently that people want you to suffer this cruel fate alone.

Is this before or after the stage of growth where it absorbs a human child’s soul for more power?

Your mom goes there duh

Yeah true, I guess I meant more before this recent uptick in memes/criticism. I don’t expect celebrity musicians to be paragons of virtue or fight every political battle for justice but I do expect… something? Like a little bit? Have a spine maybe?

I mean she can do whatever she wants, but that is the point right, she can do whatever she wants she is an unbelievably rich white lady who politicians and other powerful figures can’t touch without risking MASSIVE blowback in public opinion that money and distraction won’t be able to make go away.

You can be a pirate with principles.

On the topic, what was the reasoning of the Houthis attacks on the red sea shipping lanes?

It was because they are totally crazy deranged terrorist villains from an 80s action movie right?..or like monomaniacal greed right?

…wait hold on… checks notes … are we the badies?

shakes cobwebs out of head

Wait no, that can’t be right if we were the badies it would be bad like really bad after all the shit we have done claiming we were righteous about it… like oh no, no no no no I am gonna just stop thinking about it ok?

Ok that would be the part I understand, I am asking about the part I don’t.

Why does Taylor Swift get such a massive pass from everybody in terms of scrutiny?